Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-11
COMM0NSENSE
FOUNDATION
Of LIBERTY
TAFT TALKS OF PROBLEMS
OF POPULAR GOVERNMENT T
Necessity Of Self Restraint on
Part of Both Majority and Nj
nority Furnishes Text for the
Presidents Address.


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| tBy Morning journal Special Leased wireI
| Fresno, oct 10.---from the SNOW
| capped Sierras ot yesterday President
| Taft plunged today into the summer
| beat OF the san Joaquin valley, ana
! arrived here soon after 3 p. M today
! with the thermometer towering about
| the nineties. He was greeted BY
| practically the entire population Of
| the city and the surrounding eoun-
| try and after short automobile trip
| through the business section, ad-
| dressed gathering OF many thou
| sands in Courthouse square.
The presidents speech was in re-
| alitv another Sunday sermon. the
| third he has preached since his trip
began.
His text, quoted from memory was
THAT he who conQuereth himself Is
greater than he who taketh Il city"
And from il the president drew the
lesson that popular government must
always be failure unless ii is based
| upon sound common sense and the
self restraint that goes to make The
good loser, lie drew an analogy be
| tween the American people IN this
| respect and those peoples who in their
| eNAiflllI'N0 At Ntll SitNfl hlil'.ifl lbiitN
an election with revolution
ON his way here President Taft
stopped at Merced for three hours
and attended morning service at the
Presbytcrian church. His greeting ut
| Fresno came probably from the most
| cosmopolitan community he has met
| in al his travels.
In the throngs that lined the side
walks was commiuging of Chinese.
In i
| "A dozen other nationaities. In fact.
the president was told that IN one
public school tWonty-siN nationalties
arc represented. one -half of the Ar
menians of the entire country are
said to be gathered here
Having the reputation or being the
hottest city in the United States with
| a summer temperature ranging be-
tween 100 and ll5 degrees. Fresno has
attracted many peoples of the world
who follow the sun
4 feature ot the presto nt's visit to
Fresno was the presentation OF an
| address of good viii from the Japan
ese residents of the city. This add
dress read;
MIR. President. We. the Japanese
residents of Fresno city and surround
ing country have The great honor to
offer you our sincere and most friend
~ SI'fllHES ana W bANplu Nbu a IlbSt
joyous welcome to our community
We hail you, sir. as the honored chief
Of a great nation which we are glad
is on the friendliest terms with Japan
and we also rejoice that our be-
loved country. Japan, has the honor
and great privilege Of rcciprocating
such fraternal regards,
The president left here ut GO
O'Clock for Los Angeles He stopped
% t...t 4 ~.
utos to make a Car-eud address.
Mr. Taft was little stif1 from his
long mountain walk of Yesterday, but
declared he would like to have sim
liar experience every day.
The meeting held in the court house !
square was arranged by the minis |
terial association of Fresno and near |
ly an OF the churches Of the city were !
represented The president spoke Cor |
the first time since Wednesday noon |
He wds introduced by Mayor Howell |
and said in part
1T has not been my part, until | |
began this trip, In religious exercises
TO do other than form one of the aud |
iencc; but I have found II impossible,
under the friendly urgency of minis
ters OF the gospel who occasionally
desire a lay substitute. to keep from
taking their place and attempting to
preach a sermon.
II want to say first. with respect
to this audience, that the presence
of the veterans Of the civil war is
always a great inspiration to higher
thoughts. TO higher moral standards
and to everything that goes to make
our country worth living for
There Is a text, / don't know that
I can quote 1t exactly. but To these
gentlemen before me who have taken
-. 4, . 10 y,sff
come. by reason of its comparison,
with great significance.
a" That he who conqucreth himself
is greater than he who talteth a city
Now the homcly application to the
individual of that text ! need hardly
point
There are so many instances in
little things, Ike to dwell upon
the importance of little things in life,
for life is not made up Of one great
series OF grand stand plays. It Is
made M of the little things that gol
tn make others happy or unhappy
at Is the conduct Of Ia" husband Z
is he comes home after a tired day In
himself when hc is met {
by his eager. curious wife, who wants
10 know how he has been living dur ,
ng the day and what has happened !
Perhaps something has happened that
|
like to refer To II and cuts her IN q
with "a short answer oh, t know r
i and So do you You have done II. O.
go have T. Now II Is the overcoming ?
II that disposition. the kceping con-
,tantly la your mind ana heart heri d
happiness and yet your comfort and {
your disposition That is what makes f
you greater than taking q city I
But J am supposed to look al T
hings from q political and govern +
mental standpoint and the text ap- =
,eals to mo more strongly ia that re- b
yard possibly than in any other. be- g
,ause Of some acute experiences / II
lav" had in political matters.
Popular government We an APP
prove o. though sometimes ! aonti
hink We know exactly why we do ap- Il
iIove H. / think We mistake fire.
lueutlv the ends for means. VOL
ak about liberty as something 10 bc
~ an end. We think u
II popular government a. something