Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-09-29
HOM0GENIETY Of
AMERICAN PEOPLE
President Taft Is
Greatly Impress
ed by 1t
At SEATTLE AND YAKIMA
Makes a Trip Trough the
Famous Apple Orchards
of Northwest.

North Yakima, Wash, Sept. 29.-Ar-
irving at five o'clock this morning
President Taft slept until eight when
he breakfasted in his car with Gov
ernor Hay and Senator Jones of Wash
ington. Later he was driven through
the famous apple orchards of this
section. After an informal address
and luncheon with the leading cit-
zens he left for Seattle at las.
President Taft spoke on the i'm
pressiveness of the homogenity Of
the American people and how the fact
was impressed on him in Washington
during the tariff fight He said:
The attitude of the people through
out the country is exactly similar to-
ward those questions which affect
them in the same way
In the indignation of the gentlemen
Cf the range states with reference to
free hides we have the counterpart
i'll North Carolina where they are dis
tinctly in favor of 81 lumber, not as
a protective tariff of course with
mock gravity but that the revenues
OF the government may be maintain
ed The American nature is the same
and is affected in the same way not
only by mercantile considerations but
also by the higher sentiments and by
looking at the country at large and
her interests in the same way"
The President will be the guest of
Secretary Ballinger at Seattle tonight.
Program at El Paso.
FL Paso, Sept. 29.-The protocol for
the meeting of Presidents Taft and
Diaz which has been agreed upon by
the state departments of Mexico AMI
the United States has been received
and was read at the meeting of all
the chairmen of the subcommittee
in charge of the arrangements for
the visit, at the chamber of com
merce. According to the document
all of the international part of the
meeting will be in the hands of the
two governments, the city having
nothing to do with it, President
Diaz will be met at the border by
the secretary of war, the governor of
Texas, if he is here, the mayor of
Ell Paso, military escort, and then
be escorted to the chamber of com
merce, where he will meet President
Taft. After an exchange of speeches
a light luncheon of champagne and
sandwiches will be served and Presi-
dent DiaZ will return to Mexico At
II o'clock President Taft will return
the visit in Juarez, accompanied by
his party, the governor of Texas and
the mayor of FL Paso On the ar
rival and departure of President Daz
from American soil the proper sa-
lutes will be fired. At $50 p. M,
President Taft will go to Juarez to
attend the banquet, which will be
rendered to him.
To Meet Taft Up the Road.
In discussing the plans for the re-
ception of President Taft, it was de-
cided to leave to the executive com
mittee and the mayor the task of
choosing those who will go to Rincon
or Las Cruces to meet the President
nut it is probable that the entire re-
ception committee will go in private
car either in special train or on
the train the night before.
On the arrival of the presidential
train, it will be stopped at the ST
Regis where a breakfast will be tend
cred President Taft and his party. In
addition to his party about so or &C
people from Ell Paso will be invited
the invitations to be left to a secret
committee to be appointed by Gener
al Chairman Wyatt.