Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1908 — TAFT’S RELIGION. [ARTICLE]

TAFT’S RELIGION.

A Consistent Christian with. Ko Spot Upon His Record of Private Conduct and Public Service. To dispose of questions which should not be asked as speedily as possible let us say that Mr. Taft is a member of the Unitarian church. That was the church of his parents, and he has never separated himself from it. His wife, llQ.weier. Ja an Episcopalian, and he worships more often beside her in her church. These are the facts, which are utterly and absolutely unimportant. The matter of a man’s religion has no rightful place in consideration of his fitness for the presidency. The constitution of the nation, ordained and established “to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,” expressly places the very suggestion of such thought outside the pale of patriotism. No words can be clearer than* these from our country's fundamental law, “No religious test ever shall be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” The numerous queries about Mr. Taft’s religious belief shows simply the extent to which his enemies have gone to rouse some prejudice against him. Since there was no spot upon his whole clean record of private conduct and public service to which they could point to Taft’s detriment they displayed their willingness to descend to any depth of petty, cowardly, contemptible attack that might do him harm.— Philadelphia North American.