The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-20

The meat market, drug store, hard
I ware store and grocery store, which
/ were OCsted from their locations, viii
/ be without housing until reports can
/ be made, Work VIII commence at once
/ The main buildings Of the company
I which stood close TO the yard, were
Z more seriously Quilted and cOnsidera-
! bic rebuilding viii be necessary,
ship be forever based on mutual re-
( spect and common regard for justice
/ and peace and Tor the good of human
tty at large"
/ The president said: ct say only what
I Is IN the heart OF every one who hears
me that we are all delighted to vel
come this influential, highly intelh-
gent and most charming company OF
! our Japanese friends. They have in
I this company Of fifty business men OF
acute intellCcts men Of Tarseeing com
Uuercial experience.
These gentlemen are here on a pleas
ure trip. but they belong TO a thorough
nation and they carry back with them
visit could possibly be gained. I do
not regret that. I hope they will take
back ell the lessons possible, and L hope
it will make Japan, if possible, more
prosperous and more energetic, and
widen her cOmmmerciai and manufaCtur-
u am not one Of those who believe
II IS wise 20 keep back the progress of
your neighboTs that your own progress
may be great. We have much TO learn
from us, but as we improve both les
sons, and as We grow TO be greater in
c0UAneVcs and ia business, we shall grow
to be greater customers each OF the
other.
Derides Colonial Fetish.
1.-THE old colonial IDEA that it was neces-
sary to keep dependencies In a state of
tutelage so that their people did not know
the prices at which they ought to sell
goods, that the home governments might
get them cheap and sell them at q high
price, Is q game that works little while,
but in the end il does no good to either
party. And so It is as between nations.
The development Of each is for the bene-
fit Of the other, If friendly relations con-
tinus and those commercial conventions
exist between them that ought to exist
between friendly nations
TT gives me personal pleasure Of O very
actue character to meet these repreSen-
tatives of Japan It has been my good
wonderful country and to enjoy the hos
pitality Of that wonderful people.
You cannot visit there once without
having a deep impression made upon you,
and you can imagine the impression I
have in having been there six times and
having two or three times been the guest
Of the emperor and people Of Japan.
Draw on Imagination.
eve are q curious people. We have
got to run our newspapers. We have 10
have at times emotions stirred in order
that newspapers shall have circulation
and We cannot always do that with a
statement OF the facts. Therefore, we
have to draw on our imaglnatiOns and
make that to appear which is an fact is
not true, just ia order that there shall
be a circulation Of intelligence among
the people,
Nov I'm times past we have been
stirred up. Those Of US who know the
facts were never so stirred up by an
nOuncements Of trouble between Japan
and America I believe that even the
newspapers have now given up any such
idea. Those of us who were in Japan
who came in contact with all Of her great
men and talked with them personally haL
no trouble on that score.
Japan Is engaged in a contest, in a
struggle had almost said, but I won't
say II, because Il is not a correct ex-
p1ession-in q war, and preparing hey
self for Il. That struggle is in the de-
velOpment of her resources and the MAX
ing of her people a great and wonderful
nation. Sire has proven her
ability on the field Of battle. She has
shown what can be done by the thorough
ness Of preparation and courage and care
ful, deliberate steps in the direction Of
her ambition in the defense of her rights
and maintaining her prestige on the field
OF battle.
but she is not engaged in that now.
She IS preparing for victories Of peace
and in that we all wish she may be sue
CesSful. We are not going to yield in
that controversy if We can help It. We
are entering the contest and I hope we
will strip ourselves of some nOnsensical
ideas that we have, that we may make
greater strides than heretofore in the
Orient and other far distant countries.
Reprovss Business Men.
'aThe truth is, if I may say so, being
an American, our business men are q lit
tie bit concerned over their tremendous
success with the trade they have at
home, and therefore they have not given |
Is much attention as they might and !
as other countries give, to the wishes
and the tastes Of customers in far dis
tant lands. They are q little disposed TO
say:
We'll. these are the sizes that We
make and they are the patterns that our
looms turn out, and if these foreigners |
have not sense enough to take them as
we make them, why they can leave them. /
THAT IS all right gentlemen, when the /
foreigners cannot get any other than 1
those looms and that kind OF goods, but 1
L they can and do find other countries I
that are willing to manufacture to suit /
their tastes, why the Americans are GO /
ing TO be second or third or fourth in /
the race. But We are acquiring sense in /
the advance Of our business interests, /
and / warn our japanese friends that, /
ing to work and IN understanding what /
we have got to DO, We will be stripping 1
ourselves in q while and they must look 1
put.
at gives me great pleasure 10 propose !
3 toast 70 Parsonage who III his life 4
and service to his people has shown q /
devotion and a remarkable ability for /
selecting the men with which the Won 4
ierful advance Of Japan has been made 1
possible, and in government there is no 1
ability higher than the power TO select /
-he right man 10 do tho right thing
Il propose a toast to a warm and sin /
,ere friend of America, to a monarch /
whom IL has been nay high honor to know
personally and to be entertained in the /
most hospitable manner, to ruler VINO /
has devoted his life TO the bene-
1t of his people and TO their success,
MS imperial majesty. the emperor of ia /
pan. Banzai."
President Taft attended morning serv-
ces at the Westminster Presbyterian
church.
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