The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-02
TACOMA SEES THE PRESIDENT N Leaves for the :, South. TO BE IN OREGON TODAY Alaska Speech Causes Talk in the
 Northwest. Chief Exeeutive Expresses Great In- terest in Panama Canal and De-
 ciarea He Will visit tks
 West Again.
TO BE IN OREGON TODAY

Tacoma, Wash, Oct. 1---After passing two days in and about Seattle. Presi- dent Taft came to Tacoma tonight and received from an audience that throng- ed the big armory one of the most cor dial greetings of his trip.
 The President was entertained at dinner at the Union Club. after making the trip, from Seattle on board the yacht El Primero, owned by Chester Thorne. the destroyer Perry escorting.
 Before leaving Seattle. the President paid a last visit to the exposition. to view the big live stock exhibition.
 From the exposition grounds, the President motored to the Seattle Coun- try Club. where he took luncheon and passed the early afternoon on the golf links. The sail on the sound from Seattle to Tacoma occupied two hours.
 President Taft promised today to at- tend another exposition to be held on the coast in 1915. in celebration of the completion of the Panama Canal. MT. Taft said the date was beyond his term of office, but that his Interest in the Panama Canal and in the extension of trade on the Pacific had been so great for so many years that he readily gave the promise to attend.
 The invitation was extended by Col Oncl U. V. GOAlIcEs 0iEcClOE trct- eral of the Panama California Exposi- ton, which is to be held in San Diego, Cal. the nearest Western coast city to the Pacific entrance of the Canal: And George Burnham. director of the ex- position company.
 President Taft's unqualified state ment in his speeches nere that the Panama Canal would De completed in 1915, aroused great enthusiasm. as the entire Pacific coast is expecting to profit greatly by the short all-water route from the Eastern seaboard and the opening of European markets to this section.
 When the President left here at mid night and headed to the south, he had completed 5000 miles of his 13,000 miles journey. In matter of elasped time, however. his Journey was less than one-third completed.
 During the time he has been on the road" the President has made eight notable speeches. which have clearly set forth his views q on nearly every -nounced tonight that he had completed the list of set addresses which he had planned before leaving Beverly.
 Starting. from Boston, MT. Taft made there the first of his set speech on finance and currency legislation. speaking especially o{ the work of the Monetary Commission ap- pointed by Congress has undertaken to do. At Chicago. the President discuss ed labor and injunctions; at Milwaukee he discussed and approved the estab- lishment of postal savings bank sys- tenn; at Winona, Minn.. he made plain his position with reference to the Payne tariff bill. and the new tariff commission; at Des Moines, Ia.. he out lined his ideas of needed amendment to the interstate commerce and anti trust laws; at Denver he devoted his remarks to the corporation tax and dwelt upon what he deemed Its advan- tages in preference to a direct income tax; at Spokane, Wash. the President discussed the conservation of natural resources and the reclamation of arid lands; and lastly, at the Alaska ulS on- Pacific Exposition, he gave his views regarding the future government of Alaska by a commission and came out unequivocally in favor of ship sub sidy law.
 The Presidents outspoken opposition to self-goyernment for Alaska unques- tionably created something of sensa- ton in this section, and came right on the heels of the dispatch of a monster petition from Alaska asking his sup port in favor of home rule In that ter ritory. The speech has been widely discussed and has attracted great in- terest in Mir. Taft's announcement that he would personally visit Alaska next year to see conditions for himself.
 It is understood that the President will make no specific recommendation to Congress for legislation affecting the territory until after his visit.
 The President will arrive in Portland, Ore. at o'clock tomorrow morning, and after spending two days there, will continue his journey to the southward. :. The turn toward the east will be made at Los Angeles. the night of october 12.