The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-20
SOFT WORDS FOR
GEORGIA FOLKS
III Makes Address Before the
Students of High School
for Girls. =
guoWS A GOOD THING
,so SPEAKS TO NEGROES AT
49, INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE.
KNOWS A GOOD THING

.-s+s Ca. Jan. 19.-What might
--,si5ared an entirely new point of
- m the solid south" was made
s.v by the president-elect when he
M good word for the warmth and
~. If northern men, who know a
aI hing when they see it, in the
gyl nd beauty of the southern
ol-.-.- women. This lighter vein Of Mr..
$50 btrnor was given vent before
is he termed a bouquet of bright
we EARNING faces" the students at
az high school for girls.
n charming appearance OF the stu
.bodv ha said. impressed him as an
,-.t-siv new and convincing argument
Z favor Of the separation Of the sexes
~ education.
20, mn trained intelligent women Of
countrv wanted suffrage he pre-
80 thew would get it. on the very
u-'-,-rs1 ground that they always get
mai they want
Vstrfnonv. as Mr.. Taft said at
,,bens last week, was not the only fu-
80 IN which a young woman should
- and no unsatisfactory acceptance
sbouId be made Of the marriage pro-
,osals simply to avoid being an OLD
,sid. The great success OF many IN
.-.rrlad women Of his acquaintance
rstiied this assertion,
sprt of course. In the south you are
not troubled as they are in Massachu-
--,+sn he continued, where there are
:. many women that there is no posi-
saitv mat they can ali marry, and II
y real serious problem as to what
An he done with the unmarried Wo-
In Here I know that the situation
j. different
Inspirstion of Bright Eyes.
But INV dear young ladies, did not
,,ne here to make a prepared address.
n ame here trusting to the inspiration
If the moment for what your bright
ewes and pretty faces and your charm
ing presence might bring out OF me. l
trust 1 am not too old yet to yield to
tho charm of beauty, and that to which
wen a northern man may be awakened
10. I know there is a theory that we
are all cold in the north. but ] assure
Won il is not true. I remember when
once in Nashville of making inquiry
regarding a great many families there
and found that Immediately after the
war there were a great many northern
officers who exercised admirable taste
and who found young ladies of beauty
and charm, formerly on the other side,
who were willing, OF who at least were
induced, whether willing OF not, to be-
come the wives of northern men, so
that it might not be the worst lot
should your fate every carry you north
of Mason and Dixon's line, for we know
q good thing when we see it"
Mir. Taft then went to the Haines
Normal & Industrial institute for ne
groes, where he delivered an extended
address on the benefits of industrial
education.
Yelled Reference to TiIIman.
Expressing the most profound SYM
pathy for the struggle upward of the
negro race, Mr.. Taft remarked, having
in mind the recent utterances of Sen
ator Tillmsn:
81 do not think it inappropriate To
raftr to some expressions that fall from
the lips of men prominent in political
life that are utterly lacking in SYM
pathy and that are cruel and abrupt in
their meaning, if they are to BE given
the meaning that the words naturally
bear. I refer to those gentlemen who
Deem it necessary to affirm that in the
interest Of this country the negro race
should have no education. Now, I am
glad to know and believe that those
men in their hearts do not believe that,
that II comes rather from a desire to
say something that shall have a SEN
sstional effect than it does from a real
spirit ! was going to say of cruelty
towards a race that deserves from
those Of us who are white all the aid
the assistance and all the sympathy
ve can give them I know that you
Fnow that those cxpressions do not