The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-11
PRESIDENT ENDS HIS
TOUR Of $4,000 MILES
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law, which certainly needs amendment,
in order to give the Interstate commerce
tribunal more power to prevent the de-
lays which are now incident to appeals
to the courts. In my judgment the best
way Is to create a special court and
have a court that Is charged with the
knowledge and practice in regard to rail-
roads, so that the matter can be prompt
ly disposed of.
Then 1 am strongly in favor of a pos
tai savings bank. l know that in that
proposition l come up against a great
many who view with doubt the wisdom
of extending paternalism into the oper-
atoms of tho government. Where it hap
pens that the government Is so situated
that it can do thing better and more
economically than individuals can do it,
and can supply a want for a means of
thrift, l am in favor of 1t doing it.
THE monetary reform is under con-
sideration by commission. l am hope
full that the commission may present tho
conditions that exist here and the condi-
lions as they exist in Europe, and in this
way point out to US some steps that
may be taken to reform what is GER
tainly today nothing but a PATCHWORK.
"Then there Is another subject that Is
very near to my HEARTH have been a
judge, and that is a subject l know some
thing about. We must improve our legal
procedure, so as to make 1t both in criml-
nal and civil cases more simple, more
rapid and less expensive. and 1 mean to
recommend to Congress the appointment
of q commission to take that subject up
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then, If by the federal procedure we
achieve a result that commends itself 1t
will form a model for the states"
Mr.. Taft said he believed the time had
come for the organization of q federal
health bureau and the concentration In
1t of all the instruments for the preserva-
ton of health and for the investigation of
diseases that are now included in the
NATIONAL government and such others as
may be properly placed there.
"That Is pretty long list of things to
do, but If we set out shoulders together,
we can do a lot in one session or two
sessions of Congress-" continued the
President.
Attitude Toward the South.
Referring to his avowed policy of show
ing his resepct and consideration for the
south by appointing to federal offices In
commend themselves in the communities
In which they live, Mr.. Taft said he had
been carrying out that policy as far as
he had been able and would continue to
do so.
1--WE have reached q point in this coun-
try when we can look, not without love,
not without intense pride. but without
partisan passion to the events of the
civil war" continued the President.
I'VE have reached a point. I am glad to
say when the north can admire to the
full the heroes of the south, and the
south admire to the full the heroes of the
north. There is a monument in Quebec
that always commended itself to me, a
monument to commemorate the battle of
tho plains of Abraham, and on one face
of that beautiful structure is the name of
Montcalm and on the other side the
name of Wolfe. That always seemed
to me to be the acme of what we ought
to reach in this country, and am glad to
say that in my own alma mater of Yale;
we have established an association for
the purpose of erecting within her
academic precincts a memorial. not to the
northern Yale men who died. not to the
southern Yale men who died, but to the
Yale men who died in the civil war.
And, so II Is that I venture to hope
that the project suggested by my prede-
cessor President Roosevelt. may be al
luded to by me with approval and the ex-
pression of the hope that 1t is coming
to fruition, to-wit: That there should be
a great memorial in honor of Gen. Robert
e. Lee in the establishment Of what he
himself would value most highly, great
school of engineering at washington and
Lee university, and take this oppor-
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