The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-20
BELIEVES PEOPLE
LIKE HIS VIEWS
While Swinging Around the
Circle He Will Endeavor
to Accurately Sound
Public Sentiment.
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.

Wv into the west during Septem-
Der and October is to be ta~
ken in order that he may have an op-
portunity to discuss from the platform
the public questions that are upper
most in his mind. He is pretty much
disgusted with the congress. He has a
notion that the legislators are not &C.
curately rejecting public sentiment on
some Of the leading questions of the
day and he desires to get out among
the people and find out for himself
whether he is right in his estimate Of
is to be extended to the Pacific coast
If the present plans are carried out,
will give him q chance to lay before
the people his programme for the bal
ance Of his term. Tis he will do in
SIX or seven set speeches. In the
course of the four or five weeks of
travel he will probably deliver rs or
100 addresses, but the important things
he will have to say will be embodied
in the speeches he will prepare in ad-
vance with great care.
Subjects of President.
What may be termed the big sub
Jects for the trip may be enumerated
aS lOllOWSs
]. Tariff revision.
9. The arbitration treaties between
the United States and Great Britain
and France.
3. Canadian reciprocity.
4. The trust question.
5. Legislation under which the nat
ural resources of the public domain of
the United States proper and Of Can
ada may be developed
6. Currency reform.
Z. Economy in public expenditures.
The president undoubtedly realizes
the public does not intend that the tar.
iff question shall be put aside until the
Aldrich Payne tariff law has been re-
yised. He will on this forthcoming tour
of the country make plain his position
on this subject, The probability is he
will not only declare his determination
to do his utmost to obtain revision of
most of the schedules Of the legis-
lative law at the next session Of con-
gress, but will give notice that he will
seek legislation creating a genuine
tariff commission. His tariff speeches
will undoubtedly be strong arguments
in favor Of tariff legislation based on
scientific Investigations.
Question of Arbitration.
On this trip he will give the people
of the country an opportunity to choose
between him and the United States SEN
ate on the question as to whether the
arbitration treaties designed to pro-
mote the peace of the world shall be
ratified, The contest over the ratifica
tion of these treaties promises to be
one of the most important that has
taken place between the president and
the senate in a long time. Senators
who were most directly instrumental in
the emasculation of the treaties in the
committee on foreign relations did not
suppose the president would fight. They
know now they were mistaken. Last
Tuesday evening the president said, as
he would not discuss the arbitration
treaties before the Ocean View as
sembly.
On his way over to the New Jersey
resort he received a telegram announc-
ing that Senator Lodge, for a majority
of the foreign relations committee had
submitted to the senate his report de.
nouncing the treaties. He believes the
people of the United States are heart
lily in favor of these treaties in the
form in which they are submitted TO
take advantage Of this coming western
trip to do what he can to strengthen
this sentiment.
Will Attack Insurgents.
While reciprocity with Canada is Il
thing accomplished so far as action by
the United States is concerned the
president is very likely to have good
deal to say on this subject when he
gets out among the farmers Of the great |
central west. He is not unmindful of /
the fact that the insurgent Rcpubli-
can senators who are supporting Sen
ator LaFollette for president plan to /
seek delegates to the Republican ma
tional convention on anti-reciprocitv
platform. Those insurgents have let 1t
become known that they will make 4
fight in convention for a plank in the
platform denouncing Canadian reci-
procity In view of the fact that
President Taft is to receive renomi.
nation. unless unforeseen obstacles shall
arise, it becomes incumbent on him to
defend the reciprocity pact. This he
will welcome an opportunity to dc.
The Trust Question.
No one will be surprised If he has
great deal to say on the trust question
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