Show GREAT CROWD GREETS MR MM m m mr a M TAFT AT LIBERTY PARK President Makes Address in Which He Touches Upon His Conservation Policy but the Reception Had to Be Aban Abandoned Abandoned on Account of or Inclement Weather President Taft was welcomed by citizens at Liberty park yesterday afternoon when he delivered a speech in which he touched briefly bri y on the conservation con conservation policy poll C t o of f Roosevelt which he promised ed to continue to the gr great at ben benefit benefit benefit of the entire country and especially y to the west Lowering clouds clouda with intermittent splashes of rain cut the program a few minutes and there was no public reception on account of o the weather John Hays Hammond the Presidents re trusted friend and associate said Mid yes yesterday yesterday yesterday that he believed that President Taft would be the most moat popular President Pre President i ident dent in history among the people of o the vest west and President Taft went a long ways was toward fulfilling that prediction j yesterday es r a so far tar as Utah Uta and Salt Lake are concerned His wa was a speech of a abig abig big Mg vv man who was pleased with his surroundings and friends and most happy to tell the people what he thought about them The President was in good voice as well as In good humor and many thousands grouped around the th stand just south of the band stand were ere able to hear his speech Long before the President arrived from the Country club the Fifteenth in infantry Infantry infantry fantry the Utah signal gnal al corps of the Utah national guard and the First bat battery battery tery with the High School cadets were placed eil along the line of the main drive driveway driveway way in extended order keeping the driveway clear c ar and when hen the Presidents Presidents dents d party arrived the drive was lined With spectators from one end of the park to the other Salute the President A cheer announced the Presidents entrance to the park and as the auto automobile automobile automobile mobile procession came down the line with an escort of mounted orderlies from the Fifteenth infantry the cheers gained in volume until the High School Cadet C band was drowned out when the stand was reached Hats off was the tho tit cry ry when hen the President entered the stand and everyone uncovered as th the President acknowledged the welcome welcomes As s the President looked out over o the crowd he noted that a large I rge space splice in front of the stand had been reserved for forthe forthe forthe the band and the nearest of ot his audi audience audience audience ence was more than forty feet away aa A Avord word vord to Captain Butt and then came an order for the band to move near the d stand at the north end and the crowd was brought up to the lines which formed the narrow enclosure for the newspaper men directly in front of o the President Governor William Spry rode with the President accompanied by b Captain Butt and the secret service men and andin andIn andin in the official party ere Senator Smoot Senator Sutherland Congressman Howell How Howell Howell ell Mayor J S Bransford John Hays Hammond Secretary R A Ballinger There re were seats seals on Oft the platform for fora about a out sev members of the gen general eral cral citizens committee and the gov governors staff Among those on the stand b brides sides ides the official party and the gov mors staff were E H Callister James JamesH I H Anderson Ander on Willard Weihe J J Mc Mclellan lellan H L A Culmer Harry P Clark A H Peabody W S M lL H Walker James Jesse J tykes n kes Judge G G Armstrong Judge J E Frick Judge W r M McCarty cCarty John Hardy A L Thomas F C Gra Graham Graham Graham ham former Governor John C Cutler J H Moyle W H Armstrong S SH H Love C S Burton and A C Nelson President Taft was introduced Int by b Governor Spry and after the Presidents speech a large oil painting of the great Augusta bridge in San Juan county by byH byH byH H L A Culmer was presented pre to President Taft by Senator Sutherland Introduction I by Governor In introducing President Taft Gov Governor Go Gomor Governor mor Spry said Ladies Ladles and Gentle Gentlemen Gentlemen men It is 18 seldom eldom that the honor has bas been given this state stale of receiving the th chief executive ex tive of this great republic Today we have that honor Our Pres i lent cent has been kind enough to extend to tou tou tou u the privilege of meeting with him nd md r of talking with him and of putting himself in position to know something of rf the needs of this great state I need neM r Tnt rot c t tell him hire in the presence pre of this vast multitude that he is welcome Ap ApI I lause Since HinCe he arrived in the state Mate yester u l ay morning it has been the pleasure f the to listen to him His Hla of cheer and comfort and coun Id c l I and the spectacle that he has before him this must certainly in inspire spire slime his heart and cause e him to know ti the flu t in Utah we have ha lave e a people that is loyal loal and patriotic and with a n love lue of o country in their hearts he Cheers and applause Mr Ir President in the name of o the people of Utah I bid you YU a most hearty heart welcome and I take pleasure in introducing to the people of Utah the President Honorable William H Taft Extended cheers and applause There was a mighty ovation as the Pr r rose to speak and his smile brought another round of oP o applause When it subsided the President said Governor Spry Ladles Ladies and I I am very much o to the manage management management ment wino who enabled d mi mm m to corn come c n to my audience by eliminating that w which hie h hwe we all like but which at times time We wt can dispense dl pen with th music 1 dont hk lik to have an air space between my audience audi audience audience ence and ami myself because air in that way is a nonconductor and if it you can cant t get getup getup getup up a little electric current or a 1 few tew heat neat rays between yourself and the you OU are talking to it is a little chilly for far forthe fort the t audience and it is still sUlI more chilly for the speaker Laughter I 1 want first to thank the governor of the state the two senators the congress congressman man and the mayor of o Salt Lake for their very vel great kindness ss in welcoming m ro when 1 I came into the state and for their attention and courtesy since an attention n nand and courtesy which I 1 am glad to fa faI say sayI uy uyI I believe I have ival r hi l reason for think thinking thinkIng thinking ing is an expression of the nt nto it ito o 0 the people who elected tl ted them to offie Extended applause It t has never before been my m good for fortune fortune fortune tune to visit vl it Utah or Salt Lake and every impression lon which I have received up to this time has been b n most favorable 1 congratulate you OU on having such a boun beama bountiful city with such a magnificent mago t pros pru prospect prospect of growing into a great city cl Cheers I Yours fours is it a city dt of homes Your streets are so broad your houses hou so I many your our tenements so few fel that really the move movement movement movement ment towards the city In Utah U h is h not one that ought to be deprecated as such sucha a movement is deprecated in the east where the cities clUes are so I crowded and the tho means ans of breathing br free air so limited As to The longer I grow the older I grow Laughter I 1 am sorry to say sa I do not grow long I grow the other way Laughter Some remark from audience Inaudible to reporters I am afraid that was spoken by a thin man Laughter The older I grow the more respect 1 have for those e in the early day that looked forward to greater things and built with broad foundations and that is what you youcan youcan youcan can say as of those e who founded Salt Lake City Applause They gave gae you ou streets large enough really to be lungs of the city and to have parks park in the middle of I them and still not reduce tb the wagon way ay below bt low the necessities of r eminence ana ami anau u Xo Note off f t h same thing is 15 Illustrated in the history of Washington the capital and it is 18 I illustrated both I ways The plan of ot the city was devised by bya a French engineer named LEnfant and he built for a great capital of a great gr at country and all al the tbs architects and landscape gardeners and antI engineers of the country when they i ame tame began to examine those thOle plans foi 01 what hat was called the larger larKer Washington were ere only able to add to and add very little to the original lines U s that he marked down for the ue development of the city we all alt love so well at as I the type of our nation nationality nationality nationality Applause I I But there did come a day of small s 1 things in our history and we did hay haya have havea a congre which I speak of with the utmost deference and respect but we did have a congress that looked at things thinKS through a keyhole There was provided by law Ial and referred to in the tha th Constitution Constitution Constitution tion a place for a national capital That capital was to be ten miles square Mary Maryland Maryland Maryland land was wae to give and Virginia the other half haIr and this congress In 1846 1818 concluded that we were not a big enough country and that we were not going to have bave a big enough capital so I they gave back beck to Virginia of ot that ten miles square aid aLd we have to be content on one side aide of the Potomac river May Not Be Constitutional Dw w there is some question of the con constitutionality of that act of congress but it ft was so 80 long Ion ago aKO perhaps we ought to despair the Virginians become especially e generous in getting back what really was as our own and added to what we have would be none too much to keep the mere capital of the country in which the whole ninety or hundred and fifty millions an as a we shall grow to be will look to as ItS our sole Ole national center Now you have not had any such limitation imitation put IlOt upon you ou You have bave no pent up Utah to contract yo rr powers the whole bound Continued on page 4 GREAT CROWD GREETS MR TAFT AT LIBERTY PARK Continued from Page 1 less lees le plain is yours and you can extend Into that salt each way until you get sI Safe aj W ft t M on Jw s i I r tk ui care et almost almot walk on those waters water Laugh Laughter ter This Thin Is I bound bund to be a a great geat city be because be because cause cus It Is the center of or such a 0 large larg tributary territory It I Is the center of ofa a territory that Is bound to grow under modern improvements and modern devel development development development I stand here ber In the presence of ofa ofa ofa a community in which the first effort fort at a the reclamation of the th arid ad and semi semiarid semiarId semiarid arid lands lads was made and most success successfully successfully fully Applause and that tat development is bound bund to make this country countr a most Important part of the United States Stats We are beginning to feel teel a a little cramped In the east eat We are beginning to feel as if i land and everything was WS getting a little bit rare Now here when you first look took out upon this desert you dont look lok for much hope In this direction dirc direction tion but when you come to understand the ton application of water and the eden scientific title development of the land you see se that In the hands of the Americans themselves is the opportunity for tor growth and the opportunity for making maing this ti whole west western wester ern em country another anoter source surce of supplying er that demand which with the increase of population Is growing so s rapidly as now to send up farm fam products and ad food and andall andal andall all the other agricultural products to a aprice aprice aprice al price that the country countr people like and the city people dont like Laughter aughter Conservation of Resources That brings me to the subject of the conservation of our resources I dont Intend to discuss that In detail this aft afternoon at but tut there has haa ha arisen within the last seven years a feeling in le less leas than that timea timea a deep dep feeling on the part pt of o the people that thai we must conserve the th resources that the Lord gave to this con coff continent in order that our or posterity may my mynot not be b embarrassed emba d and straitened and even starved stare A man says Well el what has ha posterity ever done for us Well VeI I dont suppose it ever has done anything for us but we w are ar here and we w have got to work workout workout workout out the problem and we are bringing forth children who will wl live lve to the time tim when the conservation of these ts resources will wi become a most mt valuable result reul to them It I involves Involve the te saving sving of ot the for forests to of land which eats ests et and ad the reforestation has been b of forests foret it I involves the saving of the water power so 8 that thattie tie the t e public may my enjoy eny it at reasonable rates rate Applause it involves the saving of the te coal col lands so s that tat the supply of coal cal shall be b more mor or less les under the th con control cn control of the public and it i involves the ex extension extension extension tension In every eer direction dirton of the reclamation tion ton of our arid lands lads Now to one man ma more mor than any other othe is la the fact due that that tat issue isue is 1 before the people and that tt they have become impressed Impre with wih the necessity nety for our say sav saving saying ing not wasting the resources that God Go has given us and that man is Theodore Roosevelt Cheers Che rs and applause It I was wa rot rot reserved reserve l for him to be b in office as a President rere In the th development even of the first firt of these thes great gt works ode It I often olen happens happen that one man sows sews sw and another reaps and I could not but feel fel that when reap I stood sto at the mouth of tunnel tunnel six miles the th Gunnison a mies long longer than th any irrigation tun tunnel tunnel nel fbi in the te world and opened on the way for forthe forthe forthe the water from the th Gunnison Gunnin river in order to come ce into int that tt valley valley where thou thousands tou thousands sands and thousands of acres a were to be b made to blossom as a the rose r and ad to t bring forth the fruit frit which they say MY in Cola Colo Colorado Colo rado rdo even exceeds the fruit fi they ty raise ri in Utah but of course cur that is an exaggeration atlon aton Laughter aughter Larger Fruit Here When I am in Colorado Coloro the te fruit frit seems sm bigger there ther than tha anywhere and when I come com to t Utah Uth my glasses gl are ae fit fitted ft fitted ted te to s se see e it I larger here hee The Te pursuit of that policy Involves Involve It In Involves Involves involves I foresight it involves Involve diligence and an Industry and it I involves involve more mor than that it I Involves an the passage of legislation well wel directed toward towa p the g result and that 1 I is what we are going to do We ore are ae going ging to move on congress and ask ak congress to help us out out Applause Of course curs congress may have differ different different ent views and ad perhaps those tho of us u that who are most enthusiastic those tho of us have clear Ideas Ida as to t what ought to be bedone b bedone done will wi have to modify our views vew in some way and arrange arge a a compromise But life Ufe is a compromise compromis Progress is a compromise and of all al things that tat is a compromise compromis is the te result of popular gov government government government because bus it I is a compromise be between b between tween ninety millions milons of people and ad that thatis 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