The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-02
BY Ernest G.. walker.
Mail Special to the Adyertiser.)

j and of a fiscal year. An era OF
new things is close at hand. The
tedium of tariff can not last much
longer The first important stage of
the new administration will soon be
history, no matter how tenacious the
orators of Congress may be. Eyes are
upon the opening of a new set OF
books and upon the tasks and the,
pleasures of the SIMMER capital.
The muItitudinous tasks of arrang-
ing and setting in order have already
been tackled Washington and its of
ficiaIdom are accustomed TO anticipate.
The diplomats are already pulling out
for the green fields and the rural pros
poets. They will daily a little longer
to make sure that they have advised
their governments correctly about the
tariff. In the older days the diplomats
looked down upon activities that
smacked of the commercial. They left
such things to the consuls and the con-
sular agents. Now, however, tariffs are
of such world Importance and have
such great bearing upon commercial
supremacy and upon world supremacy
that the diplomats simply have to take
notice thereof.
The President expected a little sur
cease from other official troubles that
he could attend to momentous matters,
other than tariff, before he sped away
to the beautiful retreat at Beverly.
There has been SO much tariff talk
around the White House offices, how
eyer, that he has had to defer many
matters for consideration at the sum.
mer capital, rather than at the winter
capital and now it looks as though
Beverly would be the scene of many
governmental doings before the summer
is over. The lawyers of his cabinet
viii certainly be going there frequently
to discuss corporation problems that he
must reach some decision npon before
the summer flies by. The President has
recently said SO as he went over the
situation and observed the chances for
real rest at Beverly diminishing.
Of course he is going 10 play golf
on the Massachusetts coast, ride far
and wide in his high power automo.
biles, and sit under the shade Of tLes
big trees and sniff the salt water and
go sailing occasionally He does not
propose to forego those pleasures. But
he sees that he must have many official
visitors from time to time during the
summer. He viii hold no cabinet meet,
ings after he departs from Washington
but he will of necessity hold many con-
ferenees with his cabinet officials. Many
! of them intend to pass the summer in
New England. He will probably be
able to summon half dozen of the
nine by telephone almost any day.
His very recent statement. made to
a couple of callers, that he could not
get away from Beverly before the mid
die of September indicates something
of the President S determination to
/ stay there as long as he can before he
starts out for a tour of the West and
the South. Probably he will write
much of his ANIMAL message to Congress
| there-at least he viii block il out and
have it ready for revision before he
leaves here. He had hoped to write
| that message In the main before he
leaves Washington but other things
| have occupied his time ii will be
very important document to his admin
lstratlon, because it will be his first an
nual message to Congress and because
it viii comprise important recommended
tlons regarding his policies.
AT Beverly he will confer with
| numerous government officials for in
formation about the topics he treats.
1t will be supplemented by information
he gathers on his western trip but this
| will be used when he revises the mes,
sage just before he sends it to the
| Government Printing Office to be put
| into type.
Above all things the President wants
to watch by Mrs. Taft as she is re-
| stored to health. He wants her to az
| company him on his western trip. 1t
| was because eff her illness from nervous
| breakdown that he abandoned trip to
| Alaska and he has already intimated
that. unless she does recover her health
| he nay eurtail his western trip mate
I fidl4 he fFeSluenf loves to travel,
| but he especially enjoys having Mrs.
Taft along with him and he would be
very loash to 60 West next September
/ without her.
| BY the time the autumn begins. the
:! President viii have his bearings better
thar eser before since he enterd the
White House. He will be able to de-
| termine by that time something Of the
expected return of prosperity in which
he is greatly interested as a feature Of
his administration. The new tariff law
| will then have been in operation long
enough to tell something about its char
| act6r as revenue measure and also az
stimulus to industrial activity. He
will be able to forecast the prospects
| of sufficient Treasury funds with which
to conduct the government. He will
+, also be able by that time to gauge the
temper OF. the rather critical western
country toward him.
If he puts the shutters up on the sum
ner capital by September Is, as he now