The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-10-27

jacent grounds. The latter had been
nicely cleaned up during the early
morning and presented neat ap-
pearance. Shakopee certainly ex-
tended warm welcome, her large
German population taking the lead,
and Joseph A. Ring, who took the
lead, deserves special credit.
At 500 a. m. a special train of
two coaches arrived from st. Paul
bearing Governor Eberhart, Con-
gressmen Nye and Miller, General
Doty and the rest of the governors
party. Governor Eberhart had taken
the 4:3O a. m. train from Mankato
and gone to st. Paul, and then turn
ed around and returned to Shakopee
on the special.
Prominent Railroad Men.
The special train also brought
Geenral Manager A. w. Trenholm,
General Superintendent F. R. Pechin,
General Counsel J. B. Sheehan, Su-
perintendent F. E. Nichols and AS
sistant General Passenger Agent Ed
Pardee. All of these came to Man
kato on the presidents special.
Others who arrived in time to
take the presidents special were
Senator Clapp, Congressman Davis
and others.
Messrs. Cheney of The Minneapo-
lis Journal, Hunter of The st. Paul
D;o~o4ol, op1 A,,fbior Of Tho Min
neapolis Tribune arrived to report
the days proceedings. w. ]. Du-
rand, special agent of the Western
Union Telegraph company, is on the
train for the trip and is very cour-
teous to the newspaper men.
A delegation of prominent Shake
pee citizens went to Chaska to well
come the president, consisting Of
d. G. Thompson, chairman OF the
county committee, Judge P. w. Mo-.
rison, Rev. Moons, Alois Plut, Theo-
dore Weiland, H. J. Peck and Eli
Southworth.
The inevitable photographer was
Oh hand, with his camera turned on
the speakers stand and on the
crowd.
When the train finally arrived in
Shakopee, bearing the president,
the band struck up America" and
the crowd cheered and waved flags.
Theer was some delay, owing to the
greetings of the governor and par
ty, but President Taft was finally
escorted to the stand and was sur
rounded by the notables present. d.
G. Thompson introduced him.
His Talk at Shakopee.
President Taft spoke as follows:
81 am very glad to meet you. We
don't have to prove that we are the
greatest people on earth, because
we admit it.
at is pleasure to come into
Minnesota, to be greeted by your
governor and your senator and your
congressman, and to find you in a
condition of prosperity. That is
to be said of some of the places
in some of the states that l have
just passed through. / understand
that the drought did not leave you
in so bad condition as in South
Dakota and other states, and l con-
graduate you.
"You understand agriculture oct
ter now. For some time in Wash
ington we have been spending $751;
100000 year, largely in the mat
ter of wrestling from nature those
secrets which are valuable to the
farmer, in order that he may apply
them scientifically and make the soil
produce more than it did before.
The truth is the business of farming
has become a great scientific in
dustry, scientific profession, and
in the next generation l rather
think we shall have to begin to call
the farmers professors rather than
farmers, and in the following gen.
Grafton, after they have become pro-
fessors, and applied those principles,
we shall have to relegate them to
that much hated but so desirable
class of millionaires.
81 am glad to see that in your
raising of your crops of corn and
other evidences of wealth, you have
not omitted attention to the bring
ing into the world of the best crop
of them all, the crop of babies.
1t is a pleasure to look into the
faces of the children, healthy, ruddy,
attentive, anxious and obedient. Are
you obedient children? (Here there
was difference of opinion, some
saying yes, while others saying no.
Do you think you are well behaved
(Here some of the children said
yes and others said no. l had a
friend once who told me that his
daughter came home from school
and said: Papa, | am the best
scholar in the class WELL he said,
my dear, l am very glad to hear
it. When did the teacher tell you
500 Oh she said, the teacher did
not tell me, | noticed it myself
Seriously speaking. ladies and
gentlemen, in speaking to agricul-
tural communities now one may truly
say that the attention of the whole
J 9O,000,000 of people in this coun.
try is directed and ought to be d.
rected to the fortune and the bust.
ness and the prosperity of the