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Show srai in is PiRSIl til Head' of the War Department Makes Two Speeches, in the Kortliweat. SAYS COUNTRY IS WEARY -OF MANY MILLIONAIRES Holds That People Are in Con-, trol, and All Get -a Square Deal. PORTLAND. Or., Sept 6. Socrsiaw of War William H. Taft and his pnrty. en route to the Philippines, sppnt today to-day m Portland as the guest of Theodore Theo-dore B. Wilcox, president of the Oregon Ore-gon Development league. This is ir. Taft "s fir3t visit to ibe Pacific Northwest, North-west, and his stay in Portland today, was mado the occasion of several pleasant attentions io the distinguished stntcsmnn and his party, including breakfast at the home of Air. Wilcox, on arrival here this morning, a sightseeing sight-seeing tour of the city in automobile, a trip to the Vancouver. Wash., hnr-rncks, hnr-rncks, whore Secretary Taft was the guest of Gen. Greely. Iieturuing t.o Portland. Secrtarv Taft was the guest of Mr. Wilcox at a luncheon lunch-eon at the Portland hotel, fifty of the most prominent professional and-business and-business men of Oregon also being the guests of Mr. WiJcox on this oceasiou. Tt did not require any effort to release re-lease the enthusiasm which prevailed at the luncheon, and when Mr. Wilcox i introduced as the flrst speaker of the aftevnooit the Hon. George R. Williams, former Attorney-General under President Presi-dent Grant, there was a spontaneous burst of applause as the aged, but still hearty pioneer of Oregon arose to -extend welcome to the Secrciary of War. Puts Taft in Line. Gen. Williams explained that lie had known intimately fourteen Presidents' j of the United States, nnd had known thp father of Secretary Taft in a busi- Hess and social way' in his lifetime, i and ho ho-ied (bowing lo Air. Taft) to i know fifteen. Mr. Williams said he , did noi propose to deliver a political speccli, but as Secretary Tafi later said. he waa close thar'if he wasn't lhar, " and if his remarks had been made on the floor of a National convention Mr. Taft at least would have been placed in nomination. Former United States Senator Gear of Oregon also ;poke interestingly, and promised Mr. Taft. that if he 'should return to Oregon in another capacity, hi(? welcome would bo none the less cordial than it was today. Mr. Taft apparently was in unusually fine humor, and delivered an address re- plctc with wit and logic. I lis free J delivery, his ease of inauuer captured I his audience. "Weary of Millionaires. Mr. Taft said that he was firmly convinced that the time had come whn the country was tired of a plethora of millionaires, and' of their influence upon governmental and public affairs, and that it had been demonstrated, and could further be" shown, that the business busi-ness of the Nation should he run on the principle of a square deal to cvery-one cvery-one and special privileges to none, be he rich or poor. That, he said, had been the principle of the present administration, administra-tion, and it would be with the Republican Re-publican administration to come.. Ilo expressed confidence in the ability of the people to rise up and regulate whatever what-ever abuses might, exist and said that the people had done this before, audi would do it again, if occasion offered, ; "The Government and the people are j in control.'' he said: "they are deaf to the criticisms and machinations of powerful and arrogant combinations of capital, and they are equally deaf to tho throats that aro so freely uttered by powerful demagogues." Addresses Great Throng. Tonight, Secretnr3 Taft, speaking under the auspices of the Oregon Development De-velopment league., addressed over five thousand people at the Armory, H waa tho first time that the vast majority of his audience had ever heard him, and his nddress was listened to witli unusual interest, nnd frequently inter-! inter-! rupted by the applause of the people. Mr. Tnft Rave a minute resume of the history of the attempts to build a canal across the isihmu?. and of the progress upon t lie present work . since il was begun by the Tioosovelt administration, adminis-tration, lie said that he thought ifwns safe lo count upon an aterage excavation ex-cavation and disposal of material in Oulcbra cut next vear of 10,000.000 to 12.000,000 cubic yards. "It is by no means certain,' he-said, he-said, "that the time taken lo make the excavation for the Culebra cut will mean the time necessary for the completion com-pletion of the canal. "There is the Gatun dam to be constructed, con-structed, and there are the Gntun locks, and it is quite likely that the enormous structure necessary "to be made for the six locks at Gntun and the enormous dam will take longor than the excavation excava-tion nt rTill-)ra- Ssven More Years of Work. "It is quite certain that every other, piece of const ruction to be carried on can be completed in less time, but I think it is a moderate estimate to sa' that, the canal will be completed in seven years from the beginning of tho next fiscal yenr. That is, our canal will be completed about the first of July. 191P. "The men actually at work number about 25,000. The number on the pav-rolls pav-rolls are a great, many more. We don 't get full work out of them. There are about 4000 Americans and about 4000 Europeans, and all the ress arc West Sndian negroes Spaniards and Greeks are our best unskilled labor. Wo have "no American unskilled labor. The efficiency of the West Indian negro is about one-third that of white labor, Tho coming of white labor, appareutlv by competition, has increased the cfn-clency cfn-clency of the black men, so that, on the whole the labor situatiou on the isthmus is unsatisfactory. Tt docs not seem necessary for us to employ either Japanese or Chineao labor. Tho work is expensive, of course. Labor everywhere every-where is expensive now, nnd in Inotropics Ino-tropics it is doubly so. Tho question that I fancy tho American people have most at heart, is the lime in which the caual can bo built, and not its coBt. provided that the money which ia expended is not wasteSJSj applied to the work. "It hns added vQfT4t to the confidence that. ' in tho honesty ana.m,-bv ana.m,-bv whom the work W'MS it is carried on by arnrjB President has infuaed-tlBW energy into the PBnfK does into anything of J3K , |