Show toll mil N CI VI C IM TO THIN THINK 11 or W resident president tatt taft 1 hii I unusually at ero for him hini almo almost st bitter in hie his attack upon lipon the snobs of 0 washing ton cluba who have blackballed eminent in ent men friends of the president proal dent keeping them out of the clubs in the notional nit lonal ional chero heri their unes nunes n vere proposed for In ember ahia bilt lakes tribune and yet the president waa was probably none too chirp in hn denunciation of the email small br dined and rold cold hearted blobs HI ob who performed this tills vicious piece of exclusive ne washington ie to doubtless morn more thoroughly permeated by the spirit of snobbery thin any other city in the united staten states in certain of its social phased it Is cosmopolitan in a nay may but there hae has always been in the classes of dashington a circle of exclusiveness that held itself aloof from al all othere ahers without regard to merit standing character or anything whatever hat ever except only the particular relationship by blood or other ties to the leading members of the bt act clubs that are ruled by this particular form of pro are of course thin blooded watery and undesirable from the broad minded standpoint A RED BLOOD I 1 D D D MINDED MAN NIAN WOULD GAS I 1 t lift atmosphere OF alch A CLUB MUCH AS A FISH GASPS HE TAKEN OLT OF THE W IM it it ie la will for or the tile president to denounce uch such narrow minded snobbery as he did and yet tho the question arises ie Is it worth hilea what ahat iti vantage would it be for any tiny public man to be it member of such ii a club it he lie were in fact a mem ber lie would bo be merely tolerated ho ile would be excluded from the real spirit of the club would bo be held in affected contempt by the ring within the club and anti would derlo dorlo no ad advantage vanta e but a good deal ot of humiliation unless he lie chose to resent tho tile attitude of the excle shea and it he lie did thai that he would probably be expelled bo so while hile president taft la 1 all 11 right in denouncing that sort of snobbery in ili the washington clubs tin tile clubs w M it e theiu SIMS 14 ditc itc 4 for any ono of bibid 1141 liba nd t to I 1 anter the contemptible little clubs organized and that starve along in washington that are ito fl ercel denounced by the pres dent should be shunned by all of the best people who go to the national nati oral capital thero there should be a few good broad minded cosmopolitan cluba clubs in washington which would gladly receive applications for membership from front men of caliber and standing who may be in washington official ly or otherwise and all the sideshow clubs should thereupon be absolutely sol ignored Pr eIdent I 1 aft iatt has struck the keynote for that sort of a program and it Is to be hoped that it may be carried out |