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8 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1909.
II FIERCE LIGHT THAT WILL BEAT UPON TAET
Copyright, 1900. by Jolm Elfrorh Wntkins.
I WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 27.
Fiercer ihnn tlio proverbial fierce
light that beats upou a throuo" is that
wTiich glares upon the office into which
Mr. Taft will be inducted Thursday
next.
No crowned ruler upon enrth is so
much the victim of the inquisitive mob
ns is the president of the United States;
who cannot issue it mandate turning
down the limelight that shines upon
him, as did the liaiser that other day
when ho curtailed the court bulletin.
Mr. Tnft will bo the greatest show
feature, the biggest drawing card in the
land for the next four yoars. Thou
sands of men, women and children, in n
snake-liket line two sqaurcs long, will
wait outside his door to shake his hand
when he gives a public reception. Every
where he goes people will stave at him
as though Tie wero tho Siamese twins or
the sacred white elephant. Only when
shut in behind guarded doors will he
escape the gaping multitudes, whose
staring eyes will haunt his very dreams.
Long before tho end of his stay in tho
"White House he will fully understand
why his predecessor chose to lose him
self for a year; far out in the untenant-
Icu iuugle or Africa.
Mr. T-ift has already received his in
itiation. Since he became a presidential
possibilit' every detail of his life has
been press featured and magazincd. His
ancestors have all been dug up aud care
fully scrutinized, and had any of his
grandfathers, even with a dozen greats,
been ever on the stocks for stealing
sheep we would have heard all about
it long cro this. Already wo have been
told all tho details of his religion, his
anthropometric measurements, his diet,
his clothes, even to the time of his daily
shave and tho particular key in which
ho snores at night. But his troubles
have barely commenced, and enough
money to make you or me independent
for life will bo annually paid to a corps
or circumspect gentlemen especially se
lected to act ns buffers 'twist him and
tho elastic-necked throng to keep them
from tearing the very outtous off his
clothes, or even his "clothes off their
voir buttons, in the eager grab for.
presidential souvenirs. For the presi
dent of tho United States has been l,it"
against the whole nation in an endless
game of hide-and-seek since the days
when George Wushington himsolf lit
tered his lamentation that tho tourists
surging through tho then presidential
residence in New York stuck their in
c uisitivo noses oven into Mme. Wash
ington's bedroom.
Every Froa'i Will Seek Hlni.
Every froak and phenomenon who
rrops lip in the land will imagine that
Mr. Taft is restless with impatience to
see him. Tho accompanying picture
mows in front of the White House- an
old Oregon pioneer who drove all tho
way acioss the continent to call upon
Mr. Roosevelt. Mrs. Tom Thumb has
called on every 'president since Lincoln.
She came to soe Mr. h'oosevelt only a
lew days ago. Another recent caller of
his class was a man who was walking
uronnd tho world on a wager and who
wanted 'Mr. Roosevelt's autotrranh. i
I which he got. I
Then there are tho. lunatics, who pre
I fnt a problem much more serious.
Every insano man with any imaginary
grievance or a pet schenip for saving
the country- will want to confide it to
I be new president. Mr. Roosevelt, has
been the drawing card for the largest
?ortmcui of cranks that have visited
ny president in history. A few days ;
ago a caller of this class presented ifis ;
iard. on which was printed, ''"Acting!
President Roosevelt," 3nd some time!
b fore that there appeared a New York - :
; r, offering to sell his leg to the presi- ;
j dent for $fc00. He followed a lunatic '
I who wished Mr. Roosevelt to remove a i
"ln-prone snell" which had been put I
upon him. The procession of cranks in- '
nases from year to year, in spito of
the fact that each is promptly clapped
"nt-o ''St. Elizabeths.'' the awesome'
national bedlnm. and there detained nn- !
til his state authorities send for him. (
Constant Suggestion of Dr.ngor.
Although the system of espionage
which" will perpetually protect Mr. Taft
from these cranks is as perfect as hu
man ingenuity can now make it. it is
doubtful whetner, when outdoors, he can !
er banish the suspicion that some!
deluded person, hidden in tho cheering
rowd or along the roadway where he i
drives, may be laying for him. Since I
Lincoln 's time, all presidents have '
doubtless felt thi3 dread, although none j
would, of course, admit it. Mr. Cleve
land was long haunted by it, and had a
-ort of; superstitious dread of tho old
Sjsth street station, with its brass star
marking the spot where Garfield stood
when shot. Mr. Cleveland for some
time alighted from trains outside the
.station yard, where his carriage await
ed nm.
Secret service espionage over Mr. Taft
commenced as soon as he was nomi-
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nated. but its full force will not bo felt
until ho rides in the inaugural, parade
with detectives lining his carriago on
both sides. But it will grow so oppres
sive that he will soon como to feel like
a prisoner with a death watch set upon
him, nnd thou he will try to kick over
the traces and escape his guards. Onco
he stops out of doors he will never bo
out of reach of these inrjuiring eyos,
for ovon if ho wishes to hike out for a
solitary stroll in the, woods tho secret
service men must keep watch on him
whether he likes it or not. Such an iu
ccasn,nt suggestion of danger must in
deed bo nerve-trying. Even within tho
private confines of the White House
there will be guards watching every cor
ridor and hallway leading to tho room
in which he happens to be. Should lie
slip out into the sleeping-room corridor
in the middlo of the night there will
be a guard oven there to witness tho
presidential pa-jama parade.
Limelight's Perils to His Children.
Mr. and Mrs. Taft have had to uervc
themselves also to the realization that
their children, too, will be continually
in this limelight ularc for the nest. four I
venrs. This danwr caused Mr. Roose- I
volt considerable anxiety. When ho en- I
(ored the White House ho impressed
upon his children that they were in no
wise superior to. any other youngsters.
How this training took effect was shown
onco in a roply by young Archie to a
fawning society woman, who had asked
him if he did riot disliko going to public
school with "all those common littlo
boys." Ho answered: "My papa says
there aro only two kinds of boys good
and bad boys." Again, when," Quontin
was asked, "Aro you the president's
son?" he replied simp v. "My father is
Mr. Theodoro Roosevelt."
Tho Taft children will bo followed
about with camera and notebook. When
Miss Roosecvlt slipped down on an icy
pavement tho papers described the do-
tails next day, and young Theodore's :
arrest for a college prank at Tlarvnrd
wns double-leaded all over tho count rv. !
Of course, all of this and such like was
legitimate news, but when ono paper j
published a canard describing alleged .
cruelties iufiiclcd upon a White House t
turkev by tho Hooseevlt children the j
president tempornrilv suspended the !
press privileges accorded by government ,
offices to tho responsible correspondent. (
Target of "Rcfonnors." j
Mr. Taft will find himself tho target !
of manv so-called reformers. There will I
be constant public protests against the
serving of wine at state banquets. Mr. ;
Roosevelt, was censured by a temperance !
convention for allowing wino to be :
served on board tho special Jrain carry
ing him on one of his western trips. :
Whether Mr. McKinlev drank wine or
not at state dinuora was a constant
topic for discussion nt temperance con
ventions. Once, when there was a con
vention of bishops in Washington, ono
of them came to the White House and
cross-examined Mr. McKinley as to this.
He later reported, that Mr. McKin
ley had alongside his champagne glass
a separate wine glass from which he
sinned annollinaris and tho wine re
mained untouched.. Once, when Mr. Mc-
Kinley was nt the capitol signing bills.
some raiuoral water was carried in to J
him, and a spyiug temperance woman
reported to a preacher that tho presi- i
dent was guzzling wine, and the divine
in turn continued to announce this at
meetings until called down by an offi
cial in charge of the president's room
nt tho capitol. Mr. Cleveland was con
i iinually harassed in this way. and once
when a minister accused him of inter
nerance before a religious conference in
Massachusetts, he issued a statement
branding tho divine as "a disseminator
of wholesale lies and calumnies not less
stunid than thov are cruel." A French
journalist who visited Washington some
time since wrote a storv which set forth
how Mr. Roosevelt, while seated with
him in one o'f the' White House parlors,
smoking a clear, was reminded by a j
liveried lackey that smoking wns not j
allowed in the apartment. This was I
true, save for the fact that Mr. Roose
vclt does uor smoke, and that thero are
no liveried White House lackeys. And
now various associations of busvbodies
are pnsMug resolutions protesting
against Mr. Roosevelt's shooting game
in Africa.
Calumny and Insult.
Like all of his predecessors Mr. Taft
must expect a generous share of insult
and abuse. Some time ago tho postal
inspectors were trying to ferret out the
sender of n grossly obscene card mailed t
to the president from Richmond. Wil- 1
lett. tho New York representative who 1
recently abused Mr. Roosevelt in the
house, repeated a cruel calumny which
had it that the president had angrilv
struck the horse of a schoolgirl who had
crowded him on the road whi'e he was
riding. The house expunged this speech
from the Record and tho mother of the
eirl wrote a denial of the story. But
this sort of thing has been -going on
since President Washington was chnrped
with overdrawing his account. Jeffer
son was another of tho early victims,
aud one of those who abused him worst
was the Irish poet. Tom Moore, who ,
published some almost unprintable
things about' the father of democracy.
Our national resentment at these in
sults was emphasised a century later by
the omission of Moore's nnine from the
honor roll of poets inscribed on tuoiralls
of the congressional library.
I .. Advertising Value of Taft.
! Manufacturers, boomers and promot
ers by the thousands will fall over
themselves to oxploit Mr. Taft as an
advertisement for their schemes. Real
estate boomers will offer him beautiful
i country homes by the score if he will
1 oply como and live in them in the sum-
mef and lond his name to the com
' munity. All of these men will want
! to use him as Harmon was used when
i given his famous cottage at Cape May.
j But; Harrison, when he realized that ho
! was b -Tig used as a real estate adver
tiserie.l. drew his personal, check for
the value of the property. Even ns an
ex-presidout Mr. Cleveland found that
he noomed surrounding property, wher
ever he bought. As soon as he settled
in Princeton building lots thero took a
sudden upward spurt. Dealers in ev
ery article utider the sun will send Mr.
Taft generous samples of their wares
with the hope of receiving some word
of praise which can be advertised as
a testimonial. A mere acknowledgment
I from the White Houso secretary will
I suffice as a basis for a poster, "Pres
ident Taft, Uses Snooks 's Soap." Mr.
McKinley, while in congress, once sent
down from his hotel room a noto to
the cigar stand asking for some per
feclos of a certain brand. The shrewd
dealer kept the noto until Mr. McKinley
was elected and then h.ad facsimiles
olectrotyped and pasted on each box
of these cigars. A piano manufacturer
once wrote to Mr. Cleveland that 2000
of his admiring workmen wished to.
present a piano to the first lady of the
land. The president accepted the offer,
but when he learned that the 2000
workmen with a band marched with tho '
piano to the station, and that at ovcry
point onrouto the piano was featured
as 'J destined to be played bv tho fnir
fingers of the first lndy of the laud,"
the Clcvehmds became disgusted and
sent tho piano back. Scores of such
experiences led to tho rule, now strict
ly ontorccd, that tho Whito House stow
nrd shall buy nothing from a dealer
who will not guarantco that tho presi
dential patronage shall not bo used for
advertising purposes. Mr. Roosevelt
hns been strenuous also in rebuking all
concerns which have used his portrait in
advertisements. Some timo ago ho
went so far as to request tho withdraw
al of a booklet by. tho Spokane Cham
ber of Commerce using his portrait on
tho title page Au order of 50.000 of
tho pamphlets wns canceled and slops
wore taken to call in thoso which had
already gone out.
This magic of the presidential name
is seen wherever it is written or print
ed. One of Mr. McKinley 's auto
graphs on a piece of popcr otherwise
blank sold at auctiou for $fi.25 a few
weeks after his death. In another gen
eration it will doubtless bo worth ten
j times ns much. Twontv-two volumes
of the works of Theodoro Roosevelt,
each volume bearing tho presidential
autograph, sold for $3200 in Philadol-
I phia in 1901. And ns soon as Theodore,
Jr.. ontcrcd tho plant of tho manufac
turers who lately employed him their
business is said to have realized a boom
on the strength of th'o magic of even
his name.
Will Trado on His Hoalth.
Wall street will trado on Mr. Taft's
pulse aud tcmpornturc. When they go
up the stock market will go down. Tho
daily procession of figures on tho tapes
of the tickers will bo altered also by
what he says and writes on industrial
topics. Men will bo employed to guard
tho manuscripts and proofs of his mes
sages and speeches against possible
leaks which might allow some especially
informed slock jobber to enrich himsolf
at tho expens of those who have not
had nn equal chance of informing them
selves. Whon Mr. Roosevelt mado his
western tour in the. fall of 1007 ho took
special precautions against, tho furnish
ing of advanco press copies of his
speeches to Wall street publications
and tho ticker service. His Province
towu speech of the previous month hnd
leaked in some way and advance copies
had gotten into the handn of brokers,
who profited by it.
Mr. Taft is 'nearly nine years older
than Mr. Roosevelt was when tho latter
succeeded to tho presidency. But what
ho may lack, by comparison, in physical
elasticity is moro than compensated for
by his far greater tolerance, Ho knows
what is coming to him nnd will lose no
slcop over tho attempts that will be
mado to exploit, harrnss and insult him.
But his proverbial good -nature is of
tho sort which too often tempts imposi
tion. Rather lot us reward it by trying
to be kinder to him thnu we havo been
to his predecessors!
.10HN ELFRETH WATKJNS.
BETTER THAN SPANKING
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Spnnklnp docs not cure children of bed
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ment, with full Instructions. Send no
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I drcn trouble you In this way. Don't
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