Show AN APPRECIATION OF PRESIDENT TAFT BY HIS PERSONAL FRIEND JOHN HAYS HAMMOND OH HAYS HATS HAMMOND HA IIO D mining engineer and business man gave his estimate of his friend William H Taft President of the United S yesterday to a few friends at a luncheon at the Commercial club giving hii hi JOHN J hearers an Insight Into the character of at the man whom Utah Is entertaining President Taft Tart ia is l one of the few Presidents who could have done the work that Abraham Lincoln did said Mr Hammond He Is b a man manof manof of ct that and hearty friendliness for all mankind which marked the theo character of Lincoln and more moreover moreover moreover over he has that Intense force of ulia acter under tinder the pleasant exterior which enables him to deal with great subjects firmly Moreover President Taft has hits an intimate knowledge of the army as Well as a conditions condition of th the country a In ar a part of his broad education We have all seen and heard about that smile of President Taft said Mr Ir Hammond and I want to say it is simply the reflection of the kindhearted friendliness of William H II Taft the man Theres no mask lUuk about hat that smile Some have said that President TArt Taft T ft is UI a man easily Influenced by his hl associates but those who know him best know that he surrounds himself with Uh men whom he Ilk lik likes s and 2nd whose company he enjoy enjoys Just I no so far as a he believes their ideas are good he may agree with thorn them but It go no J further furta r Some Borne of ot his b best Mst friends are n nen en with whom he does doe not agree oi oa many Important subjects I relieve lella that William H Taft will prove the most pointer President Pre In Inthe the west that tbt has baa ever aver ever occupied the chair His als Judgment J 4 that at the th people will come la ept pt It without Question President ent Tafts s strip trip through rough th the south was a personal triumph awl he Is Ja better liked lIke In tn that t part ef or the country 1 I believe belleve than thann any n other President Addresses Young Men I John Ilk 5 Hammond told a gather gatherIng gathering Ing ling of or about 2 H young men a few per pertinent perI I Itu ent needs of the system of govern goern government I ment went of the United States at the Com Corn club yesterday yel afternoon The ell Man In Politics was his sub jI jec and in his pleasant conversational style Mr Hammond gave the young men nen m n his Ids views on the necessity for pr kal and intelligent Interest in politics Introduced by W J Halloran simply I as the ire U great mining engineer Mr Hammond said that although he was wasa a D good enough American to prefer a good Democrat to a poor Republican he be would confess that in order to make the comparison illon the Democrats good goodr r res esa es must be more than skin deep He HesaM saM said that throughout the country there therea was a a disgraceful and lamentable lack of interest in the political affairs of the on the part of the young man ni nl r In business Politics he lie said was regarded as an unclean vocation and this condition had deterred many good business men from active participation in the government The first real reason TEa on for the failure of good and honest lonest business men to do their duty in politics was that the business man manof manof manof of today wes we slow low to sacrifice social business and nd financial affairs to enter politics Such Fuch men he said were shirking their t dr duty dut and aRd should be so 80 Mr Ir Hammond H said there was a realization that the business prosperity of a nation Is dependent In InI ina a I large lance sense senile on political conditions The business B success of ot the country he said laid depended largely on the law of protection for home Industries and commercial supremacy always avas brings political poh The tariff ques question question tion was twos one of great Importance he said and In framing the laws there existed an absolutely absolute necessary co cooperation cooperation operation of ot business men with those of ot legal talent Speaking of the currency question Mr Hammond said It was also most Important and he said ald that it was also Important that the great powers get together on some BOrne measure to rehabilitate rehabilitate tate silver sliver if they wanted to retain the trade of f the orient Unless this was done he raid paid It would be only onla a short time before China began a growth in manufacturing lines that would result in immeasurable commer commercial commercial cial loss to the west W Merchant Marine The question of merchant marine Mr Hammond said was one of great im importance Importance importance to the commercial a growth of the country an anthe and one that thata appealed appealed to the American people This he said would bring about the growth of ot the United States navy He said he did not take the views of the extremists in III ii favoring a great navy but he be believed believed believed that If It the United States would ti id Join with another great power in Inon let Continued on Page 2 AN APPRECIATION OF PRESIDENT TAFT BY HIS PERSONAL FRIEND Continued from Page 1 tins ting the world know that the great greatest reat est eat navy on earth would be built The Hague conference would be successfuL legislation ho lie said was not a ques quos tion to be bl delegated entirely to theor late but It was wai one In which the busi busl business business ness nEs wen wan 01 or the country should take an Interest Integrity of ot purpose and straight forwardness and truth are Just as necessary ary In politics as they the are In busness life said Mr Hammond and this principle Is becoming recognized more and more each year The tricks of ot the party boss or political loader leader must be relegated to the scrap heap for tor good Mr Hammond compared political conditions in the United States with those In other countries Illustrating how political preferment met more honor ami an better belter lt remuneration In other countries and cIting cHing the need for busi business business ness neBS men who were wert willing to sacrifice personal comfort wealth and position for the of American politics In this respect William H Taft de deserves serves a p ce high up on the roll of or honor said raid Mr Hammond A Moral Awakening He said there had been a great moral in politics In the United States tates in the last few years and he lie believed that now nov was the time for business men to get In I 1 be oe beli belive live li ve there th re Js 18 2 a great field fieldor of or u and one In which worthy orthy politics for tor forthe forthe fame faro cnn can be he f achieved in the young business men and the gratitude gratitude tude of ot the nation can be earned he said Mr Ir Hammonds speech was punctuated punctuated punctuated by frequent applause and at atthe atthe atthe friends old and new the close many man for meeting him opportunity had an Preceding the address Mr Hammond guest t of honor at a l luncheon was xue the Com Corn Commercial H S Joseph at given riven by mercial club Mr Hammond is president president president dent of the National Republican n 1 MomS league Turner assistant national F ard ald J left organiser sat t at Mr Hammonds Hammond a and Mr Ir Joseph at his hla right |