The San Francisco call., 1910-07-20
TAFT ESCHEWS
POLITICS, But
LAUDS CANADA
President Delivers Ten Minute
Address to People of Maine
on Friendly Relations
Republican Leaders Hope That
Chief Executives Tour Will
Have Good Effect

EASTPoRT, Ne, July ls.-President
" 4ett reached the northeast corner of
me United States today. 1t was the first
ume president had visited this sec
non Of the state, and for Taft it com
p3etes travels to the four quarters of
the country.
- Taft and members of his marty are
! stopping in the harbor tonight aboard
. the yacht Mayf1ower, which will sail at
: O'Clock tomorrow for Bar Harbor, ar
- irving there at p. IN. for three days
: stay.
: The president spent an hour and a
haif ashore this afternoon and made a
p 10 minutes speech. Taft did not touch
on politics. He did say, however, that
ne did not see just why Maine should
nave her elections two months earlier
than most Of the other states. The cleo
Ion here is TO be held this year Sep
Tember y, and the republican leaders
p: are hopeful that Tafts presence in the
state and his speeches may have a good
effect.
AMID FOREIGN ISLANDS
: To reach Eastport today the May
Hover had TO thread its way through
=. Canadian waters. Eastport is almost
entirely surrounded by foreign terri
- sanaQUOddy bay from the quarterback
OF the Mayflower this afternoon the
presidents eye caught the British en-
sign fiuttering from staffs on many ISL
ands- Eastport formed a decided con-
trast however. for nearly every build
ing here was dressed in American
.-colors.
- Taft said in part:
When 1 was a lawyer there used
Ito be a legal maxim that the
proper way 10 understand q writ
>: ten instrument was to take il up
- by its four corners. and it seems to
- me the same rule applies TO the
--' country. The proper way 10 under
- stand the country Is to go TO the
four corners and the places be-
tween.
Now, have been at Seattle, San
- Diego, TO the southernmost point of
Florida, and now a Eastport, and [
have found the same people, the
same patriotic spirit the same pro-
Eressive civilization at each of these
four points. and also between them
When 4 man has had that privi-
lege he may be said to understand
-. the American nation. 1t is true
they talk a little more through
their noses in this part of the coun-
=" try than they do farther south, but
the style Of a womans bonnet is
e. just the same here as il is way
= down in San Diego.
II hope in this audience I am ad-
dressing there are some Canadians.
You are close enough 10 them to know
them and 70 value them as neighbors.
Canada is a great country. We are
just learning how great a county it is.
FAVGRs CLOSER RELATIONS
Speaking for the administration we
are convinced that a closer commercial
relation with Canada will be well for
both countries, and if in the next year
we can come to any agreement by
which our commercial relations shall
become closer We shall think ourselves
fortunate.
we have reached a time when
neither ought TO be envious of the
% other, but each ought to be convinced
: that the more prosperous the one the
more likely the other is to be prosper
Gus. and that the growth Of trade of
one means the growth of the trade of
. the other.
1T is pleasant to see all the contro-
versies between Great Britain and the
United States. which have been many
in the past. are now settled or in the
course OF settlement by arbitration.
. This is the first time in the history OF
the two countries when that could be
p. said"