Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-10-14
PRESIDENT At
THE GRAND CANON
Taking in the Most
Impressive Views
From Rim
.OINEOBY BYARIZONACONMITTEE
Ell Paso Preparing to Receive
Taft and Diaz With
Enthusiasm.

Grand canon, AflZ. Oct. l4.-PreSl-
dent Taft will devote the day to Wis
iting all points of interest available
along the rim of the Grand Canon. The
President arose early and watched the
sunrise effects on the brink of ths
great chasm Luncheon was served at
The Hotel Ell Tovar. the President be-
ing a guest of the Arizona committee
Ell Paso is Waiting.
San Antonio, Texas, Oct 14-Ten
train loads of troops stationed at
Fort Sam Houston left today for Ell
Paso, Texas, where they will parade
before Presidents Taft and Diaz The
President will arrive here two hours
ahead of schedule. Admiral Togo
a goat from whose hair the trousers
were made which were presented to
the President before his Inauguration
will be brought here for the President
to see.
Taft's Address at Phoenix.
In his principal speech at Phoenix
yesterday President Taft said
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talk to the people of territory and
| may say thus far it is very pleas
ant one. ! want to congratulate you
on having such a territory, such an
>ergy and such enterprise as had called
forth from the Republican party a
pledge that you shall have statehood
and to establish my relation with you
early | want to say that so far as |
am concerned, l am going to help
carry out that promise as far as | can.
Sometimes it is better to postpone the
marriage and everything else in a
novel to the end, but | always have
the trouble of looking through to see
whether it ends right before | begin,
and | am inclined to think that the
ladies before me generally follow that
course.
Nov gentlemen and ladies', for
don't know whether you are going to
let the ladies vote or not and | speak
therefore with due consideration, you
are anticipating statehood, you are
anxious to show what you can do as
an independent government and | am
afraid you are anticipating the pleas
ure of that Independence without fully
understanding Or realizing now the
responsibilities of it, and therefore if
after having made this announcement
/ poirt out some of the difficulties
that you are going to have, you will
excuse me.
''You have got to formulate a con
stitution after the congress provides
that you shall come in, and l want
to say a word about that constitution
In saying so l give you an earnes
knowledge of the seriousness will
which | say that | believe you viii
be made a state A constitution il
for the purpose of laying down fun
lature and your executive. Now i
you think that in that constitutions
convention you ought to law down al
the limitations that are ordinarily in
cluded in the statute you are goinl
to make a great mistake. The great
est constitution that was ever made i
the constitution of the United State
and you can go through that in
short time. You take the last con
stitution that was made-Oklahoma
and it is geological garden Q
cranks. | don't mean to say that
has not good ideas in it. 1t has. Blu
the idea of tieing down legislator
which is an experiment, so to speal
with the laws that are to be adopte
to a new territory with a long di:
course imposing all sorts of limitt
tions is mistake which you ough
to profit by.
Your assumption of statehoo
throws upon you responsibility thu
will not enable you thereafter
charge it all to the federal govern
ment. When you get into difficult
out here and have bad officials {
your legislature gets you into it in
county or city, you cannot lay it a
to Washington, because Washingto
does not understand it. Then tn
fault will be on your own head
have no doubt you will stumble an
fall as other people and other state
have, but you are Americans, you al
come of race used to self COVER
ment, used to taking hard knocks
the school of experience and profitir
by them. And if, by caution, ca
restrain the desire of those most pr
oreceivn if 7 NAV use that exnraSSiO
or most full of the idea of having lii
itations on government can restra
them from making the constitute
other than fundamental law wi
simple rules of limitations, if | CO