The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-28
By Ernest G. Walker.

| WASHINGTON, ID. e., June 13.-
President Taft has frequently been
Iikened to Mckinley by those who have
observed him and his administration
for the last three months. Taft has
the same congenial manner toward
visitors that Mckinley had. He makes
| friends. Those, who have talked with
him in recent weeks, are aware that
/ his ambitions for the country during the
next three or four years are very Nc
Kinley-like. The martyred President
| figured before the country as the ad-
vance agent of prosperity, for instance.
The uppermost thing in the mind of
| President Taft is to encourage the re-
| vival of business.
| When he sent his two Democratic
cabinet offcers-Secretary of the Treas
ury MacVeagh and Secretary of War
Dickinson-to Chicago the other day, it
was well understood in inner circles
here that they would twang the Tyre to
prosperity notes. They had talked with
/
proposed to make. Naturally, as hap
pens when a cabinet officer goes forth
to make a public address of any inn
portance, he consults with his official
chief about 1t in advance. A cabinet
utterance is invariably interpreted as
one that the President approves and
that therefore is official.
President Taft believes that once
business gets good start, the con-
tentions over tariff ard over corpora,
tion control will speedily be lost sight
of and soon forgotten. He is more
anxious to see the idle men of the
United States employed, than about a
fractional raising or lowering of tariff
upon a given item. The tariff is now
so far completed that in some SEIZED,
ules business men can tell with &C,
curacy what the rates are going to be.
The President attributes the growing
improvement in business and industrial
pursuits to this fact in considerable
part. Accordingly he has become more
and more impatient over the delays in
getting the bill out of Congress and
in having it laid upon his mahogany
table where he can sign it.
For such reasons, as given, the Presi-
dent is holding back with other gov
ernmental plans and programs. He does
not want the minds of people diverted
by discussions about legislation or ad-
ministration in the future. He is hold
ing the tiller firm and steering straight
ahead with the least possible fuss and
agitation. There is but little talk and
but few conferences in the White House
offices, except regarding the business of
government Immediately current. And
it is the President S purpose that this
sort of thing shall continue for many
months.
He proposes to make the summer Just
as quiet a one in administration cir
cles as it can be, consistent with good
administration. He will be waging no
campaigns between now and the time
that Congress convenes again next De-
cember.
The President has also indicated his
purpose to keep very quiet at Beverly,
Mass, which is to be the summer Cap
] ital. He will see just as few people
on government business as he can. Some
: attention will be given to his annual
| message, which viii contain the prom
| ised recommendations about further cor
porate legislation. The indications are
| that he is less enthusiastic about max
ing trip into the West, than he
| formerly was. While he still expects
| / to travel considerably before he returns
to Washington in the autumn, his dis,
position now is to curtail that trip
considerably, to make fewer speeches
, than he had contemplated originally,
but above all to encourage the coming
again of good times. That elimination
is more desired by all the people than
any other one thing.
: These conclusions by the President
are significant, because they represent
the outcome of his plans, after very
careful thought. He has talked the
> situation over with many men, in whose
: confidence he has confidence. Their
advice has in the main conceded with
his best Judgment. During the las'
month he has been shaping his course
in the presidency toward such a. line
- of action.
The members of his cabinet will EN-
phasize his plans in many speeches
which they are scheduled to make dur
ing the summer and autumn Two OF
three of them will travel as far as the
Pacific Coast before next October. See
rotary of the Interior BalIinger viii
start for his home at Seattle within {
few weeks to be absent a month OF
, two. Secretary of the Navy Meyer alse
expects to 60 to San Francisco during
july or August. He is becoming quite
adept at public speaking and is occa
slonally making public addresses OF
general topics as well as upon the Navy
s. Republican Senators and Repre- aeEta
tIves are also taking their cue fro. tbs
PRESIDENT As soon as Congress ad
- Journs they will return to their homes
where they have unusual opportunitie:
= Tor disseminating ideas about the plan:
OF the administration. The politica
is campaigns this year will be very few
|. and OF minor character, but Senator:
and Representatives have numerous en-
gagements for public speaking. Tht
th president has been in consult ION witt
- a great number of these officials. t.
whom his views are quite generally
y known. His decision for a quiet ad
oo mlnlstratlon accords with the bulk O.
~ congressional opinion.