EDITORIALS
Where Taft Stands WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT was made President of the United States because, and only because, he was believed to be progressive. Leaders of the progressive movement in the Republican...
...We urge every Wisconsin woman whose interest extends to that wider home—the state—to attend these sessions and help make the State Fair more helpful to herself and her neighbors...
...The Woman Who Works," by Miss Elizabeth Maloney...
...And when, under the leadership of Progressive Republican Senators, a bill was passed by Congress revising downward, along the lines of the Republican party promises, the burdensome woolen schedule, President Taft angrily vetoed it...
...In the afternoon there will be five addresses: "Woman and the Home," by Mrs...
...Speaker Cannon's autocratic power, exercised in the interest of Big Business, and the equally autocratic House Rules which stifled legislation in the public interest, were made the object of an aggressive, intelligent, and what promised to be a successful attack...
...False-pretense "reciprocity" out of the way, Taft and the standpatters in Congress worked for immediate adjournment...
...Women and Newspapers," by Mrs...
...But they were not easily to be shaken from their faith...
...Henry M. Youmans, "The Fine Art of Living," by Mrs...
...He spoke personally and plainly—even heatedly...
...But still the progressives gave the President the benefit of every doubt...
...The Progressives exposed, in minutest detail, its outrages, its betrayal of party pledges, its upward revision...
...ANOTHER reason that Hitchcock favors only a rural parcels post is that the express companies do not cover the rural routes.—Philadelphia North American...
...Taft signed the bill...
...Their faith badly shaken, they—a great many of them—still waited and hoped...
...They are standing loyally back of their representatives whom they know to be faithful to the progressive policies...
...He is going to fight the progressives and their policies...
...Woman's Day WEDNESDAY, September 13, is Woman's Day at the Wisconsin State Fair...
...The President's position is no longer debatable...
...That is the important fact...
...In the case of President Taft, all confusion, all doubt is removed...
...In debate "Boss" Aldrich was driven from the floor, silenced and humiliated, by the unanswerable facts and arguments of progressive Senators...
...Frances Squire Potter will talk on "Why Wisconsin Women Should Vote...
...The people are progressive...
...Charles S. Morris...
...What wonder the progressives in his own party, in every nook and corner of the country, grew tired of waiting, lost hope...
...He dismissed the progressives, and filled up that body with ultra-conservatives of the Knox and Wickersham type...
...His support of Cannon, his interference in behalf of the old rules, his encouragement to the cannon-Tammany alliance, saved both Cannon's position and the rules that bolstered it...
...Leaders of the progressive movement in the Republican party and in the country, including Theodore Roosevelt, had assurances that Taft would carry forward the progressive policies...
...They determined to wait—and hope...
...Sometimes they do not know where a leader stands...
...Almost immediately Taft reconstructed the Cabinet...
...To this extent is his declaration of consuming hatred for progressives a real service to the people...
...It is the aim of the officers to inaugurate new kinds of educational work at the State Fair...
...Edward Porter...
...An excellent program is offered...
...But it remained for the President himself, through the now-famous "Norton letter," to convince everybody that he had from his high position been waging a silent, underground war, with the ammunition of federal patronage, upon the progressives in his own party...
...The people—enough of them—believed so...
...We are in the midst of a great struggle to curb the forces of privilege, to restore the government to the people...
...But this admission was accompanied with a promise not to fight the progressives any more...
...The same progressives, mind you, who had received from their constituents unmistakable tokens of approval...
...But it was proving a futile wait and a forlorn hope...
...The Woman on the Farm," by Mrs...
...Then came the fight against Cannonism...
...President Taft interposed...
...Still they waited—and hoped...
...He was elected...
...Allying himself with Aldrich and Cannon, the President sat by complacently while the American public was being jobbed with the most iniquitous and dishonest tariff bill ever written...
...He must henceforth be counted among that powerful aggregation of favored interests that have for years been exerting every effort to stamp out the progressives and the progressive policies...
...In the morning Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Chicago will give an address on Julia Ward Howe, "a great American leader," and Mrs...
...This came as a shock to the progressives—the overwhelming majority— in the Republican party...
...Taft's alliance with the reactionaries appeared to be hard and fast...
...This was another shock...
...Woman's Day is under the direction of Miss Lutie E. Stearns who was elected chairman over thirty-two contestants by a popular vote...
...At the first opportunity the people chastened Congress and rebuked the President at the polls...
...which makes the struggle harder...
...William P. Leek...
...His dismissal of Pinchot, his loyalty to Ballinger, his consideration for the Hammonds, Guggenheims, and the rest of the Big Business satellites, his abandonment of the Roosevelt conservation policies,—one after another his public acts revealed a consistent antagonism toward the very progressive principles upon which the people elected him...
...Then he called it "the best ever," and publicly eulogized Aldrich: Another shock, followed by resentment...
...Now the President has informed the country exactly where ha stands...
...From his own lips at Hamilton, Massachusetts, came the announcement of his present purpose...
Vol. 3 • September 1911 • No. 36
