The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-10-06
PRESIDENT kept
BUSY AT DENVER
Makes Two Speeches In the
Colorado Metropolis.

Denver, Colo, Oct 4.-President
Taft's Denver hosts gave him one OF
the most strenuous days he has spent
since leaving Beverly more than two
weeks ago and kept him OH the go
from early morning until late at night,
when he left for Cheyenne.
Mr.. Taft made two important
speeches, the first 10 the public lands
convention and the second to the mem.
berS of the Republican organization.
including the state central commit
tee and various county committees.
The president talked politics to the
Republican committeeman and out.
lined the position OF tue Republican
party as he interprets it..
We are in favor of progress and
construction" he said. We are in IA
vor Of prosperity and of doing nothing
that will interfere with the business
growth of the country, provided that
business growth be along lines that
are legitimate and within the statutes.
There is no desire on our part to hit
corporations just because they are cor
porations. And if they are contribut-
ing to the growth Of the country, il
they are furnishing large wage fund
for the support OF wage earners and
are engaged in that kind of work that
Is an evidence of American enterprise.
We are to encourage them, not to dis
courage them"
Stands Firmly as erotectionist.
''Fhe question OF the tariff" Mr..
Taft added. Il think all Republicans
agree upon. We are in favor OF o
tariff that will enable the manufacture
ers of this country that are dependent
on the tariff to live and meet compe-
rition from other countries. We are
not making any apology in the slight
est for the blocking of those bills
that failed to sustain that measure In
respect to tariff protection.
There seems to he little miscon-
eeption as to what my duty was In re-
spect to signing the tariff bills passed
at the recent session of congress on
the part OF those gentlemen who are
not in favor of the Republican policies
and are in favor of the Democratic
tariff for revenue or free trade: 1t
would be entirely. consistent in them
to sign any bill that reduces the tariff
because they are opposed to the tariff
generally. | am not in that class. l
was elected as o protectionist."
Hopes to Redeem Promises. z,
1.-The fact Is" he added. that the
detection from the Republican party
in the last congressional election. or
the defeat of it was not due to an in.
creased number of Democrats. 1t was
due to the detection of Republicans
who insisted that we had not per.
formed our promises.
"Now If we go ahead, as hope we
may, and show to them that that is
Just what we are doing, acting on the
tariff boards report, 1t seems to me
that we are not sanguine in expecting
that those Republicans who did NOT
leave us exactly, but who withheld
their votes will now return to the
place where they belong"
For Reasonable Conservation.
In his speeches before the public
lands cow ention the president made
a plea for a reasonable attitude on the
part of the conservationists generally.
He urged them not to lose everything
by claiming too much. He also frank
ly said he disagreed with many of the
views expressed by the convention in
recently adopted resolutions.
Mr.. Taft said he thought that the
"fetish" stage of the conservation
movement had passed and that the
country now was prepared to settle
down to calm consideration Of what
ought to be done in the preservation
of our natural resources and what
steps ought to be taken which the
mistakes OF the past show to be wise"
The president defended the plan of
leasing of public lands by the federal
government as the best plan to induce
capital to develop the West .-:
I'm president of the whole coun-'
try" he said, land what | am trying
to do is to get you together. 1t is not
anything but. getting on that counts.
Your position is that the leasing sys-
tenn won't bring capital to the West
and my position is that it will
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