The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-27
Answers Questions Submit ted By Appleton Com
 merciaI Club
WOULD-BE FARMERS
 ARE DISAPPOINTED
Attendants of President Taft Heard All About the Real Wild West and Saw Visions-But
 Were Disappointed

Taft today answered to an Appleton auu-
 fence questions submitted to him by the
 Commercial club of the city asking why
 he did not look better after the paper
 industry in framing the Canadian fecip-
 rocity bill recently defeated by Canada.
 In explaining his course the President
 said: T am asked why I did not look
 better after the paper industry. l thought
 had My investigations through tho
 experts of the state department and my
 communications with the members of the
 tariff board before l closed that contract
 satisfied me what was substantially con
 frned by the preliminary and then the full report that the differences between the cost of production and that in Cana da was represented by the difference in
 the cost of raw material.''
 Green Bay, Wis, October 26.-There
 was a lot of disappointed would be farm
 CTS on board of President Tafts special
 train when it passed through here today. | Among them were white house stenog-
 raphers, presidential secretaries, military
 aides, official physicians, secret service
 men, messengers, newspaper correspond ents and Pullman porters. Visions CT
 ranch life, of tilling the soil of independ- | ent wealth, automobiles and all that go | to make up the happy estate of modern 1 farmers had been rudely brushed away
 and the disconsolate party was on its
 way back to Washington where it's mem ] bers will resume the vacations they have | followed these may years.
 Many of the men in the Presidential | party had never been in the real west | before. Whether as a result of their own | investigations or what they beheld from l the car windows or the wonderful tales ! poured Into their credulous ears by ihe | "boosters of the great western country | all the way to California and back again,
 nearly all of them had become impressed with the fact that ranch somewhere west | of the Mississippi or Missouri rivers would | just be about ideal. Secretary Hilles lad prepared to leave politics forever and | to settle down to the calm care-free life | of the alfalfa fields.
 | Major Archie Butt, Presidential aide,
 was surprised to learn that he could be- | come a millionaire and quit living on army rations in little or no time
 1 Major Thomas L. Rhoades, the Presi- dents physician, thought that in addi- | ton to becoming a wealthy farmer, he could soon build up a country practice that would make his army pay look 1 like a widows mite.
 so It WdS all dlOHS the line. ENeTy- body on the Presidential train had de-
 lermined that the thing to do was to give up real work and go back ito the soil" President Taft helped mat ters along occasionally by preaching the doctrine of scientific agriculture and intensified farming, as recommended by Uncle Jimmie' Wilson at Wash ington. This was the state of mind of the Taft entourage when his train 6 n g. D., last Saturday night. President Taft made a good impression on the
 people of Rapid City, but nothing like the impression that was made upon
 the members of his party by a sign across the street from the speaking
 stand. United States registration of flee" it read.
 Then the word was passed around that the government was giving away hundreds upon hundreds of acres of valuable land in the Rosebud Pine
 ridge reservations of South Dakota. | All you had to do was to register l your name, pay 25 cents to a notary
 public and swear that you did not own 160 acres of land anywhere else. Everybody on the train registered with the exception of the President. He was being entertained at dinner and could not slip away with the rest. After registering and swearing and paying 1 the 25 cents the party was told that the | applications they had made for 160 | acres of land apiece would be forwarded | to Gregory. There they would be mingled with only about 50.000 other Applications for the 5000 tracts available | for distribution. Then little girl | would pick out the fortunate ones. l The land lottery began at Gregory | Tuesday Yesterday and today the | Presidential party scanned the news papers to see which ones of them would | get the more desirable locations. There were only $50 dra awings published, and
 not presidential follower was in the | list. The sad blow came on top of the , information imparted just before leaving | Rapid City; that only the first 200 sec | tions really would make it worth while | for a man who aspired to become a l millionaire to pull mp stakes in the east and seek his fortune in the rolling west
 Anybody who mentioned Agriculture
 on the Presidents train today was in danger of his life.