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1 Publshed Weekly The Curts Publshng Company ndependence Square Phladelpha London:5,Henretta Street Covent Garden,W.C. THE SATURDAY EVENNG POST Founded A9Y1728 by Benj.Frankln Copyrght,1912, by The Curts Publshng Company n the Unted States and Great Brtan Entered at the Phladelpha Post-Offce as Second-Class Matter Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post-Offce Department Ottawa. Canada Volume 184 PHLADELPHA, MAY 4, 1912 Number easwen 2g ENTERVEW WYE TEM COLONEL REVEWZNG THE P2SSDENr ACM ZellaTy Mecch Nesclay-)7Eza UDGED by hs record, s Mr. Taft progressve?" Ths queston put to Colonel ejroosevelt. Hs answer: "Mr. Taft was nomnated for presdent n 198 because of hs outspoken ndorsement of progressve polces. Opposed to these polces and to Mr. Taft were the Reactonares, Messrs. Aldrch, Cannon, Penrose, Guggenhem, Keelng, Gallnger,Tawney, Cox, Patrck Calhoun and Lormer. Wthout a sngle excepton these men are supportng Mr. Taft today supportng hm openly and wth every poltcal trck at ther command. They are entrely n accord wth hs record n the presdency. "Have Aldrch, Cannon, Guggenhem and Co. become converted to pro- COPYRONT, 1,61, J. HORACE MO 'ARLAND CO. gressve prncples, or are they satsfed wth Mr. Taft's post-electon atttude toward these prncples? Have the Reactonares become Progressves or has Mr. Taft turned Reactonary? leave t to the people to judge. "Throughout my term of offce the Admnstraton acted for the beneft of the people and aganst specal prvlege not only n every nstance where there was statutory authorty for such acton, but wherever there was no statutory prohbton aganst executve acton. The present Admnstraton has acted for specal prvlege whenever there was found the slghtest authorty n law, or n constructon of law, so to do, and has acted for the people n those cases only where t was explctly commanded by statute so to act. gave the people the beneft of the doubt. Ths Admnstraton has gven the beneft of the doubt aganst the people. "n ths contest nether Mr. Taft's personal nterests, nor mne, nor those of any one man must control. The nterests of the people are paramount. Ths Admnstraton has not been true to ts preelecton promses. Wth ther unerrng nstnct the representatves of specal prvlege, such as those whom have named, recognze ths fact and now flock to the support of the Presdent.. "n hs speech at Phladelpha, Presdent Taft called hmself a Progressve, and ths rased the queston as to what a Progressve s. s more nvolved than any man's say-so as to hmself? A well-meanng man may vaguely thnk of hmself as a Progressve wthout havng the fantest concepton of what a Progressve really s. Vson and ntensty of convcton are essental to the makeup of any man who aspres to lead the forward movement, and wholly useless as substtutes are mldly good ntentons. Mr. Taft was an admrable leutenant as secretary of war, but as presdent he has unfortunately come under the nfluence of the gentlemen have named, and of others lke them. However good the Presdent's ntentons, beleve that hs actons have shown that he s enttled to the support of precsely these men." Mr. Taft's Quck Change M R. ROOSEVELT beleves that ths remarkable change of front took place drectly Mr. Taft was naugurated presdent. Mr. Roosevelt, who was heartly n sympathy wth the nsurgents of the House n ther fght to overthrow Cannonsm, had promsed these Progressves a letter n support of ther cause; but before the naugural ceremones he found that Mr. Taft was dead aganst the men for whom he had expressed loyalty durng the campagn. Ths " about-face " was clearly shown n the contest to democratze the House rules. The Presdent openly aded Cannon and Tawney, and Aldrch ther backer, and upheld these Reactonares to COPTRGNT, 111E, 4. HORACE MC MLANO CO. the extent of approvng of ther course when they made an allance wth Tammany Hall n order to save the Cannon machne from temporary defeat. Not satsfed wth the njury he had worked to the Progressve cause, Mr. Taft went stll farther. At Cannon's behest he wthdrew the patronage from the nsurgents to punsh them for ther opposton. Ths charge does not rest on mere rumor, but s a matter of record, proved beyond all queston by the bald acknowledgment n the letter wrtten by Norton, who was Mr. Taft's secretary. f when bound by every consderaton of patrotsm, grattude and loyalty to support the Progressve leaders and the Progressve cause Mr. Taft would turn from hs frends rght after electon, t s unutterably slly not to expect that, whatever he may now promse n hs campagn for reelecton, f nomnated and elected through the nfluence and money of a combnaton of the most reactonary bosses he would be more of a Reactonary than ever once the votes were counted. Ths Mr. Roosevelt beleves. n ths campagn there has been some talk about grattude. The Standard Dctonary defnes grattude as "apprecaton of favors receved." Applyng ths defnton to the present stuaton Presdent Roosevelt took Mr. Taft nto hs cabnet and made hm secretary of war. He offered Secretary Taft a place on the Unted States Supreme Court. More than any other man n the country he aded n Mr. Taft's nomnaton and electon to the presdency. Then Colonel Roosevelt left the country, for one reason and a bg reason wth hm that no trouble-makng crtc could have the slghtest ground to say that there was nterference wth the new Presdent n the work he had assgned hmself to do. By whom, therefore, were the "favors" receved? Certanly not by Mr. Roosevelt. The Colonel's Unprecedented Recepton n Chcago HE statements n ths artcle were made to me by Colonel Roosevelt on March Ttwenty-nnth, when we were travelng across Mnnesota, and on Aprl ffth, when Mr. Roosevelt was journeyng from the South to llnos to nvade Cannon's balwck. At Chcago, on the twenty-seventh, there had been an extraordnary publc demonstraton. People fought to see The Colonel. Ffteen thousand loud-lunged supporters of Mr. Roosevelt tred to get nto the Audtorum to hear ther leader speak. The doors were thrown open at 6: 53 o'clock, tcket takers and ushers were swept asde, and n seven mnutes the hall was full to overflowng and the polce locked the doors. n common wth thousands of others could not gan admttance to the Audtorum. Holders of box seats, men wearng press badges, poltcal leaders and poltcans n leadng strngs all of us were left at the post. One local newspaper man, convoyng a dstngushed person, loudly nvoked the power of the press. "'m Mr. of the Examner," he sad, "and 've got to get n!" Whereupon the bg man n front of hm growled: "'m the Chef of Polce and can't get n!" There were at least sx thousand persons about Wcker Park Hall and fve thousand more at Northwest Hall, where The Colonel spoke after the Audtorum meetng. All told t was "the largest crowd that ever welcomed a canddate n Chcago," accordng to the Trbune. As for the demonstratons at St. Paul and 3

2 THE SATURDAY EVENNG POST May 4, 1912 Mnneapols one of the Eastern newspaper correspondents declared that they "beat Chcago." But all of the correspondents dd not take ths vew of t. Apparently the New York newspaper men were predsposed to make lght of these outpourngs of people. "Curosty" was the reterated word of the metropoltan scrbes. Then may all worthy poltcal leaders be the object of such "curosty"! have traveled wth Mr. Bryan; wth Colonel Roosevelt at other tmes n ths country and abroad; have jogged about wth Mr. Taft; and f, n ths recent trp, the demonstratons were due to mere " curosty," surely the natve concealed hs gudng motve well. At the least should call t "curosty vocferens." There was never a voce rased n dsapproval, and the cheers had the rng of those days when even Standpatters agreed that Theodore Roosevelt was the most popular man n Amerca. Altogether ths welcome from the Mddle West and ths acknowledgment of leadershp was more than enough to turn a man's head to gve hm a gorgeous jag of gladness. Of course Mr. Roosevelt was pleased; but each mornng before the day's happenngs had begun The Colonel came to the breakfast table perceptbly pleased, ready for sxteen hours of joyous lvng, and nvarably attred n hs fghtng clothes. Ths garb was lad asde, however, when had ths ntervew. Then Colonel Roosevelt was markedly earnest and dspassonate. He dscarded hs rapd-fre conversatonal method and spoke slowly and carefully. He was evdently searchng always for just the rght word as he talked of the most delcate subject n the campagn talked about Mr. Taft. And he spoke reluctantly. Some may suppose that The Colonel s seethng wth mpatence to attack Mr. Taft. Nothng could be farther from the truth. And n everythng that The Colonel sad there was always a sharp dstncton n hs speech, as doubtless n hs thought, between Mr. Taft the man and Mr. Taft the publc servant. The Colonel Slow to Condemn Mr. Taft RECALL the frst long talk had wth The Colonel after hs return from Afrca. t was on the ralroad journey from Naples to Rome. wanted a bg story had traveled far to get t. The Progressve frends of Mr. Roosevelt were convnced that Presdent Taft was not makng good; that he had deserted them and had contracted a close partnershp wth the Reactonares. The Ballnger affar was at ts heght. t seemed to me that on a showng of these facts Colonel Roosevelt would express hs dsapproval of the course of hs successor n no uncertan terms. The Colonel dd nothng of the knd. He lstened, but he made no comment. f there was any btterness n hs heart toward Mr. Taft he concealed t from me. He looked hs dsappontment, but he talked hopefully of the future. nstead of crtcsng the Presdent he sad that he would take no man's testmony, not even that of hs own sworn frends, but would judge for hmself after a careful examnaton of Mr. Taft's record. That was two years ago. As Contrbutng Edtor he has sezed every opportunty to prase the Presdent's acton where he could do so conscentously. The frst-year record of the Presdent, Mr. Roosevelt has not alluded to n The Outlook. ndeed he has passed over many current happenngs n Mr. Taft's sphere of acton whch dd not meet wth hs approval. Hs edtoral crtcsms have related to the most mportant of publc polces, notably certan parts of the peace treates, n whch Mr. Roosevelt's poston was sustaned by the Unted States Senate. COPYRGHT, 196, J. HORACE MC FARLANC CO. Mr. Roosevelt's atttude regardng Mr. Taft can be summed up n few words. He was most reluctant to oppose the Presdent, even to crtcse hm. He kept hopng that Mr. Taft would alter hs course and become suffcently progressve so that the party could go forward wth hm. Falng that, Mr. Roosevelt hoped that some leader other than hmself would come forward on whom Progressves could unte and who could be nomnated. When Progressves throughout the country convnced Colonel Roosevelt that he alone could command ther general support he agreed to accept the nomnaton f t was tendered to hm. But he rested the matter entrely wth the people. They were to decde and no one else. Or, to quote hs own words: "The ssue s whether the Amercan people are ft and able to govern themselves, or whether they are to be governed by those machne poltcans whose allance wth the worst form of busness has resulted n nne-tenths of the corrupton and scandal of Amercan lfe. "f the people decde the present contest the way thnk they ought not to do, wll thnk they are unwse, but wll have nothng to say. But f they decde aganst us as the result of the jugglng of ther rghts by the bosses, then wll have a good deal to say. "Presdent Taft," contnued The Colonel, "accuses me of favorng 'soapbox prmares.' reply that 'd rather have a soapbox prmary any day than a payroll prmary t's cleaner." Mr. Taft coned the unhappy phrase, "soapbox prmares,", n Boston, where he spoke at the same banquet table wth "Pat" Calhoun, sometme ndcted n San Francsco. Mr. Calhoun also denounced the recall, expressng the fear that t would endanger the lbertes of the people! Before ths harmony dnner n hs Toledo speech the Presdent severely crtcsed the prncples that Mr. Roosevelt has advocated n ths campagn and wll contnue to advocate. Under ths crtcsm The Colonel grew restve. Meanwhle the "payroll" conventons of the Southern states were rushng through ther nstructons for Taft. Then out came the steam roller n ndana, followed by the farccal so-called prmary n New York. And Colonel Roosevelt began to speak hs mnd. "We have heard a good deal of talk recently by our opponents headed, am sorry to say, by the Presdent hmself aganst what he calls the mpulsve judgment of the people,"' sad The Colonel. " should lke to pont out an amusng ncdent of our opponents' nconsstency. Most of the Southern states are under the domnon of the offceholders, and wherever ths was the case our opponents took good care to secure an exceedngly mpulsve judgment by these patronage-controlled Southern states long n advance of the acton of the states where there s a real Republcan party, and where, when gven the chance, the Republcans can express ther own wll as to who should be the nomnee for presdent. ndeed t was ultrampulsve, for they would not even wat untl the usual tmes for holdng conventons, but put them as far n advance as they possbly could. "Of course n nothng that we have proposed have we asked for mpulsve judgment; but for my part should far rather trust to the mpulsveness of the people than to the trcky delberaton of the bosses!" The New York prmary contest, declared Mr. Roosevelt, "was not merely a farce, but a crmnal farce. The results are n no shape or way representatve of the Republcan party and have no bndng force whatever on the Republcan party. Yet Mr. Taft congratulated the men who were gulty of ths conduct! What was done n New York s substantally what was done n ndana and also n Colorado. Outsde of Denver, n spte of every speces of trckery and foul play, we carred a majorty of the delegates. But n Denver tself we were beaten by the most outrageous methods by the Guggenhem-Evans machne. "You are famlar wth Judge Ben Lndsey's book, The Beast and the Jungle," sad The Colonel, warmng up to the subject. "Now you look nto the career of a man lke Phl Stewart, who made the fght for us n Colorado, and remember Lndsey who, although not n the Republcan party, has stood wth us n ths contest, and compare them wth the records of Messrs. Guggenhem and Evans then judge for yourself whch sde represents the cause of the plan people, whch sde represents the cause of decency and honesty n poltcal and busness lfe. There has never been a clearer lne-up n the hstory of ths country than the present lne-up." Aldrch, Cannon and Co. Aganst the Feld THE lne-up Colonel Roosevelt has gven wth names and dates at the begnnng of ths ntervew. t s the Aldrches, the Cannons, the Guggenhems and the Lormers aganst the feld. Wth the ant-progressves t s a campagn of apology for an apologst. Now for the ssues. Frst asked about the tarff. Mr. Roosevelt beleves that Mr. Taft was rght n hs poston before electon, but that he reversed hmself mmedately after electon, and durng the "tarff revson" sesson confned hs efforts to backng up Aldrch, Cannon, Tawney and Co. Then n Tawney's dstrct he prased the Payne- Aldrch Law as the best tarff measure ever enacted and Tawney was beaten for renomnaton. Mr. Roosevelt beleves that the Presdent faled n hs attempt to get the rght knd of tarff bll at the partcular tme when t could have been wrested from Congress, and when t was too late that he went n wth the Reactonary leaders to secure a tarff board of such lmted powers as to cause the people to regard t wth suspcon; that the Presdent has consulted the tarff board when he wshed to fnd excuse for executve dsapproval of tarff legslaton, but dd not consult the board when he ntroduced hs Recprocty Bll at the expense of the farmers n fact, dsregarded the board's fndngs. (Contnued on Page 44) COPYRGHT, 195, J. HORACE MC FARLAND CO. COPYRGHT, 195, J. HORACE MC 'ARLAND CO.

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Ths seat floats or suspends the 2 rder's weght between concealed sprngs, held under heavy compresson, a8 nches BM of sprngs beng used for ths purpose as aganst only the small nadequate saddle S.A sprngs of the ordnary motorcycle. Ths Ful-Floteng Seat elmnates all the jars W l l and jolts formerly so objectonable, makng the Harley-Davdson rde wth all the PH ease and comfort of an expensve tourng car. M., CLEANLNESS EASY STARTNG OM All movng parts that use ol or grease are now The Free-Wheel Control, another exclusve,.. encased n ol tght cases, thus dong away entrely feature ) does away absolutely wth tresome pedalwth any possblty of gettng grease or ol on the ng, or runnng alongsde to start, the machne der's n r clothes--another objectonable feature n the beng started or stopped by the mere shftng of m ordnary motorcycle. a lever.,.. These features all exclusve Harley-Davdson features wll be demonstrated to you by our nearest dealer. We have just ssued a descrptve booklet, whch wll be gladly sent you on request. -2- HARLEY-DAVDSON MOTOR CO., 244 B Street, MLWAUKEE,WS st /...-gunk--mumnn-nu-nm-m-mnm mo-n m UM -\ Ol r:....._ mu BM j.w M RN?...- um am M F.--...,,,,, -- - lft1 k --- F _ g. Ml hl -M....3 Wlla Neoasosrellt P11 sea Taft Except n those cases where the Presdent has overrdden the board or pad no attenton to t, Mr. Roosevelt beleves that Mr. Taft has used these experts solely to defeat tarff changes; that the board has not been used by the Presdent to promote tarff revson n accordance wth hs preelecton promses and wth the platform pledges of the Republcan party. "What s your poston today on the tarff, Colonel Roosevelt?" asked. " My poston today s dentcal wth my poston of two years ago, as set forth n the congressonal campagn, partcularly n my speech at Soux Cty, owa. stand squarely on the Republcan platform of 198, but beleve n an honest nterpretaton of those tarff pledges and n legslatve acton strctly n accord wth the party's campagn promses. All need to add to what have publcly sad about tarff revson s ths: that beleve tarff benefts should not stop at the front offce, but that those benefts should go on through the entre establshment to the proft of every wageworker. And t s hgh tme that the consumer, as well as the specal nterest, was consdered n the makng of a tarff law." "Before you left the presdency your name had become dentfed wth certan governmental polces the regulaton of ralroads, pure food, conservaton, and the T behtetseerment of country lfe, for example. polces your successor gave solemn pledge that he would carry out. Has Mr. Taft kept s speak for tself." Mr. Roosevelt spoke delberately as f consderng every word. "Take ralroad regulaton," he contnued. "The one bt of progressve legslaton n the last Congress was the Ralroad Rate Bll, amendatory of the nterstate Commerce Act of 196. As submtted for congressonal acton by the Presdent's attorney-general, Mr. Wckersham, ths was a thoroughly mschevous and mproper measure whch, f enacted nto law, would. have undone most of the work of the last twenty years, for t legalzed ralroad monopoly wthout provdng any addtonal safeguards n the matter of control. The Admnstraton bll was champoned by Senator Aldrch and put through the commttee unchanged. t was entrely reconstructed rewrtten, n fact on the floor of the Senate by the Progressve senators, who successfully met the volent opposton of the Reactonares champons of the Admnstraton's bll." Mr. Taft and Pure Food "When the Ralroad Rate Bll went to the Presdent, only one of the essental features of the plan ntated by Mr. Taft remaned. Ths was the provson for the Commerce Court. But the creaton of the Commerce Court was a step backward, not a step forward. t s the only provson of the bll that n practce has worked badly. t has tended, n effect, to nullfy or to retard the expert fndngs of the nterstate Commerce Commsson. n ts recent decson on the frst case appealed from the Commerce Court, the Unted States Supreme Court reversed the Commerce Court and upheld the nterstate Commerce Commsson. The decson of the Commerce Court, had t been affrmed, would have rendered worthless the commsson's entre system of gatherng ralroad data and would have put a premum on rebatng. Justces Lurton and Lamar, apponted n ths Admnstraton, dssented from the majorty opnon of the Supreme Court." "And the people's law The Pure Food and Drugs Act has that been enforced prmarly n the nterests of ts ntended benefcares every man, woman and chld?" "Doctor Wley's resgnaton," sad Mr. Roosevelt, "answers that queston. As he says n prnt, he resgned because 'the stuaton had become ntolerable,' because the fundamental prncples of The Pure Food and Drugs Act had, one by one, been paralyzed and dscredted.' " regard the pure-food law, wth the meat-nspecton act, as one of the great achevements of my Admnstraton. t was my earnest endeavor to enforce that law wth farness to food manufacturers, but wthout favor to those engaged n msbrandng or adulteratng foods and drugs. (Contnued from Page 4) Soon after ts passage the Natonal Wholesale Lquor Dealers' Assocaton, venders of mtaton whsky, who had defeated the pure-food bll n the Senate on more than one occason, sought to break down the admnstraton of the law and secure unwarranted lcense to perpetrate ther msrepresentatons on the publc. "They concentrated ther attack on a general clause of the act that appled as much to coffee and to tea, for example, as to whsky. Attorney-General Bonaparte's clear and unanswerable legal opnon n ths matter seemed to me to settle the controversy beyond cavl. But Mr. Taft reversed the Bonaparte rulng and substtuted an opnon of hs own whch gave the mtaton-whsky nterests all that they had ever demanded. Under ths new and straned constructon of a benefcent law t would be possble to mx coffee and chcory and call the mxture `blended coffee,' or to mx tea and wllow leaves and call t `blended tea.' " Old Trusts n New Clothes "Doctor Wley vndcated' and allowed to resgn; Solctor McCabe, who has tred n every way to break down the pure-food law kept on the job sn't ths practcally a repetton of the Ballnger affar?" " Precsely," sad Colonel Roosevelt. " Mr. Ballnger, as secretary of the nteror under ths Admnstraton, dd all he could to destroy a great publc polcy. Yet he was vndcated by Mr. Taft and retaned n offce untl he voluntarly resgned. Gfford Pnchot, a pecularly fne type of publc servant who, more than any one man, ntated the conservaton polcy of the precedng Admnstraton, was dsmssed from offce." " And your Country Lfe Commsson also was dsmssed?" " Dsmssed, although ts members were gvng ther valuable servces wthout compensaton," sad Mr. Roosevelt. "n an effort for the betterment of country lfe farm lfe apponted the commsson, wth Dr. L. H. Baley, of Cornell Unversty, as charman. A splendd pece of work, an admrable publc servce, was done by ths commsson. n ts report that transmtted to Congress, the general condton of farmng lfe n the open country was analyzed and ts larger problems ponted out. The report ndcated ways n whch the Government, natonal and state, could show the people how to solve some of these problems. recommended that a small appropraton be made for the expenses to fnsh the task whch was well under way, but dd not recommend any appropraton for the servces of the commssoners. Mr. Taft took the poston that he could not accept the servces of 'unpad advsers' or consult wth them. n reachng ths concluson the Presdent accepted the advce of Aldrch, Cannon, Tawney and Co., whose gudng purpose was to dscredt n every possble way the work of the precedng Admnstraton. The Presdent dsbanded the commsson, and the careful and expert nvestgaton performed by the country lfe commssoners purely as a publc servce was practcally thrown away. And Aldrch, Cannon, Tawney and Co. were substtuted as 'unpad advsers.' "Do you stll thnk that n the wdely advertsed 'breakng up of the trusts by the Government the bg combnatons have merely 'changed ther clothes'?" "That s precsely t," sad Colonel Roosevelt. "Nothng of real worth was accomplshed n the suts aganst the Tobacco Trust and Standard Ol. The average ctzen can determne for hmself whether or not sound publc polcy was furthered by the attorney-general, representng the Admnstraton, when he acquesced n the decsons n ther fnal form. shall not try to apporton the responsblty for the utter falure of these suts. The net result has been that the Tobacco Trust and the Standard Ol Trust materally ncreased the value of ther stock, and that there has been no dmnuton of ther power to control markets. Accordng to the press reports the market prce of Standard Ol stock has ncreased more than two hundred mllon dollars from the tme of the Supreme Court's decson, and the prce of ol has gone up durng the same perod. n Wall Street, am told, the only dfference notceable s that speculators

4 46 THE SATURDAY EVENNG POST May 4, c E-...1K.9.-MC-CPZ *C :1M1 C-.--M C W..3 Ed f: C-... C., Mae es :: C -3.Al t $ oxo en v $ e '-'-.- ' - 1 //z ba %... For the Tolet OXOGEN removes stans from fngers and nals; softens the dead cutcle, D whch then rubs off wthout cuttng; keeps hangnal hurts from gettng sore. After shavng, Doxogen soothes the skn, stops bleedng, klls the germs that sometmes get n and so prevents sores and pmples. As a mouth wash Doxogen foams and bubbles ts way nto places no brush could reach; leaves the mouth, teeth and gums hygencally clean. Destroys the odor of tobacco. By destroyng the germs whch thrve n the mouth, t prevents sore throat, tonslts and other germ dseases. Have Doxogen on your tolet table. Doxogen s a germcde a germ destroyer not merely an antseptc. t s absolutely harmless, too. Three Szes: Small (S r oz.). 25c; Medum (133 oz.), 5c; Large (2 oz.). 75c. Doxogen, 98 Front Street, New York Cty _7 -.s M. CEM 3* -*MEM-. as , ,-3 THE THOMAS PHAETON THE COMFORTABLE THOMAS Wth ts mechancal and structural features the effcency of whch s easly proven by demonstraton, the 1912 Thomas marks an epoch n automoble rdng comfort. The eleven nch upholsterng, the three quarter ellptc sprngs, the secondary sprngs, the shock absorbers and recol straps gvea degree of tonneau comfort, especally n tourng, not yet attaned by any otve-nmercan or foregn car. The underslung gasolne and ol tanks gve an extremely low center of gravty causng the car to hold the road better at hgh speeds and on sharp turns and further enhance the physcal comfort of the passengers. The sturdy Thomas constructon, the extra large brakes, the safety loops and the wonderfully strong yet easly controlled steerng mechansm gve ample assurance of safety and mental comfort to both drver and passengers. FOUR STYLES OF OPEN BODES -TOURNG CAR, PHAETON, SURREY AND RUNABOUT, PRCE S4, FOR EACH TYPE. Our Catalog--"The Story of the Thom." wat your reque.t. E. R. THOMAS MOTOR CAR COMPANY, DEPT. J BUFFALO A, would certanly take at least two years from the tme of the electon of the legslature that passed the act. Now, only four months elapse between the nomnaton and electon of a man as presdent to fll for four years the most mportant offce n the land. f Mr. Taft's language correctly descrbes the acton of the electorate, then he hmself and all other presdents have been elected by the ftful mpulse of a temporary majorty.' f Mr. Taft s rght t was the ftful mpulse of a temporary majorty' that founded ths naton. "f, after two years of sober thought, the people of a state decde that women and chldren shall be protected n ndustry, or men protected from excessve hours of labor under unhygenc condtons, or wageworkers compensated when they lose lfe or lmb n the servce of others, then ther decson forthwth becomes n the words of Mr. Taft a 'whm,' an exercse of the grossest tyranny,' and the 'layng of the ax to the foot of the tree of freedom!'" To nterpolate: Before the Roosevelt party arrved at the Twn Ctes a few of the Progressve leaders of Mnnesota urged Colonel Roosevelt to "go lght" on the judcary queston; to clear up the false mpresson of hs Columbus speech created by the press through call t unfrendly selecton of excerpts; to prase the bench of Mnnesota and let t go at that. The Colonel only smled. Toward the close of hs Mnneapols speech, nstead of " gong lght," Colonel Roosevelt cut loose. He dscussed the Reactonary judcary and the recall of judcal decsons wth partcular emphass, wth "punch," wth sarcastc references to certan court decsons and to "our opponents." t proved to be, by long odds, the most applauded part of hs speech. When returned to Chcago and talked wth a conservatve lawyer, one of the acknowledged leaders of the patent bar of the state, he sad of Mr. Roosevelt's proposal regardng the courts: "For every vote t costs hm t wll gan hm ten votes." The Tyrannes of Mnortes "Colonel Roosevelt, what s the great ssue n ths campagn?" "There are two ssues one, the duty to get socal and ndustral justce; two, the rght of the people to rule," sad The Colonel earnestly. "Are the Amercan people ft to govern themselves, to rule themselves, to control themselves, and can we get socal and ndustral justce thereby? " beleve the people are ft to rule. Mr. Taft does not. beleve that the majorty of the plan people of the Unted States wll, day n and day out, make fewer mstakes n governng themselves than any smaller class or body of men, no matter what ther tranng, wll make n tryng to govern them. beleve that the Amercan people are, as a whole, capable of selfcontrol and of learnng by ther mstakes. Mr. Taft pays only lp-loyalty to ths doctrne. n hs speech to the New York Bar Assocaton the Presdent sad: " There are those of us who do not beleve that all people are s, for popular government. The fact s, we know they are not. Some of us do not dare say so, but do.' And that Mr. Taft was referrng to the Amercan people s shown by the context of hs speech, for he added: 'We are called upon now, we of the bar, to say whether we are gong to protect the nsttuton of the judcary ȧ nd contnue t ndependent of the majorty, or of all the people.' Remember that ths s smply a plea to stand by the Reactonary courts and aganst the people n such cases as have named. t s a plea to put a legslatve formula above justce to the oppressed. "Mr. Taft s very much afrad of the tyranny of majortes. have scant patence wth such tmdty. Wherever there s tyranny of the majorty shall protest aganst t; but today we are sufferng from the tyranny of mnortes. t s a small mnorty that s grabbng our coal deposts, our water powers and our harbor fronts. A small mnorty s battenng on the sale of adulterated foods and drugs. t s a small mnorty that les behnd monopoles and trusts. t s a small mnorty that stands behnd the present law of master and servant, the sweatshops, and the whole calendar of socal and ndustral njustce. The only tyrannes from whch men, women and chldren are sufferng n real lfe are the tyrannes of mnortes. "Mr. Taft has correctly stated the ssue between hm and the Progressves," contnued Colonel Roosevelt. 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Over a quarter of a mllon house- 26, now wves are today usng the Boss Oven n use and gettng better results wth less el wth none of the drudgery of bakng necessary wth the ordnary oven. Wth a Boss Oven, you can convert your old stove nto an elevated-oven range. The Boss Recpe Book shows all the new styles n ovens and gves 69 Send for free Recpe Book bakng recpes whch every housewfe wll welcome. t takes up such suggestons as "Servng Formal Meals; Layng the Table for Dnner or Luncheon"; Table of Comparatve Proportons ; Measu rnghnts; Mxng Hnts, and general Cookery, that are nvaluable to every woman who cooks. Wrte today for a free copy. Address The Huenefeld Co.. 25 Straght St., Cncnnat. Oho. Sold by good dealers everywhere :(''' 1/11 : 3 lbsl A 1111,,, 111 hdl111 boss ova. 1 1 How ManyTons doyou Lft a Day? Wth ordnary suspenders every tme you rase your shoulder two or three nches you lft three or four pounds even when the rubber stretches. Wth Shrley Presdent Suspenders, when you rase a shoulder, the back cord gves wth the moton. You get free shoulder movements and a new sense of comfort. No tug. No pull. The fgure on the rght llustrates ths. SHRLEY PRE ENT Y3rft. 4.2 SUSP ERS Lght, medum and extra heavy weghts. Extra lengths for tall men. Sgned guarantee on every par. Prce 5c, From your dealer or by mal. THE C. A. EDGARTON MFG. CO. 2 Man Street, Shrley, Mass, -1

5 THE SATURDAY EVENNG POST 47 PFTWZMWAr'AMETMr4 /\ WE have twenty-fve dfferent styles of hosery for chldren. The three broad groups are- (/) School Hose Knt for wear and attractve appearance. (2) Romp Hose Knt to wear everlastngly. (3) Dress Hose The most elegant hose made. They'll wear too. For sprng and summer wear 747:241/1Xla PONY STOCKNGS FOR CHLDREN are smply deal. They keep actve chldren cool and comfortable. They're very lght weght soft and thn made from fne ary cottons and lsles. They'll gve a good account of themselves n wear too. They're protected at knees, heels, soles and toes wth extra re- 7r: oryne.7en4 HOSERY enforcng. WO.1 ~MY Leadng stores everywhere sell Wayne Knt Pony Stockngs at a reasonable prce try them. The Wayne Knttng Mlls Fort Wayne, nd. The largest knttng mlls of fullvashaxed hosery en he e ld wor. a nnar Burnham & Morrll Fsh Flakes 1e. and 15. szes (Except les Far West) The most delcous fresh Codfsh you've ever tasted and so convenent thoroughly cooked, mldly salted ready for the table n an nstant. You can make Codfsh Balls, Creamed Fsh, Fsh Hash, Fsh Chowder, etc., that wll delght the whole famly. B. & M. Fsh Flakes s economcal, too. No waste no spolage keeps everywhere. At grocers full sze 1c. tn sent prepad on recept of 1c. Helpful book of recpes FREE on request. BURNHAM & MORRLL CO. Portland, Mane, U. S. A. Packers of the Justly Celebrated Pars Sugar Corn the rght of the people to rule, and we stand for ths as a real and lvng fact, and not as a jugglng formula ngenously devsed so as not to fnd expresson n fact. "Subscrbng to the opposte vew, Mr. Taft has paraphrased Lncoln's great statement that ' Ths s a government of the people, for the people and by the people,' proposng as a substtute that we should act on the theory that ths s a government of the people, for the people, by a representatve part or class of the people. Now t s dangerous work for any man, even for a presdent, to try to mprove on Lncoln's doctrne of popular soveregnty and popular rghts. n actual practce, Mr. Taft's theory of government of the people, not by the people, but by a representatve part of the people, means smply government of the people, by the bosses, for the specal nterests! "Mr. Taft's present adherents Reactonares lke Messrs. Aldrch, Cannon, Penrose, Gallnger, Guggenhem and Lormer are precsely the men who, under the Presdent's theory of government, would be, as they to a certan degree already are, the 'representatve part' of the people that governs the rest of the people, and that does not really represent them at all, but msrepresents them. "t s of lttle matter n ths contest whether any one man fals or succeeds; but the cause shall not fal, for t s the cause of manknd. When plead for the crppled brakeman on a ralroad, for the overworked grl n a factory, for the stunted chld tolng at nhuman labor, for all who work excessvely or n unhealthy surroundngs, for the famly dwellng n the squalor of a nosome tenement, for the worn-out farmer n regons where the farms are worn out also; when protest aganst the unfar profts of unscrupulous and conscenceless men or aganst the greedy explotaton of the helpless by the benefcares of Prvlege am not only fghtng for the weak, am fghtng also for the strong. Ths country wll not be a good place for any of us f t s not a reasonably good place for all of us." There was an nterrupton the usual nterrupton. The tran slowed down and stopped, and a great crowd the ralroad offcal sad four thousand surged round the tal end of the specal lke navves about a paycar. There were loud shouts for "Teddy" and scatterng calls for "Roosevelt," and then a roar as The Colonel stepped out on the platform. Agan "curosty vocferens." t was Youngstown, Oho, where Mr. Taft made what he regarded as one of hs notable speeches n the campagn of 198. When the tran pulled out t wasn't the rebel yell that we heard, but t was surely a rebellous yell. Ths crowd was aganst somebody, but seemngly for Mr. Roosevelt. As he reentered the car smlng, of course The Colonel pcked up a bography of Charles Fox and paused to remark: "Fo years ago, on Mr. Taft's then record, ur supported hm and the Reactonarms opposed hm. Both sdes acted correctly accordng to ther then knowledge. After three and a half years' experence of Mr. Taft as Presdent, oppose hm and the Reactonares support hm: Agan both sdes are actng correctly n vew of the knowledge ganed durng these three and a half years. The lne-up s clear based upon the record." NCa.glngys Nalagglntrt N THE days before juvenle courts, Judge Rx, a polce magstrate of San Francsco, took a paternal nterest n all youthful offenders, fttng reproofs to ther offenses and temperng justce to ther years. One mornng he observed an underszed, palefaced lad crouchng n the prsoners' dock. The judge delberately adj usted hs spectacles and glared over them at the delnuent. "Young feller!" he bellowed n the tone he usually assumed to strke terror to the heart of the offender, "stand up!" The boy dragged hmself to hs feet. "What you n for?" The prsoner hung hs head n shame. "What's the charge?" the judge asked of the clerk. "Murder!" whspered that offcal. "He chopped hs father all to peces wth an ax." The judge, taken aback by the enormty of the crme, turned to the boy agan, shook hs head n sorrow and sad gravely: "Look here, young feller, you an't acted rght!" Pa4,41X j;..4 grk HAMMERLESS AUTOMATCALLY SAFE SOLD BREECH LOOK FOR THE AUTOMATC SAFETY N THE GRP t makes the COLT take care of tself n preventng accdental dscharge. No thought or attenton requred by the shooter. SAVES WORRY! ASK YOUR DEALER TO SHOW YOU A COLT.25,.32 OR.38 AUTOMATC PSTOL The Automatc Grp Safety postvely locks the acton aganst frng untl automatcally compressed by the shooter when he ntends to pull the trgger. F--. 7/ / "YOU CAN'T FORGET TO MAKE T SAFE" Ths allows you to put a COLT n your pocket, hand-bag or other convenent place LOADED AND COCKED READY FOR N- STANT USE wthout rsk of accdental dscharge. The SLDE LOCK SAFETY can be thrown on f desred, makng the COLT DOUBLY SAFE. Ths s an addtonal rather than an essental protectve devce. 4 The COLT s always safe t takes care of tself and you. The COLT HAMMERLESS AUTOMATC PSTOL has no workng parts exposed no hammer to catch n the pocket. The COLT SAFETES ndcate whether or not the pstol s cocked. Remember COLTS have proved ther superorty over all others. Catalogue No. 85 maled free. t's full of nterest. COLT'S PATENT FRE ARMS MFG. CO., HARTFORD, CONN. 'kwh "N. 4.4 ralt hafffl.;1 t EATrrar 1119j j...411,7sn4ttm k A $25,, Dam and Power Plant on the Msssspp All the power of the Msssspp wll soon be behnd Keokuk, owa, when the ggantc dam s completed a few months hence. The country wll then behold the marvel engneerng achevement of the century a sngle water-power plant developng 2, electrcal horse power. Wth the openng of ths dam Keokuk wll offer ndustral advantages not to be found at any other pont. t wll become not only a power center, but the manufacturng center of ths secton. KEOKUK "The Cty of Power" Power wll be furnshed to manufacturers at a lower cost than t can be obtaned at any other pont n the country. Thnk of the fxed annual savng. Labor Keokuk, havng so many home advantages, sattractve to workers n the vared lnes of ndustry- Transportaton excellent by ral and water, wth sdngs suppled to every plant, connectng wth all ralroads and wharves. A government lock at Keokuk, the same wdth as the Panama Canal, facltates freght traffc on the Msssspp and trbutares through the port at New Orleans to the Pacfc coast and all the ports of the world. Locaton rght at the gateway for lumber from the north, hdes and wool from the west, cotton and sugar from the south, ron, steel and other metals. Near-by bauxte clay beds offer a boon to manufacturers of alumnum. Every manufacturer n Amerca should know more about Keokuk. Wrte for llustrated pamphlet. KEOKUK NDUSTRAL ASSOCATON, Keokuk, owa h. '411%A.1,