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President Taft’s Record. 
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utilize, how to conserve and how to 
develop; for no sane person con- 
tends that it is for the common good 
that nature’s blessings should be 
stored only for unborn generations. 
Conservation is national. It affects 
every man of us, every woman, 
every child. What I can do in the 
cause I shall do, not as President of 
a party, but as President of the 
whole people: Conservation is not 
a question of politics, or of factions, 
or of persons. It is a question that 
affects the vital welfare of us all, of 
our children and our children’s chil- 
dren.”’ 
A new and excellent treaty with 
Japan has been secured—China was 
opened to American finance on equal 
terms—war in South America 
averted—peace in Cuba maintained 
by a word of friendly warning— 
treaties with Honduras and Nicara- 
oua that will make for permanent 
peace in these countries have been 
negotiated and await action by the 
Senate. The difficult situation last 
spring in Mexico was handled by 
the President with masterly tact, 
yet with a firmness that at that time 
aided in the reestablishment of law 
and order there while preserving it 
along our own border. 
President Taft’s great work for 
the Arbitration Treaties has aroused 
the approval of the leading civilized 
countries of the world and the en- 
thusiastic commendation of the best 
people of his own country. He has 
pleaded for these Treaties with all 
the fervor of his nature, with in- 
tense sympathy with those who 
must bear the burden in time of 
war, who must pay the cost out of 
their hard earned wages, for the peo- 
ple who contribute the human sacri- 
fice of men and boys, for the mothers, 
Wives, sisters and daughters who 
have to go through agonies of spirit 
waiting to hear from the battlefield. 
He writes: ‘‘For nineteen hundred 
years the message, ‘Peace on earth, 
good will to men,’ has been ringing 
down the ages, but it has remained 
for the United States to take the 
lead in giving to the first Christmas 
greeting conerete and _ practical 
form.’’ Mark you this: He has 
given to his country the credit due 
himself. Such is the nature of the man 
Under his administration the date 
of the opening of the Panama Canal 
has been advanced several months. 
Largely because of his interest the 
Panama-Pacific Exposition was se- 
eured for San Francisco. 
Ile appointed a commission and 
submitted its report to Congress on 
‘the better compensation of workmen 
Mrs. K. B. Sherman 
..- Millinery ... 
44 Central Street 
Manchester 
for accidents, which he strongly ad- 
vocates. 
The Thirteenth Census was made 
non-political—the extension of Civil 
Service recommended by him—the 
white slave traffic has been well- 
nigh extinguished—bucket shops 
forced out of existence—fradulent 
schemes frustrated by the Postoffice 
Department. Judicial appointments 
for the Supreme and Federal Courts 
he has made irrespective of politics 
or sectionalism. 
All this is the record of only three 
years! What Administration has 
been more progressive and yet pro- 
gressed with wiser judgment! 
President Taft has been absolutely 
fearless of the power of great cor- 
porations, while he encourages legiti- 
mate and honorable business enter- 
prises by proposing Federal incor- 
poration. He believes in the right 
of honest labor to unite for its legiti- 
mate interest and protection. He has 
placed the tariff revision on a non- 
political basis; he has reduced Gov- 
ernment expenditures and changed 
a deficit into a surplus; he has ad- 
vocated and practiced conservation 
policies; his foreign dealings have 
brought honor to his own country 
and justice to all; and he has led the 
world towards ‘‘peace on earth.”’ 
The greatness of the man _ has 
sometimes been obscured by his 
modesty, and by the fact that he is 
a statesman and not a_ politician. 
He has been a man of deeds unac- 
claimed by himself. With the sin- 
gle-hearted purpose of doing his 
duty he has earried out the pledges 
upon which he was elected. He has 
kept the faith. Well may the coun- 
try trust the man who has said, ‘‘T 
have not been willing, nor shall I 
be, to purchase it (a reelection) at 
the sacrifice of my freedom to do my 
duty as I see it.’’ : 
With such a great record of deeds 
accomplished for the benefit of the 
people and the progress of the Gov- 
ernment, no other man should be 
nominated by his party and no other 
man elected by his country. 
Finally, in all things has Presi- 
dent Taft been unafraid, unmindful 
of the consequences of rightful aec- 
tion upon his own political fortunes, 
regarding his office as one to be ad- 
ministered in the highest interest of 
the American people and _ in con- 
formity with the faith and purpose 
_within him. 
MANCHESTER 
Harmony Guild extends a cordial 
invitation to all those who are in 
any way connected or interested in 
the Congregational chureh to meet 
with them-at the chapel, on Monday 
evening, April 1, at 7.45. Refresh- 
ments will be served and every ef- 
fort made to make everyone wel- 
come. 
State Forester’s Report. 
The annual report of State For- 
ester F. W. Rane was transmitted to 
the legislature Tuesday. <A detailed 
statement of conditions of the moth 
work in the infested district and 
particularly throughout the eastern 
section of Essex County was given. 
The forester asks for the usual ap- 
propriation of one hundred and fifty 
thousand dollars yearly for the next 
four years, and believes that the re- 
sponsibility for preventing the 
spread of the gypsy brown tail moth 
should begin gradually to rest upon 
the cities and towns rather than the 
State. 
Of the North Shore towns he says: 
Manchester—The infestation is gen- 
eral and very severe in some parts. 
Some of the wooded areas are being 
taken care of from the North Shore 
fund, and the residential section, 
street trees and private property are 
in much better condition than last 
year. Supervision has been very 
good, and an excellent spirit in gen- 
eral has been shown in the work. 
Essex—The gypsy moth occurs 
generally in this town, but the resi- 
dential section, only a small part of 
the town, is in somewhat better 
condition than last year. Consider- 
able more tin patching and remoy- 
ing of dead trees in orchards is still 
to be done. The wooded areas are 
not severely infested, and some of 
them have been cared for from the 
North shore fund. The supervision 
has been good, and local officials 
shave shown an excellent interest. 
Hamilton—The infestation of the 
gypsy moth at the present time is 
mostly in the woodland, the residen- 
tial section being in a very fair con- 
dition, although there is consider- 
able tin patching and removing of 
dead trees in some of the orchards 
to be done. The work has been sup- 
ervised in a very good manner, and 
generally good results obtained. The 
co-operation of local officials has 
been good, 
