Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-25
TAFT TO SPEAK
AT SALT LAKE
MORM0NS GIVE WELCOME TO
PRESIDENT
EXECUTIVES PROGRAM GETS
CHANGED ABRUPTLY
Protestant Ministers Object to Plans
Arranged for Sunday-Nation's
Ruler Addresses Peo-
pie of Provo
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meet your senators and your con-
gressmen at home. You cannot always
tell you know, when you see SEN
ators and representatives in Washing
ton Just how they size up at home
and l am glad to be able to testify
| that, however they size up here, they
do size up most emphatiCally we'll in
Washington.
1--WE hear often that one senator or
another of a country is occupying too
much space in Washington, is WELD
ing too much influence and is getting
too many things of benefit to the local
community which they represent. ON
the whole, congress works out neces-
sarily a compromise. Consider what
it is that we are carrying on.
Really, we have to rub our eyes
sometimes in order to carry ourselves
down to a basis of fact and see eX-
actly what it is that we are doing in
order to measure what we have accom-
plished In the way of government by
the people.
Take 8O000,000 or 10000 900 of people
If L were speaking in the conservative
east l should say eighty-but speaking
in the imaginative west, whose thoughts
are elevated by the mountains around
and the clear air, l will say ninety.
Now, in some way or other, we have to
sultant united opinion of that S0,000000
or 900O0,OO0 of people, and put it into
government direction.
Continuous Compromise
Thence it is that we have to make a
continuous compromise, and each sec
tion has got to give something in order
that other sections, themselves giving
up something, shall agree with them
in the resultant legislation and the re-
sultant administration.
Nov, just for instance, because
always like to deal with delicate sub
jects, take the matter of beet sugar. /
am very much interested to help along
some people for whom l was long
time the only representative, and that
a kind of informal representative, in
Washington, by letting some of their
sugar-I was in favor of letting all
their sugar-into this market because
did not think it would hurt you out
here a bit
You are going ahead so rapidly that
when l talk with a man out here and
he is not thinking of the tariff he will
tell me tales of the manufacture Of
sugar that will just make me think 1
want to invest all my money into it
at once
But what did we do? We COM
promised, and we said to the people of
the Philippine islands: we will let you
into our market to the extent of 250,000
tons and no more, and then the home
industry will go on; will not be injured
certainly by that Importation And we
adopted the compromise.
Rule of Thumb Method
Now, that is what we do in con-
gress, and through the executive all
the time; and while theoretically that
may seem a rather rule of thumb
method of government, in the long run
as you look back through the history
of the country you will find the course
pursued, which was the result of COM
promising the views of many into one
sound and middle course, was much
better than If we had followed some
doctrinaire and tried to follow his
theory to the uttermost.
I'm other words, we can trust to the
common sense of the American people,
through their representatives., to work
out the problems we have and in that
working-out to give effect to the views
of all the people, not all the effect to
the view of everyone, but to give some
effect to the views of all, and under
that system it is perfectly true, as
Senator Smoot says, that we have the
best government on eartlb and repre-
senting that government 1 have at
tempted to take a journey through the
country of some 1900 or $4,000 miles
for the purpose of convincing the peo-
pie if I can, that every man, woman
or child, born or naturalized in this
country, has a voice and right to be
heard at Washington, and that his in
terests are the subject of careful con-
sideration of those who represent the
government at that place. 1t is, |
hope, not a partisan journey, and Will
not be regarded as such.
'I congratulate you on the wealth
your valley shows and on the industry
that it indicates the inhabitants have
given to the production of the wealth
which is yours.