Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-30
TAFT WELCOMED
AT PUGET SOUND
SEATTLE GIVES PRESIDENT
FERVENT GREETING
EXECUTIVE TALKS TO MANY
APPLE GROWERS
Nations Ruler Meets Former Sweet
heart at North Yakima and Ad-
dresses Crowd of Fruit
Growers
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ident at the courthouse were a large
number of Grand Army veterans and
the ladies of the Woman's Relief corps.
81 am honored by the presence of the
Grand Army men," said the president
land by the ladies who, while they do
not wear uniforms, suggest the pres
ence of the Womans Relief corps l
have had the pleasure of meeting
Grand Army men at many places on
this trip and it is most inspiring to
have brought back the memories of
the time when it cost blood and took
courage to meet the issues of the day
and save the country.
Western Heroes
"And 1t is pleasant to note that far
out in the western country, away from
the battlefelds where the issue of the
nations life was contested, we find the
heroes of that war who pushed out here
even after so heavy a struggle, in order
to build up a new country and add to
the strength, the expansion, the wealth
and the prosperity of the country which
they saved.
Just in front of me- continued the
president, Il see a monument that
brings back memories that l always
like to refer to and emphasize. The
monument 1 understand to be to one
of those who in effect gave up his life
in the far distant Philippines in order
that the duty which this government
had there should be performed and d
supervision extended and aid given to
a people who by the providence of
God were put under our guardianship.
"Only those who have been in the
Philippines know the sacrifices and the
hardships to which our boys in those
islands were exposed. Only those who
have been in the Philippines, know and
have a proper pride in what they did
there, for they were called upon not
only to meet a foe most dangerous,
fighting In Oriental fashion, but after
they had conquered them, they were
put in a position where they had to
exercise a self-restraint and a guard
ianship and an independence of action
that only men in the American army
are capable of; and so whenever 1 meet
one who has been out in the philip
pines, there is a bond between him and
me that makes me happy, and L hope
that in the audience which 1 am adj
dressing there are number of those
who went out there and now retain in
sweet recollection the hardships which
they had to undergo, and the beauties
of those far-distant gems of the Pa
cific ocean"
Speech at Banquet
In a speech at the luncheon ten
dered him by the Commercial club of
North Yakima, President Taft said:
81 have been going west and have
been approaching a climax. 1 found
that the people in Chicago were fairly
we'll satisfied with that large city and
thought everything centered there and
shaped itself with reference to Chi
cago. Then l came to Minneapolis, then
to Des Moines, then to Omaha, then
to Colorado and there 1 struck the re-
gion of the apple. The peaches played
some part in it, but the apple was
developing.
ST came on to Utah and I found it
still stronger, and then UP into Idaho
and then to Spokane, where 1 did not
find that Spokane was likely to lose
any steps in progress because of lack
of appreciation Of Spokane by people
of Spokane. And now, going through
the Yakima valley, which 1 have been
delighted to visit and which certainly
is a gem on the surface Of the earth,
I am glad to find the spirit increasing
until I reach the topmost top of civic
enterprise and commendable municipal
conceit in Seattle.
Ascending Scale
"It is an ascending scale and to one
who has lived in the east, and who has
been identified with far off islands in
the Pacific and who therefore occupied
a position up a tree. is full of interest
and full of ground for believing that
there is nothing that we cannot aspire
to in this country.
"I have been seated next to your
worthy mayor for the last hour and a
half, and am glad to find that in this
region of apples and fine air there is
an independence of thought as to mu-
nicipal government. I am glad to note
that man can make headway in your
community even if the newspapers do
roast him every day. Those of us that
have suffered in that regard have a
feeling that makes us kin. If it were
otherwise we would have a govern
ment in the editorial sanctum.
"But as 1t is, your mayor has dem
onstrated, and it had been demons
trated in other parts of the country,
that while we accept from the newspa-
pers their statements of fact, when we
believe their statemnets of fact and