The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-12-21
LIVING \ N N.
! TOO FAST SAYS
PRESIDENT TAFT
Speaks AT Five Dinners During
Visit To Nations Largest
City
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ADDRESSES THE REPUBLICANS
Declares That One OF Greatest
Faults OF Age Is Lack
OfRespect For Law

! New York, Dec. 20-The Presj-
4 dent departed at midnight for Wash.
i ing after thirty busy hours in New
York declaring In the last of several
addresses which he made that one az
the chief faults OF this age il that
1 the people arc living too fast. Dur
4 ing his visit here the President
/ spoke at Eve dinners, laid the corner
stone for a new home for the blind,
did Christmas Shopping and received
several political leaders as callers.
The Presidents last speech was
before tile New YORK Young Repub-
lican Club at dinner given in his
honor He appeared just as Senator
Forah, Of Idaho. was scheduled to
speak and listened attentiyely to a
stirring address by the western
Senator.
The President In his speech agreed
with Senator Eorah that the country
had defects and that it was the busi~
ness Of the people to right them.
Wants Respect of Law.
The chief Of these defects" he
said is the loss somewhat of that
respect for law which we have in
helited from across the sea. We
nave struggled with conditions and
IN our prosperity have met harder
tests than the Puritans met think
we do not hold anything as sacred as
we should
The President pointed to the
Of the age towards faster
living and, pleasure and from this
turned to the necessity of improve
meHt of criminal procedure. Speak.
ing in an optimistic strain, the
President continued:
Affective reform can be made in
Two ways either inside of the party
r By the breaking up of the old
larty and the afoundings, of, a.. new
me The question for, every man
whether the party to which he is at
,ached the material in 1t TO carry
M his ideas of reform or ia ii neees- |
AIRY for him to join new party to {
gain them? have hopes for the re- s
lemrtion of the Republican party"
With a silver trowel handed toll
lin by blind woman, President
aft laid the corner stone this after |
loon of the first settlement house q
4 the world for the blind. A crowd
I several thousand choked the v
treet to get a glimpse of the Presi- o
entail party and several hundred d
lore looked down and hurrahed a
rom the house tops. "
Does Not Come.
II came here today to Law a COR
err stone and not to make an adj
ress' the President said after Jos. 3
.
7h II. Choate chairman Of the cere- ;,
Ionies mad announced that the q
resident would speak. a
"My dearest hope is that this II
will be typical of the duties n
htch we, who have sight, owe to y
lose who have not to aid and sue
'r them, in their difficult tourney
trough life"
al ttheH conclusion of the cornerI
one laying the President did I'M -
e oelated shopping. The articles =,
purchased at a jewelry store were !.
tended for member of his inn 4,
ediate family. it Is understood.
President Taft Joined 800 mem --
RS OF the Automobile Club of \
nerica at their banquet at the Y
aldorf-Astoria tonight. B
He took occasion to declare him 4
If emphatically against opening 4
e national treasury for the build
e of great highway.
II have tried to help you" Hell
ID by getting the duty lowered in-
Canada. Once in a while do
that ought to make some
dy gratified,"