Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-17
TAFT GIVEN OVATION
Chicago EnveIoped in Green
Banners and Bunting.
PRESIDENT IN BIG PARADE
Speaks to Newspaper Men and Wis
its Traffic Club.
LONG PROGRAM OF EVENTS
Woman Who Attempts to Enter Ex-
ecutive's Auto Arrested-Address
at Banquet Tonight.
PRESIDENT IN BIG PARADE
LONG PROGRAM OF EVENTS

CHICAGO, March 17--President Taft,
beginning his short swing around the cir
Gle as the guest of various Irish organi-
cations In this city today, was the guest
OF honor or principal speaker at func-
lions which kept him busily occupied.
Before the Chicago Newspaper Club. in
an impromptu address, the President
warmed to his subject, Tho Press" and
touched on phases OF journalism which
from the emphasis he placed on them,
apparently he feels deeply.
Mr.. President and gentlemen OF the
newspaper club" began the President,
Il have been trying hard to get up the
st. Patrick's day speech that I should
make to this important assembly. / say
important I look around on this hand
some crowd, this charitable, beneficent,
patriotic crowd. and 1 value the oppor-
tunty given me to speak to the men who
do the work on the Chicago papers, but
who are not responsible for their ed
itorials.
II have seen so many apocryphal state
ments, SO many unsound arguments and
unjust conclusions that they must come
from some other source than this distin-
guished and intelligent audience.
Newspapers Essential.
1.-THE newspapers, of course. are es-
sential. We say we do not read them
Well we have to read them. There is a
distinguished member of one of the tri-
bunals In Washington who says he never
reads the newspapers. Whether he gets
his news through his wife, or how he
acquires the information as to the prog
ress of the world l don't know. The diff
ficulty that / find Is that have to read
them; and after a time of constituencies
what shall / call it?-of a sense of In
able to forget phrases of contempt and
criticism, and what newspaper man
learns. that after all, IL we
can only survive two or three days of at
tack and assault and unfounded state
ments, most people will forget 1t.
1.-The only men who don't forget 1t
about themselves. the most sensitive men
with reference to the criticism of the
press In my experience, are the news
paper men, those who are served UP by
the newspapers of the opposition. They
are most sensitive. and 1t is gratifying
to me that they are.
Now. / don't know whether you num-
Der among your newspaper members not
only newspaper men. but men who COM
bine the profession of the press with
craftsmanship, whether you have among
you the men who are reformers down
to the ground and at the same time are
engaged In handing out their views and
news suited to their views as statesmen
correspondents. II you haven't you lack
a distinguished type Of newspaper man,
q distin guished type which, I am bound
to say. has not contributed to the accu-
racy Of the news furnished the public.
for the reason that newspaper man who
does his task rightly la man who fur
nishes the facts as they are without re-
spect to whom they may hurt or help;
but the man who Is preaching an evangel
or who is helping a cause. and especially
the one who takes himself seriously, is
respect to those which his views reach