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Show HO FEARS FOR GOVERNOR TAFT. AVe think that nns fears to the effect that Cnvcrnor Taft do not understand the true nnd comlete setkarntlon between be-tween church and state under our Institutions In-stitutions or that ho Is ut all likely to inter Into nns undue negotiation with the Vatican mas safely be dismissed as altogether superfluous Clovernor Taft went to Homo on n straight business bus-iness proposition ho has pursue 1 hl negotiation strlctls nlong business lines md on memoranli nnd Instructions Instruc-tions torn aided to him from Washington Washing-ton Theie need be no suspicion thnt he Is negotiating wits, the ntlcan for the paclflcntlon ot the I hlllpplnc for the sulllclent reasons that wo do not nee 1 nn) help In that and that the taclllcatlon I nlrcal) complete save for the criminal nets to be expected In n country whose Institutions are new Onvernor Taft Is not i mnn that need mi) Instruction In theso matters, he s n lavvser of emlncnie ot Supreme court callbei nn able stntesman and no man In this countrs unlorstnnds so well as he vvlint tho problem Is on which ho Is engaged The Vntlcnn has come to his tcims on every proposition save one the vvlthlrnvvnl of the friars anl we firmly believo that ho will set succeed In that not with the Vulcan s direct orler perlnps but by the nctlon of the superiors of the friar oidcrs In such manner ns thny krnw how to toko effectlvo action without los of prestige The irlllcs of Governor Taft In this matter could be wheedled nnd over-reiehel over-reiehel n tlioutinl time whero he would not be once |