The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-10-08
TAFT'S
GREAT WORK.

in the Presidential office we have referred to from
time to time, and the statement in yesterday morn
ings dispatches in The Tribune that President Taft
is determined more to bring to the front his
| great measure for peace the arbitration treaties
that were rejected by the Senate last winter calls
attention to the most striking measure pro
jected for the benefit of mankind in nsuring peace
among the nations. President Taft not content
to let his arbitration treaties die without further
struggle to have them ratified by the Senate of the
United States that there will be the enormous.
ly important beginning for permanent world peace
through the arbitration compact between this coun-
try and Great Britain and between this country
and France Germany and Japan also announced
their determination apply for like treaties in case
the arbitration proposed by President Taft were
ratified by Senate.
Another great achievement of President Taft,
aside from the many that have been noted is re-
ferred to by the St. Louis Times in its comment
upon this declaration of Colonel Harvey in the
North American Review:
We yield to none in respect regard for
Mr.. Taft. AS true American, as honest and
honorable a man, as faithful and forgivng a
friend, just Judge, conscientious and I'M
selfish administrator of laws lived, his
record President, nevertheless, is a register
of failure.
Upon which the St. Louis Times has this ex
ceent comment:
Here speaks the politician rather than the
logician.
The difficulties which have confronted Pres
dent Taft have been Of an extraordinary kind
It has been supposed that Colonel Roosevelt
split the Republican party when he bolted the
Chicago convention. AS matter of fact he
turned the trick when he occupied the White
House. He established following that was at
first smiled at indugently by the orthodox ranks
Of Repubcanism, and later feared and condemn
ed by them.
This division of the ranks clearly mark
ed when President Taft was elected His was
the extremely difficult task of steering a sane
course between the two clans. He performed
his duties regardless of the programs of the two
clans and at time another he offended
both. He was not progressive enough for the
Progressves he too progressive for the
Standpatters
Now, however, he has achieved the tremen-
dous victory, of discrediting the Roosevelt infu
ence and following. 1t has been his steady ad
herence to reasonable which has made
possible the clear recognition of the Roosevelt
menace. He has reached the point where his
administration may proceed along more clearly
defined paths.
The truth is that President Taft has been la.
boring all Of his present term under the handicap
of Rooseveltsm. There seemed to be extra
ordinary expectation in the minds of the Roosevelt
men that President Taft would not conduct his ad-
ministration as he himself desired to conduct it,
but that he would undertake to carry out some of
the policies of Roosevelt, and would allow Roose-
velt to be the power behind the throne, debating
his every important act and his position on. the
chief public questions The fact that President
Taft has chosen to be his own in the Presi-
dental chair in place Of Roosevets seems to
have given rise to the deepest resentment on the
part Of Colonel Roosevelt and his admirers
But the American people don't want their Pres
ident to be anybody's man but his own; they rec
ognize the difficulties that President Taft has had
to confront in this respect, and they admire and
respect him accordingly for the manly vigor, calm
Judgment, and excellent temper in which he has
conducted his administration along the lines of the
laws and the constitution. He has been at all
tines constitutional President. never a usurper
nd whenever action was demanded of him he has
consulted the law to what it has authorized him
to do 1t is not his fashion to declare that ne
would do certain things, his predecessor habit
uay did, and undertake to carry out those cellar
atoms, law or no law. That the Roosevelt
style 1t is not the Taft STYLE and the American
people are grateful that IL is so; for they want
President who will conform to the law and they
recognize the danger of having President who will
not. They have confidence in President Taft &C
cordingy, ard recognize the justice of the CLAIM,
that he should as others have done before HIM,
srccC cd h lself for second term in the Pres
dency S6It Lake TRIBUNE.
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He wins the most who the most endure.
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In this world it doesn't matter much whether
you pay as you enter or pay you go, but some
where on the journey you must pay.
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| The financial interests of the country are di
vfded into two great great classes: the grabbing
| companies and the holdup companies
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