The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-23
TAFT STANDS ON
 ROOSEVELT PLANS
Cheers for His Irrigation Speeches. Frost
 For Finance and Tariff Talks.
BALLINGER ACTS GUIDE
(special from ITnited Press ,

Especial from United Press) Montrose. Colorado, Sept. 23.-If there were any doubts here where President Taft stood on the Roosevelt policies they have been set at rest within the last "A hours by his vigorous endorse ment of the irrigation and waterway improvements plans of his predecessor.
 This administration he said at Colorado Springs. ifs pledged with the aid of the people to put upon the statute books such additional Iegisla- tion as will clfnch the advance in the standards of business management of the railroad and industrial corpora tions. We have made that advance under the influence of my predecessor but we must not stop.''
 He took up the question of the con- servatfon of our resources. the re- clamation of arid lands, the preserva- tlon of forests. the deepening of wa terways and pledged himself for this in the direction of scientific evolution of these problems. Such a policy can- not be brought to a continuation in one administration or. two or three he said. All that one can say while he is responsible is that his efforts will be devoted to carrying out these policies. not only to devoting the gov ernment's attention but also to en- couraging the use of private capital and private effort in the same direc- ton.
 Every time the President mentions irrigation or reclamation in the west he gets a cheer that raises the roof; {; every time he speaks of finance. tariff or labor or aDitaI frost settles down over the crowd. In Colorado the peo- pie appear to be enthusiastic for Secre- tary Ballinger; farther north and west the policies of Chief Forester Clifford Pinchot have the sympathy of the people. The President said yesterday that he was in constant correspond ence with Pinchot and that they were the best of friends. If he has received any intimatior1 from the forester that he is planning to leave the govern nent service, the President gives no hint of it. He intimated that it would be inconsistent with public policy to make public the contents of the letters that have passed between them but he gave the impression that the two were in accord.
 The President is in better physical condition than he was when he left Beverly and believes that under Dr. Richardson's care his voice will hold is more comfortable than most of the members of the party and has not even experienced a headache when his train has been climbing over mile and half bridges.
 To-day he will spend his time in- specting the huge irrigation works at Gunnison. Secretary Ballinger. under whose direction the work is being car ileu OH, IS dcIlng as a guide and leC- turer on the visit. Ba1linger is in the eyes of the people of this section by all odds the most important parsonage in the government. and is being wor- ried half to death by persons who have irrigation and reclamation pro- jects either in their minds or on their lands.
 I am afraid to show my face any where" he said with a laugh. flor as soon as I appear I am at once nobbed by a crowd of people who want me to take up their individual schemes