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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1912.
TAFT DEFENDS
HIS POLICIES
His Trust Attitude Firm, Con
sistent and Effective.
OPPOSES POLITICAL NOSTRUMS
Recall of Judges a Menace to Inde
pendence of Judiciary Declares That
Attacks on the Integrity of His Nomi
nation Are DaseUss and Vicious.
President Taft discusses the issues
of the prveuut campnlRU In tho Satur
day Kvculnp Post, lie takes his stand
Ftltiaroly on the Issue that with him
rested the responsibility of maintaining
thu high standard set up in the records
of IiIh party and of cnrrylng out those
policies of his predecessors which he
declares have made good government
nnd Republicanism synonymous.
The greater part of his argument,
which la the first of three to bo writ
ten by the chief candidates for tho
presidency, Is devoted to a review of
tariff legislation during his adminis
tration nud to the reasons for opposing
the bills set before him for n reduction
of schedules before they had been In
vestigated by the tariff toard.
llo kuj-b ho signed the Payne tariff
bill because, alove all, It provided the
machinery by which alone. In his opin
ion, a just and Intelligent revision of
tho tariff could bo effected; because it
gave the executive power through
maximum and minimum rates to get
proper treatment for American prod
ucts from foreign nations; because It
imposed a tlx on corporations and
pavod tho way for government Insight
into their operations; because it pro
vided a means of collecting revenue
quickly In case of emergency; becauso
it granted a larger measure of Justice
to the Filipino and finally because it
did provide for a material reduction
in tariff rates, not so much of a re
duction as he would have liked to get,
but as much as ho belioved It was
possible to obtain without tho ma
chinery of the tariff board which the
law created. Ho disapproved of tho
tariff bills since passed because he Raw
in them a menace to tho American
workman.
Coming to thoso measures of his ad
ministration which havo been passed
in tho interests of social justice, the
president sets down first tho railway
rate bill, which ho describes as tho
logical development of tho policy em
bodied in the Hepburn act. It gave
authority to the Interstate commerce
commission in many details that had
been lacking and added powers of su
pervision over express companies, tele
grai'ih, telephone and cablo lines. It
authorized tho institution of investiga
tions of rates before formal complaint
had been mado, the protection of wa
ter lines from unfair competition and
enacted a long and short haul clause
that has proved valuable to many
communities.
President Taft asserts that his trust
policy has been firm, consistent and
effective In spite of the enmity of
thoso business interests which ho
knew it would arouse. lie points out
that forty-four cases against trusts
were instituted during the soven and
one-half years that Mr. Itoosovelt was
president, while during the less than
four years of his own administration
twenty-two civil suits and forty-five
criminal indictments have been
brought.
To what lie stylos tho nostrums of
the recall of Judges and of Judicial
opinions the president Is firmly oppos
ed, holding them a menace to the inde
pendence of the Judiciary.
"As we listen to tho demagogic or
fatuous reformers," he says, "let us
not forget that votes are not bread, con
stitutional amendments aro not work,
referendum do not pay rent or fur
nish homes, recalls do not provide
clothing, initiatives do not supply em
ployment or relievo Inequality of con
dition or opportunity. For any dofi
nlte plans from those who advocate
innovations which will promote equali
ty of opportunity and ameliorate hard
ships we listen in vain."
As to the Chicago convention, the
president declares that no considera
tion of party weal or personal ambi
tion would tempt him to stand as a
presidential candidate did ho not know
that the attacks upon tho integrity of
fits nomination aro as baseless as thoy
are vlclpus.
Extract from statement of
Mr. Roosevelt dated Nov. 8,
1904:
"On the 4th day of March
next I shall have served three
and one-half years, and this
three and one-half years con
stitutes my first term. The
wise custom which limits the
president to two terms regards
the substance and not the
form. Under no circum
stances will I be a candidate
for or accept another nomination."
"What Washington would
not take and Grant could not
get no man shall have."
The Third Term Question.
K 5i 111 I iSuJ'l'"" fLiI$f I
MODERN WOODMEN RATE
QUESTION
Should Old Members Ho 1 In ted nt
Kntry Ago or Attained Aro?
The Modern Woodmen Bulletin in
its first October Issue has the follow
ing to say in explanation of tho rate
controversy within tho Modern
Woodmen of America:
Reduced to Its lowest possible
terms, the Modern Woodmen rato
question Is tho question of whether
tho members should be rated at en
try age or at attained age.
This is a question the Society Is
entitled to decldo from the stand
point of its own interest, unless the
member has a legal claim arising
from his contract, or an equitable
claim arising from a contribution ex
ceeding what it has cost the Society
to carry men of his class and leaving
a profit which should in justico be
applied for his benefit.
No 'legal claim arising from tho
contract is admitted. With respect
to equity, the situation is that tho
older meni'bers have contributed no
part of the surplus now in the hands
of tho Society. This represents a
part of the excess contributions of
the younger members. The payment
of death losses among members of
their respective ages has consumed
all tho older members have con
tributed to tho benefit fund and
more.
If what tho older members have
done to build up the Society has
created a, fraternal obligation, tho
Society has sought to discharge it by
making to them the most liberal con
cession consistent with its own safe
ty. It poposes to "load" rates for
younger members In order that It
may carry tho older members at
rates which will create a deficiency
of $22,500,000 in their contribu
tions if their certificates mature ac
cording to tho Modern Woodmen
mortality table.
No member, young or old, will bo
" frozen out." No member need
contribute a dollar to tho reserve
fund unless he chooses to do so. He
may take the step-rate, which is the
current cost rate. Under this plan,
his rate up to ago 53 will be lower
than under the old plan. Or ho may
take term insurance to ago 50, CO
or 70, for from 45 to 75 per cent, of
the whole life levol rate. Term in
surance was all ho had in fact under
the old plan, which meant that tho
Society would run along for an in
definite term, but ultimately would
be ewamped by its liabilities in ex
cess of contributions. Tho step rato
for the member 54 years old is $1.05
per month. Tho whole life level rate
for tho member 54 years of age or
over is $3.00 a month. If ho
chooses he may pay ?2 in cash and
have $1 charged against his certifi
cate. So no member who Is quite
candid with himself will say that the
Society has frozen him out by offer
ing him no plan his circumstances
will enable him to accept.
Some profess not to understand
how the momber who has paid all
that has been demanded of him all
these years, and has matured no
! claim, can bo said to havo created a
uelliiewy. This might be Illustrated
by citing the case of a mutual fire
Insurance association. If this asso
ciation Insures farm dwellings and
lumber yards, and if tho lumber yard
fires cause losses in excess of con
tributions from the lumbermen, tho
fair conclusion Is that tho lumber
men as a class havo not paid tho
cost of their protection to tho asso
ciation, though not all tho lumber
men havo had fires. If tho associa
tion should now propose to ralso tho
rate on lumber until it approximated
the cost of tho protection, and tho
lumbermen should object that thoy
were being unfairly treated and
"frozen out," they would occupy a
position corresponding to that of tho
Modern Woodman who objects to
tho present readjustment of rates.
This comparison Is imperfect. It
is not certain that tho complaining
lumberman will ever have a llro, but
it 1b certain that every certificate is
sued by tho Modern Woodmen So
ciety will bo matured by death unless
tho membor lapses. It la therefore
tho Society's most imporatlvo obliga
tion to make provision for meeting
these claims as thoy mature, and it
can meet them only through con
tributions to tho benefit fund hy tho
mombors and Interest accumulations
on this fund. Tho menVbor who Join
ed twenty years ago is twenty years
nearer death then ho was at entry
age, and If the Socloty should blink
this fact it would merely deprive it
self of tho power to meet its Just
obligations. Tho complaining mem
bers seek a special privilege or dis
crimination in their favor. Thoy
havo ahandoned tho Joffersonian
doctrlno to which many of them havo
professed devotion, tho doctrino by
which the Society stands and for
which all truly co-operatlvo institu
tions must stand: "Equal rights to
all; special privileges to none."
LIMITED SUFFRAGE
IX PENNSYLVANIA.
Votes for Women, With Qimllficn
Uoiih for Both Sexes.
At tho seventeenth annual meet
ing of tho State Federation of Penn
sylvania Women held at Wllllams
port, October 15, 1G and 17, 1912,
tho fair sex showed Its interest in
up-to-date political topics. Woman
euffrago was discussed by Miss Bea
trice Forbes Robertson, of tho emi
nent theatrical family of that name,
and Miss Mary Winsor, of Haver
ford, Pa., tho President of tho Penn
sylvania Limited Suffrago League.
Miss Winsor explained tho great
need, not only for woman suffrage,
but also for restrictions on tho Il
literate, criminal and foreign-born
vote. All these are Incorporated in
a Suffrage Bill that is now under
consideration by tho Commission to
Revise and Codify the Election Laws
of Pennsylvania, of which Mr. Frank
P. Prlchard Is chairman. This com
mission, which is now -holding its
sessions in the Land Title Building,
Philadelphia, Is able, if it chooses,
to report this bill favorably to the
Pennsylvania Legislature. Tho Com
mission has not yet decided whether
it will send in a favorable report.
Tho bill would enfranchise tho great
majority of Pennsylvania women,
giving thorn the right to vote at all
elections and placing restrictions
that are already in force In the great
majority of States, not only the
Southern, but also in the Northern
and Western States.
In her address beforo tho Feder
ation, Miss Winsor spoko of condi
tions in Pennsylvania where there
is scarcely any chock on the criminal
vote, any criminal, however infam
ous, being at liberty to vote almost
as soon as he emerges from jail. In
this respect our commonwealth is
way behind tho great majority of
States in which criminals urn ,11a-
franchised, sometimes permanently
sometimes temporarily, for serious
offenses. Of course, tho object of
such disfranchisement is not to pun
ish tho criminal, but to protect the
Commonwealth. In Pennsylvania,
foolish sentimentality prevents us
from protecting the Stato and wo
even permit men sentenced for par
ticipation in the Infamous white
slave traffic free access to tho polls.
Our native state kas an enormous
forelgn-Jborn element, and many In
dustrial towns where perhaps 60
of the population comes from tho
south and west of Europe. Surely,
it is not unreasonable to require the
foreigner to reside In this country a
total period of ten years before vot
ing In Pennsylvania, instead of
merely five years as Is now required
of him. American boys must wait
twenty-one years boforo they are
eligible as voters. Wo havo no
prejudice against tho foreign-born;
doubtless they will mako excellent
citizens If enough time Is glvjen them
to familiarize themselves with tho
institutions of tho country.
In recent years tho character of
the Immigration has changed for the
worso. Immigrants formerly came
from tho north and west of Europe,
from Great Britain and other nations
accustomed to self-government, but
in tho year 1907, 971,608 immi
grants camo from southeastern Eu
rope, where democratic institutions
and self-government are little known
and the percentage of illiteracy is
terribly high, 35 of such aliens
being unablo to read and write. An
educational qualification would
doubtless bo of bonefit to Pennsylva
nia, and Is tho logical outcome of
our compulsory education laws, for
If tho children have obeyed tho law
and learned In school during tho pre
scribed number of years, there
would bo no Illiteracy among the
native born In Pennsylvania. There
fore, why encourage law breaking
on tho part of greedy parents who
want to tako their children from
school and put them to work? Is
it not better to mako tho parents
realize that If their child grows up
lll'terate ho forfeits political privi
leges? Ignorant fathers and moth
ers would then havo much moro re
spect for education; at present thoy
havo but little. Witness tho de
lightful story of tho mother who
said to tho public school teacher, "I
don't want my Lizzie learnt readln'
and wrltin'. You know readln' and
wrltln' and you aro a nold maid;
but I never was loarnt nono of them
things and I got married and had
eight children." Why not glvo such
Lizzies an lncentivo to learn, es
pecially as woman suffrage Is com
ing, and they aro all futuro voters.
A reading and writing qualifica
tion is absolutely nocessary In thlB
age when tho people aro trying to
abolish ropresentntlvo government
with tho intention of governing
thomsolves directly through tho Ini
tiative, the Referendum and tho Re
call. Is it likely that thoy will vote
Intelligently on complicated legisla
tive measures If they can't oven read
tho ballot on wnich theso measures
are printed?
A limited suffrage 1s not intend
ed to oppress tho negro and dis
franchise him, as so many persons
think. An educational qualification
is required 1n fourteon Northorn
and Wostorn States, and It has not
been used thoro to discriminate
against tho colored race. It has
worked excellently In Now England.
Miss Winsor then quotod tho emi
nent publicist, Mr. Edwin D. Mead,
of BoHton, as saying, " Every ono In
Massachusetts believes In education
al qualification." Sho read somo ex
tracts from an address by Mr. Ed
ward II. Chandler, Secretary of tho
Twentieth Century Club, of Boston,
showing that Massachusetts had had
an cducatlonnl qualification since
IS") 7, and no harm and much good
had resulted. At tho conclusion of
his speech, delegates from tho
Limited Suffrago Lcaguo distributed
to tho audience copies of Mr. Chan
dler's address and other Interesting
lltoraturo.
Miss Winsor concluded by saying
thnt no men now voting need fear
that this bill would tako away his
right to vote, as a clattso had been
Inserted specifying that these limita
tions should not apply to the genera
tion now voting, but only to tho new
voters, both tho young men nnd tho
women. If tho bill becamo law,
It would enfranchise tho great ma
jority of women, while tho restric
tions would apply to a small but
undeslrablo class of both sexes. It
would bo a great step forward if the
Keystone State would omanclpato
Its women, especially with theso wlso
safe-guards around the ballot box.
GOOD ROADS; WHAT
THE STATE IS DOING.
Harrlsburg, Oct. 22. In prepara
tion for the launching of a compre
hensive and practical road building
campaign, following tho expected
popular approval of a $50,000,000
bond issue to finance tho great work,
the State Highway Department for
fifteen months has been engaged In
thoroughly testing out methods of
construction and materials for road
foundation, body and top dressing.
A far reaching investigation also has
been made Into the road-bulldlng
work of the national government and
various States. As a result tho de
partment Is today in possession of
tho best first-hand information avail
able anywhere.
These researches in Pennsylvania
have been more thorough than havo
over before been made 'by a similar
department. Instead of depending
entirely on laboratory tests and
analysis, tho policy has been to use
tho different methods and materials
in actual construction of sections of
road where they would be subjected
to various 'kinds of usage and weaV.
Thus the different types of road
have been tested by actual use in
farming and manufacturing dis
tricts, as well as for their resistence
to tho peculiar wear and tear of the
ever Increasing automobllo travel.
In this 'manner has been worked
out the best method for each locality
In which main Stato roads aro to be
built, and It Is believed that by use
of tho best adapted materials, local
supplies to bo employed where
feasible, the new highways will
stand up under automobllo traffic and
at tho same time not present too
hard a surface for farmers' teams. A
lasting, durable surface which will
give the Stato value for its money
and at the same time enable main
tenance with a minimum of repair
expense has been the object. The
time is rapidly approaching when
the use of the automobile will be
general in hauling farm produce,
and in addition to providing for gen
eral motor travel and horses con
sideration has to be given to the
heavy trucks which aro coming into
uso on farms.
Sentiment for the ratification of
the proposed $50,000,000 bond Is
sue for roads 1s growing rapidly in
rural communities as tho benefits to
bo derived aro becoming apparent.
It is a notable fact that good roads
are Included In tho platforms of
practically all the legislative candi
dates. Thoso who aro to bo elected
next month will vote In the Leglsla-
turo next wlntor on tho resolution
to submit tho bond Issuo to tho peo
plo of tho Stato.
It Is becauso tho officers of tho
Pennsylvania Motor Federation, rep
resenting tho automobllo owners of
tho Stato, havo satisfied themselves
of the thorough preparation of tho
Stato Highway Department for
building genuinely good roads, that
tho Foderntlon Is earnestly advocat
ing tho $50,000,000 loan.
THE HEALTH VALUE
Ob' CHEERFULNESS.
Tho consumptives who laugh aro
the ones who get well. It Is a com
mon saying at sanatoria that tho
patients who aro tho most cheerful
havo tho best chanco for recovery.
Half of the victory over consumption
Is In having a lighting spirit. Tho
despondent patient has a poor
chanco for life.
Remember this nnd don't brood
over your physical condition. Peo
ple often not only mako themselves
unhappy, but even fall 111 through
worrying about Imaginary symptoms
of dlseaso. Don't allow yourself to
do this. Settlo your doubts if you
think you havo consumption by go
ing to tho nearest tuberculosis dis
pensary. Have yourself examined
thero.
'If thoro is nothing wrong with
you, don't Immediately begin to look
for another dlseaso about which to
worry. Instead find somo hobby
thnt will tako you out of doors, and
that at tho same time will occupy
your mind. Gardoning, rowing,
swimming, bicycling, tonnls aro all
effertlvo In supplying oxerclso and
In keeping tho brain busy.
Worrying about yourself Is a bad
habit. Often It undermines health.
Find something out of doors instead
that is so Interesting that you will
not be able to think of being sick
nnd tho chances are that you will
keep well. Karl do Schwelnltz, Ex
ecutive Secretary. Pennavlvanla
culosis.
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