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Show j Giant Possessed of Missionary Spirit We see him working so hard at Manila that he exhausts the strength of all his aide's, one after another, and at last his own health breaks down and his doctor tells him he must rest and return to the United States or his life will be In danger. Just at this tlmean offer from the president of the United States to give him the seat on the supreme bench which his lawyer's law-yer's heart has always craved, but he fears that If he leaves the islands at this Juncture His work and his wards may suffer, and he cables Washington! Washing-ton! "Thanks, but Impossible o leave here now." Again, within a year, the same temptation Is placed before him, and again It Is resisted. We see him many times appearing before congressional con-gressional committees, pleading for Justice. for his people, for help In the great task of making a free and progressive pro-gressive nation of them. One of these campaigns of education continued almost every .day for six weeks and gave to the records a history and description de-scription of the Filipino people, their condition and needs.without a parallel In colonial history, for mastery of details, de-tails, for sympathetic Insight, for thorough understanding. And during one of these sessions we are not surprised sur-prised td hear him say laughingly, "I believe I must be' possessd of a little lit-tle of the missionary spirit." From t'Taft, Trained to be President," by Walter Wellman In the American Review of Reviews for June.' |