The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-20
In Speech-Making and Travel
ing, He Has Predecessors
in the Discard.
HAS SHAKEN HAND FOREIGN
RULER ON FOREIGN SHORE
In Addition, He Has Appointed
Seven Thousand 0flice-HOld-
ers, and Fired PinchOt.
BY RALPH M. WHITES1DE.
-. ~,,o5 WIZ, d, rTba Tribune

BY Leased wire TO Inc lIlouiS-
WASHINGTON, March 19.-Prosi-
dent Taft is a record breaker in more
ways than one. Not only is he the
heaviest man who ever sat in the presl-
Dental chair. but in the matter OF
speech making and travelling he has all
his predecessors in the discard. He has
been president little more than a
year. In that time he has visited
eled 5,62s miles to do it, and incl
dentally made $50 speeches, an
average of mare than one for each
working day in his term. This would
pretty clearly indicate that Mr.. Taft s
adiposity does not make him ''physl-
latest and most approved method of
saying the good old American word
lazy. This is not all Mr., Taft has
done, "not by no means. He is the
only American president who has shaken
the hand of foreign ruler on foreign
soil. He has sent eighteen messages to
congress. appointed some 1000 federal
Pinchot. This constitutes pretty
fair record for ability and originality.
And his smile is Just as genial as 1T
was when he was Mr.. Secretary instead
of Mr.. President. According TO present
plans, the president will go to his sum
mer home in Beverly, Mass, in June,
This perhaps accounts for the entry IN
the New England Farmers Almanac for
that month. "About this time look for
unusually high tides"
Eliminating Middleman.
Just what can be done by the elimina
tion of the middleman in supplying the
public with food is strikingly shown by
the commissary price list Just published
in tho Panama Canal Record. While the
work on the Panama canal is pro-
crossing. the United States government
is supplying the laborers and the
clerical force on the isthmus with food
purchased in the United States and
distributed through the agency of the
canal commission. The goods are bought
In the open market In this country and
are sold to the canal employees at cost
price. plus the transportation charges |
and the. expenses. of distri button. Yet
country the records show reduction
in the price of thirty"two out of |
seventy three kinds of grades of meat, |
poultry and game. The reduction in |
the price Of meat has been gradual but |
consistent in the past year. Porterhouse |
steak, which cost 90 cents year ago, |
was reduced to 81 cents February l of |
this year. The Americans on the isthmus.
outside of the foreigners, who are do
ing the laborer s work. consume eggs in
twice the value of their meat and the |
price OF these eggs, brought to the
lsthmus In cold storage and kept so, has |
declined from so cents in December, |
1908, to 80 cents in the middle of
February of this year.
California Senator Handsome.
Senator Flint of California is easy
to approach: and when approached is
pleasant and agreeable The Califor-
man is one of the handsome men Of |
tho senate, and his face wears at all
tunes an expression of apparent con-
tentment and satisfaction. Neyerthe-
less he is not satisfied with his Job,
and at the end of his term will retire
from public life to earn some money for
the, future. Senator Flint is classed
with the regulars. He is hard work
er and attentive to his duties. He is
not a brilliant or a truly entertaining
speaker, but when he has anything to
say, it is with assurance and convinc-
ing, Senator Flint is New Eng
Lander. by birth, born in North Read
ing, Mass, in 1862. When he was
Francisco, and the future United States
senator received his early education in
the public schools of that city. He
moved to Los Angeles in 1888, and was
admitted to the practice Of law. His
first political office was that of assist
ant United States district attorney for
the southern district of California, and
in 1905 was elected to the United
States senate. His term will expire
March 8, 1911.
Has Poor Government.
Henry Strother of Nome, Alaska, at
the Shoreham, is strongly opposed to
sidetracking in congress the Alaska
legislative bill. which provided for
legislative council In the territory.
Z. Alaska" declared M. Strother, "has
the poorest kind of government. The
only government we havo is that by
the governor, appointed from Washing
ton. and the federal judges The ter
ritory is now large enough to have
legislative council. People there are
not pleased at the way the Alaska leg.
islative bill has been sidctracked. They
realize that there is small chance now
of the measure receiving any consid-
Grafton at the hands of congress at this
session. The population of Alaska is
increasing steadily. and it will soon