The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-21

Cincinnati. Sept 21.-Refresbed by
a good nights sleep. President Tart
early today hogan receiving calls
from friends WITH whom he had been
intimate during his residence here,
There was no hint of politics in any
OF these visits
To all requests that he discuss
state and national political matters
or comment on the primary results
IN New York or Minnesota, the chief
executive returned the same answer,
that he would have nothing to say at
The present time He especially de-
clined to discuss his meeting with
former President Roosevelt in New
Haven on Monday.
Although the presidents visit has
heon emphasized as home COM
ing he will not escape politics en-
tircly.
The Ohio situation especially Is to
be spoken of TO him by several party
leaders One Of these. Senator Bur
ton. has an appointment for tomor-
row. and II likely that Wade II. Ellis.
former assistant attorney general, and
/. H. Laylin, chairman of the Repub-
lcan state campaign committee In
Ohio. will also talk with the presi-
dent
This evening the president is to
dine with Congressman Nicholas
iungworth at the latter's home and
there NAV be enough men prominent
In politics at this affair 10 give II
tinge other than social.
Cincinnati. Sept. 2l-The following
IS the address of President Taft on
the opening of the Ohio river dam at
Cincinnati today.
My Friends and Iellow Citizens -
Since ] left this, my old home. more
Than ten years ago. I have been-ablc
to revisit Il only a few times. anu
then it was not for more than n day
CT two at time | welcome my op-
pnrtunity TO meet old friends and TO
renew old associations, for here, after
my official duties are discharged al
Washington, ] expect to retlrn and
spend the rest Of my life. In ten
years great changes can come over
community. The one that strikes me
most Is the fact that | have to recoG-
rlze the most active mon and women
OF the community today, not by recol
lecting their own faces. but by Their
resemblance 10 their fathers and their
mothers"
President Taft here referred to the
development of the city In aesthetic
and material lines and continued;
To-day you are celebrating the
opening of another great improve.
ment. which must. in the future, have
riuch 10 do with the business growth
OF the city. / mean the Improvement
os the Ohio river from PlttsbuTg to
Cairo. 1t is to this Improvement that
] shall direct my remarks this after
noon
The distance from Pittsburg to
Cairo by way of the Ohio river Is 967
miles During the months OF Fe6ru
ary. March and April. the river Is full
and has a depth of certainly nine feet
from one end 10 the other fer the pur-
poses OF navigation During the
months OF August. September and Oc-
tober the river is low and in many
places at low water the depth is con-
siderably less than six feet Notwith-
standing the difficulties Of navigation,
there Is today a transportation OF
freight on this river amounting to
over 100000 tons. and in the car
rage OF coal the cost per ton per nile
-ludA lbs lUt tOol Dl thll lHb a l'u
OF coal one mile-iS four-tenths OF
mill-a lower rate of transportation
than Is known elsewhere in this coun-
try.
The Ohio river drains an area of
10000 square miles and in that area
is population OF 12.000,000. At tho
head OF the river is the greatest iron
manufacturing center in the world.
and In It's Immediate vicinity is one
OF the greatest coal producing terri
tories Along the river. from It's
source 10 its mouth. are the seats of
various manufacturing industries. and
the country tributary to the river
produces various kinds Of agricul.
iural products. Not only do the pro
. ducts differ between one end Of the
river and the other, so as TO suggest
profit In extremes. but the river emp
Ties into the Mississippi and by the
Mississippi is brought into water com
muncatlon with the south. where the
products are so distinctly different
rom those OF the north and are so