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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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