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Volume 9 September 1, 1911. Number 35 
Robert Collyer. 
The name might have been printed 
with the prefix of the church a 
reverend and with a suffix the ree- 
ognition of his intelligence and suc- 
cess recognized by academic trus- 
tees in a D.D., but after all the 
name reveals the man and the worth 
of his character as no titles or de- 
grees. It is the personality that 
makes a man, not his degrees. Rob- 
ert Collyer has honored the North 
Shore by a visit for the summer 
season. His breadth of view was 
evident in his service to the 
congregation at the Baptist Church 
in East Gloucester. When preach- 
ing one Sunday in the largest 
Universalist Church in the country, 
in Lynn, in July, the President of 
the United States, William H. Taft, 
honored him by motoring from Par- 
ramatta to worship in the service 
which he conducted. Such a tribute 
was worthily bestowed. He _ has 
opened his lips in the Manchester 
Unitarian Church to the pleasure of 
the people and dedicated the new 
Unitarian Church in Marblehead. 
His experience has been rich and his 
beautiful character, mellowed by the 
experiences of life has fitted him 
with rare power to share the bur- 
dens of and give comfort to men. 
In a booklet from his pen he re- 
lates several anecdotes that are of 
human interest. The dear Mother 
Collyer advised Robert and _ his 
brothers and sisters, ‘‘Childer, no 
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matter how poor you be when you 
have to do for yourselves don’t 
look poor and don’t tell.’’ In an- 
other page he pays a splendid trib- 
ute to John Dobson who was _ his 
friend in learning, ‘‘ John Dobson— 
let me write his name for love’s 
sake—was my whole college of pro- 
fessors, if I may use the term, 
through twelve years of my life 
there, as an apprentice and then as 
manager of the forge.’’ This splen- 
did tribute to an old friend warms 
the very cockle’s of one’s heart. 
Of that beautiful childhood we 
have another picture of the youth- 
ful Collyer weighing in the balance 
the attractiveness of the things of 
the flesh and those of the mind. . He 
writes: ‘‘A happy day when some 
good soul has given me a big George 
the Third penny, and I must needs 
go and spend it forthwith, or, as my 
mother used to say, it would burn 
a hole in my pocket. There was only 
one store in our hamlet, and there I 
must go. I had quite made up my 
mind what I would buy. I dearly 
loved what we ealled candy, do 
still; there it was the sort I would 
buy, in the window. But close to 
the jar was a tiny book, and I ean 
still read the title: ‘The History of 
Whittington and His Cat, William 
Walker, Printer.’ Price one penny. 
I gave up the candy and bought the 
book.’’ What a significant episode 
revealing the very hunger of the 
lad’s soul for learning. The child 
is father to the man. 
All have learned to honor and love 
Robert Collyer that he may be 
spared long in the ‘‘land which the 
Lord our God giveth’’ him is the 
ardent hope of his large cirele of 
friends and admirers. 
‘Tariff for Politics Only.’’ 
The political gathering of the Es- 
sex Republican Club at Sagamore 
Farm, the country estate of Con- 
gressman Augustus P. Gardner, 
last Saturday, proved as expected 
one of the most notable political 
gatherings ever held on the North 
Shore. The attendance was gratify- 
ing and the interest was intense. In 
truth it may well be said that all 
minds politically speaking were 
awaiting the President’s message. 
The address proved to be a master- 
piece of economic writing and the 
talent, judgment and good sense of 
the Republican President was never 
more clearly evident. Following 
the adjournment of Congress in ex- 
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tra session in which he had handed 
out three vetoes, two of them on the 
tariff question, and in which he had 
succeeded in putting through the 
most notable progressive tariff pro- 
gram, the reciprocity, naturally the 
occasion presented an unusual op- 
portunity to speak to the people 
upon the issues at stake. It was a 
psychological opportunity. Never 
before in the history of the country 
has a tariff bill been vetoed, and it 
took a strong man to put two out 
within a month. The action re- 
quired justification or the President 
would stand condemned by the peo- 
ple. It is now well seen that the 
Democrats were sparring for time 
and working for campaign material. 
There is no need for either party to 
search long for an issue. The issue 
is tariff and will continue so to be. 
The President sent a well directed 
little side thrust in the words, ‘‘Tar- 
iff for politics only.’? The address 
was ‘carefully written and it will 
stand as President Taft’s defence of 
his position and in the coming cam- 
paign cannot fail to be of great 
value as a campaign pamphlet. 
The President has stolen the dem- 
ocrats’ thunder? His address is one 
of the clearest statements of the re- 
publican position and the merits of 
a tariff issue in the compass of an 
address in print. A careful reading 
of that address will give the aver- 
age citizen who has neither the time 
nor the inclination to make a eare- 
ful study of the tariff question, a 
clearer idea of what has been going 
on and what must continue to go on 
in Washington the coming winter. 
The little oversight in not intro- 
ducing Speaker Walker brought a 
manly statement from Congressman 
Gardner. The incident was regret- 
able, but common. It is not the 
first time a speaker has been inno- 
cently crowded from a program and 
it will not be the last. 
The Cotton Veto. 
The President has handed out an- 
other veto in admirable form _ to 
Congress. This with the veto of the 
Wool Bill gives President Taft a 
negative victory on two great ques- 
tions which are but parts of the 
larger whole, an intelligent revision 
of the tariff. The passage of the 
Reciprocity Bill with Canada, for 
which this congress was called, was 
a positive victory. A weak veto 
message in either case would have 
made splendid campaign material 
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