The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-26

loyal and patriotic and with a love of
country in their hearts. CHEERS and
applause.) Mr.. President, in the name
of the people of Utah, 1 bid you most
hearty welcome, and I take pleasure in
introducing to the people of Utah the
President, Honorable William H. Taft"
Extended cheers and applause.)
There was a mighty ovation as the
Presidents rose to speak, and his smile
brought another round of applause.
When it subsidized, the President said:
Governor Spry. Ladies and Gentlemen:
am very much OblS q 10 the manage
ment VINO enabled M to como nearer
TO my audience by eliminating that which
we all like but which, at times, We can
dispense with-the music. / don't like
10 have an air space between my audi
ence and myself, because AIR, in that way,
is a nOn-COnduCtOT and II you can't get
up d little electric current OF few neat
rays between yourself and the people you
are talking to il is little chilly for
the audience and it Is still more chilly
Tor the speaker. Laughter
y want first to thank the governor of
the state, the two senators, the congress
man and the mayor of Salt Lake for their
very great kindness i'm welcoming me
when 1 came into the state and for their
attention and courtesy sInce-an attention
and courtesy which, l am glad to say,
/ believe l have real reason for think
ing is an expression of the sentiment
o. the people who elected them 10 office.
Extended applause.J
1t has never before been my good for
tune to visit Utah or Salt Lake and every
impression which / have received up to
this time has been most favorable, 1
congratulate you on having such a beau
tiful city, with such Il magnificent pros
pect of growing into great city. tCheers)
Yours is a city of homes. Your streets
are so broad, your houses so many, your
tenements so few that really the move
ment towards the city in Utah is not
one that ought to be deprecated as such
d movement is deprecated in the east
where the cities are so crowded and the
means Of breathing free air so limited.
As to Avordupois.
THE longer grow-the older I grow
daughter L am sorry to say do not
laughter (SOme remark from audience
inaudible to repOCtersl 1 am afraid that
was spoken by a thin man. Laughter
The older l grow the more respect 1 have
for those in the early day that looked
forward to greater things and built with
broad foundations. and that is what you
can say of those who founded Salt Lake
City. applause They gave you streets
large enough, really, to be lungs of the
city and to have parks in the middle of
them and still not reduce the wagon way
below the necessities Of commerce and
transportation. Now tl1 same thing is
the capital, and it is illustrated both
ways.
The plan of the city was devised by
a French engineer named = Enfant, and
he built for great capital Of a great
country applause, and al The architects
and landscape gardeners and engineers
of the country, when they came, began
TO examine those plans foI what was
called the larger Washington, were only
able to add to and add very little to
the original lines that he marked down
for the development of the city we all
love so well as the type Of our nation
But there did come a day of small
things in our history, and we did have
"a congress which l speak of with the
utmost Difference and respect, but we
did have a congress that looked at things
through a keyhOle. There was provided
by law and referred to in the COnstitu-
ton place for national capital That
capital was to be ten miles square. Mary
land was to give One-half and Virginia
the other half, and this congress in 1916
concluded that we were not a big enough
country, and that we We're not going to
have a big enough capital so they gave
back TO Virginia One-half Of that ten
miles square aid we have to be content
on one side of the Potomac river.
May Not Be Constitutional.
Now there is some question of the CON
stitutiOnality OF that act of congress, but
it was so Ions ago perhaps we ought
TO despair. unless the Virginians become
especially generous, in getting back what
really was our own and. added TO what
we have would be none too much to keep
the mere capital of the country in which
the whole ninety-or hundred and fifty
millions, as we shall grow TO be-wiH
look To as our sole national center. Now
YOU have not had any such limitation put
upon you. You have no pent up Utah
TO contract yoIr powers; the whole bound
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