The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-10-27

last resting place of the late Gov
ernor Johnson whom he knew in
a friendly and very agreeable way
and for whom he had the highest
respect The president spoke of the
mental discipline and knowledge of
human nature acquired at college,
even though the lessons from books
were forgotten, and in after life the
time spent there would be remem-
bered as the happiest of their past
lives
Spoke at st. Peter.
81 thank you for this cordial re-
ception. am glad to be here, al
though l have not the privilege of
visiting st. Peter, and the grounds
and campus of Gustavus Adolphus
college. This l think was the home
and is the last resting place of
Governor Johnson, whom l had the
pleasure of knowing in the most
friendly and agreeable way, and for
whom l had the highest respect.
(Here some one in the crowd said
to the president, "Kannst Du Deutsch
sprechen?" and the president re-
piled, 81 can't Deutsch sprechen this
morning.'O
lege faces here and to realize that
these young men and women are
going through that four years of
life that is most formative in char
acter, that four years of life that is
so delightful on the one hand, and
so full of mental and social disci-
pine on the other. You won't re-
member much of what you learn up
there-it is not essential that you
shouldn't you will retain the men,
tad discipline, and you will retain
the knowledge of human character
that you acquired by associating
with your fellows at a time when
you are least selfish, when you are
most disinterested, at time when
you make the most permanent
friendships. l congratulate you that
you are enjoying that time. The
time will come later when you will
look back upon it and wish it had
continued forever. It's usefulness
however through life you will come
to realize more deeply as you go on.
after your lungs and throat have
ceased to be able to utter those
barbaric yells that are now suppos-
ed to constitute university and col
legiate feeling. And now my fellow
citizens of st. Peter, l thank you
for coming out this morning. This
am told by your congressman that
he is able to tell how Minnesota is
going by the way st. Peter goes.
Congressman: AS goes st. Peter,
so goes the state.) 1t, therefore,
must be a most important communi-
ty, and one to which l am glad to
pay compliment when it holus high
the intelligent average of the whole
population of Minnesota"
The st. Peter Committee.
The committee that had charge
of the arrangements for President
Taft's stay in st. Peter was made
up of the following gentlemen: State
Senator H. N. Benson, Mayor Ed
Bornemann, Judge Henry Mol, Coun-
ty Commissioner Al J. Potts, DR.. j.
p. Uhler, A. M. Anderson, II. G.
Miller, ]. A. Loehl, II. ]. Essler, DR..
J. w. Daniels, A. M. Jensen, Super
intendent w. B. Thornburgh, Rev.
F. H. Smalian, DR.. L. H. Woodwork
and F. A. Donahower.
Taft and cIapp Meet.
When Senator Clapp arrived at
Shakopee on the regular train for
the south he joined Governor Eber-
hart's party and awited the arrival
of the presidential train. When it
came in, he, with the others, heartily
greeted the president and conferred
with him briefly and then accom-
panied him to the platform and to
Mankato. He and Congressman
Hammond were seatmates in the
auto drive about the city.
President Taft departed at 2:30
this afternoon for two days stay
in Minneapolis and st. Paul. His
special runs over the Chicago Great
Western road into Minneapolis. En-
route the president will speak at
Madison Lake, remaining there fiji
teen minutes. Other stops will be
made at Faribault, Mortified and
Randolph.
President Earl Luce of the Young
Mems Republican club, under the
auspices of which President Taft will
be entertained in Minneapolis, arriv-
ed in Mankato at 11:20 o'clock and
met President Taft here.
According to the present schedule.
Mr.. Taft will arrive in Minneapolis
this evening at 1885 o'clock. A re-
ception committee will meet him al
the Union station and an automo-
bile parade will take him to the
Auditorium. Boy Scouts will be
drawn up along both sides OF Nicol-
let avenue.
Will Address Students.
At the Auditorium President Emer
titus Cyrus Northrop of the university
will preside. Following the speech
at the Auditorium, the president will
be taken to the Radisson hotel,
uyho bo will cnond tho NIGHT