The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-10
VISITS FOURTH
CORNER OF US.
President Taft Has Now Been
Around Circle.
FEASTS AT BELLINdHAM

Is Shown Apples Eight Inches
Through and Pears That Would
Make cantaIoupe Blush = Praises
Washlnetonians For Remarkable
Growth Made by Their Section OF
Country = Predicts Further Ad-
vancement On Opening Of Canal.
Everett. Wash. Oct. 10.--President
Taft's visit to Bellingham, Wash, ex-
tended his travels to the fourth cor
ner of the country. lie has now WIS.,
tied San Diego, on the extreme south
west, Florida on the southeast, East
port, Me-, in the northeast, and this
trip carried him within 80 rifles of
British Columbia in the northwest.
He commented upon this to his Bel.
lingham audience. Said he:
"They have saying in law in the
proper construction of written in
strument, that before you can reach
the right conclusion about it you have
got to take It up by its four corners,
and l feel that having come to Bel
lingham, is the last corner OF the
country. | understand its scope and
enormous developments
Mr.. Taft is the first president to
have visited Bellingham and the ex-
treme northwest section of the coun-
try, and they took advantage of his
one day visit to impress upon him
the great possibilities of the country.
At breakfast VA Bellingham they
placed before him exhibits of apples
that measured eight inches through.
potatoes any one of which must have
made meal for family Of Eve, and
pears that put cantaloupe to blush.
Calls Il Wonderful state.
you have a wonderful state" said
the president. ats increase in pop
ulation in the last 10 years was II
per cent; increase in farm values
nearly 500 per cent; from $4,000 900
to over 00,0O00.000 in value. That
ought to satisfy even the ambition OF
a citizen of Washington"
The president enjoyed long ride
along the border Of Puget sound.
He spoke to the crowd of his inten-
tion to make the administration of
the interior department more busi-
ness.like and told them of the Pan
ANA canal, in which the people are
vitally Interested, as they look to
cheaper water route through the 18TH
mus. The president admitted in his
speech that he had thought OF speak
ing on reciprocityS under very diff
ferent circumstances. He said:
There is one topic that I had in.
tended to discuss with you, but our
near neighbors across the border set.
tied that a week or more aso and
seemed to make 1t past history. But
think you will agree with me that
in so doing they made mistake, and
that had that treaty gone through, It
would have been greatly beneficial to
both countries.
Rubs II In On Canada.
"Now ! think we know little
more on this side than they do on
theirs, because we are an older coun.
try, and after some years Of expert.
ence 1t Is possible that they will
come to take the right view. but
whether that be SO or not. II they
don't grow so rapidly as we do and
as rapidly as they might have grown,
they can not say 1t is our fault.
"Yon my fellow citizens, are as
much interested as any body Of men
in the whole 90.00O,OO0 of people in
the completion of the Panama canal,
for while IL serves the great purpose
of developing the efficiency OF our
navy, the real benefit that is to come
In greater measure than in any other
way is the connection between the
west coast Of the United States and
the east coast of the United States;