The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-13

laIL, pT0SluSuI "a SAO CAAVCU 0ldtC0'
his third visi. to Seattle
at 1885 last night. Despite the rain
he was met at the station by great
crowd which gave him an enthusiast
tic welcome. At the depot the presi-
Dental party and welcoming COM
mittee took automobiles and were
rapidly driven to the armory. where
another enthusiastic welcome await
ed the nations, chief.
From the armory, few minutes
after O'Clock, President Taft was
driven to the Press Club at the Eli
ers building. For fifteen minutes
the chief executive of the greatest
world power obeyed the clubs be-
hest, threw aside all cares of state
and became again newspaper man
among his fellows, talking informal
", humorously, shrewdly to the men
who write the news.
-Four Years More.''
With cries of Back to Washing
ton; four years MORE" ringing in
his ears, the president left the club
rooms and the warm fellowship Of
the press men to be whisked OF to the
Washington and to bed, 1.-The third
bed that does not move on wheels"
he has enjoyed on his tour, as he
feelingly expressed it to the club
members.
President Urges Team Work.
In his speech at the armOry Presi-
dent Taft urged the necessity for
more team work"
1--WE have come to urge upon you
the necessity for more team work,
if l may use that collegiate express
sion, in bringing about a larger
prosperity in business.
81 think that business has suffer-
ed by misunderstanding and by ex-
IRENE views with reference to the
evils that have had to be remedled
and the reforms that had to be eff
fected. / think we are now reach
ing time when we all ought to get
our shoulders together and push for
general prosperity of all. We are all
in the same boat. One class of our
fellow citizens cannot be prosperous
and all the rest in depressed con-
dition of business. One part of the
country cannot be earning large pro-
fits and another part of the country
running behind. We are all ulti-
mately affected by the same cOndi-
ton of business. 1t does not help
Washington state that New England
is in a bankrupt condition, nor does
it help the East because the West is
without crops. And, therefore,
want to talk about eliminating
undertaking and abuse, as far as may
be, from the body polite, with the
hope of encouraging all classes to go
to work and bring about, If possible,
the prosperity of all classes.
Railroads Learned Their Lesson
''Now, take the railroads. The
railroads are our arterial system of
commerce. We need them. We
can't get along without them. For
twenty years, however, they set at
defiance the interstate commerce
law which required them to render
equal service to all individuals at the
same rates and without discrimina-
ton and without rebate. 1t was not
until the people through their rep
resentatives in congress insisted
upon giving the Interstate commerce
toe IN To- 70 hnv
and to suppress lawlessness that
they came to acquiesce in the law.
''They have learned their les
son and l believe today there is less
abuse than there has ever been in
the history of this country. I do
not mean to say that there cannot
be any improvements, but / do say
there is machinery on the statute
books for their proper regulation. !.
eff that be true, let's quit abusing
the railroads. Let's hope that they
may earn good dividends. Let's hope
that they may have reasonable rates
for their service which they render,
and let's frown upon anybody and
everybody that seeks to climb into
popular favor by unjust attacks on
them"
The President urged similar fair
treatment for those trusts which had
also learned their lesson.
Near the close of his speech the
President pronounced himself in fav-
or of the leasing system for Alaska
coal lands.
In his speech at noon today the
President dwelt principally on the
subject of arbitration, as provided
for in treaties recently negotiated.
Ashford, Oct. 8.-President Taft
saw Mount Rainier at close range.
He travelled more than eighty miles
in an auto through dense forests OF
cedar and Ar, stood at the foot of the
glacier which squeezes the Nisqually
river from its eternal stream Of ice.
viewed the magnificent Narada falls,
visited Paradise valley, and closed
OREGON TRUNK GOLDEN