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Show Secretary Taft's Long Journey, Secretary 1 ft has traveled 100,000 miles, or four times the distance iround tho world at the equator, since Mil 2t, 1900, when he became governor gover-nor general of lie Philip 'nes. In tho live and a half jears since his call from the federal bench ho has spent U(!0 days on the ocean, or almost one jenr. He has passed stx weeks on railroad trains. Most of this has come In his three trips to the Philippines, one of them 1 way of Home, and his two trips to the Isthmus Tueso facts, which came out In a recent personal conversation, show something of the demand of a public position In this age of America as n world power. |