New-York tribune., 1908-02-19
TAFTINNEW HAMPSHIRE
WELCOMED TO CONCORD.
GiUes History of Republican Party
Speech also at Manchester

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! delivered two addresses, one at Concord and the
/ other at Manchester, and attended several
! ceptions q luncheon and dinner givan in his
| honor MI Taft was met at Boston early in the
| morning by a committee of the Taft Club %
| Concord. headed by Ex-Governor Frank w. Rol-
| lins and Winston Churchill. About two hun
| dred persons were at the Concord station when
| the party arrived. but the crowd refrained from
/ cheering. and the Secretary was at once driven
! to the State House, where he was received by
/ Governor Floyd and introduced to the members
of the executive council, the Governors staff ana
members of the Grand Army of the Republic
A reception at the Eagle Hotel followed.
| Among those present who greeted Mr.. Taft We're
MANY women The reception lasted an hour,
| and at 1870 o'clock the Secretary was escorted
| to the dining hall. where he was entertained at
| luncheon by the Taft Association of New EiamP-
| shire. about q hundred members of which were
present.
The Secretary addressed a mass meeting n
Phenix Hall at o'clock. The hall seats thou-
| sand persons and was filed some time before
| the meeting was called to order by General
George H. Adams. Three cheers for our next
President were given in response to a can
from the gallery.
LINCOLN GREATEST OF REPUBLICANS.
Mr. Taft's address was what he termed
short history of the Republican party lie
described the necessity Of political parties 1of
the prompt expression of public opinion and re-
ferred to the fact that parties differed as IN
dividuals differed in character He reviewed the
connection of the Republican party with the
slavery question mentioning Abraham Lincoln
as the greatest of Republicans"
The war over continued the speaker. the
Republican party took up the cause of the negro
!,
ments to the Constitution gave him a chance for
life liberty and the pursuit Of happiness
The Fifteenth Amendment, to secure the right
of the ballot the negro. was not so successful
In time this right was practically nullied- But
the leaders of the South found that this was de-
moralfzing Seeking q remedy, they passed ex-
cIusion laws legal their face but so admin
istered It is said, as to do wrong
This is deplorable. yet the step forward has
been taken from open violence The time is
coming when the negro. indispensable to the
South as an economic factor, will establish him
self fully as a citizen.
After referring to the Republican party as
being the party of honest money Mr.. Taft
discussed protection He sketched the history
of various tariffs and said:
THE time has come when the Dingley tariff
should be re-examined with view to its re-
THE PARTY OF EXPANSION"
The Republican party is the party of expan-
sion and world influence" declared the speaker.
as the next step in his historic review. We got
into the business" he said, without intending
to increase our territory at all Public opinion
forced on us the Spanish war. We began in the
West Indies but soon found ourselves ten
thousand miles away. II was necessary for the
j-h
feet in that ocean should be hurled down
Dewey destroyed it-and the Philippine Islands
were in our hands. To save the people Of those
islands from chaos and suffering 1t was neces-
sary that we should take them over
we did. and have governed them on an al
truIstic basis. They are willing TO accept our
ideals civil and religious. and that gives US hope
that We can work out their salvation on the
lines we have laid down there
Secretary Taft gave account Of present
conditions in the islands and explained the pur-
poses and methods Of the government, saying
there were five hundred thousand children to-
day reading and writing English in Philippine
schools Self-government had been introduced
| and sanitary conditions had been improved.
PHILIPPINE QUESTION DISCUSSED
In his reference TO the people of the Philip
pine Islands, Secretary Taft said;
Ladies and Gentlemen: 7 appeal to you
whether the task of helping poor. unfortunate
peODIe that have been brought under our truS-
teeship and guardianship, even If it costs Us
| Sc 100000 $S.00O000 a year, is not q task
worthy Of a great nation like ours. The ract
that we have gone into the Philippines makes US
an Asiatic power; the fact that we are close 70
| China gives Us a position OF advantage WIN
! reference the great empire and the trade or
| the Pacific; the fact that We have expanded IN
| this way gives US an influence among tle ma
! tjous Of the world that I hope will always be
used for good and the national morality
You all remember our Democratic opponents
attacking the President, Theodore Roosevelt,
! when he was running for the Presidency as
| gentleman whom II unsafe 10 trust with the
| power Of government: that he would walk about
! the stage and the world with 4 chip on his
shoulder and thai as soon tie shadow Of
/ Mckinley administration had lifted and ne was
| given independent latitude from the people
/ we would get into fight at once What has
been the result? 1t has been said that he wants
the navy go round and knock the chips of
| in order 10 show the world what d great people
| We are. What has been the result Of the in
| crease Of the navy and Theodore Roosevelt at
| the head Of il? Never before in the history OF
| the world has a president king made so
! much for righteousness and peace among the
/ nations as Theodore Roosevelt
! evidently have the audience with ne. Now
We need navy: we are wealthy people; We
| do not want TO use navy TO nght, We want to
/ use navy TO prevent lighting. And a navy
/ that VIII prevent fighting is a navy commensu-
! rate with wealth. with our population and
with the extent of our Jurisdiction and therefore
| when Theodore Roosevelt is in favor Of increas-
! ing the navy venture TO say you will ind the
| people back of him in carrying cut that policy
/ He sent sixteen battleships 70 the Pacific,
| that was said TO something. and that was
| going TO carry US into war with Japan at once
! Now I remember something OF the fact-I was
| IN the Philippines when the report was that we
| were going TO war with Japan and there was
! great unsettled feeling among the FlnpnOS.
/ When heard that the attleships-StXteen
| of thern-were going out into the Pacihc, that
| unsettled feeling ceased 10 be. The truth is
that in the Orient il is necessary to MI the meas
| ure of the eye in order to be convincing. And
| while all Orientas have that trait. Occidentals
| ave also Influenced III the same way. though TO