Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-20
CANADIAN TRADE
IS TAFT'S THEME
President, at Northeast Corner
of the United States,
Makes Address
NO REFERENCE TO POLITICS
Chief Executive Tells of Visiting
the Four Ends of His
Country
rAssociated PressJ


EASTPORT, Me-, July 19.-President
Taft reached the northeast corner of
the United States today. 1t was the
first time that a president had visited
this section of the state and for Mr..
Taft it completes travel to the four
quarters of the counry. He said today
that his tours of the United States al
ways impressed him with the homo
geniety of the people, their aims and
ambitions and their ideas of true
American citizenship being everywhere
the same.
President Taft and members of his
party are stopping tonight aboard the
yacht Mayhower in the harbor. She
will sail at 8 o'clock tomorrow for Bar
Harbor, arriving there at o'clock in
the afternoon for q three days stay.
The president spent an hour and a
half ashore this afternoon and made
ten minute speech. Mr.. Taft did not
touch on politics. He did say, how
ever, that he did not see just why
Maine should have her elections two
months earlier than most of the other
states. The election here is to be held
this year September IL and the Re-
publican leaders are hopeful Mr.
Taft's presence in the state and his
CANADIAN RELATIONS
In his speech the president ex-
pressed hope that closer commercial
relations with Canada may be estab-
lished in the next twelve months.
To reach Eastport today the May
flower had to thread her way through
Canadian waters. She is anchored to-
night just on the Maine side of the
line. Eastport is almost entirely sur
rounded by foreign territory. Look
ing over the waters of Pasamaquoddy
bay from the quarterback of the May
flower this afternoon the president s
eye caught the British ensign fiutter-
ing from staffs on many islands.
however, for nearly every building
here was dressed in American colors
and bunting. Mr.. Taft said in part:
"On behalf of Mrs. Taft and myself,
/ beg to extend our grateful acknowl-
edgments for this cordial reception.
When l was a lawyer there used to be
a legal maxim that the proper way to
understand written instrument was
to take it up by its four corners, and
1t seems to me the same rule applies
to the country. The proper way to
understand the country is to go to the
four corners and the places between.
Now, have been at Seattle, San Diego
to the southernmonst part of Florida,
and now at Eastport, and 1 have found
the same people, the same patriotic
spirit, the same progressive clviliza-
tion at each of the four points and also
between them. When a man has had
that privilege he may be said to under
stand the American nation. 1t is true
they talk a little more through their
noses In this part of the country than
they do farther south, but the style of
a woman's bonnet is just the same here
as it is way down in San Diego.
TALKS TO CANADIANS
'T hope In this audience I am ad-
dressing there are some Canadians.
You are close enough to them to know
them and greet them as neighbors.
Canada is great country. We are just
learning how great a country it is.
Speaking for the administration, we are
convinced that a closer commercial re
lation with Canada will be we'll for
both countries and if III the next year
we can come to any agreement by
which our commercial relations shall
become closer, we shall think ourselves
fortunate.
1--WE have reached a time when
neither ought to be envious of the 9TH
er, but each ought to be convinced that
the more prosperous the one the more
likely the other is to be prosperous,
and that the growth of trade of one
means the growth of the trade of the
other.
ut is pleasant to see all the contro-
versies between Great Britain and the
United States, which have been many
In the past, either now settled or in the
course of arbitration. This Is the first
time in the history of the two nations
that this could be said"