The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-30
TAFT ADDRESSES
OLD SOLDIERS
Continued from PAGE

der the leadership of 1886 and the lead
ership of 1900, which claims that by
new remedies, by new nostrums, they
will carry the country 10 prosperity.
Il ask you business men, / ask you
farmers, / ask you wage earners,
whether the, election of the present
Democratic party under its present
leadership is not, and if you do not
feel in your hearts. that it is threat
against prosperity, with such a sugSes-
ton of new remedies that will keep
capital in the pockets of the investors
and make worse the halt in our pros
perity that we now have.
Capital comes out with great eau
ton. We are now gradually feeling the
return OF prosperity 1t is coming
slowly. Confidence is a plant of slow
growth, and in order to overcome that
you must continue to keep in power the
party that has conservatism on the one
hand and the progressive spirit on the
other. so that we shall avoid the evils
OF regulation and not by destruction. so
that we shall encourage capital to come
out, so that the wage earners may have
full time and full wages; in order that
the farmers may have markets; in or
der that the business man may have
business.
MY friends. ladies and gentlemen,
cannot go into details of the issues,
but upon this platform of principles l
ask your support Of the Republican
ticket. to-wit: That, if at the Novem
Der election, you record your vote in
favor of the Republican party you will
assure TO everyone a progressive and
conservative course and a gradually re-
turning prosperity. If you commit to
the Democratic party no one knows,
and / say il advisedly, what will hap
pen and with such doubt of the future
you can be sure that business will re
main at the halt at which il has been
during the last three or four months"
Speech at Athens.
At the conclusion of his speech Mr..
Taft was applauded, the first evidence
of which came when the speaker men
toned President Roosevelt's name.
At Athens Mr. Taft said:
Mrs. Taft and l are glad to be able
on our trip to Middle Bass from Hot
Springs TO enjoy the hospitality of At
hens, even for so short a period as
three hours. Athens, as the seat of
state university and the center of great
mining districts of Ohio, has always
been a place of Importance in the state.
Our stay is rendered doubly agreeable
by the fact of this interesting soldiers
reunion.
The interval since the civil war is
rapidly approaching half a century,
the report of the commissioner of PEN
sions shows that of the pensioners of
the Civil war, nearly 5000 died in the
month of July. If that gate is kept up
every month it means that there are
passing away from this world to an
other $4,000 men year who barred their
bOsOms in defense of their country. 1t
would seem that with this constant
in the ranks of those who in
their memories still see the battles of
the Civil war participants therein, the
survivors should cherish with all the
eagerness and effort possible their as
ISOLATION with their fellows in that
crisis in the country's life. Meetings of
this kind evoke expressions of the deep
est patriotism, as the recollections of
our cOuntrys perils and the sacrifices
that were made to save her are revived
in memory"