Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-09
TAFT Off FOR
WHITE HOUSE
MAKES FINAL SPEECH AT
CHAMPLAIN MEMORIAL
Leaves as Last Message the Statement
That Historic Celebration
viii Have Lasting Effect
for Peace
tRv Associated Press.l


BURLINGTON, VT, July S.-Presi-
dent Taft's participation In the Lake
Champlain tercentenary celebration
ended today, and he left here late to-
night en- route to Washington, where
tomorrow afternoon he will plunge
again into the intricacies of the tariff
at meeting with house and senate
leaders concerning the conference con-
sideration of the measure.
The president declared in his speech
here today that the Champlain cele-
bration would fill a unique place in
history as the memorial Of renewed eX-
preston of the arnity between Great
Britain, France and the United States
French Ambassador Jusserand, Brit
ish Ambassador Bryce, Governor
Hughes OF New York, Governor Prouty
of Vermont and Postmaster General
Lemieux of Canada also spoke.
Sees Hiawatha Pageant
During the afternoon the president
saw the pageant of Hiawatha given on
floats near the yacht club wharf.
Tonight, with the other visitors, the
president was a guest at a banquet.
President Taft, after complimenting
the people and state of Vermont for
their history and achievements, in his
speech at City Hall park, said;
"a man who can claim Vermont
lineage has something to be proud of.
My father knew every man in the
state of Ohio that had come from YER
mont And there is something about
Vermont men, whether you meet them
in California or Ohio or any state, and
they are in every state, that makes be-
tween them a bond almost equal to
bond of Free Masonry.
II don't mean to make that har-
monious union between the governors
of New York and Vermont any more
different by suggesting solution of
problem about to rise in respect to the
place where the monument to Samuel
Champlain is to be put.
"I do not know how you are going
to satisfy everybody unless you make
Champlain a Colossus of Rhodes and
put one foot on New York and one
foot on Vermont soil.
A Unique Memorial
"My friends, this is a most unique
and many-sided memorial. We meet
to celebrate an event and a man on
whose life and on the acts of whose
life, turned in a way which he little eX-
pected the whole settlement of this
country. We meet here to celebrate
his virtues and to congratulate France,
his country, as one that could produce
such a hero.
"But the feature of this memorial
that | think is so unique is the gather
ing here in amity, in peace and in
union that cannot be torn apart, three
great powers, England, France and
the United States, and with England S
fairest daughter, the Dominion of Can
ada. 1 ask you where in all the his
tory of memorials can you find one
that in that respect will match this?"
At the gymnasium building of the
University of Vermont President Tatt
in his banquet speech tonight expressed
his appreciation OF this states hospi-
tality.
Has Been Interested
81 have been a good deal interested"
the president said, Gin trying to break
up in a sense-not exactly in polit-
ical sense-but in sense that you Will
understand, that of feeling and senti-
ment, the solid south When 1 have
suggested that, the irreverent southern
politician has suggested that it is about
time to break up the solid north, ana
references are made to the fact that
Vermont is Just about as solid as Ala
bama and Georgia.
"Well. what the effect on Vermont
would be If the south were really to
break UP and some of those states be-
come Republican, perhaps we cannot
say. 1t Is my own theory that Yer
mont and many another northern state
has been made solidly Republican be-
cause there was solid south, and one
of the benefits of breaking up solid
south would be that there would be
no solidity anywhere on sectional lines.
what / am especially glad to well
come in the intimacy of relation that
such memorials as this are apt to in
crease between this country and Can
ada. They have 100000 people, but
the country is still hardly scratched;
it is still undeveloped.
Betterlng Conditions
"Now they are going on; they are
bettering railroads; they are exercis-
ing great discretion and they are talk
ing from us many of our best farmers
who are in search of rich wheat fields.
All these things, If we adopted short
sighted policy, would perhaps arouse in
us jealousy and desire to prevent
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