The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-03-07
TAFT'SEXECUTIVE
CRAFTSMANSHIP
Big Things Done During the Cur.
rent Administration.
HISTORY OF ACCOMPLISHMENT
No Previous President Has Had the
Opportunity to Handle SO Many
important Matters, Beth Domestic
and Foreign.
BY GUS J. kARGER.

a S''S S'Si-'"
BY GUS J. kARGER.
l. Negotiation of arbitration trea.
ties with Great Britain and France.
2. enforcement of antitrust stat.
ute, involving prosecution of nearly
three-score monster combinations.
3. Government victories in stand.
ard Oil and Tobacco trust cases, ef.
tecting clear Interpretation of Sher.
man law.
4. .Abrogstion OF obsolete passport
treaty with russia.
5. Adoption of principle CT scien-
tific tariff revision, schedule by sched-
ule.
6. Creation Of tariff board to re-
port CT differences between cost of
production at home and abroad.
Z. Fifty-cight million dollars deficit
transformed into $3O,O00,O00 surplus
by operation of tariff act and exercise
of rigid economy in government de-
partment expenditures.
8. Veto Of wool, Gotten and farm
ers' free list bills on ground that they
violated principle of protection pro-
claimed by Republican platform.
9. Panama canal brought to stage
approaching completion, without a
breath of scandal.
10. Veto of Arizona statehood bill
because of offensive recall of judges
provision of its constitution.
II. Postofce department, for first
time in history, placed on self-sus.
tanning basis.
-. Military maneuvers along Mex,
ican border, that made for mainte-
nance of order on both sides of Dor,
der and preserved American neutral.
ity.
13. Reorganization OF army in pro.
gress, providing for unprecedented
mobility of troops.
A. Reorganization of customs ser
vice, corruption eliminated, frauds
exposed and punished and millions oil
dollars recovered.
Is. Bureau of mines created
16. WoTkmen's compensation act
fought to successful issue in supreme
court.
II. Commissions report of EN-.
ploye"s' liability, accompanied by bill
and presidents endorsement.
1S. Further extension of safety ap,
pliance act, safeguarding lives and
limbs of railroad employees.
10. Abolition of pork barrel" sys.
TEN of river nd harbor appropriations
and substitution of new and success.
full business policy.
20. Negotiation of treaties with
Honduras and Nicaragua, making for
permanent peace in those countries
q. Negotiation and ratification OF
new treaty with Japan, which brought
the two countries together in bonds
of friendship.
%. Establishment of postal say.
ings banks, resulting in deposits ag
gregating millions annually.
%. Establishment of economy and
efficiency commission, whose recon-
mendations will accomplish savings
of many millions annually.
"a. Creation of stocks and bonds
commission, which has submitted 9
valuable and exhaustive report as the
basis for sane and useful legislation
%. Continued progress toward es
tablishment Of parcels post.
26. Judicial appointments taker
out of politics.
81. Non-political methods mad,
successful in taking the thirteenth
census.
%. Further extension of civil ser
vice by executive order, with recon
mendation to place practically all fed
eral appointees on merit basis.
20. Passage of corporation excise
tax law, yielding $3O,0OO.OOO annually
and establishing government surveil
lance for corporation methods.
go Income tax amendment sent Il
senate for ratification.
81. Conservation policies put OF
practical working basis and a rea
Alaskan policy adopted.
80. Further extension of powers o
interstate commerce commission
with subsequent submission of raj
roads of country to provisions Of tn
law.
33. Recommendation submitted TO
enactment of federal incorporation
act.
"a. China opened to American
fnance on terms of equality with res
If the world.
35. Railroads prevented by appea
to writ of injunction, from puttini
rate increase into effect without ar
proval Of interstate commerce com
mission.
SO. Creation of a court of custom
appeals.
81. Enactment of boiler inspection
law.
3S. recommendation subm tie,
for revision of the national cul
rency that will make panics impos
sible and obsolete.
80. White slave traffic almos
wiped out.
40. Scores of hucketshops and gel
rich-quick concerns forced out Of e1