Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-11
SO TELLS LARGE AUDIENCE In
Speech AT PHILADELPHIA
SATURDAY Night.
Believes the People Are on Eve of Bet
ter Times; That Things Are Getting
Better and Believed Great Coal Strike
Would Not Be-No Jurisdiction in
Labor Trouble Until Called Upon.

Philadelphia, Pa.-President Taft
was in an optimistic frame of mind
Saturday night when he faced several
hundred members of the Philadelphia
Chamber of Commerce. He told them
he believed the people were on the eve
of better times; that things were grow
ing better and that he believed there
would be no great coal strike. He said
he had no jurisdiction in settling
strikes and that he knew enough to
wait to see if he were welcome, rather
than go Quitting in' on matter be-
tween parties who knew their rights.
The president said he was not a reac-
tionary, but was progressive; he was
not a pessimist, but an optimist.
This speech was the first of several
the president made here. In the Belle
vue-Stratford hotel he addressed the
Society of Philadelphia. Later in the
evening the president went to Horti-
cultural hall nearby.
In his first speech the president, after
touching on the proposed national cham
Der of commerce, said in part:
Aiding Business Prosperity.
"There is no Office that the govern
ment performs more important for the
| individual in the community than the
aiding of business prosperity and the
removal from business progress of those
obstacles that interfere with prosperity.
CIT is when there is lots of business
doing, it is when everybody has a job
it is when the wheels of industry are
humming so loudly that you can not
hear anything else that the poor and
the wage Garner are the happiest. 1t is
when he is making good wages and con
slant wages that everybody in the com
munity is more nearly happy than at
any other time.
Reforms Should Be Sane.
''While I don't deprecate in any
way the movement for real reform and
progress, provided it is sane and is not
disturb those things that have been use
full to us for hundreds of years, 1 an
nevertheless conscious that there is NJ
duty heavier upon the government a.
Washington than that of seeing to il
that the government interferes as little
as possible with the progress of the en-
terprises of the country and assists the
inspiration of confidence in those who's,
confidence is necessary to make bust
ness go and to bring about prosperity
81 am in favor of the enforcement
of the law, but [ believe the law anC
business can, be squared in such a wa,
that those who violate the law may b.
prosecuted and there may be an absence
of persecution and no disposition t
run amuck just for the purpose of show
ing that the government at Washington
realizes that it has job and is tryin;
to make people think it has.
Americans Conservative.
fThe American people are the mos
conservative people in the world; Will
it does seem from the headlines of tn
newspapers as if they wish to discoun
, everything in the future and have al
, progress ready the next morning fo
breakfast, on the whole, when you ge
down to the stratum of solid thinking
Americans, there are no people in tn
world that are so conservative, tina
; recognize a good thing with the eel
tainty that they do and are so boun
, to adhere to that good thing as lon
, as it serves them we'll -