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THURSDAY, OCT. 8, THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. HIGHEST TYPE OF , GHRISTIArJ GEflTLEm Churchman Who Know Judgt Ttft Rndr Him Thl Slncer Trlbut. Th Attitud of th lUpubllean Can didat Towrdi JUllgton and a Lift Which Ihowt Adhor.: one to tho Sit Ethic 1 and Moral. V 'nirnxm ho l ths hl(fhcnt tyi of the Christian gcntli'iimn." '. , Tula l tb way In which I heard tho pastor of MclhiNllit church In smith em Illinois end an argument with layman on tho train rowing to Clncln ntitl from Rt. Imla, wrltr a staff cor rfnMUnt of tho Hi Loul fllubo Democrat The layman, pay In duo roapoct to Ui clutb of hla op ponent, wa trying to convince him that ha ahould not support Mr. Taft for tho presidency, and Instead ihould rot for hla iX'moeratle oppo nent. Tho churchman defended th principle of the Republican party, and, a Indicated, defended tho wait fur whom ha aald he eipertwl to rot, from 'hi! personal (arulmlnt of a churchman, 111 - 1 . I I.I..,. . .. - . utcbubb no in lue uigurm ui' Christian geutleimin," Wnhop J. C Jlartxetl of the Metho dint Episcopal Church, dlimiiwliijc' tho rsllilous twllcfa of Bryan and Taft, after calling on th latter, said i "Which of thww man I ahull rota for will not bo decided by their rellglmi belief, but what they am aa men, and by tha principle and pollele they atand for In tha administration of the got eruincnt. I he lie re that In acting upon thl view, as an American citizen, I am In harmony with t spirit and purpoaa f the founder! of our republic, who put Into the constltuttea that thero ahould be 'no religious teat aa to quali fication to any office or public truat under the United Ufate.' My conrlo tloa la that tha future aafety of tot aatlon depend very largely upon our people heeding that constitutional pro hibiting. Our nation owea much la moril character, atatcemnnablp, litera ture, art and religion to thoa who hiv not bean In strict harmony with torn of the dogma of tb church. Tb day of the inquisition are punt." nememlterlng that Mr. Taft la a Preabyterlan, but that Mla Helen Taft wa confirmed In tha Episcopal Church la Washington last winter at the aani time that Mlwi Ethel Roosevelt, daugh ter of the 'resident, wa confirmed, I wondered as to Mr. Taft' church asao clatlon. When I made the Inquiry here I wa answered through the column! of fhe Northwestern Chrlatlaa Advo cate, the great Methodist pwtillentlon, Just a It bad given anawer to hundred of Inquiries from It Mehodlst ubcrlb era. It aald: Ma of Broad Srmpatblc. "Mr. Taft and children arc Episco palians, and the Secretary frequently accompanies them to St. John's Church, where, alo. he hu a pew. While Mr. Itooaavalt goe to tb German Reform ed Church, hla wife and family, who are Episcopalians, attend historic St. Jobn'a Church, where they ait only on or two pewa removed from Mr. Taft and her children. ' Secretary Taft apend hia vacation at Murray Hay, Canada, where tbert I a Union Church, attended by the summer colonists of all deaomlnationa. The Secretary of War la one of the trustee of this summer colony church, where people of many f n,l,n t,, ..,....,1,1., W Thla Methodlt testimony indicated to m the broad and liberal view ef Mr. Taft In rellgloa matter. In look ing through the file of thl,amo pub lication the Western Chriatlan Advo cate I found a discussion of both nom inees, In tha course of which it wa asserted : "The sympathies' of both Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan are very broad, and they worship easily and naturally with any Christian denomination. Whichever man la elected, the country will have, therefore, a President of clean life, lofty principles and Chriatlan convic tions." ' ,..'.'! ' OalaUa of Near Clra:raaa, ' On tha same afternoon, whan Bishop Hartaell called, Revi Jame 0. Robin son, 'paitor of the Raker Street African Methodist Church of Daytoa, Ohio, called at the headquarter In company with W. H. Jonea, on of tha leading colored lawyer of the same city. Mr. Jones wa proud of the fact that he is president of the Colored Taft Club, tha frit one to be Incorporated In the Uni ted States, and Rev. Mr. Robinson ad mitted that be Is president of the Board of Directors of the same club. A he left Mr. Tart's office I asked him for his view of the candidate, both from his standpoint as a churchman and as a leader of bis race. , "I tclleve," he snld, "Judge Taft will be elected by a safe and comfortable majority, not simply because he la a Republican, nor am I speaking because t am a Republican. But Judge Taft represents nil of the ideals of the trne Christian statesman." . f , As to the attitude of his own race, Rev. Mr. Robinson snld : "We can not afford to line tin with the Democratic party,, which has been antagonistic to our Interests always, and .against the party bended by such wise and Chris tian statesmen as Is Judge Taft. , He is a man whom we know in Ohio Is dealr aua that all men, without regard to eolor, ba trantcd fairly before tha oourt." ftUfcnp l-allowa' Trlt. la Introducing Mr. Taft at Toledo, Ohio, Bishop Samuel Fallow Indorsed him unreservedly, and In the course of his remark said i "I can avir, without fear of succe ful contradiction, that no man ever came before the American people for the highest honor In their gift o thor oughly .prepared to meet It weighty responsibilities ss Mr, Taft. II Is ripe In tb knowledge of Jurisprudence and dear and flrm In judicial decision, lie Iihi won, a an executive otllcer lu our Orlcntul possession, 'the plaudits of hi countrymen and of admiring na tion. He hit satisfactorily settM in (hose Islands of the sea some of the roost dellcnt u ml dllllcult subjects, In volving docp-scntcd racial and religious questions, ever brought up for adjudi cation, He la deeply reltglou Without trace of bigotry, fearing God and working rlghtHmnes( a did tha two AdiiiuMfs and Abraham Lincoln." Tall' Idea at CaaraaUr, In iny ffort to discover the qual ities which led one to describe Mr. Taft ii "the highest type of Christian gen tlemiu" I lenrn that tha candidate himself, within a month, ba defined Just what Imjiortanee he attached to Christian character In tha building of a ancceaeful career. The question had been put to him to develop hi personal views, nnd writing In reaunse the Re publican candidal said: "Your question suggest two other which must be answered in answering this: Flint, what Is a Christian char acter, and. second, what is a ueeesafuJ career?' First, I consider a Christian character that of one who holds aa his Ideul a compliance with the two com mandment given by Jesus Christ, ami who earnestly strive to live up to that Ideal. ' Hit-ond, I should define a uc cettsful career to bo that career which brliias more real happiness to tbomi who happen to be within the operation of the Influence of the person whose character Is In question. ."Coming now to answer your in quiry, I should lay that a Christian character In the building of a success ful career Is its most important part. The longer one Uvea the mora con vinced he must become that every other Incident nnd element of a career loses Importance In, comparison, and that when a man's life work Is done this is what stands out, and whether toe career Is one of profession, biislnes or politic, the s.inie thing la true." What aa Old KrUad an. Mr. Aaron A. Ferris, a prominent Cincinnati lawyer, who ha known Judge Taft for thirty year, aald: "I have never hnd occnslon to ask Judge Taft what his creed wa In mat ters rellKlous, I know that, when In Cincinnati, he bits been quite rein la r in attendance at Christ Episcopal church, of which member of hi fam ily are commuulcanta, and of which I am a vestryman. I know very well that no one in trouble or distress ever appealed to him without receiving a patient hearing and prompt and mate rial aid, wheu In hla power to give It. If a man's character is to be gauged by what be docs, and not by mere pro fession; if leading a clean and up right life Is to be a guide, and doing righteous deeds la to be counted, then I am confident that hla neighbor and fellow-citizens who have lived with him and know him well, without ce- gard to creed, color or party associa tion, would say that Taft has lived and acted In every station aa a Christian gentleman." BAYS WEALTH 13 DISTRIBUTED. Chief Statistician of Cenaua Bureau Write on "Th Aiset of the United State." The nation'! wealth la not In the hands of n few, according to L. O. Power, chief stutlstlvlaa of the census hireau fit Washington. Writing on "The Asseta of the United States" in the September number of the American Jourual of Sociology, la- sued recently from the University of Chicago press, Mr. Powers has the fol lowing to say of the concentration of wealth In America : "If we start with the value of farms and other homes which are known to bo owned toy men of small possession, the savings bank deposits and other known possessions of those of moderate means, and then add the lowest popular estimates of the possessions of our millionaires, we nave an aggregate far In excess of the census appraisal of national wealth, and the conclusion under such circumstance la Irresistible either that the census estimates ; are ridiculously small or the popular esti mates of the wealth of our millionaires are greatly exaggerated. "The writer doe not find any evi dence that would Justify either the statement that our national wealth la grossly understated or that our million aires own so large a share of that wealth as to leave tho great majority without property." ' ' ' . : WHAT TAFT WILL DO. ;. I . ' ,v. Hero Is a positive declaration by William H. Taft which sDmld ? " reassure, the friends of President , Roosevelt: , :, . : ' ;' "If eluded 1 propose to devote all the ublllly that In In me to : -. constructive work of 'lrvcs'l'1? to Congress the means liv w Ii i ' the' Roosevelt policies slull he if-: I ; ' 1 1 , , I Taft Is making a good Impression t" nls thoughtful speeches. Bryan is as clever and as interesting as ever -mid as superficial. Jillwauke Evening Wis consin. . Bryan, tha Advocate of Monopoly. In spit of hla theatrical postur a a fo to monopolies William Jennlug Bryan i committed to policies that would call into being in tb United State a monopoly mora powerful and more perilous than the wildest alarm ist ba ever pictured. Ill sinister chenia of public ownership, whereby the ; great trunk' line of , railroad bould become the property of th fed eral government and th tat rail road tha property of tba itates, 1 a plot against Industrial independence and commercial enterpriso In America. It would monopolize and subject to partisan control tb transportation ervic of th whole country and com pel th government to go Into business aa a common carrier," Ther would b no competition by which rate could ba determined, and therefor tho cost of th carrying service to the people would b fixed arbitrarily by tbosa at th time being In control of the gov ernment . . : . The chief grievance of the antimo nopoly agitators la that monopoliea de prive the people of the benefit of com petitive enterprlae. Yet here ta the noisiest of all agitator boldly advo cating a project which would absolute ly paralyse the competitive principle In th vital service of transportation for the product of American Inborl Ha tin baleful purpose of Bryanlsu ever been mora clearly disclosed tbaa In this monstrous proposition? Under tha present system the pay of railroad labor la regulated partly by legitimate competition and partly by highly useful organizations of the mej thus employed. Public ownership a urged by Mr. Bryan would take from th vast army of railway employees tb right to a voice In fixing their wages and transfer It to the govern ment In a word, tba 1,500,000 men engaged In railroad work, who are at present able to insist upon fair treat ment In the matter of hours and pay, wo-.ild absolutely lose their Independ ence and be compelled to accept such terms n.i a federal or a itate adminis tration aw Ct to offer. Every change of party control in the legislative or executive branch of government, na tional or itate, would Involve the peril of an arbitrary readjustment of wage M well aa of transportation rates. Un 'der such conditions business stability ! would be Impossible, The interest of ; employer and employe alike would i be menaced with constant uncertainty. Questions of carrying rates and of ; wage for railway labor would become issues In party politics, and the gov ! ernment, possessed of a despotic mo jnopoly control over the largest single ! national interest next to agriculture, j would be forced Into a permanent at ; tltude of apology and defense, i The American wage earner naturally .and Justly resents any attempt to re strict his Independence or regulate hia ! conduct through the arbitrary exercise , of official authority. Yet bcre In the ! Bryan scheme of public ownership la ' the delllicrate proposal that 1,500,000 ! of the most Intelligent, progressive and trustworthy of American employees shall be deprived of the right to ba beard on questions relating to their j wages and shall be obliged to accept auch pay as may be prescribed by offl '. clala elected through partisan Influ ences, That proposal brands William Jennings Bryan as an advocate of the most atrocious monopoly ever dreamed of by a demagogue or auggested by a tyrant It la a menace to American 1 Industrial Independence and atamps its author as a hypocrite and a traitor to the very cause which he pretends to upport Another of Mr. Bryan' complaints against the Republican party Is that it increased the number of officeholders. But hia public ownership scheme would transfer upward of 1,500,000 railway employees to the payrolls of the government for whose wages the whole body of American taxpayers would be assessed In case the railroad business should prove unprofitable. The logical effect of the Bryan pro posal would be to atrip railway labor of Its- Independence, vastly increase the number of officeholders and add enormously to the tax burdens of the people. The evil genius of an Irre sponsible political marplot never con ceived a single project so fraught with peril to the general welfare. The cost to the people of Mr. Bry an' revolutionary programme Is, of course, a matter of no consequence whatever to him. Ho never cares for expenses so long aa somebody else pays thorn. But In view of the fact that the adoption of his scheme would sad-, dlo the taxpayers of the country with an additional Interest bearing debt of more than fl.OOO.000,000 the people probably will pause to Inquire wheth er It Is worth white to assume so heavy a burden merely to test the nos trums of a spectacular quack whose economic doctrines. Ilka his political sincerity, hare been completely im peached by events. Business activity, work at fair wages and general prosperity all call for tha election of Taft, and all three have mighty voices. Mr. Bryan has discovered that po litical gold bricks pay better than frea silver. AMUSEMENTS. ...Astoria Theatre... Saturday Oct 10 After the Make Be lieve, Come the Real Notable Tour of RICHARDS & B'S famous ; Minstrels Thousands of Dollar Invested in It Equipment A VERITABLE DREAM OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS FREE STREET PARADE AND CONCERT AT NOON Price -- -25c, SCc, 75c, $1.00 Astoria Theatre .SATURDAY, Oct! 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