New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-16
CUBAN POLICY PRAISED.
Plan to Send DIR. Taft Restores
Confidence IN Islands Future.

The Tribune Bureau
Washington Sept. 15.-The President has. in
the opinion everywhere expressed in Washing
ton. executed another master stroke in his ap-
peal to Cuba to restore order and in his decision
TO send the Secretary Of War and the Assistant
Secretary OF State to Havana.
The experience of Secretary Taft in the Phil
innines where he brought order out of chaos
and harmony out OF discord. and later IN Pan
anna. where he reconcfed the discordant ele-
ments and paved the way for that cordiality
which Governor MagOon has so successfully cul-
tiyated are regarded "a having pre-eminently
fitted him for the delicate mission he is about to
undertake the outcome OF which is looked for
with the most sanguine expectations
To a less degree the designation of Assistant
Secretary Bacon to accompany the Secretary OF
War is also pronounced master stroke. II Is
believed that on this mission Mr.. Bacon will
be initiated into that tact which will serve him
in good stead IN his future work IN the State
Department and perhaps NJ him for that diplo-
matte post to which he is said 10 aspire. He will.
II is hoped. become acquainted. moreover. with
that catholicity of sympathy which is note
worthy a characteristic OF Secretary Taft and
all the qualities which have been such impor-
tant factors in the remarkable success which has
attended all OF Mr.. Tafts efforts IN the public
service Furthermore the experience which Mr..
Bacon will gain from association with Secretary
Taft and close view OF Cuban affairs should. IL
is maintained. prove Of the utmost value TO the
State Department in the future for II Secre-
tary Tafts mission proves successful IL will be
the State Department which will have TO deal
with Cuba and her affairs after the present crisis
has passed.
THE PRESIDENTS APPEAL.
1t is generally remarked that the Presidents
letter to Sehor Quesada employs the same tone
Of appeal to patriotism and national pride that
Secretary Taft used successfully IN his efforts
induce the Filipinos TO do their share in estab
fishing a stable and an honorable government in
the archipelago. and II is assumed that this line
OF poliSy having. been determined upon by the
President and Secretary Taft IN their conference
at Oyster Bay indicates the course which the
Secretary will follow when he reaches Havana
With the knowledge that a man OF Secretary
Taft's breadth and proportions is to sit on the
ia in Havana there has come feeling OF
security regarding the future OF the infant re-
public which is In marked contrast with the dire
predictions made during the forty-eight hours
rrior 10 the announcement OF the Presidents in
tentions and while the Navy and the War de-
partments are quietly prosecuting their prepara-
tions n Is with the strong hope that aside from
the moral effect 20 be produced by the presence
Of a considerable naval force IN Cuban waters,
no use viii be found for the forces and supplies
which are being assembled.
Secretary Taft arrived here at $50 this even
ing He and Mr.. Bacon will start tomorrow
afternoon for Key West where they will he met
by the cruiser Des Moines. which viii convey
then 20 Havana Secretary Taft will take with
him Captain Frank r. Mccoy. military aid 70
the President. and Frank G. Lockwood. a mem
Der OF the Office force Of the Secretary OF War.
For more than an hour Secretary Taft was
surrounded by the chiefs OF bureaus. who would
have 20 do with active preparations for the
movements of troops II the administration de-
cided To intervsne In the Cuban conflict These
chiefs were General InswOrth. the military sec
retary: General Bell. chief of the general stan
General CrOzier. chief OF ordnance and General