The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-26
WHAT SIR. TAFT SAID.


WHAT sir. TAFT SAID.
All that Mr.. Taft said in his speech
at the luncheon given to him in Rich
rnond about the cost of the Panama
Canal was as follows
have been fortunate in having
visited the Isthrnus fve times. The
nrst time / went there with yellow
lever and malaria on all hands, with
nothing but the skeletons of French
machinery, half-buried in the jungles
With cut only barely made in culebra.
2 nd with no plans as to how we We're
TO build the canal. the prospect was not
Inspiring.
THE questions of housing the en-
pioyes, OF feeding them and keeping
them in health, which were rife during
my second. third and fourth visits
have disappeared. There is no yellow
fever, and there has not been any Tor
three years. The malaria has been re-
duced to n point where 1T is neglislo le,
Food is furnished at q price lower than
in this country at the government com
missary, which delivers the food ana
ice at the doors OF it's patrons Inc
workingmen are comfortably ana
pleasantly housed and fed, They have
clubs hn the form of Young Mems
Christian Association houses at VAR
Gus p9ints on the Isthmus. and the lile
in the tropics Is made as pleasant as
possible to those who are doing the
worta
Their wages are quite Beyond any
thing received in the United states
and we could not Justify to those VINO
are Interested in the government the
amount of those wages We're 1t not lor
the fact that work in the tropics, UNI
der the best conditions. is attended win
a nervous strain. loss oil ner'e
strength and a recurring period OF ae-
spondency-I think the doctors call IL
Northumberland takes the life of the
men and leads them to leave the work
and go where they can get much less
wages If only they can breathe the at
mosphere of the temperate zone.
What the American people want, II
rderstand It, is the prompt compie-
ton It the canal and they are Wiling
to pay tsr it
These were his words, as taken down
~ the ofnciaI stenograpner at the time
they were spoken. and sent by the
Associated Press to the newspapers
receiving It's reports 1t was a per-
:ect!y simple and direct stateme MT, ana
Subject only TO misrepresentation and
nisconstruction by a dishonest mind
fatally bent on mischief, The text OF
what the President actually said. is
teptoduced here for the information OF
hole who would like to know the truth
a.ther than 10 be fed on falsehood.
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EQUAL WAGES FOR EQUAL WoRh.
Golfers weekly is taking notice
o,,ffra GA rnnye,nent
md observes that 1t has two sound
ne hods of advance: one is State by
state, and in adding Washington to
our others il makes substantial prog
ess: the other method Is to begin, IN
aore conservative States, with the mu-
licipal suffrage, which is the more
important and the one most nearly
.eiated to the work which women
seretofore have done. II is much more
fec fsssets1v ,th y; housekeep-
To-day.y,d tha women have
meet is.elp than. NJ is TO keep
MAKE max IN the upper atmosphere
ing about oppression"
withtssesting, and, strange 70
seq from GOLFERS. it is true.
q great many wrongs TO pc
IT. and such meetings as we
peen having in Richmond this
at the Virginia Educational Con-
ence must have set some rejecting
,inds thinking about the inequality
ith which men aud women are treat
in the profession of teaching. Last
aer there We're about 17,oOo.ooo pupils
tending the public schools in the
nited States. They were taught ps
l4,il4 men and $4,000 women, VINO
ere paid s202 ,O47,Sll in salaries, by
If the larger part of which amount
as paid TO the men There ought TO
equal pay Tor equal work. and that
not the rule in liking the compeh-
ltton of the teachers. The men are
most invariably paid more than the
omen.
Last year bill was introduced III
4e New York legislature for equal
~ toI the men and women einploseo
the schools of New York City me
ayor appointed commission to m
ire INTO the relative cost OF living OF
en- and women teachers, and preli't-
AIRY report, made late in December
formed the Mayor that TO raise the
laIle5 OF women to equal those OIL
EN- would increase the stipend OF lhe
anorIty OF women who now receive
he highest pay without aiding the
ajoAty who receive the lowest 70
allaby raise The salaries of all "o'
sn would cos sll,ooo.ooo year. &c
duca the salries of the men wonic
nHe them To leave the schools. Ih'
mmission hggested. therefore 9
ode7ate INCREASE for all women teach
or a. subs antial increase for thosf
iEfades, without reference
81 the men
IKE the men, Why die
y not inquire also into th'
e the men? simply he
- can make over theil
s e and scrilnp is no rea