The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-09
TAFT HURRY|NG TO
REACH Washing TON
After Three Days of Speech
Making, viii Plunge Into
Work on Tariff Bill.
VERMONT HAS HER DAY
IN CHAMPLAIN CELEBRATION
Keynote of Peace Between
France, England and United
States Again Sounded.

BURLINGTON. Vt, July S.-Presi,
dent Taft S participation in the Lake
Champlain tercentenary celebration end.
ed today and he left here late tonight
enroute 10 Washington, where tomor-
row afternoon he will plunge again in
10 the ntricacits of the tariff at a meet
ing with house and senate leaders con
cerning the consideration of the meas.
ure which is soon to be begun.
The president declared in his speech
here today'that the Champlain celebra.
tion would fill n unique place in history
as the memorial OF renewed expression
of the amity between Great Britain,
France and the United States.
The French ambassador. NJ. Jusse
rand; the British ambassador. Mr.
Bryce; Governor Hughes of New York,
Governor Prouty of Vermont and Post
master General Lemiuex of Canada
spoke, IN addition TO President Taft.
During the afternoon the president
witnessed the Indian pageant of Hla-
watha given on floats near the Yacht
club wharf. Tonight, with the other
visitors. the president was guest at
a banquet,
Taft Praises Vermont.
President Taft, after paying compll.
ments To the people and state of Yer
mont for their history and achievements
in his speech at City Hall Park. said:
ga man who can claim Vermont
lineage has something to be proud of.
My father knew every man in the state
of Ohio that had come from Vermont.
and there is something about Vermont
men, whether YOU meet them in Califor-
MIA or Ohio or any state-and they are
In every state-that makes between
them bond almost equal to bond of
free masonry.
''Now. my friends, I am not in the
theatrical business and / have not fully
understood, until the last three days.
what Is meant by continuous show,
Now I know. and it affects differently
those who are engaged In it and those
who come in only at one time.
Problem To Be Solved.
81 don t mean to make that harmo-
nious union between The governors of
New York and Vermont, and that | hope
VIII continue TO be preserved, any more
difficult by suggesting 4 solution of a
problem about to rise In respect to the
place where the monument TO Samuel
Champlain is to be put. ] suggested last
night that ii might be we'll to submit
TO n committee consisting of the French
ambassador, the English ambassador and
the chief executive of the United States
and we might then reach conclusion
that would be satisfactory TO nobody. ]
do not know how YOU are going to sat
isfy everybody unless you make Cham
plain n Colossus Of Rhodes and put one
foot on New York and one foot in Yer
mont.
my friends, this is most unique
and many-sded memorial. ] know there
has run through your minds, rs there
has through mine this morning, the
happy feeling of being present TO hear
such beautiful speeches from the heart
rs we have heard, We meet to cele-
brate an event and man on whose
life and on the acts of whose life,
turned in way which he little ex-
pected the whole settlement of tins
country. We meet here to celebrate his
virtues and to congratulate France, his
country, as one that could produce such
hero.
"But the feature of this memorial
that 7 think is so unique is the gather.
ing here in unity, in peace and in
union that cannot be torn apart, three
great powers. England, France and the
United States. and with England IS fair
est daughter. the Dominion of Canada.
| ask YOU where in all the history of
memorials can You find one that in that
respect will match this.