Arizona republican., 1912-04-15
WHAT TAFT HAS ACHIEVED.

(By Walter I. Ballard of Los An Geles)
 Among the many achievements for good put through by President Taft may be mentioned the following: Enforcement of the Sherman anti trust law without fear or favor. Veto of democratic wool, cotton and free list bills as unfair, unscentific, and destructive of the republican principle and policy of protection to American wages and American cap ital
 AbrogatiOn of the discriminating passport treaty with Russia The establishment of postal say ings banks. chiefly benefiting the working classes. 1 Great progress towards early com canal. without hint of favoritism or l scandal
 ] Railroad rate increases prevented unless they are first approved by the interstate commerce commission | Practical destruction of the white slave traffic 1 Admission, as promised of AriZO- ma and New Mexico to statehood. Bond issue of many millions to complete irrigation and land rec lamatiOn projects in the arid west and southwest ! Bureau of mines created to safe guard the lives of miners. l Maintenance of peace in Cuba, South and Central America by friend l Iy warnings and moral intervention. Income tax amendment submitted to the state legislatures for ratifica
 ton.
 1 Passage by congress of the boiler inspection law.
 Non political methods used in talk ] ing the census of 1910. 1 Government business methods mod
 ernized and reformed by economy and , efficiency commission, saving mil lions of dollars yearly to the people, l Bucketsho and get-rich- quick con- cerns put out of business and of lenders jailed.
 i New treaty with Japan, quieting
 racial controversies on the Pacific coast s@ a Further extension of the safety appliances act.
 The United States postal depart ment made self sustaining. instead
 of running millions behind each year. slavery. abolished.
 l Maintenance and extension of the open door policy in China. Publication of campaign funds and Expenditures.
 Corporation (federaD tax success fully created and yielding $25000,00O to $3O.0OO.OO0 a year without any
 kicks" of moment; government eX- lamination of corporation methods provided.
 Transformation of a treasury def T icit for the year of $35,000,000 into q
 30,OO0,OOO surplus.
 Remarkably able and non partisan
 judicial appointments.
 Court of commerce established to review findings of the interstate
 commerce commission.
 WOrkingmen's compensation act
 brought to successful issue in the , supreme court !, Non partisan tariff board created
 to find out and report the differ
 ence in the cost of production al
 home and abroad, thus protecting American wages and American cap itaI
 , Customs service reorganzed, cor . ruptiOn done away with, frauds eX- posed and punished and millions o' dollars recovered. Extension of civil service control
 that protection Of government ser vants-by executive order.
 American capital and labor bene-
 fitted by extension of foreign mar
 kets
 Courts of Customs Appeals; under
 valuations stopped.
 In view of the foregoing and mucl
 more which might as properly be SC
 forth there should be but one pur- pose in the mind of every fair mind
 ed American, and that is to vote fol President Taft and prosperity for { second term.