Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-29
PRESIDENT TAFT
IN MERRY MOOD
Tells About Lumbermen Who
Want Revenue for Government
And Not Protection.
PEOPLE ARE VERY MUCH ALIKE
Occupy the Same Attitude Towards
The Questions That Affcct
Them the same Way.

North Yakima, Washington Sept. 20.
Arriving here soon after o'clock
this morning President Tart slept until
o'clock and then breakfasted on
board his private car with Gov. Marion
+. Hay and Senator Wesley l. Jones
OF Washington as guests. The presi-
dent was pretty well exhausted after
his hard day in Spokane yesterday,
where he was called upon TO make a
half dozen speeches.
The night before reaching Spokane
the president had sat up late preparing
his speech on conservation and he was
tired when the day began
With an easy day before him. how
ever Mr.. Taft was Ga excellent spirits
this morning when he stepped on the
train and entered the leading auto
mobile OF a procession of 10 cars for a
ride through the famous apple orch
ards Of this section The presidents
arrival was coIncidental with the fall
of the first rain in many months The
downpour had ceased before he awoke
ana did not interfere in any way with
the brief program arranged for his
visit here. a brief speech during the
forenoon and luncheon with the citi-
zens at II 30 o'clock were the features
Of the day and the president left az
l:45 for Seattle. There VIII be two or
three brief stops during the afternoon.
Arriving in Seattle tonight President
TAR will be the guest Of Secy Of the
Interior and Mrs. Ballnger at an in
formal reception. He win retire early
for rest for his day at the Alaska- Yu-
kOn-PaCific exposition tomorrow.
Renewed promises are being eXacted
from local committees by those ia
charge Of the presidents trip not to i'm
pose upon Mr. Tafts good nature I'm eX-
tending programs beyond their origin
al length. Dinners ana luncheons are
TO be curtailed wherever possible and
as the president never eats sweets at
his own table. orders have been issued
TO cut ont all desserts at banquets ar
ranged IN his honor.
The president IN his speech today
dwelt upon how impressivcly the homo
geneity OF the American people had
been brought home 10 him during his
tour or the country.
THE TARIFF FIGHT.
He declared with a laugh that this
tact was Impressed upon him also dur
ing the tairf fight at Washington.
I'VE all wear the same clothes. even
to the latest fashions In the bonnats OF
the ladies'; we all speak the same Lam
gage and have the same ideas
and aspirations. One of the
things that strikes one going
around the country is the exactly
similar attitude the people all occupy
toward the questions that affect them
in the same way-nOt toward the same
question. but toward those issues with
respect 70 which they have the SAM
relation.
In the indignation OF the gentlemen
OF the range states with reference to
free hides you have a counterpart in
North Carolina. for instance, where
they are distinctly in favor OF g. lum-
Der. not as a protective tariff, OF
course. but, and the president spoke
with great mock gravity-''in order
that the revenues OF the government
may be maintained.
and so il goes The American ua-
ture is the same and Is affected In the
same way; affected not only by pc
cuniary and mercantile considera tions
but also by higher sentiments and by
looking at the country at large and
her interests In the same way"