Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-03
WANTS HIS SONS TO HUSTLE
TAFT GLAD HE CAN LEAVE
THEM NO MONEY.
But He'll Scrape to Provide for
Daughter So She May Marry
Only if She Chooses.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala. November BIN
his speeches yesterday President Taft
took his audience right into his conf
dence. Addressing the girls of the Indus
trial School at Columbus, Miss. he con-
graduated them on the fact that they
are learning to earn their own living so
that they may not feel compelled to mar
~, whether they love or not. He added:
81 shall be glad that l shall not have
any property to feave to my boys. of
whom I have two, but only good char
acter and pride in themselves and
good education, but for my daughter
am going to scrape together as much as
I can give her and as good an education
as / can so that she shall marry only
when she chooses to marry, and not be-
cause Of circumstances
II wish that every woman in the world
were so situated that she did not think II
was necessary for her to marry II she
did not want TO. Now. that is a PROPOSE
ton that l am prepared to defend against
all corners. I am the last one to take
position against that old doctrine of the
common law, that there ought to be moth
ing to interfere with matrimony. But l
would have the matter so arranged that
the women, when they came to decide and
make their choice, should have a full anu
free choice. and that can only be reach
ed when they are put In situation
where that which they choose, Is not
life which they select because II is better
than some that they expect, but life
that they look forward to with unmixed
happiness.
Reminded Of Cleveland.
In paying a tribute to former Supreme
Court Justice Lamar Of Mississippi, Pres
ident Taft told of some of his earlier
struggles and disbursements i'm office.
He had been made solicitor general to the
United States at the age of thrty-two.
Mr.. Taft described his emotions when ad-
dressing the Supreme Court in these
words:
1T seemed to me that 1t would be a
much more jovial and pleasant task to
go out into the graveyard at midnight and
address nine tombstones than to speak to
that court They had cultivated the habit
of indicating to you by taking lunch
through your argument that you were a
pretty small potato. and [ was very much
discouraged l went home and told Mrs.
Taft that I thought I ought to have stuck
to a state court.
But at that time. when everything
seemed dark to me. there was one men,
Der of the court who extended to me a
sympathy that l never shall forget-Jus-
tice Lamar. He took me by the arm and
said: Il want to walk with you from the
Capitol down Pennsylvania avenue. be-
cause when 1 look at you l cannot help
thinking of my dearest friend. Grover
Cleveland
Mr. Taft said that sometimes he felt
regret that he ever left the bench. He
spoke with an earnestness that impressed
his hearers, though most of them must
have been incredulous that any one would
rather be judge than President. But the
members of the presidential party knew
that he was expressing a sincere regret
from the bottom of his heart.
In the speeches of the day Mr.. Taft told
his hearers that he had come to appeal
not for votes. but for support Of the pres
ent administration. He said that as an
evidence of his desire to make tine south
real part of the Union he had taken
Mac Dickinson into his cabinet as Sec
rotary of War. He added:
Southern Emotions.
Now. you southern people are an emo
tional people. We have some emotions In
the north, too. but if there is any differ
ence your hearts expand more easily and
you are more sensitive, possibly. than we
are. Your hearts and emotions are broad
enough to entertain entire loyalty to the
issues of the past which you fought SO
nobly to sustain, and entire loyalty to our
present government. for which you would
be willing to lay down your life if OcCa-
sion required 1t. Now, that is what I
know the southern nature to be.
1T is not that We want to make you re-
pubicans or that we want to become
you and that you shall come to believe
that you are as near to the heart Of the
central government as now administered
any other Dpople in the Union -