Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-11-02

el III 'front.' from CurD 10
curb, and marching along TO the stir.
ring notes of The Presidents March
played by the company musicians.
Following Company l. came the presi-
dents car with the mounted escort
riding on each side.
At the corner of Kline and Second
avenue Company L came to a halt
and formed in company front on the
right flank of the procession on Sec
ond avenue, coming to the present as
the automobile containing the presi-
dent turned the corner south on Kline
street.
Speaks at Normal
The presidential party went direct
to the Northern Normal and mdustri-
al school, where fully 1900 students of
the Normal, high school and the vari-
Gus grade schools had congregated in
the Normal auditorium to greet Amer
ica's chief executive.
AS President Taft, Professor G. w.
Nash of the Normal, Senator Gamble
and Representatives Martin and
Burke stepped to the platform, the
student body rose in a mass and the
building fairly shook with cheers.
This was the most enthusiastic re-
ception the president received while
in the city. The president. intro
duced by Professor Nash, spoke for
three minutes oil educational matters,
and then again entering his automo-
bile, the party proceeded on the pre-
scribed tour of the city, winding up
finally at the Commercial club, where
he commenced his speech to the Alb,
erdeen public a few minutes after 6
o'clock.
Ten Thousand Hear Him
Fully 10000 people were packed in
to the square in front of the Com.
mercial club, extending over into the
court house yard, which was packed
to the steps of that building. The
members of the National Guard were
employed to keep the crowds back
and leave room for the presidents
automobile to reach the club, and the
boys did excellent work in this re.
spect.
The crowd which greeted the presi-
dent as he mounted the balcony of the
club did not seem as enthusiastic as
the occasion would warrant, and al
though fully ten times the size of the
he stepped from his special train ap-
plause was ~infrequent and not very
enthusiastic. The people listened to
the address, however, with an atten-
ton unusual in a crowd of that num-
Der. The president, introduced by
Mayor e. NJ. Hall of this city, spoke
as follows:
The Question of War
War is all right for the gentlemen
who win the battle and wear the
feather and gold lace, but the trouble
about war is that it falls most heavily
on the plain, common people. They
have to pay the taxes; they become
the food for powder.
when l proposed that we should
make a treaty to settle questions of
difference between us and some ma
ton, for the purpose of setting an
example, the French ambassador said,
We will make such a treaty with
YOU and / said, L am your man.
The English statesmen, Mr.. Balfour
and Sir Edward Grey, said they were
willing to enter into a treaty for their
government: they said SO in parlia-
ment. They said they would do this
because they would be glad sometime
to reduce their armament and not
have to pay the heavy penalty they
were paying for the maintenance of
their navy. This statement awaken
ed a response the world over, espe-
cially in England and France, among
the common people. That was most
significant; it showed that they know
that they had to pay the piper when
we danced in war; that they were the
ones that were sent forward to be
made food for powder, and II was their
mothers and sisters and their daugh-
ters that had to suffer in agony and
eat out their hearts waiting to hear
the news from the battlefield to know
whether their dear one we're lost to
them. / say a cause that awakens
the interest of the common people OF
the world is entitled to our considera-
ton, and calls upon us as a nation to
lead In the van.
Questions of Honor
But it Is said, would you submit
to a board of arbitration whether your
national honor had been infringed. /
say / would. | would rather do that
than 60 out on the field Of battle. 1t
is all right II you win. You then say
that the Lord has been on your side;
but suppose you get whipped on the
field of battle, suppose you are driv-
en- off the field of battle, how do you
reconcile that with the national hon
or. One hundred years ago If a man
called himself a gentleman and some
body insulted him, in order to estab-