Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-09-18
PRESIDENT At
TWIN CITIES
Visits Minneapolie,
Saint Paul and
Fort Smelling
PRINCIPAL ADDRESS TONIGHT
Large Throngs Greet Him
When He Arrived at the
Station This Forenoon


of his suffering, Governor Johnson
did not forget the courtesies due the
chief executive and this morning die.
tated the following telegram to Taft:
Hearty and sincere welcome to the
state of Minnesota. Greatly regret
illness prevents my presence at your
reception"
Taft Replies.
Rochester, Mimi, Sept. 1S.-Presi
dent Taft at once sent a reply to Gov
ernor Johnson's telegram expressing
his distress over the governors illness
and hoping for speedy recovery.
At Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Sept. 1S.-Presl
dent Taft arrived here at o'clock this
morning and was escorted to the Min
neapolis Club for breakfast. He was
given a noisy greeting by an immense
crowd as he stepped from the station
B. F. Nelson welcomed the President
for Minneapolis and B. F. Kellogg for
st. Paul. All the buildings were deco
rated and the streets were lined with
enthusiastic throngs.
After breakfast the party drove tC
Minnehaha Falls. the State Soldiers
Home and Ft. Smelling, where the
President reviewed the troops and was
rendered a reception by the officers.
At ST. Paul.
St. Paul, Mimi. Sept. 1S.-The Pres
ident was driven direct from Ft. Smell
ing to st. Paul, where luncheon was
served in a special auditorium. After
a brief reception, the President was
escorted to the State University, re
turning to Minneapolis where he viii
make the principal address of the da!
at the auditorium at o'clock tonight.
r. Woolen Schedule Too High.
Winona, Mimi, Sept. 1S.-In his
speech at Winona, Minnesota, las
night, President Taft said:
"As to the woolen schedule declare
without hesitation that the Payne
rates are too high. 1t was found early
in the fight, however, that the WOO
and woolen manufacturing interests
in the Republican party were sc
strong that any attempt to change
the Dingley rates would result in
the defeat of the bill.
81 am sorry that this is So" sale
the President, "and I wish it coulc
have been otherwise. 1t is the one
important defect in the bill"
Presidents Address.
The President said at Winona las
evening, in part:
LAS long as August, 1906, ven
tured to announce that l was tariff
revisionist and thought that the time
had come for a readjustment o
the schedules. I pointed out that i
had been ten years prior to tha
time that the Dingley bill had beeI
passed; that great changes had tax
en- place in the conditions surround
ing the productions of the farm, fac
tory and mine, and that, under thu
theory of protection, in that time thu
rates imposed in the Dingley bill, il
many instances, might have beel
greater than the differences betweel
the cost of production abroad and tn
| cost of production at home with
sufficient allowance for a REASONABLE
rate of profit to the American pre-
ducer. l said the party was divide
on this issue, but, in my iudgmen'
the opinion of the party was crysta
izing and probably would result i
! the near future in an effort to max
! such revision. | pointed out the dill
Guilty there always was in a revislo
of the tariff, due to the threatene
disturbance of industrie" to be affec
ed and the suspension of business, i
a way which made it unwise to hay
too many revisions.
| Vindicates Ante-EIection Attitude.
"In the summer of 1907, my pos
| tion on the tariff was challenged an
then I entered into somewhat fulle
| discussion. 1t was contended by tn
stand patters' that rates beyond tn
necessary measure of protection Wer
not Objectionable because behind tn
tariff bill competition always reduce
the prices and thus saved the consun
Ter. But l pointed out in that speec
what seems to me as true today q
, then, that the danger of the excessly
rates was in the temptation they cr
ated to form monopolies in the pr
tected articles, and those to take a
vantage of excessive rates by increa
ing to the extent of s41,0OO,OO
Schedule flax, hemp and jute-th
\ articles upon which there has bee
a decrease, enter into the consum
tion of the country to the extent