The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-07-27
Washington.

In the first statement he has made
since the passage of the reciprocity
bill by the senate, President Taft at
the summer white house acknowledge
ed freely that his long, hard campaign
In behalf of that measure would have
proved unavailing if the Democrats
had not helped him, Without such
aid, the president declared, reciprocity
would have been impossible" "The
Democrats did not play politics in the
colloquial sense in which these words
are used, said the president, "but they
followed the dictates of a higher pol
ICY" For Secretary Knox and his as
sistants in the state department, who
conducted the negotiations and framed
the act, the president said more than
q word of praise. Those Republicans
who fought for reciprocity, and some
Of those votes were necessary to the
passage of the bill, may properly en-
Joy mutual felicitations on a work
well DONE he said In his own judg-
ment. the president declared the agree
ment would mark an epoch in the re-
lations between the United States and
Canada, and those who opposed the
bill in congress would find their proph-
ecies disproved and their fears allayed
by its actual operation. It's passage by
the Canadian parliament, the last step
before it becomes bond between the
two countries, he hopes and believes,
will be forthcoming.
Mud-bespattered after a strenuous
trip from Washington by automobile
over flooded roads and swollen creeks,
President Taft faced an audience at
Manassas, Va, made up in part of vet
Grams who wore tho blue and the gray
within few miles of the scene Of
the first great conflict of the Civil war,
and was applauded and cheered when
he made plea for international
peace. The president declared a gen.
eral arbitration treaty bith with Great
Britain and with France probably
would be signed within the next ten
days. He added that he hoped within
the next few days to announce that
the three other great powers would
enter into similar agreements with the
United States, Thin lines of veterans
of the blue and the gray, with hating
steps, slowly advanced, toward each
other and, meeting, clasped hands in
fraternal greeting on the historic bat
tlefield, where, fifty years ago, they
were engaged in the battle of Bull
Run, the first great conflict of the
Civil war,
Watermelons grow SO large in Geor-
gia nowadays that they are christened.
One weighing 621a pounds arrived at
the house office building in Washing
ton, D. c., from Gray county, Georgia,
consigned to Representative Rodden-
berry Of that state. 1t was placed on
exhibition at the entrance to the build
ing. Carved in the rind was "Hoke
Smith. The melon, too large for
shipment in an ordinary barrel, came
carefully packed in specially con-
structed crate.
Attorney General Wickersham, be-
fore the Minnesota Bar association, in
Duluth, took an advanced stand on the
further Federal regulations of corpo-
rations and declared government
commission to regulate great indus
trial organizations in the same way
that the interstate comerce commits
sion regulates railways, was certainly
most desirable. Mr.. Wickersham's
speech was little short of being sensa-
tional in many of its features.
President Simon Of Haiti appears
doomed to follow President Diaz Of
Mexico and to give way to another
Revolutionary government, according
to advices reaching Washington. In
the opinion of Captain Dismuke of the
gunboat Petrol, which is at Port-au-
Prince watching the operations of the
Revolutionists at Gonaives, the Reyo.
lutionists already practically are vic.
torious and all OF the towns of import.
ance except the. capital are in their
possession. Reports from Cape Hay.
ten state that the reign Of terror
there is still in full sway.