The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-25
PRESIDENT TAFT SPEEDS
 ON WAY ID ST. LOUIS
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) tion for four years" continued the Pres ident, seriously. He Is a kind of man that they blame everything for if it goes wrong. and if it goes right he does not get any credit for it. But, my children. if you will permit me to call you such, although some of you are far beyond the time when you perhaps ought to have that name, that flag represents the sov- ereignty of your country, and the reason why you are here this morning to see me is because for four years I am the chief executive officer of the United States. and as such, for that time, represent the sovereignty of the nation and am entitled as long as 1 conduct myself properly to your respect as the head of the nation. In four years I will step down and out and I won't be entitled to your respect any more than any other citizen. but for the time being l am at the head of the nation and I, therefore. regard you as loyal Texans and as loyal Americans, anx- ious to see me on that account doubt if your fathers had much to do with my selection. But sometimes in a republic you know you have to submit to things you cannot help and you have to get along the best way you can With bad job.
 Comments Agriculture.
 You live here on agriculture. I sin cerely hope that you are not growing up with the idea that it is your business to go Into the towns and cities. The future of the American boy. in my judgment. is largely involved in his pursuing the science and profession of the farmer The results of economic, scientific, business like farming are more profitable than any other trade or profession, and when you look forward just consider that you are going to follow along the course of our fathers and that you are going to make this country or some other country blossom as the rose. The tendency to- ward the city is not one that we ought to encourage. l hope that the develop ment of the comforts of country life are such that we may look forward now to q lessening of the movement toward the large cities. The place for us to accom- plish things is in the country. The cities will take care of themselves.
 Now, my boys and girls, did not come out here to deliver an address. If l had not taken all the voice I had to speak to the people of Houston and Dallas I should be glad to continue longer 1 hope that as you grow to manhood you may look back to this occasion and re- member the first President of the United tWnOln you nave Seen, anu lndl you will remember him merely-I don't want ytSl to remember him as a person, except ] large rotund man--but remember him as the representative of that sov- ereigntl and that nation whom it is your duty as I doubt not it would be your pleasure, always to love and respect"
 Speaks at Little Rock.
 The President spoke at Little Rock from ,.1, rIa ,,qf ha mi station. He was introduced by President H. L.. Remmel of the Little Rock board of trade, and said:
 Ladies and Gentlemen: I have a voice like a crow. But it is the only one I have, and l have got to use it. Per haps, after you have heard me, you will have the opinion in respect to the voice that the man who ate the crow had with respect to the flesh-he said, He could eat crow but he did not banker after it. ' Applause and laughter.)
 T am delighted to meet the good peo- pie of Arkansas, and I am touched by the cordiality and sincerity of their wei come. I am indebted to the governor of your state, to Senator Clarke. to Mar sha1 Remmel and to the prominent citi- zens of Little Rock. who have done me the honor to accompany me from Texar- kama to Little Rock. and who have had to stand the croaking accents with which I tried to communicate to the people Of Texarkana and the other cities along the way. my feeling of gratitude for their cordial reception.
 Our President.
 T know that you have turned out to see the President of the United States. Have you turned out to see the Presi- dent of the United States? l know I am addressing gentlemen who perhaps had little to do with my election. But am not here as president of the repub- lican party. l am here as the President of united people and l recognize no difference in my obligation as chief mag istrate to preserve the rights and look after and protect the interests of all the people of the United States, north or south, east west.
 Now, my friends, I have been all over the United States, and the one thing that has impressed me Is that the one thing that we have in this country is q Inagnn- cent type of American. We are not Eng fish, German or Irish. We belong to an amalgamated type of Americanism that speaks for itself in the enormous pros perity that we have worked out in this country, and the elevation of the lndi- vidual and the equality of opportunity that we have given him.
 President Taft told the representatives of Little Rock who met him at Texarxana that he would visit Little Rock when he takes a trip at some time in the future. for which the date has not been set. which will bring him to Memphis and he said he would try to visit Hot Springs at the same time.