Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20

incidents Of the past few weeks. IS rather
acute. and, while the Presidents attitude
Is usually one OF exceptional frankness.
it is evident that he does not feel that
the time is ripe for any participation by
him in the affairs OF the republican party
In the state.
Mr.. Taft was greeted at the depot by
Gov. Hughes and Mayor McEwan. the
latter a fellow-student of the President at
Yale. The exchange OF salutations be-
tween the governor and the President was
most cordial. The President declared
that he was feeling fit and ready for
the issue"
well, we have plenty Of those. Mr..
President remarked the governor, amid
laughter.
At tuberculosis Congress.
The President was escorted to the gov
ernor's mansion and from there was
driven soon afterward to the Tuberculo-:
sis Congress, where both he and Gov.
Hughes made addresses. Following this
the President and Gov. Hughes motored
to the Watervliet arsenal and big gun
shops.
Earl Grey arrived about an hour after
the President reached here. He was met
at the station by the local militia ana
escorted to his hotel
The Canadian tariff conferences will
not be held until tomorrow afternoon.
W. S. Fielding the Canadian minister of
finance reached Albany tonight. Charles
NJ. Pepper commerce adviser of the State
Department at Washington. also arrived
tonight. Earl Grey will not, 1t is under
stood. take any part In the negotiations.
Upon his arrival today the President
received kilograms from lumbermen
various suggestions as. to, the attitude
he should assume on the question of APP
Of the Payne-Aldrich btfi against imports
from Canada.
Admits Situation Is Grave.
Although admitting that the situation is
grave as regards the prospect OF set
Element with Canada, the President is
hopeful that a personal interview with
the minister of finance may do much
toward forwarding the negotiations. !, =
The President left Rochester shortly
after o O'Clock this morning and on his.
way to this city made stops and brief
car-end addresses at Syracuse. Oneida
and Utica. At Utica he declared that
when he was last in that city he was q
candidate for the presidency. Today he
wasn't so sure he was glad he had won.
Introduced a. the tuberculosis Congress
by Joseph n. Choate, President Taft
said in part: $500
LAS an original proposition, a move.
ment Hike this would strike one as the
result rather of enthusiasm than Of real
hope for betterment, because the details
which are to be carried out are SO NJ
merous and call for SO much labor that
1t seems hardly possible to expect
look about to other experiments Of the
same sort. We should never have built
the Panama canal II we had not had the
Spanish war, and the army surgeons,
who had the opportunity to discover
what It was that spread yellow fever and
how yellow fever could be subdued. 1
think may say that we should never
have built the canal II we had not also.
discovered what 1t was that carried
malaria, for 1t was as much the malig-
nant malaria as it was the yellow fever
that prevented the French from putting
through that enterprise.
Panama Healthful.
But we had had experience IN Cuba
and in Porto Rico. and our medical
friends had developed rules that worked.
and today the Isthmus Of Panama, which
was a hot hole Of disease. has become as
healthful as any Of our southern states.
Il have no doubt that the same thing
can be done with respect to tuberculosis
in any community, and 1 congratulate
the people OF the state of New York that
matter. We look to you to help US out
in every. regard in this nation. You have
got the men and you have got the money,
too One of the things that troubles the
executive at Washington and Congress is
the constant appeals that come from
those states that insist on very narrow
construction Of the federal powers, until
it comes to contribution from the federal
of putting your own house in order and
of doing 1t yourselves
Should Aid Movement.
NOVEL, am far from saying that that
view ought to keep us at WaShington
from doing everything possible Sinder the
federal constitution to help along this
and like movements in other states. We
have an agricultural department, and we
are spending S14OOO,OOO or SIS. OOO, 600 to
tell the farmers. by the results OF our re-
search, how they ought to treat the soil
and how they ought to treat the hog and
how they ought to treat the cattle and
the horses, with a view to having good
hogs and good cattle and good horses
Now, there is nothing in the Constitu-
ton specially about hogs or cattle or
horses, and II, out of the public treasury
at Washington. We can establish q de-
partment for that purpose, 1t does not
seem to be a long step or a stretch Of
logic to say that we have the power to
spend the money in a research to tell
how we can develop good men and
women.
Some OF our enthusiastic conservators
of natural and national resources have
calculated how much the life Of each man
and woman IN community is worth to
the community: l. do not think 1t neces-
sary to resort to that financial calcula-
ton in order to justify the saving Of
human life such as can be accomplished
by the results OF the research and ad-
vice that Will proceed from a bureau of
health properly established at Washing
ton and scattering the results of It's in
vestigation through the country
The President closed by expressing the
hope that by 1915 or later this great
scourge of mankind shall be conquered
as malaria and yellow fever have been"