THE Kaipara Advertiser, AND WAITEMATA CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, NOV 20, 1912.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 20 November 1912, Page 2

THE Kaipara Advertiser, AND WAITEMATA CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, NOV 20, 1912.

THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

ONE can not regret the failure of Mr Taft because if ever there was an opportunist, it is Mr Taft. One must rejoice at the failure of Colonel Roosevelt because if ever tliere was a dangerous demagogue it is Roosevelt, who was prepared to throw the judges and their verdicts to the mob. Whatever the turn of Democratic rule may mean to Americans, the rest of the world may congratulate themselves that the new president stands for the lowering of tarriffs. The ascendency of the Democrats is now assured, and we may expect a cleaning of the Augeon stable of the tariff which has been endured so long to their deadly detriment by the American people. When the inabitity of the population to buy warm clothing in winter because of its artificial clearness, did not awaken party men to the absurdity of the rule which encourages such anomalies, it was high time for the expulsion of the Republican coteries from office. That side has built its reputation on much advertising. For example, there was the extraordinary enthusiasm of the other day over the splendid clearance of evil by Roosevelt, when Governor of New York, from the police department. He had " ended graft." Yet the other day we have had the story of a great murder, which proves that the reform so much was a hollow sham. Both Taft and Roosevelt were the friends of the trusts: Woodrow is their uncompromising enemy. If that makes him popular in his own country, and the policy of his side in the matter of the tarriffs makes his administration a " persona grata " outside, the world is like to be the better for the change that sets him in the White House.