The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-09-27
President Taft Tells Kansas Voters
He Will Recommend Re-
duction Soon
WILL AWAIT ACTION
OF TARIFF BOARD
President Spends the Day in Kan
sas and Returns to Kansas City
to Address Conservation Con-
gress Urging Soil Conservation

KANSAS CITY. Sept. 25.-Return-
ing to Missouri tonight President
Taft addressed the Third Annual Ma
tional Conservation congress in Con-
vention hall, her doors being thrown
open to the public after the delegates
to the congress were seated. and the
giant hall was unable to accommo-
date those who struggled to obtain
admission.
The presidents speech was statis-
teal in its nature and called atten-
ton to the urgent need of conserving
farm lands. He predicted the back
to the soil" movement would be larg
er during the next ten years. Improve
ments of agricultural education were
increasing food supply. While the soil
was being stripped of it's fertility, UNI
der the present farming methods.
the president said, he was not of the
opinion the time will ever come when
the United states viii not be able to
feed its own people.
Toward the end of the president's
address a man In the audience arose
and waving red handkerchief Il,
shouted: whats the matter with
Teddy" Taft stopped his speech un-
til the man had been quoted.
HurryUp Day In Kansas
The president spent a hurry-up day
in southern Kansas, making address,
es at II little towns. He was tired but
happy over the warmth of the recep-
ton the Kansans had given him The
| crowds We're the largest the presi-
dent has faced on his trip. He spoke
principally on the vctoes of the wool,
free list and cotton tariff bills. He
gave his hearers to understand he
was more than willing to sign any bills
reducing the tariff il founded upon
a report of the tariff board This
board, the president said, would be
ready to report on the wool schedule
December ]. His statement on this
point set at rest the report that there
would be delays.
! 81 believe the present wool duties
are too high" he exclaimed amid ap-
| plause, land just as soon as I get ade-
quote Information, | shall :ecom-
mend a reduction.
Urges Uniform Isivorca
| Aside from his tariff speecheS the
| president spoke briefly on marriage
and divorce, on prosperity of the PEG.
| pie of Kansas and on trusts Ir
speaking on marriage AID divorce, the
president emphasized the necessity OF
| uniform laws. He declared that the
increase of divorces in this country Z.
a reelection upon the laws and the,
| loose administration We ought MOI
to permit the marriage tie to be dis.
solved az Will. He declared that mer
and women formed marriage con.
tracts of their own sccord and The,
should be bound to that contract un.
| less one of the other does something
which in the eyes of all men ought
TO permit or require at least separation
or divorce. He asserted that trou.
BILE Is men and women feel that It Is
| only optional with them whether the,
continue to live as husband and wife
and with that option before them fire.
quently they conduct themselves In
such way as to lead to a breach. 1--WE
ought to have a uniform law that
makes sacred the marriage tie" said
tho president.
Following a conservation speech
here tonight the president left again
| for Kansas and will spend Tuesday
sand Wednesday, in that state.