Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-11
Tells Of Appointments from Dixie to
Promote Unity.
JAPANESE TREATY CONES FIRST
Many Other Wise and Important
Measures Enumerated.
RECIPROCITY DISAPPOINTMENT
Chief Executive Asserts He Instructs
Representative TO offer Free
Trade in All Products, bat
Canada Refuses.

Taft IN a noteworthy address before the
South Commercial congress tonight spoke
In part. az follows:
The commercial and Industrial develop
ment Of this country OF the last twenty
years has been 50 great that-the statistics
Htartle US An examination shows that
proportionately the commercial and busi-
ness growth OF the south is greater than
that OF any other part Of the country.
with the coming Of prosperity. with
the resumption Of comfort IN their lives.
with growing sympathy on the part Of
the north IN their working out Of the
serious problems confronting them, and
with the sense OF triumph in their success
in overcoming their great difficulties, the
southern people have mellowed. The north
ern people have met them half way and
never In the history Of the country have
the two sections been so fondly and so
near IN such complete union as they are
today.
The cause Of education has received
tremendous Impetus all over the south.
you have the race question in the
south: you have the question OF efficient
labor Both are most serious problems.
but 7 believe as strongly as / can believe
anything that the solution is to be found
in a system OF primary and Industrial
education offered 10 every youth. male and
female. white and black II one can judge
OF the prospects from the enthusiasm Of
educational conventions held in every state
In the south. he may safely prophesy that
the movement is on foot to bring about in
actual operation the best standards Of
primary and Industrial education.
Two sections BecOminE United.
1T il a great pleasure for me to come
10 the south again. When I was here in
the early part Of my administration. 1 ex-
pressed the hope that l might be per-
mitted 10 do something TO bring the north
and the south closer together and to con-
vince our southern brethren that they were
part of the United states and part Of
the government and that we're all really
Americans. ulth-ne Mason and Dixon line
10 divide l.s Ny hope has been realized,
for my appointments OF southern men to
high office have been received throughout
the north as well the south as proof
that birth in the south and participation
in the civil war on the side OF the con-
feieracy was not the slightest bar 10
preferment 10 the most exalted position Of
those plainly competent and fit
by raising in great quantities that which
All nations must have and which you can
only produce. you have increased the de-
pendence OF the rest Of the world upon
American industries. The science Of agri-
culture has progressed here as in other
sections.
81 congratulate you on what you have
done congratulate you on your pros
poets There is not the slightest tlnge Of
Jealousy or envy OF your good condition
on the part Of the northern and western
manufacturer or farmers. They rejoice
with YOU In your success and in a progress
more rapid than their own.
But my friends, I know you are not sC
partisan as 10 confine your interest I,
southern commerce and trade. and thai
YOU will not object n for short time IL
the remarks which l about TO make
turn this meeting into a committee on th'
state Of the union and consider some o
the issues now pending or which hav
been recently disposed OF.
Recent ConEress' work.
THE sixty-first congress. just closed, ha
enacted more useful and cougressive Iegis
lation in its three sessions than any con
gress since the war The close OF its third
its last and its shortest session. was oh
scured by such an apparent cogging O
business as 10 leave the impression that j
had done az that session little or nothing
IN the way Of helpful laws. II is due tha
congress TO remove such an impression
for II hos done several things that deser-
commendation.
zone Of the crying evils Of the presen
day Is the expense OF litigation. This con
Eress passed act naming substantial re
duction IN the cost OF appealing cases t'ou
. O. courts OF first instance TO the court
of appeals.
1T has adopted a revised code of m
laws creating federal courts and Cxin
their Jurisdiction. u has abolished circui
courts altogether and in this way has beer
able 10 simplify the practice in those court
and grestly To redure expenses II pa
increased the salaries Of the supreme cour
Justices s-.ooy a year
The increase Ought 20 have been mad
S.oo2 bon another step iu the right dir.
ton should give us satisfaction And
has finally done the Justice 10 provide r5a
when federal judges are travelling their ey
peuSes shall be paid
1T has added 20 the safety aupHapcs
for the prevention ~ injur- tg rsIIr.a
employees and passengers and r. -syiD
OF thr lives provision for the .rsu-cr. .o
Of locomotive boilers. which DO is home
will still further dimilish that los $,
life and limb which. before the saf-t
appliance cots were enacted. were slockIn
IN their number and disgrace 20 the raj
roads aud 90 the government that p,1
mtJcd them.
Embassy HuildinEs Provided.
IN has provided for the purchase ere1
tion ard furnishing OF embassy buiidini
and lerations for or ambassadors an
ministers abroad. 80 that they shah
properly housed and shall live On a say
and dignity beuttng the official repr
scutatN- in foreign country of gre,
nation Ike ours
The abseno, Of such proyiAop nj
made DO impossible Tor men OF ordinal
means 90 hola diplomatic office and HI
brought aboug the absurd result that
Who preach a pohucal equality Of reh a.