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Volume 9 March 10, 1911. Number 10 
PRESIDENT TAFT. 
Our President is revealing himself 
as a man of judgment, tact, power and 
determination. He entered the Presi- 
dency with a good record as an ad- 
ministrator but hampered by the per- 
sonal popularity of his predecessor in 
winning his way into the hearts of 
the people. He has _ been steadily 
overcoming this handicap. The last 
session of congress increased his po- 
litical power and his personal popu- 
larity because of his firm hand in the 
people’s cause. His call for an extra 
session, despite the opposition of 
Congressmen who had other plans for 
their time, has shown the world that 
there is a man in the Executive Office 
of the democracy who can be de- 
pended upon to execute the will of 
the republic. He has constantly given 
evidence of those stable qualities of 
character, tempered by good judg- 
ment and sound morals, which fore- 
cast success. All are compelled to ad- 
mire the courage and insight which 
precipitated the fight over the read- 
justment of the rates of postage for 
immagazines. Whatever the merits of 
the bill, he can be depended upon to 
keep his word when he says, “As long 
as I have any power I am going to 
recommend the consideration of this~ 
question until it is settled. It is not in 
the slightest spirit of hostility to the 
magazines that I have made this rec- 
ommendation, but because I am re- 
sponsible for the government of the 
United States and the administration 
of it.” 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
It is an open secret that he has felt 
keenly the unjust criticism of the 
muck raking magazines. In this abuse 
he has shared the unkindly lot of 
every President who has tried to do 
his duty. It is apparent that a weak 
man would have avoided an attack 
on the powerful and in some cases 
unscrupulous monthlies. President 
Taft dared, he showed his strength, 
his sagacious loyalty to his high office 
and his superiority to the narrowing 
influence of personal revenge. ‘There 
have been suggestions by those 
friendly advertisements * * * that 
the motive of Mr. Hitchcock and my- 
self is to get even with somebody. 
Well, a man who has ordinary com- 
mon sense does not seek the hostility 
and the continued hostility of an in- 
terest as powerful as the magazines. 
He only goes into a fight from a 
sense of duty.” Such high thinking 
and fidelity to duty inspires men in 
every walk to faithful service, against 
heavy odds, in their chosen work for 
the good of our republic. 
THE SENATE. 
The United States Senate was 
weighed in the balance in the Lorimer 
Case and found wanting. The hand 
writing on the wall reads plainly, 
election by the people. It is inexplic- 
able to the layman how Lorimer of 
Illinois was able to keep his seat be- 
cause of the alleged charges. The 
vote of the Senate on the case affords 
reasonable grounds to the nations of 
the world for a false conception of 
the governmental ideals of our peo- 
ple; the senate in particular. The 
vote does not clear the senator of 
suspicion nor the United States Sen- 
ate of culpability if time proves the 
alleged charges to be true. The lines 
fell strangely. The Senators from 
Massachusetts voted on both sides of 
the question. Senator Lodge voted 
against him and Senator Crane for 
him. While the citizens of Chicago 
received him in triumph, the citizens 
of Rockford, in a mass meeting as- 
sembled, demanded not only his resig- 
nation but that of his colleague, 
Shelby McCullom, who voted for him. 
The political fidelity of the Senators 
and the citizens of Chicago evidently 
warped their moral judgment. The 
episode is a reflection on the dignity 
of our Senate, of the honor of the 
Republican Party and the govern- 
mental ideals of our country and adds 
still one more reason why the senators 
should be eelcted by popular vote. 
The observance of Sunday as a 
of rest and devotion has been one of 
the sources of inspiration to our civi- 
lization. ‘The French Revolutionists 
endeavored to discard it and substi- 
tute a day of rest one day in ten. No 
provision was made for religious 
service or public worship. Religion 
was dethroned ;reason enthroned. The 
result was disastrous and will be to 
every community that endeavors to 
live in open violation of the Sabbath, 
The sane awakening in Beverly and 
Beverly Farms for a more faith- 
ful observance of the day ought 
to be followed by a similar move- 
ment in every North Shore town. 
In his speech at the Presbyterian 
Banquet in Washington, last Mon- 
day, Associate’ Justice Harlan 
of the Supreme Court of the 
United States, voiced the sentiments 
of many people in his vigorous pro- 
test against the violation of the Sab-— 
bath Day by the United States Gov- 
ernment Post Office Department aid — 
by the “predatory rich persons on 
Sunday evenings when they should be 
devoted to other and higher things.” 
TS ira, 
The sabbath should be more faithfully _ 
observed. No greater loss could befall 
the Towns of the North Shore than 
to have the doors of the churches 
closed. In the wake of such a disaster 
there would follow such a serious 
lowering of the ethical, moral and re- 
ligious standards as to make life un- 
pleasant and intolerable. Any real es- 
tate agent who is versed in his busi- 
ness well knows that the closing of the — 
churches of any of our North Shore — 
Towns 
serious depreciation of land and other 
real estate values. When Secretary 
Von L. Meyer moved into Hamilton, 
cne of the first improvements he in- 
spired was the repairing and_repairit- 
ing of the local church. But 
church should be supported in its wor- 
ship by its constituency as .well as 
maintained financially. The Spirit of 
the Master still lives and is felt 
among men. The church is faithful 
would cause immediately a 
the — 
to its mission and it will be a sad day — 
when the church loses its power for 
that will mean moral chaos and so- 
cial ruin: for man caunot live by 
bread alone. On the North Shore the 
problem the church has to solve is 
unusually difficult because of condi- 
tions which are unparalleled in the 
State. Against the insidious influence 
of Sabbath desecration and the non 
church attendance of its varied tran- 
sient population, both rich and poor, 
G. BE. WILLMONTON 
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
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