Weekly journal-miner., 1910-03-16
TAFT HAS DONE MUCH WORK
 IN YEAR Chief Executive Has :. Really Been On
 The Job'' Resume of What The President Has Ac-
 cOmp1iShed
Especial Correspondenee.)

WASHINGTON, D. C., March g. - President Taft has completed his first year of actual work in the White House. A year ago, March 4, he was inaugurated. A year ago, March f, he "got on the job. {" In his own words, the thing which he has done closest to his own ideals of how it should have been done is the appointment of men to the bench. He believes he has lived up to his desire and ambi- tion to appoint as judges only the highest character and the greatest abil- ities in the legal profession. Accord ing to his friends, these are the things he has done:
 He has shown the country that he prefers the right to political expedi. eney. He has refused to deal with politicians of whose sincerity he was not convinced. He has succeeded in reaching the eve of the fulfllment of his promise to so revise the laws as to elineh the Roosevelt policies. He did all in his power to lessen the bur dens of the new tariff law He has hewn to the line in the dictates of his own conscience an has shown an admirable indifference to the abuse and unjust criticism to which he has been subjected. He has announced that he intends to do his duty ire speetive of whether such a course will cause him his reelection. If the cor pOrations do not like his course, they cannot browbeat him. He is emphatic in his decision to give a "square" deal to every element of the eonn. .try's population.
 "How do you feel on the first an- niversary of taking hold of the job9'' he was asked today. He laughed the famous Taft laugh.
 "wen; I'll tell you how I feel" he said. "I feel just like the preacher who passed the hat through the congregation and brought it back to the pulpit empty, and thanked the Lord that he had gotten his hat back" Then he added:
 "I am glad I am President, be- cause 1 can be useful"
 The years work has left it's marx on the President, in that he looks a little tired. Few Presidents have had to battle so eeaselessly with dissen- tions in his party as has MT. Taft. At nearly every turn the measures he has advocated and urged to passage have been criticised or fought by some element of the Republican party.
 He has taken the course that the part of wisdom is to follow that path which will lead to some sort of fruit ion, and for this reason has hardened neither to the whispered or the ultra conservative nor to the wild call of the radicals. And, in order to ae- eomplish anything in the way of leg islation, he has had to be uneeasingly watehful.
 As the last session of Congress was devoted exclusively to the tariff leg islatiOn, he has had only this ses- sion to urge his individual desires for general legislation. While no definite forecast can be made of the final re- suit, it seems assured that he has succeeded in making the enactment of the following measures:
 The amendments to the railroad law.
 The anti-iniunetion law.
 The postal savings bank bill.
 A part of the conservation law pro- gram.
 He also is still hopeful that the statehood bill will pass the Senate, as it has already passed the House.
 From this it is evident how closely he has come to fulfilling his campaign pledges. For this he has fought ever since he has entered the office.
 He has impressed on all members of Congress the necessity and the to write upon the statute books those laws which shall enable the party to say:
 "We kept the faith"
 And his success in doing this has been such that his friends say today:
 "He has made good for the country and the partyp