Order Out of Chaos. The experiment was aimed toward chaos and its expectation was quickly realized. In September, 1906, the United States had to intervene again, and the task fell on Mr. Taft. Fortunate it was both for the United States and Cuba that it was so. With his experience of the Filipino as a guide and the magnetism of his personality as a lever, Mr. Taft placated the warring factions and secured peaceable intervention. he devised and set up a provisional government which all the Cubans accepted. Then It was the intention then to maintain the government only long enough to give the Cubans a fair election at which they might select their own government by full and free expression of their own will. But almost immediately the provisional government discovered the fundamental mistake made by the earlier American administration. It found that the Cubans had been attempting to administer a government which never had been organized and existed only by virtue of the President's will. Patiently the provisional government set to work, under the direction of Mr. Taft, to provide the organization under the fundamental law which the Cubans had never known was the essential of successful self-government. The work is now nearing completion, and when next the Americans quit Havana it will be after turning over to the Cubans a government machine properly established and fully equipped, whose operation they have been taught to understand and control. Thus, to two peoples has Mr. Taft been called upon to give instruction in practical self-government. The character of Mr. Taft is the resultant of strongly contrasting forces. He is a man who laughs and fights. From his boyhood, good nature and good humor have been the traits which always received notice first. But all the time he has been capable of a splendid wrath, which now and then has blazed out, under righteous provocation, to the utter consternation and undoing of its object. Because he is always ready to laugh, and has a great roar of enjoyment to signify his appreciation of the humorous, men who nave not observed him closely have often failed to understand that he is just as ready to fight, with energy and determination, for any cause that has won his support. But it is almost always some other man's cause which enlists him. His battles have been in other interests than his own. First of all he is an altruist, and then a fighter. This combative altruism is Mr. Taft's most distinguished characteristic. As Secretary of War he has earned the worldwide sobriquet of "Secretary of Peace." He has fought some hard battles, but they were with bloodless weapons, and the results were victories for peace. The greater the degree of altruism the keener was his zeal, the harder and more persistent his battle. The greatest struggle of his career, in which he disregarded utterly his settled ambition, and cheerfully faced a continuing serious menace to life itself, was on behalf of the weakest and most helpless object in whose cause he was ever enlisted-the Filipino people. That was the purest and loftiest altruism. But although this is the dominant trait of Mr. Taft, he is well known for other qualities. His judicial temperment, founded upon a deep-seated, comprehensive and ever alert sense of right and wrong; his courage, proved by repeated and strenuous tests; his calm, imperturbable judgment, and his all embracing sympathy are characteristics that have been often and widely noted. They are his by right of inheritance from generations of broad-minded, upright men and women. The development of his country has extended the range of his opportunity and given greater scope to his activities than was enjoyed by Alphonso Taft, his father, or Peter Rawson Taft, his grandfather, but in character and intellect he is their true descendent. The American people know Mr. Taft as a man of pervasive good humor, always ready with a hearty laugh, and quick to see fun in any situation. His other side has not often appeared, but he is capable of tremendous wrath. Nothing arouses it more quickly than unfaithfulness to a trust or an exhibition of deceit. Injustice in any form stirs him to the bottom instantly. He has a broad, keen, quick, all-embracing sympathy, always ready to respond to any call. His sense of justice is wonderfully quick-springing and alert. And he has a genuine fondness for work, which enables him to derive real pleasure from his task. These qualifications are the endowment of an unusually gifted man. The people know, because they have seen, his ability to turn off an enormous amount of work. They have seen him prove an exceptional executive ability. They have seen him manifest an equipment for the Presidency such as no other man has shown before his election to that office. In experience, training and ability, Mr. Taft has amply proved his fitness for the chief magistracy of the nation. Our country is growing better, not worse.-Hon. C. W. Fairbanks, at Baldwin, Kas., June 7, 1901. No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned.-Lincoln. Whenever called upon, the negro has never failed to make sacrifices for this, the only country he has, and the only flag he loves.-Hon. Wm. H Taft, at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. I am opposed to free trade because it degrades American labor; I am opposed to free silver because it degrades American money.-Maj. Wm. McKinley to Homestead workingmen, Sept. 12, 1896. This is an era of great combination both of labor and of capital. In many ways these combinations have worked for good; but they must work under the law.-President Roosevelt at Charleston, April 9, 1902. I would favor a provision allowing the defendant in contempt proceedings to challenge the judge issuing the inJunction, and to call for the designation of another judge to hear the issue.-Hon. Wm. H. Taft, at Cooper Union, New York City. The American test should be the test of integrity, loyalty, and incorruptible devotion, whether in the discharge of public or private business.-Address of Secretary Cortelyou, at the annual banquet of the Auburn Business Men's Association, Auburn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 22, 1908. Our political campaigns must be conducted upon the high plane of principle, in which the fullest discussion of policies shall be encouraged, but in which misrepresentation and abuse shall have no part.-Postmaster-General Cortelyou, at the annual banquet of the Lincoln Republican Club, Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 12, 1906. I do not know any place which thrills one's bosom with patriotic ecstasy as the sepulchre of the unknown dead in Arlington Cemetery. The thought of the heroism and saçrifice of those who, without a murmur and without even hope of personal credit or glory, gave up all to maintain a sacred cause, makes all motives of personal advancement of ambition seem small and sordid.-Hon. Wm. H. Taft, at Riverside Park, New York. We must approach every public question with a determination to be fair and just in its discussion. Reforms to be practical must be reasonable. They must begin among the people whose safeguard is the ballot, through which every offender can be ultimately reached.-Extract from address of Postmaster-General Cortelyou on Lincoln's Influence on American Life. Taking the work of the Army and civil authorities together, it may be questioned whether anywhere else in modern times the world has seen a better example of real constructive statesmanship than our people have given in the Philippine Islands.-President Roosevelt's annual message, second session, Fifty-seventh Congress. ( Anything that makes capital idle, or which reduces or destroys it, must reduce both wages and the opportunity to earn wages. It only requires the effects of a panic through which we are passing, or through which we passed in 1893 to 1873, to show how closely united in a common interest we all are in modern society. We are in the same boat, and financial and business storms which affect one are certain to affect all others.-Hon. Wm. H. Taft, at Cooper Union, New York City. ELIHU ROOT'S APPRECIATION OF JAMES S. SHERMAN. Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of State, delivered the following estimate of Hon. James S. Sherman, the VicePresidential candidate, at the notification ceremonies at Utica, N. Y., on August 18. "This occasion justifies general congratulation. The people of the Herkimer-Oneida district are to be congratulated on the confirmation of the judgment they have so long maintained in the selection of their representative in Congress. "Republican national conventions have always been very wise bodies and the last convention's imitation of you in nominating Mr. Sherman, is the sincerest flattery. Mr. Sherman should be congratulated upon this signal expression of opinion and feeling by the people of his home. There are few things in this world worth so much as the respect, esteem and affection of the community in which one has passed his life. Money cannot buy this; scheming cannot produce it, artifice cannot simulate it. "It answers to no call but that of character. It is natural reaction of kindly human nature under the influence of what the man really is. "The country is to be congratulated upon this evidence that one of the men for whom it will have an opportunity to vote at the coming election for the office of Vice-President, to preside over the Senate and to stand in the place of heir apparent to the Presidency, is a good and true man, in whose hands the vast interests of American prosperity and peace and order and liberty will not suffer. "There can be no better evidence of a candidate's worth than the esteem in which he is held at home. What political partisans and political enemies say about a man is apt to be colored by their partisanship or their enmity. The praise and depreciation of a campaign is a poor guide to just opinion. What the newspapers say about a man often reflects but a superficial judgment based upon those occasional striking and spectacular acts which constitute news rather than upon the inconspicuous, steady and most useful labor and conduct that make up the true record of life. The members of the national government for the past 20 years know what Mr. Sherman has done in the broad field of national legislation. They know with what modest disregard for personal display, thorough knowledge, clearness of expression and force of mind and character he has maintained upon the floor of the House, his views of what was best in legislation, until the time has come when every member listens with attention and respect, because it is he who speaks. They know that rare combination of quick perception, fair judgment and decision of character which, through long experience as chairman in committee of the whole, has made him the best parliamentarian of the House of Representatives, and a member of the standing committee of five which directs the difficult and complicated administration of the rules necessary to enable the House to do its business, and of necessity which in a great measure directs the conduct of business. But we know our friend and neighbor better than the men at Washington, better than the newspapers, better than the politicians. We know the man himself through and through by his living-by the multitude of little things that in the long course of years make up a record that cannot be untrue. We know the stock he came from-sound and honest stock. We know his respected father. Some of us go back to knowledge of his grandfather. My own recollections of earliest childhood are of a farmhouse in the town of Vernon and a stone's throw away the simple house of his grandfather, Willet Sherman, an honored and conspicuous figure, remaining from the early settlers of the county- -a leader in the first manufacturers of central New York. We have followed the grandson through his boyhood and manhood. We know that he has been a good husband and a good father and a good neighbor; that he has always been upright in business, self-respecting, just, fair and considerate; that everybody in the community trusts him and believes his word without any bond, We know that no desire to make money ever led him to do a mean or unfair or unkind act, and that he never sought to grow richer by making anyone else poorer. We know that he is a true and loyal friend and that from all this region the weak and unfortunate have learned to go to him, always to find help in his sympathy. We know that he has always borne his part as a good citizen in the public affairs of the community and that he is universally respected and beloved. "We are competent to testify, not upon hearsay, but of knowledge, and we do now testify to our countrymen everywhere to the people of all distant States, that this is a man for Americans to be proud of, to respect, to honor and to love. "We certify to all that great electorate that when their votes in November shall have chosen James Schoolcraft Sherman to be Vice-President of the United States, the Senate will be sure of a presiding officer in character and competency worthy of the best traditions of that great deliberative body, and that if, which God forbid, the sad contingency were to come which should for a fourth time call a Vice-President from New York to the executive office, the interests of the country, and of the whole country, would be safe in good hands; and the great office of the Presidency would suffer no decadence from the high standard of dignity and honor and competency of which we are so justly proud." Order Out of Chaos. The experiment was aimed toward chaos and its expectation was quickly realized. In September, 1906, the United States had to intervene again, and the task fell on Mr. Taft. Fortunate it was both for the United States and Cuba that it was so. With his experience of the Filipino as a guide and the magnetism of his personality as a lever, Mr. Taft placated the warring factions and secured peaceable intervention. Then he devised and set up a provisional government which all the Cubans accepted. It was the intention then to maintain the government only long enough to give the Cubans a fair election at which they might select their own government by full and free expression of their own will. But almost immediately the provisional government discovered the fundamental mistake made by the earlier American administration. It found that the Cubans had been attempting to administer a government which never had been organized and existed only by virtue of the President's will. Patiently the provisional government set to work, under the direction of Mr. Taft, to provide the organization under the fundamental law which the Cubans had never known was the essential of successful self-government. The work is now nearing completion, and when next the Americans quit Havana it will be after turning over to the Cubans a government machine properly established and fully equipped, whose operation they have been taught to understand and control. Thus, to two peoples has Mr. Taft been called upon to give instruction in practical self-government. The character of Mr. Taft is the resultant of strongly contrasting forces. He is a man who laughs and fights. From his boyhood, good nature and good humor have been the traits which always received notice first. But all the time he has been capable of a splendid wrath, which now and then has blazed out, under righteous provocation, to the utter consternation and undoing of its object. Because he is always ready to laugh, and has a great roar of enjoyment to signify his appreciation of the humorous, men who nave not observed him closely have often failed to understand that he is just as ready to fight, with energy and determination, for any cause that has won his support. But it is almost always some other man's cause which enlists him. His battles have been in other interests than his own. First of all he is an altruist, and then a fighter. A Combative Altruist. This combative altruism is Mr. Taft's most distinguished characteristic. As Secretary of War he has earned the worldwide sobriquet of "Secretary of Peace." He has fought some hard battles, but they were with bloodless weapons, and the results were victories for peace. The greater the degree of altruism the keener was his zeal, the harder and more persistent his battle. The greatest struggle of his career, in which he disregarded utterly his settled ambition, and cheerfully faced a continuing serious menace to life itself, was on behalf of the weakest and most helpless object in whose cause he was ever enlisted-the Filipino people. That was the purest and loftiest altruism. But although this is the dominant trait of Mr. Taft, he is well known for other qualities. His judicial temperment, founded upon a deep-seated, comprehensive and ever alert sense of right and wrong; his courage, proved by repeated and strenuous tests; his calm, imperturbable judgment, and his all embracing sympathy are characteristics that have been often and widely noted. They are his by right of inheritance from generations of broad-minded, upright men and women. The development of his country has extended the range of his opportunity and given greater scope to his activities than was enjoyed by Alphonso Taft, his father, or Peter Rawson Taft, his grandfather, but in character and intellect he is their true descendent. The American people know Mr. Taft as a man of pervasive good humor, always ready with a hearty laugh, and quick to see fun in any situation. His other side has not often appeared, |