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Show PRESIDENT TAFT' S. GOOD WORK. No long timo ago wo made a review of President Tuft's services to tho people peo-ple of tho United States, which was incomplete, in-complete, but which showed, as far as it wont, that he, ns President, in the three years and upwards of his services, has done n great deal for the American people. In order that a more complete statement state-ment of President Taft's services may go on record for The Tribune venders, we present a summary furnished' by Mr. J. W. Gogarn to tho New York Tribune, Trib-une, and which reads as follows: He has effected arbitration treaties with Croat Britain and France. Ho vetoed the Arizona stntohood bill because of the recall of judqos provision. He liais enforced the Sherman antitrust anti-trust law without fear or favor. He vetoed the Democratic wool, cotton and free list bills as unfair, unscientific nnd destructive of the Republican principle princi-ple of protection. Fie abrogated the discriminating passport pass-port treaty with Russia. lie established postal savings hanks. lie prevented ml'-roads from putting rate increases into effect without approval approv-al of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Commis-sion. He has rushed the Panama. Canal to early completion without hint of scandal. He has practically destroyed white slave traffic. He han signed the bill for admission of Arizona and New Mexico to Statehood. lie lias established the burotm of mines to safeguard the lives of miners. He has extended our foreign markets for the benefit of American capital and labor. He has abolished the shameful 'syBtem of peonage In this country. He ha submitted the income tax amendment to the Constitution to the State Legislatures for ratification He has effected advanced boiler inspection in-spection laws passed by Congress. He has established means for complete Irrigation projects In the West. He has maintained and extended the open door policy In China. He has maintained peace In Cuba and South and Central America by friendly warning, without intervention. He has modernized and reformed government gov-ernment business methods by an economy and efficiency commission, saving millions of dollars to the American people annually. annu-ally. He Instituted non-polltlcal methods for taking the thirteenth census. He has effectually destroyed bucket shops and set-rleh-qulck concerns. He has persistently labored for a. parcels par-cels poFt. He has effected a new treaty with Japan, ending racial controversies on the Pacific Coast. He has further extended a safely appliance ap-pliance act for the benefit of worklngmcn. He has made the Postofflce Department Depart-ment self-sustaining and wiped out a glaring deficiency In this department of his predecessor. Ho has successfully fought for the publication pub-lication of campaign funds and expenditures. expendi-tures. Ho has heartily indorsed the labor commission's report and proposed bill concernlnc: employers' liability. He has reorganized tho customs service, serv-ice, eliminated corruption and exposed and punished customs frauds, thcreby savlng and recovering millions of dollars In the United States treasury. He has established the Court, of Commerce Com-merce to review findings of the Interstate Commerce Commission and to remedy exasperating delays in litigation. He has established a non-partisan tariff board to report on the difference In the cost of production at homo and abroad. ,Io has secured a corporation tax la.w yle ding over $30,000,000 annually to the United States government. IlUlttS transformed a deficit of $B8,-000,000 $B8,-000,000 of the previous administration Into a $30,000,000 surplus. He has made a new American record for non-partisan Judicial appointments. He has brought the railroads under further control of the federal government govern-ment through extension of the powers of Interstate Commerce Commission. He brought the worklngman's compensation com-pensation act to a successful issue In the Supreme Court. He has effected a successful stock and bonds commission. i Heha,s extended the civil sen-ice rules in all departments of the federal eov-ernment eov-ernment by executive order. acts haS secured Poetical conservation Ho has established a Court of Customs bePePnaitopSdWh,Ch undervaItIons have Tt is impossible to avoid the force of a showing like this. President Taft has deserved the gratitude of the people peo-ple of the United States, and it is fit and proper that we should recognize those good services of his by putting him back in the White Hous'e for another an-other four years, where he will be able to render even better service than in n portion of his first; term which has elapsed. It any criticism at, all could be directed against President Taft. it must bo on tho point that, in J 009, when he was new to the Presidency, he allowed tho stand-patters in the U. S. Senate to override his judgment, and to pass a vicious tariff law which reversed his own promises to the American people that the tariff should be revised downward, down-ward, and that lost the general elections of 1910 to the Republican party. On this whole proposition. Presideut Taft has always been firm, and he renews his promise this time with a botter'under-standing botter'under-standing and a more practical idea of what he will have to do to enforce tho promise which he makes. |