The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-03
TAFT'S GREAT WORK.

The great work that President Taft
has achieved in the Presidential once
we have referred to from time to time,
aud the statement in yesterday morn
| lings dispatches in The Tribune that
President Taft is determined once more
10 bring to the front his great meas
ure for peace, the arbitration treaties
that were rejected by the Senate last
winter, calls attention TO the most
striking measure ever projected for the
benefit of mankind IN insuring peace
among the nations President Taft is
not content to let his arbitration
treaties die without a further struggle
TO have them ratified by the Senate OF
the United States, so that there will be
the enormously important beginning
for permanent world peace through
the arbitration compact between TINS
country and Great Britain and between
this country and France, Germany ana
japan also announced their determlna'
tion 10 apply for like treaties IN case
the arbitration proposed by freslaeh'
Taft were ratified by our Senate
Another great achievement OF Presi-
dent Taft, aside from the many tna'
have been noted, is referred TO ny
the ST. Louis Times, in ITS comment
unon this declaration of Colonel mar
vev in the North American hevlew: 81
I've yield TO none in respect or resagu
for Mr.. Taft. AS true An A,he, go ,.,itH
honest and honorable a man. as lai'h,
mi and forgiving a friend. az Ju't /"
Judge as conscientious ana nnseihsh az %te
mInistrator OF laws as ever hNec' us
record as President, heNer'he'eSs'
register OF failure,
Upon which the st. Louis Times has
this excellent comment:
Here speaks the politician rather thah
the logician, "a
President Taft have been OF an eN
traordinary kind. 1t has been SUPPOSE
that Col Roosevelt split the me Egpnoeio Sh,nono
convention AS Il matter VI tact ne
turned the trick when he occupied the
White House He established follow
gently BY the orthodox ranks OF Repuo-
iicanism. and later feared and condemned
by them.
marked when President Taft was elect
ed His was the extremely difficult task
OF steering sane course pelween the
two clans. He performed his duties re-
gardless of the programmes OF the two
clans. and at one time or another he
offended both, He was not progressive
enough for the Progressives; he was too
progressive fer the 'Standpatters.
Now, however. he has achieved the tre-
,nendous victory OF discrediting the
Roosevelt influence and following. II has
his to 1ss
clear recognition OF the Roosevelt me-
mace. He, has reached the point where
his administration may proceed along
more clearly denned paths
The truth is that President Taft has
been 1aborlng all of his present term
under the handicap Of Rooseveltism.
There seemed to be an extraordinary
expectation in the minds of the Roose-
welt men that President Taft would not
'csnduct his administration as he him.
self desired to conduct it, but that he
would undertake to carry out some Of
the policies of Roosevelt, and would
allow Roosevelt to be the power behind
the throne, dictating his every i'm
portant act and his position on the
chief public questions. The fact that
President Taft has chosen to be his
own man in the Presidential chair in
place of Roosevelt g man 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 President to be anybody's man
but his own; they recognize the diff
culties that President Taft has had to
confront in this respect, and they ad-
mire and respect him accordingly for
the manly vigor, calm Judgment, and
excellent temper in which he has con-
Quoted his administration along the
lines Of the laws and the constitution,
He has been at all times a constitu-
|tional President, never a usurper, and
whenever action was demanded Of him
he has consulted the law to sec what
ii has authorized him to do, 1t is
not his fashion TO declare that he
would do certain things, as his prede-
cessor habitually did, and undertake
to carry out those declarations, law or
no law. That was the Roosevelt style
It is not the Taft style. and the Ameri-
can people are grateful that 1T is so;
for they want a President who will
form to the law, and they recog.
nize the danger Of having President
who will not. They have confidence IN
President Taft accordingly, and recog-
nize the Justice of the claim that ne
shonld, as Others have done before him,
succeed himself for second term IN
the Presidency.
NOT A BID FOR NoToRIETY.