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SUPPLEMENT TO The Tribu ne North Platte, Nob., Tuesday, Sept. 29. TAFT 115 LAWYER UNO JUDGE Pioneered tho Way for tho "Roose velt Policy" Concerning Trusts. Successful aa Lawyer in Important Cases and Authority as Jurist. Mr. Tnft was hardly out of his boy hood when lie wnH culled to public of tlee, nnd In most -of the years since then he lias devoted himself to the pub He setvlce. First he was Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Hamilton County, under .Miller Outealt, now one of the lending: lawyers of Ohio. In 1SS1 he became Collector of Internal Revenue for the First Ohio District, and demonstrated the same ability In businet-s that he had shown In the law. A year later he resigned that oil leu nnd went back to the practice of law. with his father's old partner, H. l Lloyd. In 1884 lie became the junior counsel of a liar Committee to con duct testnment proceedings ngalnst Campbell, whose methods of practicing law had brought pn the hearing of the Hamilton County Courthouse In Cincinnati. Though technically unsuc cessful, Mr. Tnft made a good reputa tion from his conduct of this matter, and Campbell was drawn from Cincin nati. In 1885 he became Assistant County Solicitor. Two years later Gov ernor Fornker appointed him Judge of the Superior Court, to succeed .7 ml son Harmon, who hail resigned to enter X'resldcnt Cleveland's cabinet. HI Juillclnl Cnreer HeKtin. Ills appointment as Judge of the Su perior Court was the beginning of the Judicial career which was Tuft's nin bltlon, and for which lie was so emi nently Jltted. Ho made such a record ns n judge that at the close of his appointed term lie was triumphantly elected for another term. Hut already he had attracted attention outside ids State, nnd. he had served but two years of tho live years for which lie had been elected when President Ilntrlson asked him to take the dllllcult position of So licitor General of the United States. This was an olllce of .tins utmost Im portance, Involving not only wide learn Ing nnd tremendous application, but tho power of clear nnd forceful pros entatlon of argument. Two of the cases which ho conducted as Solicitor General involved questions of vltnl Im- iKirtanco to the entire country. The tirst grew out of the seal fisheries con troversy with Great llritain. Mr. Tnft won against such eminent counsel as Joseph II. Choato, who is widely recog nized as n leader of tho American bar. The other was n tariff case In which the law was attacked on the ground that Speaker Heed had counted a quo rum when the bill passed tho House, That, too, he won. It was during his term ns Solicitor General that Mr, Tnft met Theodoro Hoosevelt, then Civil Service Commissioner, nnd began the friendship which has continued nnd grown ever slnco nnd which has had such far-reaching intluence upon tlie lives of both men. On tho Federal Ilcnrh. Mr. Tnft's record ns solicitor general so clenrly proved his fitness for the bench that after three years in Wash Ingon he was sent back to Ohio as judge of the Sixth Federal Circuit, a post generally recognized ns n preliml nary step to tho Supreme Court, which was then the goal of his ambition. It wns during his seven yenrs on tho federal bench thnt Mr. Taft's qualities n! a Judge became known throughout the country. He was called upon then to decide some of the most Important ensos that have ever been tried In the federal courts, In the conduct of which he established an enviable reputation for learning, courage and fairness three essential attributes of a great Ju tlt't. His power of application nnd his nbillty to turn off enormous masses of work received ample demonstration during this time. It wns In this period of his service that lie rendered the hi bor decisions which have made hln famous as nn upright nnd fearless Judge. In his treatment of both labor nnd capltnl lie showed that hero was n judge who knew no distinction o parties when they nppeared as litigants before him. lie voiced tho law ns he knev it and the right ns ho saw it, no matter where the blow fell or whom it struck. If sometimes the decisions went ngnlnst what organized labor nt thnt time believed to Iks its cause, it must not Iks forgotten that no clearer or broader stntenient of tho true rights of labor has even been made than in some of his Judicial utterances. Law ycrs conducting litigation In other courts on beholf of labor unions have often cited these decisions of Judge Tnft In support of their contentions, Neither should it be forgotten that one of the most important and far reach lug of all his Judgments was that ugnlnst tho Adelystono Pipe Company in which fur the llrst time the Slier j.au r.'itl-trust law was made a living, Hello, Dill! Is that you? What About November 4? They tell me I will From the Italtlmorn American Star. vltnl force for the curbing nnd punish ment of monopoly. When this case reached the Supreme Court, Mr. Tnft received the distinguished and unusual honor of having Ills decision quoted In full and handed down as part of the opinions of the high court which sua tnlncd him at every point. l'loncerlnc (ho Ilooacvclt Volley. This Addystoue Pipe decision ninrk- ed the beginning of tho struggle for federal control of Interstnto corpora tions which in the later years lias como to bo known as the "Hoosevelt policy." Mr. Tuft In 1111 address to the American Hnr Association at Detroit, In the sum mer of 1S!5, had enunciated the prin ciple on which President Hoosevelt has mnde his great light for the suppres sion of monopoly nnd the abolition of special privilege. Thus Mr. Tnft pio neered the way for the "Hoosevelt pol icy." A REAL HELPMEET. Mrs. Tnft Thinks Nothing Is Too Oood for Man Whose Namo She Bears. To Mrs. Tnft this presidential situa tion Is almost the only thing In life that does matter, and she makes no nttempt to act as if It didn't. In a visit to Hot Springs, Vn., which wns made for the purpose of tlndlng out something about the dally life and thought of Mrs. Tnft during her sum mer there, thus much was easily dis coverable. Sho desires tho presidency for her husband, nnd she furthermore Is trying to help him get It. Her place, rather than In any of the above Indi cated circles, Is among the rooters, on the band wagon high up, or In the van of the campaign advance ngents. She thinks that only the best life lias to offer Is great and good enough for her husband, nnd If the concentrated power of the nation, aided by her own personal efforts, can get It for him, It Is to be his. And this nttltude repre sents the Mrs. Taft of to-day. Per haps sho has other distinguishing marks and characteristics, but they have now failed Into the unlmportnnt. She Is never so weary as to be Indif ferent, never so depressed by the allllc tioiiH of tho llesh as to be inactive In her campaign duties, self-Imposed, and never so beset by things In nil of thel perverseness as to bo Impatient with the situation. Indeed, she Is the one who started this presidential agitation In the Taft family, and she means, whoever else "lays down on his Job," to see It prop erly through. All during the long hours of her summer nt the springs her mind forever Is nlert with the problems of the campaign and their possible solu tions. And If she nrrlves nt some of them it will not be the llrst time that her suggestions have guided our ship of state. Mutually Ileneflolnl. What has been the result to the Unl ted Stntes of this so-called -colonial policy? Well, it has added to her trade something over oue hundred millions of dollars. I do not think that Is I in portant except ns u beginning. If the government continues Its friendly policy toward Porto Hleo and tho Philippines nnd opens her market ns well to the Philippines as to Porto Hleo, this trade will treble and quadruple In a marvel ously short time, so that merely from the standpoint of material progress the mutual benellts for tho people we nro helping and ourselves will bo no mean Justification for the policy. Hon Wiu. II. Taft, at Cleveland, Ohio. BRISTOW ON TAFT. Lendor in Kansas Campaign Details Judgo Taft's Great Achievements. (From Joseph L. Hrlstow's Speech nt 'Independence, Kan.) "The greatest Issue In this campaign, however, Is the personality of the two men nnd tins effect that would follow the election of either. Mr. Tart-, as has been so aptly said by Mr. Hughes of New York, is the best equipped man that has ever been nominated for the presidency, nnd this declaration lias been enlarged upon by the grent Dem ocratic leader In New York, Hourko Cockran, who says that ho is tho best equipped man over offered for tho pres idency of any republic. Mr. Taft was a great Judge. Ho has profound legal learning; his opinions while on the bench were pointed to as models of judicial literature and sound reasoning. When McKlnley sought n man to take tho government of tho Philippines, an archipelago of 1,100 Islands inhabited by races speaking 100 different lan guages and dialects, a people represent ing almost every stage of civilization from the savage to tho enlightened, he selected Mr. Taft ns the best equipped of any man he could find, nnd, resign ing the high Judicial position he held, Mr. Tnft went to tho Philippines nnd his administration of the affairs of that dependency Is pointed to by tho politi cal writers and economists ns the model of colonial government of nil time. Nothing like It has ever been presented In tho history of tho race. Tnft In tho Philippine. "When called by 'resident Hoosevelt from tho Philippines to take ch'argo of larger nnd wider responsibilities, the people of these Islands wore so devoted to li Im. becntise of tho kindness of his character and the Justice of his govern ment, thnt they erected to hlni n mag nificent statue to stand In Manila, the capital of tho archipelago, to conimcm orato their gratitudes In tho centuries that are to come. When he ennio back to this country to nssumo the respon nihility of Secretary of Wnr, tho con ftructlon of tho Panama canal was placed In his charge. This Is tho great est engineering achievement that the world has ever undertaken, and after more than three years of the adminis tration of this grent work the results have been ulmost miraculous. Three million cubic ynrds of dirt nnd granite are being excavated monthly and trans ported to tho dumping places, from live to ten miles from the plnco of excava tion. In this tropical climate, where disease has liee-n tho deadly enemy of every enterprise undertaken heretofore, where the construction of tho railroad tlfty-ono miles long across the isthmus has cost n human llfo for every tie that was laid, wo find to-day tho health of the men employed there ns perfect os If they were employed In Montgom ery county, Kansas. Yellow fever, three yenrs ngo when I visited tho islli inns, was threatening tho men who were on the Isthmus. TIiIh direful dls ease hns been conquered and jipt a case has appeared for two and ones-half years. Tho entire force engaged In this stupendous enterprise is ho perfectly esrganlzed and works with such me ciianlcal precision that there Is not n Jar and not a suspicion of scandal. It Is the most marvelous exhibition of ad mlnlstratlvo skill nnd judgment that has ever been given to the world." You will notice that very few of those farmers are wearing old clothes. Sioux City Journal. carry Maryland by at least 30,000 ORDER OUT OF CIIAOS. Secretary Taft Established Real Self-Oovernmont for Cuba. Aside from the Philippines nnd the canal the greatest call that has been made upon Mr. Taft slnco he became Secretary of War came from .Cuba. 1'hls was n case largely similar to tins Philippine problem. When our Inter vent Ion hnd freed Cuba from this Span Ish yoke we deemed It sufllclent Insur ance of successful government for the Cubans to require them to ndopt a con slltutlon boforo wo turned tins Islnntl over to them. We Ignored tho fact that Cuba had no experience of consti tutions or understanding of their func tions. So when Culm had conformed to our requirement we salloel nwny from Havana and left her to work out her own salvation unaided and untaught Tho result of that folly was Inevi table and not long delayed. Tho Cu ban having adopted a constitution they hail not the slightest Idea at. what t,o. do with It. They proceeded to govern under the only system of which they hail any knowledge. The proelnnintlon of the President took the place of the old royal decree. He created by Ills Hat the departments of government which should have been established by law of Congress under authority of tho constitution. The experiment was nlmeil toward chaos nnd its expectation was quickly roallzed. In September, 100(1, tho Unit ed States had to Intervene again, and the tnsk fell on .Mr. Taft. With his experience of tho Filipino us a guide and the magnetism of his personality as a lover, .Mr, Tnft ploeated the war ring fnctlons mid secured peaceable In terventlon. Then he devised nnd set up a provisional government which all the Cubans accepted. It wns the Intention then to maintain the government only long enough to give the Cubans a fair election nt which tluy might select their own gov ernment by full nnd free expression of their own will. Hut ulmost Immediate ly the provisional government discover ed the fundamental mlstiiku made by the earlier American administration, it found that the Cubans had been nt tempting to administer a government which never had been organized ami existed only by virtue of the Presl dent's will. Patiently the provlslona governuii'iit set to work, under the ill rcctlon ef Mr. Taft, to provide the or gaiilzatloii under the fundamental law which the Cubans had nnver known was tlie essential of successful self government. The work Is now Hearing completion, and when next the Amorl cans quit Havana it will be after turn lug over to the Cubans a goveriunen machine properly established and fully equipped, whose operation they have been taught to uuderstanel ami control Thus, to two people's lias Mr. Tuft been called upon to glvo instruction in prac tlcal self-government. (iouiI ICITeet nn Ilnanea. Mr. Hrynn Is continually nsUIng why some of this managers of unlawful trusts have, not been convicted and sent to the penitentiary V I sympathize with him In his wish that this may be done, becniiNe I think that the Impris onment of one or two would have 11 inoed healthy effect throughout tho country; but oven without such Im prisonment, I believe thnt the prosecu tions which nro now on foot and tlie Injunctions which linvo already been Issued have had a marked elfect on business methods. lion. Win. II. Taft, at Columbus, Ohio. WORLD CRUISE OF OUR BATTLE-SHIPS A Significant History-Making Move ment by the United States. Paclflo Ocoan Saved to America by Robust Policy of Republican Party. Tho present world cruise of Ameri can warships Is one of tho most inter esting, Inqwrtaiit nnel far reaching per- rorniunces of nuy administration since the Civil Wur. History rides uoon tho row of the flagships of this fleet. Klghty-tlve millions of peoplo havo for months been attempting to lntorpret tuo movement nnel solves tho problem our government Is attempting to prop erly adjust by this circumnavigation of theiglobe. (When President Hoosevelt first announced that the fleet or battle ships was to mnko tho long Journey rrom tho Atlantic to the Paclllc Ocean, tho Democrats tunuil prophets of evil and predicted many disastrous things would follow ns n consequence of this unprecedented move. Armniln nml Wor-lil Ci-nlar. The armada took Its departure from Hampton Hoads, Dec, 1(1, 1007, and after a wholly successful voyage around the Horn, of about twelve thousand miles, It dropped anchor In Sail Fran cisco Harbor May 0, 1008. Tho ships that form the four divisions of tho licet 11 this resoord-innklng cruise nro: The Connecticut, Louisiana, Maine, Mis souri, Georgia, New Jersey, Hhodo Isl and, Virginia, Alabama, Illinois, ICenr sarge, Kentucky, Ohio, Mlnnesotu, Kan sas and Vermont. To which were add eel the Nebraska nnd the Wisconsin, al ready In Puget Kouml, thus making n licet of eighteen first-class modern battleships In perfect condition, There were nlreody In tho Pacific and Orlentnl waters the lines nrmored cruisers West Virginia, Colorado, Ma ryland nml Pennsylvania. Their two sister ship, the California nnd South Dakota, were also on tho Pacific, nnd the powerful Wnshlngton nnd Tonnes seo went from the Atlantic to Join the armada, thus making eight nrmored cruisers to be added to tho eighteen batth'shlps. In addition thero wero In this Paclllc several protected cruisers, gunboats mid other lesser craft. All tolel there were ten hundred and fifty olllcers and nineteen thousand five hun dred men. In due time the main fleet of war ships resumed Its western course nnd will touch nt the leading ports of China and Australia, passing on east by way of the west, nnd coming llnnlly to Mai tu and Gibraltar, where It will coal and ultimately return to its Hturting point nt Hampton Hoads, somo time enrly next February. In this expedition tho Hepuhllian party has a policy which projects nseii far Into tho future, but It Is 1111 entire misunderstanding of the whole schemes to suppose that It Is nlnieil narrowly or definitely nt any single power. It Is ones of those robust constructive poll eles of the party gauged on world lines. It is mores of a notification than n threat, to all existing governments. Wrlilluu Nor Hi nml South Amerlcn. The eyes of the world have followed our fleet with absorbing interest. One of tlie great advantages gained by this crulso Is the cordial welcome and close acquaintance which It has evoked from tho governments nnd peoples of the chief republics of Latin Amerlcn. To the Hrazlllans, tho Argentine's, tho Chi Hans and the Peruvians, the mighty re public of the north had been merely n name or n ellm figure, powerful nnd honored perhaps, but not actually known. For years there hail been lit tie or no visible evlelence of tlie wealth, or authority of tins United Stutes, In the chief South Auierlcnn ports. Hut they were nil visited by swift nnd stately liners, flying the flags of the maritime powers of F.uropo. At every South American port the fleet, our navy, our government, our In stltutlons, our people, our alms, our Industries, our trade every conceivable thing that Is ours, havo been discussed as they never wero before, and that without suspicion of our political and diplomatic Intentions. One business bouse In New York states that Its South American correspondence has In creased fonrfolel since the fleet vlsltce Hlo Janeiro. In this caso It seems that trade may follow tho battleships. 1'renlilt-nt Hnonevelt Kxulntim Move inrnl. In n statement In a speech he made In St. Louis, President Hoosevelt tool. tho public Into his confidence to a d greo when he said: "California, Ore go n and Washington have n coast line which Is our coast line Just 11s einphot icnlly as the e-onst lines of NeswYork nnd Maine, of Louisiana and Texas, Our fleet le going to Its own home waters in the Pacific nnd after a stay there It will return to Its own homo waters 'n the Atlantic. Tho best plnco for th naval r Ulcer to learn his duties is a sen, by performing them, and only by net mil! v putting through n voyage o this nature, 11 voyage longer than any one Is'foro undertaken by 11s lari,o a licet of any nation, e-nu we line! out Just exactly what Is necessary for us to know as to our naval needs nnd prac tlco our olllcers and enlisted men I the highest duties eif their profession.' A evil k i-11 1 11 u of Gin Orient. The Paclllc Ocean Is recognized by all far seeing statesmen as the theater of the world's coming great struggle for military nnd commercial mastery. When China nwakens, to tho degrto that Jupan Is now awake, events pass ing Hie power of the Imagination to conceive will tnke place. As to the palliative nnd beneficent effect this cruise may havo 011 China and Japan, there can be but ono Opin ion. Wlillo Undo Ham was little con cerned about tho rumors to tho effect timt Japan wus about to descend upon the Philippines, or possibly to muke demonstration off our Paclllc coast, yet ho did desire, anel perhaps is In a position to Insist, that tho Open Door lioltcy be maintained In China. Japan has apparently never been quite recon ciled to this policy, and Is said to havo worked to establish In China the poll- y of "sphores of Influence." To this mcrlca with Kuropcnn nations, Btrcn- uously objected and does still object. This Open Door policy stands as 11 world monument In diplomacy to the constructive genius of tho Republican party. William Howard Taft is In full sympathy with this constructive policy. Mr. Tnft on his last trip to tho Orient wns given such an enthusiastic reception at Hhuughal, China, an was never before uccorded to any visiting statesman by otllclals of tho Celestial Kingdom. On that occasion Mr. Tnft made a iqwcch which, In spite of lt genlnl tone nnd cautious phrasing, was at once recognized as of the highest International Importance. Said he: "Wli WOULD HAVK Til 13 RIGHT I'O PHOTKST AT liKINO IJXCLUD- f.d fhom tiik tradk of china ry rkason of our insistknch UPON TIIK POLICY OF TIIK OPKN DOOR. Tho ncqulcscence in this poli cy of nil this nations Interested has boon so unhesitating and emphatic thnt It Is hardly worth while to speculate as to I10W far the United States would go In tho protection of Its Chinese trude. This feeling Is likely to find expression In the action of tho mcrlcnn government. Tho United States and the other powers favor tho Open Door, nnd If they nro wlws they will encournge tho einplro to tako long Bteps In ndmlnlstrutlve and govern mental reform." Ho we hnves not far to Hcelc for an other very powerful reason for this world crulso of our fleet. Mr. Taft simply nnnounced In diplomatic lan guages that this cruise Is Intended to sny that the Open Door policy will bo maintained at any price. Ho Is in thorough sympathy with tho alert con structive policy of tho Republican party. He Is ono of Its enter expon ents. Perfection nfOHneliillne. This world crulso of tho mighty nr- maetii of sixteen ships of the line linn been, nnd Is being, conducted with n precision worthy of tho lines traditions of American seamauslilp which spenkn tho highest nralse. Kvery man, from olllccr to eomiuon sailor, has felt that the I'yes of the nntlon nt home wero following him, nnd thnt however mod est ids situation, lie must bear himself worthily us an American sailor, In tho stoutest squadron thnt over flew tho Sturs and Stripes. Kpoeh Mnklng Movement. There Is no question but thnt thin cruise will he noted by nil commenta tors of the future as one of tho most remarkable happenings of any nge. Kven though tho American people havo not fully understood this significance, when nil tho fnets nro known, It will he found to have been 0110 of tho dis tinctive acts of statesmanship of tho present Republican administration. Mr. Tuft. Is the man to contlnuo this his tory-making policy of the Republican party. NO PLACE LIKE AMERICA. Swedes Who Left at Fatherland's Call Coming Back to Adopted Land. Slnco lust October, when the period of Industrial depression begnn in tho United Stntes, moro foreigners havo re turned to Kuropo each mouth than have como to tho United States, with the ex ception of the month of August, but peculiar significance attaches to tho passenger list of tho Lusltanla, which arrived In New York lust week. Tho big steamer hud 011 board 700 Swedish Immigrants, (WO of whom hud returned to Sweden Inst fall. Tho returning sons of Sweden left the United States lust fall when times wero bad In this country. They hnd listened to tho representations of tho Swedish government otllclals, picturing Improved conditions ncross tho ocean ami telling of the desires of the Swedish people! to have their native sons como homo anil help In the upbuilding of tlie nation. This appeal to patriotism, coupled with the deslro to seo homo once more, wiih a potent factor In caus ing tho exodus of Swedes. Now they ares returning to America with stories of disappointment. When tho Swedish-American citizens returned to Hweelen they found wages higher than they had been In thnt coun try for years, but they nlso found thnt tho cost of living hnd grown, leaving the margin of possible saving no largor than In the old elnys. Abovo nil, they discovered that, owing to century-old prejudice's and customs tho working man could not live In Sweden In tho "Amerlcnn way," the equal of his fel low citizens nnd tho enjoyer of freedom in thought nnd action. So tho Swedish Americans nre coming buck ready to makes Amerlcn their homes for tho rest of their lives. Whnt Tnft Will Io. Hero Is n posltlvo declaration by William II. Taft which should reassuro the friends of President Roosevelt : "If elected I proposo to devote all the ability that Is In mo to tho constructivo work-'e'iT'sugge'sflfig to Congress tho means by which tho Roosevelt policies shall bo cllnu'"i."