The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-07-28
PRESIDENT TAFT.
Praises the Maine Climate and Scenery
and Maine People.

Praises the Maine Climate and Scenery
and Maine People.
In his address at Bar Harbor last Friday af-
ternoon President Taft said, in part:
"In behalf of Mrs. Taft and the party who
have accompanied me here wish to return a
grateful acknowledgment for your very cordial
reception. The presence of the national colors
and the flags on the various buildings here in
dicate to me what l know, that this reception
is for the President of your country and that
it is for the Office much more than for the per-
son who for the time being occupies it. New
ertheless the person who occupies the office
enjoys the reception all the same.
Zone of the things which forces itself upon
the mind of one visiting such country as this
is the fact that the American people have
learned good deal in the last generation. In
my fathers time he thought, although hard
working lawyer, that two weeks was ample
vacation time during the entire year, and
when came to the bar he suggested that if l
stayed at home during the summer months
would make good deal more money than if
went away.
But the American people have found out
that there is such a thing as exhausting the
capital of ones health and constitution and
that two or three months vacation after the
hard and nervous strain to which one is sub
jected during the autumn and spring are nee
essary in order to enable one to continue his
work the next year with that energy and eff
fectiveness which it ought to have. Mr.. JUS
tlce Strong of the supreme court who lived to
be 50 or 80, told me that it was part of his
life to take go days each year out in the woods
away from the people, exercising and living in
the open air and to that he attributed his long
life. And SO the American people have come
to the conclusion that the women and children
especially ought to have change of air where
they can expand their lungs and get exercise in
the open. The men can go when they can.
| "Under those conditions place like this,
that represents the most picturesque, the most
vitalizing summer resort in the United States,
is full of interest.
"In this region where the mountains come
down to the sea and the air from the noun
tains mingles with the air from the sea we
have all the delightful effects of champagne in
a prohibition State and without the uncom-
| Portable consequences that follow the actual
enjoyment of that liquid.
sit is not surprising that you have collec-
ton of beautiful places that have made Bar
Harbor known the world around. Those who
have been brought up in the Mississippi valley
| and the limestone regions where the tempera.
ture goes up to IS and 100 during three months
that the corn may grow. feel that coming tc
this region adds years to their lives and con-
graduate all who have been brought up in this
| country and whose fortunes have enabled
them to come here.
Just what the winters are here do not pro.
pose to dwell upon, except to say that do not
doubt that they have made an enduring anC
progressive race. Certainly those of us in the
West can testify that every time you make ar
inquiry as to the origin of successful mar
the chances are quite even that he has come
either from Maine or Vermont and doubt not
that among those whose palatial houses rea,
themselves among the trees and in the hills
hereabouts are many who, as boys, startec
:ithout any opportunity for vacation in the
summer and who have come back to enjoy thu
breezes of the country of their boyhood.
Il thank you, my friends, for giving us this
reception. The three days we have passed il
Bar Harbor will be red letter days in my life
Good bye"