Show PRESIDENT A SERMON AT TABERNACLE Ten Thousand Persons Hear Chief Magistrate Dwell Upon the Desirability of Living in Peace With Ones Neighbors and Wisdom of Imputing Good Motives to Them Instead of Improper Ones President Taffs speech at the Tabernacle yesterday took the form of a sermon and In the opinion of ot the persons who filled the Immense Imme auditorium it was wa a mighty good sermon too A soft answer away wrath buth grievous word wor stir Ur up anger said President Taft quoting from Proverbs xv as all a he begun began his speech saying he was Influenced by the audience before him to preach a and as all custom customary customary customary ary in such BUch instances he be would first take ta t ke a text which wo i I 1 bear ar more or 01 less Ie relation to the remarks that followed Then the President nt spoke for tor near nearly for tor fort t minutes sticking closer clo er to his subject than the usual u ual sermon by a pas pac pastor pastor tor or speaker Those holding reserved seat beet t tickets en entered tred tHed by the west door on the south side of the Tabernacle and long before the President arrived every seat t in the build building buildIng buildIng ing was taken and every available inch men of standing room was wall occupied The band occupied the bishops corner at the right of the speakers and the governors staff sat at the left It H was a sermon of plain talk in which the President was evidently guided by bythe bythe the needs of ot Salt Lake although he made madeno no direct local application All AU through however there was wall an unexpressed son sen sentiment which seemed to make the Pros Pres President ident say sa If It the coat fits put It on Oft and it is safe sate to say that the application was vas made generally An Inspiring Sight It was an inspiring sight that greeted the tle eyes of the President as he entered t f J i the Tabernacle coming up the stairs from the basement at the rear and took his place behind the stand In the upper row of seats Ten thousand persons stood and ind nearly as many handkerchiefs were waved with the Chautauqua salute while the President Pre bowed acknowledge acknowledgement ment The applause rose and continued for nearly two minutes and the Prel President President dent was visibly affected by the spon enthusiasm m which marked his re reception recE cE At the rear of ot the auditorium up near the roof was a streamer of blue ground studded with stars bearing hearing the words Our President This was so arranged that with lights behind It formed a trans transparency transparency transparency Around the balcony were small flags crossed at frequent intervals and the railing wee WN draped with bunting in red r d white and blue The speakers stands were draped with immense flags corn com completely covering them and the national colors were everywhere in evidence Governor William Spry Senator Reed Smoot Senator George Sutherland Con Congressman gressman Joseph JO Howell and Mayor J JS JS J JS S Bransford entered with the President v who ho was accompanied acc by Captain A W WIt V It Butt and Secret Service Operator James Soan Sloan jr as he ho entered Captain Butt and the secret service men took seats at the left of the speakers stand In Inthe Inthe Inthe the other seats usually occupied by b church officers were members of the committee W V J Halloran Mayor Brans Bransford Bransford Bransford ford John Dern G S Holmes the Utah congressional C delegation and Secretary H R HA RA BA A The Thu governor announced the opening of the program by b the Tabernacle choir was Glory Glor and Love as ar arranged arranged arranged ranged to the th music of ot the Pilgrims Chorus The choir seemed to put its mark of excellence still higher by th song and later In singing The Tho Star Spangled Banner its volume and sweet sweetness sweetness sweetness ness seemed unusually good to those who woo hear the choir every Sunday Sunda in the year Mrs Irs Charles G Plummer sang The Flag Without a Stain in beautifully clear clearice v Ue ice accompanied on the piano by Pro Professor Professor Professor fessor J J McClellan As the Prest President GEnt dent entered the combined band of the Salt Lake Federation Musicians local lot lotA A F M iI I Hail to the Chief This band of nearly pieces was wall led by bv Professor Anton Pedersen playing The Banner after the 4 President had taken his place The President was VaS introduced by Sen Sea Senator ator star Smoot and the brief speech of ot the thes s was interrupted with frequent bursts of applause Senator Smoot said Senator Smoots Remarks Friends and Fellow Citizens The peo pee people pie flIt of Utah are greatly honored in hav hay having havIng hayIng ing with them so long the President of ot oftie ottile oftIe tie tile United States We are all that his visit here will be a pleasant plea ant c cne ne lit and I do know that it will be a profit profitable I able ble one to the people of Utah We Te thank the tiie tJI President for this visit and I but bt bute e 1110 ho the voice and sentiment I believe ft cf f every citizen in saying God bless our ourI I resident May lay he live long in the harts h artI of the people and may his admin i as President of ot these United Stats s be one that every ever soul that loves the tie flag may be proud of We Ve are proud of ot his past achievements and we have confidence that in the future as Pres Pros President ident of the United States his achieve achievements ments will be even greater It is fitting indeed that this recep recap reception tion tn be given and the greater part of tic tir time of his visit be in the principal r c It t ty of our state for it was wu here Mr President years ago that was planted in the tops of these thesey y 1 mountains Applause There entered a band of ot pioneers HI 14 In number and as their great groat leader looked upon this val yal valley Icy ley and entering the same almost upon the spot where we are now said sald that tl ti re rc would be established here a great Commonwealth and a temple built to the living God This was Mexican soil soli then but they had the love of our country at heart and among the first things they did was to plant Old Glory upon Ensign Peak and said that here would be a com corn commonwealth commonwealth under the Stars and Stripes Natures futures tures God has been lavish with he her blessing upon the State of ot Utah and while all her resources have not been eloped by b any manner of or means the thep p ople here extend to the pe of ot these the e I States a hearty welcome and ask them to come and help us develop the thet t developed r resources that God has h given uc U I 1 received a letter the other day from former Vice President Charles W V Fair Fairbanks Fairbanks Fairbanks banks He is I making a p visit in the far fare e east Wit in the Orient and in the letter he said The trouble with the people here is that they have lived Jived with their backs toward the future Mr President the people of these thee western states have their faces face toward the future and we know kno that this is I going to be one of the greatest com corn commonwealths and the greatest greate t parts of the United States that it is possible to de dev develop v elop I 1 am proud of or my state I am proud of her people all classes cla es of people and Mr President I am proud of them be because because because cause taken as a whole they are a homebuilding a and God fearing people We hope that your visit has been a Ii pleasant one We Te have learned to love loe that smile that Is upon your face tace and It seems to me that It is so broad that it covers the whole United State States My IY friends I now have the honor and the th pleasure of ot introducing to you Hon lion 01 able William Howard Taft president provident of the United States Another n greeted President Taft as he rose to speak and with his hit char characteristic chara a smile of ot pleasure the President waited for a minute before he began Then as he spoke the Interruptions were frequent The President began by say sa saIng ing f Mr MI Tafts Address Mr Chairman Ladles Ladies and Gentlemen I thank you from the bottom of ot my heart for this expression of ot welcome and good goodwill goodwill goodwill will I have hae been impressed since I have come corne Into this magnificent structure with the thought that yoU vou had gathered here ere in part to li hoar har ar me arid and that thit th t I had t nothing to t address tn ti YOU vou worthy of such sucha a fit presence I I Z am told that my mr distinguished pre pro dece or under the inspiration of an audi audience audience ence enee like this delivered an address in the nature of a sermon rmon upwards of or two tw hours in length Now he be had the capa capacity capacity city he had hd the spirit and a lid he had the mission to make such a II preachment of ol moral force and inspiration He knew how to appeal to the best beat that Is in a aman aman aman man and a woman and arouse them to uplift themselves them elves to higher standards and anal higher Ideals But It has not been given to me to exercise e that great influence which was his and which shone forth from froni him as h hi stood before men upon a platform and yet I have felt that this Sunday morning it was wu necessary for me to make such auh effort as I could to follow him in some something something something thing that may sound a bit like a ser sermon sermon sermon mon Laughter and applause And as sermons are begun with the quotation of or ofa ora a text having more or less relation to what follows it laughter I am going to give you ou the text from Proverbs A soft answer away wrath but grevious words stir up anger It is III a text that has enforced itself upon my m mind during the last ten years ears with especial em emphasis because I have hae come in contact with Oriental peoples and with those de descended d from the Latin race of or Europe and I have hae had a 8 chance to compare their I views of ot life Ufe and their methods of speech and their social conventions and amen amenities amenIties ittes with those of the race We I are we Ve admit a great Ireat race We e have accomplished won wonders On Onders ders dora in hammering out against odd odds that seemed Insurmountable the principles f t civil liberty and popular government and andr making r them theft practical aid ad show how to the world their benefits but in so doing dolog and in the course of our life Ufe it seems to tome tome tome me we have ignored some things thing that our fellows of or southern clime have studied and made much of and that is the forms of ot speech and the method of ot everyday treatment between and others Oriental Courtesy The Oriental will tell you in all his various arlous beautiful forms of his anxiety for your our health his respect for your char character character character acter and his almost love of ot you ou and your family and he wilt will put you vou in a 1 good humor with him and with the world and he will not expect exactly that you ou take him literally but he will hope that you will Mill understand that he has goodwill to toward toward toward ward you ou as you have toward him Now Kow that to our nature seems at first hypocritical when probably you think and perhaps rightly that he does not care much about you jou at any an rate but butke bute ke Jae e understands and hopes you under understand stand tand that what he ht means to do is to tomake tomake tomake make life Ute more agreeable to you and life more agreeable to him to lubricate so soto soto soto to speak the wheels of ot society and to tomake tomake tomake make things move moe more smoothly with without without without out jarring and jolting the nerves of either side Now KoV at first that seems Kerns superficial to us who ho prefer No Ko and Yes and ab abrupt abrupt abrupt rupt methods and communication in the shortest and curtest sentences but my friends we have much to learn from peo people people pie of that kind of courtesy and polite politeness politeness ness nes The truth is that a mans life lite in his family with his wife with his chil children children children dren with his mother with his hie neigh neighbors neighbors bors hors is not made up of ot grandstand play and defiance of the elements and all aU that sort of ot thing It is made up by b a series of ot little acts and those tho e little acts and lit little little littie tle tie restraints are what go to make up the mans character I 1 ag a agee ee e that there are men and many of them I think who are a great groat deal better than they seem to be in their fain fam families am tiles Hies and to their wives and to their chil dill children children dren and to their neighbors and that when exigencies arise they do betray and show forth elements of strength of char character cha cba acter aeter that ought to commend them to t their fellow citizens and their families but it does seem as if they were depriving their families and their neighbors of something in their not living up to that standard all aU the time in Utile little things as aswell aswell aswell well as in big bigIn bigIn bigIn In Little Things The truth is ill that If we yield to negligence negligence gence in the little things if we yield to the momentary desire to be lazy and not attentive and not courteous to everyone to so 0 as a to make mak everyone feel as comfort comfortable comfortable I able as all possible during the day we are aI going to cut down do that higher I that we assume urne to have hare under greater reater exigencies when we are art showing forth ls ts Continued on Page 2 k W v v r n t S a r St K s i ic ir creo c i s i ox d s t 1 t 4 r t c i ia it t a t is x a aS r S r k N n k Y f ft t y e r wa war r 4 1 N Ne k kems e ems z N Nt t m ms s 9 k e i o F s i a Great crowd in Brigham street after the President passed yesterday PRESIDENT TAFT PREACHES A SERMON AT THE TABERNACLE Continued from Page 1 strength And so I say that our friends of the tho southern clime and our Oriental friends have touched a point in fn philos philosophy philosophy philosophy ophy the philosophy of life that we ne may maywell ma well learn from them and introduce Into our lives Ilves more courtesy and more politeness polite politeness politeness ness more real genuine desire to make everybody happy happ by b the rho little things of f life Ufe which after all aU constitute nearly all aU there is in life lite I do not fora for a moment decry the ne necessity necessity necessity at times Umea for speaking out and speaking out with pith all the emphasis pos pOd possible sible but what 1 I am urging upon you ou and what shat I have hats seen In n other countries the advantage of having had an opportunity opportunity opportunity i to see soo both bath civilizations Is the too added happiness that comes to the whole human race when each member of it is in ina ina ina a small but effective way trying to make each other member whom he happens to meet happy for the moment for life is Ea made up of moments and that contrib contributes utes afar to the happiness of all Now another corollary from the text which I would like to draw is that we ought to ascribe to our neighbors and to those with whom we come came in contact or ar with respect to whose actions we have to expresses an opinion we ought to ascribe as high motives as we can We ought to avoid this acrimonious discussion that consigns everybody that is opposed to our view to perdition and to having leaving the most moat corrupt motives and ascribes to those who stand with us only the purest Life is too valuable to waste in anger anser and hatred and the charging and denunciation denunciation denunciation of our fellow tellow men when they do donot donot donot not deserve it k Pure Food Foad Discussion Now there are to me some things as full of humor as possible Just within the recent three or four months we have had a discussion you 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