Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-04
EsIDENT RIDES THROUGH
BUSINESS DISTRICT in STREET
PAGEANT; ADDRESSES CROWD
IN CAPITAL PARK.
FOR SUFFRAGE IF
WOMEN WANT 1T
PRESIDENT TELLS SOUTHERN
GIRLS EACH SHOULD HAVE
SOURCE OR LIVELIHOOD so SHE
NEED NOT MARRY FOR LIVING.

Birmingham, Ala, Nov. 3.-Presi
dent Taft began strenuous days
program early this morning. At $50
he was driven to the Country club
where breakfast was served abou,
noon. There was parade composed
of commercial, civic and fraternal or
ganizatfons and school children. The
president, after riding through the bet
ter part of the business section at the
head of the parade took his position
in the reviewing stand and the parade
passed in review At 2 o'clock The
president addressed the people in Cap.
ital park.
Taft on Suffrage.
Birmingham, Ala, Nov 3.-Presi-
dent Taft announced himself as favor
ing woman's suffrage, when all the
women desire to vote, and said no girl
should be compelled to marry to gain
livelihood, in his address at Colum-
bus, Miss. He strengthened his stat;A-
ment on the marriage question by
promising to disinherit his SONS and
leave his estate, upon his death, to his
daughter.
Eight hundred students at the Mis-
sissippi Girls' Industrial Institute cali
ed forth the presidents remarks. He
said:
4 am not a ratid suffragist. The
truth is, am not in favor OF suffrage
for women until can be convinced
that all the women desire it and when
they desire 1t I am in favor Of giving
1T to them, and when they desire It
they will get It. But I do believe that
rf fhn oil toe IT, -,
that kind of influence will be more
certain to open avenues of seIf.sup-
port to them than has heretofore been
done.
Favors Women In Professions.
Il wish that every woman In the
world was so situated" the president
said, that she would not think 1T
necessary for her to marry il she did
not want to-"
Mr. Taft said that he would be the
last man in the world to put anything
in the way of matrimony but he b.
,lieved a girl should be so situated as
to her future as to be able to make
free choice and to look forward to
q life of unmixed happiness.
Il venture to think" he went on,
that the best legacy that can be left
to young man is a good education
and good character by training in
family to good moral standards and
nothing else.
"The same thing is true with re-
spect to the young women, who are
given a fair chance in life in earning
and carving out their own futures.
The great trouble has been that we
have not given the women a fair
show. We have not opened all the
avenues to livelihood that they are.
quite as we'll abie to fill and in GER
tain respects better able to fill than
we are.
To Leave Estate to Daughter.
Il shall be glad that shall not have
any property to leave to my boys, of
whom have two, but only a good
character and a pride in themselves
and a good education, but for my
daughter am going to scrape togeth-
or as much as l can to give her as
good an education as / can, SO that
she shall take in the lesson which
first sought to announce as the text
of my discourse that sac shall marry
only when she chooses and not be-
couse Of circumstances
The presidents campaign for win
ming the south to closer union with
the states of the north was in full
swing when the chief executive reach
ed here at 7:35 o'clock last night At
his various stops in Mississippi. cul-
m1nating at Columbus, the old home
OF Secretary of War Dickinson, the
president had called out the cheers cf
the people by his declarations of
friendship to the south and by the re-
peated statement that his visit was
without political significance.
'''Tt is not that we want to make you
Republicans" said the president, "or
that we want to become Democrats.
We all have our views and our tastes
In that regard. It is that you shall
come to believe that you are as near
to the heart of the central government
as now administered, as any other
people in the union.
Webster City Banker Bereft,
Webster City Nov. B. Especially
Mrs. j. M. Jones, a prominent resident
ne tbic ritv die5 nj ie ,,oornipor