The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-18
PRESIDENT ADDRESS
TO NEWSPAPER MEN

CHICAGO, March l7-President
Taft was the guest of honor or princi-
pal speaker at functions of various
| Irish and other organizations here to-
| day. Addressing the Chicago Newspa
per club, the president warmed to his
subject, <'The Press and touched on
phases of journalism in which appar
emily he feels deeply,
| Mr.. President and gentlemen of the
| Newspaper club began the president,
q have been trying so hard to get up
a st. Patrick 8 day speech that ! ought
to make to this important assembly. |
value the opportunity TO speak to the
men who do the work on the Chicago
papers and are not responsible for their
editorials
81 could not believe. knowing the
editorials. that this was a representa-
! tive newspaper crowd, because l have
seen so many apocryphal statements. so
many unsound arguments and unjust
conclusions, that they must come from
some other source than this intelligent
audience.
"The newspapers, of course, are es-
sential. We say we do not read them.
Well, we have to read them. There is
aNdistinguished member of tho tribunals
I'm Washington who says he never reads
the newspapers Whether he gets his
news from his wife or how he acquires
the information as TO the progress Of
the world ] don't know
Skin Grows Thicker
"The difficulty that / find is that
| [ have TO read them. and after time
of sensitivcncss-what shall ] call lt?-
of a sense of injustice, ones skin
grows thicker; one is able TO forget
grows stronger, and when newspa.
per man ultimately learns that. after
all. if we can only survive two or three
| days of attack and assault and un-
J founded statements, most people will
| forget il.
"Now, I-don't know whether YOU
number among your members only
newspaper men, or men who combine
| the profession of the press with states
YOU the men who are reformers down to
tho ground and at the same time are
engaged in handing Out their views and
news suited TO their views as statesmen.
correspondents.
''If YOU haven't this YOU lack n dis
tinguished type of newspaper man, a
distinguished type, ! am bound to say
that has not contributed TO the accu-
racy of the news furnished the public.
"I speak with some knowledge, he.
cause ] have had TO examine that char
! actcr of statesman close at hand, and
| ] think he centcrs about Washington,
and therefore ] believe / am address
ing pure newspaper men; men who do
not eXaggcrate merely for the purpose
of helping or marring cause, but men
who are in search of news to present
it TO the public,
81 am glad TO be here and TO look
into your faces and TO assure YOU that.
while [ am n quarter of the way
through my term. ! have learned, I
think, good deal more in that first
year than ] am likely to assimilato in
the next three,
Sees Breakers Ahead
The president, acknowledging tho
election 10 honorary membership in the
Traffic club Of Chicago, said;
"I am very glad you elected me be
fore The next Interstate commerce bill
became law, | am not sure whether
would not have listened with "A good
deal more tremor and fear TO the in
quivy as to how many voted No. -
Fairly buried in green cmblcms, ban
ncrs and bunting. Chicago today re-
ccivcd President Taft as It's guest in
one of the biggest ST Patrick S day
celebrations the city has ever known,
From the time he stepped off his spc-
cial train at the Thirty-third street
station of the Pennsylvania railroad mt
7:57 n. m. the president saw hardly a
building or an individual that was not
decorated in green.
Met at the station by u national
guard regiment and a large reception
committee. President Taft swung into
the line Of st. Patrick IS day parade,
which marched through Michigan ave-
nue. TO the downtown district and
cscored him to the La Sale hotel.
The president came to Chicago rs
! the guest of the Irish Fellowship club
! and the entire day until his departure
for Rochester, \. Y. at IL o'clock to.
| night. was crowded with events.
After meeting the local endowment
committee Of the American Red Cross
society, he attended Il reception given
by the Chicago Newspaper club and
: then at noon visited the Traffic club
A luncheon by the Irish Fellowship
| club was scheduled to begin an houI
later and brief rest was allowed the
president 10 prepare for his appear
ance at tho auditorium at p. m. To
| deliver his address on "Conserva-
tion.' The conservation meeting was
, arranged by eighteen Chicago clubs
!, Two receptions in the afternoon were
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