The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-30
PROSPERITY SPEECH
TAFT TALKS AGAINST FREE TRADE ' BASIS.
The Reuuh Candidate Tells Citizens Of South Dakota Why He Is Heir fo ssHeoscvelt Poll
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Mitchell. s D., Sept. 29.-Here. where William J. Bryan yesterday talked for more than two hours. MT. Taft today paid his respects to the Nebraskan, preliminary to delivering Q tarim and prosperity address. He had this to say:
 q am not used to talking as my opponent is, and I have not got leather lungs yet, although if run for the Presidentcy as long as he has will have them. He says that he is the heir Of the Roosevelt policies. I feel pretty close to those policies myself. nave been living with him about seven years and comforting with Mir. Roosevelt on the subject so I feel ought to put in claim to the heirship. too. It Is wise father that knows his son, and rather think that Mir. Roosevelt. himself, Is fairly good witness as to who ought to be hcir of his policies. The truth Is that Theodore Roosevelt with the Republican party behind him. achieved a great step in the stamping out of the abuses that have grown out of the enormous prosperity that we have had and the importance to the American people of putting in an administration that knows how to clinch the advance that has been made by the Roosevelt policies cannot be exaggerated. We arc going to revise the tariff and we are going to revise the tariff honestly and on the protec- tive and not free trade basis
 T don't like to say to the ladies that they can recollect twelve years back, because that would take them all back to the time when they were little girls, but the men here can recollect what the free trade tariff did not only to the working men. not only to the busi- ness men. but to the farmers. If you want to go back to wheat less than fifty cents! if you want to hack to corn as low as twenty-one cents: If you want to go back to oats as low as ten cents. the path is very clear to you
 Just let your good Democrats come. iu and let them have another free trade tarin and see how much market you will get in the Eaat for the products that you raise." = ~
 Taft Defends Golf.
 Woolsey, S. D., Sept. 2g.-,J,idea gTafts game of golf and what he per sonaIly thinks of 1t as fat mans exercise, was stated today by the can didate, who said he had received an tntimation that hsz ought to come to South Dakota and convince the peo- pie that he was not an aristocrat or was above the people. He continued:
 They said that had been playing golf this summer, and that it was a rich mans game. and that 1t indicated that l was out of sympathy with the plain people. I want to state my case oerore the bar of public opinion on the subject of that game of golf.
 Tn Scotland. golf is the game of the people and in this country where you can get place to live and play it. 1t is game for people who are not active enough to play baseball or tennis. or who have too much weight to carry around to play those games. andsyet, when a man weighs l95 pounds you have got to give hjm some oppor- tunity to make his legs and muscles move. and golf offers that opportunity. It may be that it is the game of rich men, but I beg to assure you that I am personally advised of the fact that a very poor man can play 1t and some- how or other, my friends. were cer- tain that as I could only come out here and show you what kind of a man I was in appearance that you would get over the impression that there was anything about me that resembled a dtide."