The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-27
Mr.. TAFT SAYS GOODBYE
TO STATE OF UTAH
Continued from Page I.

ley blossom and bring out products that
give you wealth.
Il am Just leaving Utah, and the whole
visit from the time 1 entered II on the
east has been one of continual enjoyment
and enlightenment. Never before did /
understand the future that is before you
in the possible development of your won
derful state. Never before did 1 realize
the industry and energy and enterprise
and courage of your citizens, and it is
great pleasure to me as an American to
find here on this large expanse of terri
tory so much for the future of our coun-
try as lies here for progress and advance
ment.
Confidential Statement.
1.-THE truth is, and I am bound to ad-
nit it to you in confidential way, that
1 did not think there was much out here
in Utah except some very energetic and
a most hopeful people, and some pretty
good mines, and a good deal of salt water
in Salt lake; but to find such an oppOr-
tunity for development in every direction,
so much water power, such mineral
wealth, and above all, such an agricul-
tural future is indeed a revelation, and
one that takes away that fear that we
have begun to have in the east as agricul
tural products go up that somehow or
other the food resources Of this country
were becoming so low that some of us
might have to cut down our rations.
Perhaps you think with some of US
this would not be a bad idea. Wen, /
agree to that proposition, but l can tell
you it is a good deal easier to furnish
regime for somebody else than to keep
that regime yourself.
Another development here that l see
on every hand is the insistence by your
people on the education of the children.
This whole trip, from the time ] struck
Chicago until now has been-I had al
most said strewn, with beautiful we'll
dressed, healthful children, and when the
children are all right everybody else is
all right in the community. You haven't
any race suicide here that / have been
al discover
by that place in the family that shows
you are devoting the attention to the next
generation which will make it worthy of
the present.
Well Posted on Utah.
And now. my friends, 1 am not going
press to you my congratulatiOn upon
your present cOnditiOn-my hope that
your hopes will all be realized, and
could not put IL any stronger If I talke
a whole hour and a half, for there is
something most encouraging to talk with
one of your number and find out that
if he hasn't all the statistics of Utah in
his pockets, he has got them in his head
around this country is full of instruction
for me-full of encouragement for any
lover Of his country. Into every state
that you come you find that spirit of
emulation, that determination to make
the town that is 10000, $500; the town
that is $1,000, 10000; the town that's half
a million-the greatest town on earth
Now, that spirit is the American spirit,
and II is always accompanied, 1 am glad
to say, with that thing that saves us so
much from pain, so much from nervous
eXhaustiOn-a proper sense of humOr. A
man that cannot laugh, a man that can
not understand joke, man that is not
willing to see the humorous side of the
events of the world, is denied a great
deal, and is going to be used up in the
joits that ne is going to have during life
very much earlier than the one that can