The Topeka state journal., 1913-01-20
TAFT'S BUSY SUNDAY
Winds Up the Day With Speech to
the Jews.

New York, Jan. 20.-President Taft.
an oVer-Sunday visitor in New York.
assisted in the celebration of the sew
entieth anniversary of the Order of
B'Nai Birth, addressing a Iaree
congregation which had gathered for
the exercises in the Temple Beth 'EI
on Fifth avenue
Inc president, who reached here
rom washington late Saturday, and
attended the Ohio society dinner and
dinner to Andrew d. White former
president of Cornell university, in the
evening, spent the night at the home
OF ms brother, Henry w. Taft, and
sunday morning, with Mrs Taft at
tended the Marble Collegiate church
and heard sermon by the Rev. DR..
David James Burrell, pastor of the
church
Sunday afternoon a diversion for
the president was a visit to the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art, where. with
Mrs. Taft, Henry w. Taft and Secre-
tary Hil1eS, he inspected with interest
the newly installed ]. P. Morgan col
lection of paintings and porcelains
The presidential party went into the
museum in the usual throng of Sun
day afternoon visitors, who recog-
n1zed MIR. Taft and crowded so close
Iy about the members of the party
that police efforts were necessary to
permit of their free movement about
the building. There was no hint of
disorder, however, and the police after
the first little furry had no difficulty
in controlling the crowd.
Mr.. Taft's only other appearance in
public before going to the B'Nai
Birth celebration, was after the
morning services, when he took a
sprint in a motor with Mrs. Taft along
Riverside drive.
This morning the president leaves
for New Haven to attend a Yale cor
poration meeting, returning here in
the evening to attend the theater and
leave shortly after midnight for
Washington.
His Address to the Jews.
President Taft began his address at
reference to the medal recently pre-
sent to him by BNai Birth as he
thought undeservedly, adding:
But honors don't come very often
from the Jews Mr.. Taft said, the
American people should profit by
their example of love of liberty and
love of guaranty of rights and equality
and their intensity of spirit.
Il don't like to drop into politics., -
he continued. Il don't seem to have
been a grand success but the Ameri-
can people will have to be educated
over again in lessons of liberty and
will have to be taught again, the real
value of the rights we now have and
the restraints under which we enjoy
them.''
Something has been said of the in
tolerance of other countries" Mr..
Taft went on. Tolerance does not
exist in other countries as in our own
but we must know that tolerance in
this country will have it's beneficent
effects all over the world. The atti-
tude of the American people on that
subject cannot but bring about a bet
ter condition. / don't need to preach
patience to your race / don't need
to preach persistence to you. 1 don't
believe in progress over night
Turning to the topic of progress
toward world peace. the president
said:
Il had a dream that we were going
to take a long step toward universal
peace, but after negotiating a treaty
with England and a treaty with
France, 1 awoke." He explained that
treaties between this country
and European nations and interlock-
ing treaties to follow, he had hoped a
great arbitral court could be estab-
lished.
THAT was my dream" he said. I'VE
negotiated the first two treaties with