The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-26
TAFT GOES TO BED
TIRED, BUT HAPPY
Pleased With Warmth
OF Rec option Given by
Progressive kansans.
ST ENDS ANoTnEk
81 ,,ENUOUS DAY
Crowds Largest That Have
Greeted nirn in His Travels,
and He Makes Even Dozen
Speech Stalks Tariff,
Marriage and Divorce
and Conservation.

Kansas City. Mo. September 25.-
President Taft arrived in Kansas City
tonight to address the National Con.
servation Congress. He had spent q
busy day in Southeastern Kansas. MAX
Ing addresses at eleven of the prosper
GUS towns that lot that section of the
State. Tho President was tired but
HAPPY over the warmth of the recep-
ton that the progressive K%ansans mad
si:en him.
The crowds were the largest the
President has faced during any of his
travels. Mr.. Taft confined himself
largely to the vetoes of the woolen,
free list and cotton tarin bills. He
gave his hearers to understand that
he was ready and more than willing
to sign any bills reducing the tariff
If the measures were founded upon the
report of the tariff board. This board.
the President said. would be ready to
report on the wooden schedule the first
OF december.
Believes Duties Too Nigh.
Il believe the present wooden duties
are too high" he exclaimed mid up-
clause. and Just as soon as I get ade-
quste information 1 shall recommend
their reduction"
Mr.. Taft began the day at corey.
vile. and spoke at Independence,
CherrySoale. Chanute. Humboldt. lola.
Garnett, Ottawa. Edserton and Olathe.
Aside from his tariff speeches, the
President spoke briefly on marriage
and divorce, on the prosperity of the
people OF Kansas and on the trusts
senator Curtis, Representative Camp.
oell and former Representative Charles
II. Scott were with him throughout
the day.
Discussing the necessity OF uniform
laws governing marriage and divorce
the President said:
1T is very awkward. to say this
least, h a a man h is married on
one side of a State line may not be
married on the other. The Increase
of divorces in this country is a re-
Election on h laws n their loose
administration. We ought not to per-
init the marriage tie to be dissolved
at will.
You say we ought not to keep
unhappy people together. Who brought
them together? We did not. II they
got together under a contract, why
shouldn't they be bound to the con-
tract. unless one or the other does
something which in the eyes of all
men ought to permit or require at
least a separation If not a divorce.
The trouble is not that in an in
dividual case Generalization follows
because they are separated, but the
trouble is more when a man or wo-
man feels that II is more a question
OF option with her whether she still
live with her husband or he with his
wife. then with that option before
them. they conduct themselves in such
a way very frequently as necessarily
TO lead to q breach.
Should BE Made Difficult.
1T is the ability to, n the prospec
of. getting a divorce that demoralizes.
We ought to have a general uniform
law on that subject that stiffens I'M
and makes sacred the marriage tie. j
agree that 1t is not possible in this
stage and under present conditions
to make marriage i~ndissoluble, but
1t is possible to make divorce diff
cult so that 1t canno be obtained BY
collision n only While one party or
the other shall have done something
that all men regard as rily at
fecting the obligation of the marriage
tie
Following his conservation address
here tonight. the President left again
for Kansas. and will spend Tuesday
and Wednesday in that tSate.
Urges Conservation