Show should ane president travel SPANISH FORK utah june I 1 have a question which I 1 would like answered I 1 have ot late heard and read much about the president of the united states not being able to do justice to western states because he was not familiar with them their people or their why could there not ba enacted a law compeli og a new president to visit every state in the union once during the first year of his presidency and to atop at least twenty foor hours in one cita in each state borne atwould would it tase too much time could the presidents time be ebent any more profitably than lo 10 visit and nad out the need of the citizens others will eav it would be compulsion are not the duties of every citizen compulsion to a certain extent it would not take as much time as some may think as many ot the eaon ern and middle states are visited any how during the presidents first year of office if a president were reelected re elected it would not be to make such visits curios bis second term or eyen if he were elected reelected re after a lapse of conr years it would not be necessary for him to revisit the 8 ates suppose the president were on bin visit to alie states and our governor and his staff with othera of oar leading men mot him at grand junction how much information could he not receive from these men on bis trip through canyons and valleys about our miners cattlemen and farmers before the train reached salt lake cit yAnd suppose salt lake was the place selected for the 24 hours atop would the president not be able to fearnot le arnot our fair utah and iti clazena and industries in this time would ihnot be to the benefit ot every state visited my main question h could a law aa aboyo be made and would it be wisdom to have it made 31 P it could not be in the form of a law but the constitution could be amended making obligatory on the president to travel as suggested the theory of our government is however that congress should supply the deficiency now so apparent in some of our presidents Preside president mckinley has traveled quito extensively throughout the country and has been to the pacific coast ex cleveland we believe has never been west of the missouri river of course he was at a disadvantage when western interests were explained to the government the deficiency as we said before by representatives senta tives being elected from all parts of our great country there are many things that could intervene to make impracticable such duties on the part of the president as suggested it looked at one time like a war with spain might have been on during the first year of the new administration in a case of that kind it would be very inadvisable for the chief executive to be away from the government congress maybe called in extraordinary session as at present and how can a president well leave then furthermore our area of country may soon be too extensive to be traveled over in a year with alaska a state it would take about all the presidents time while we think a president should be reasonably familiar with the dp tailed interests of the connary con it is unreasonable to try to make him supply the place of congress and unnecessary according to our mind to thus call an ordinarily intelligent president from his thousands of official cares at the seat of government more pressing daring the first year of his official life than during any other lime of his four years term |