Show TAftS TRIP IS TO COST BUT I 1 f. f Roosevelt's Last Journey to toV V West Brought Bill to i I S' S 1 1 PENNSYL PENNSYLVANIA V ANIA ROAD T PAID TEDDY'S FARE 5 f L 1 But f But Uncle Sam Sain Puts U Up for v Presidential JunKet Junet Junett t Now in Force orce t L i- i President Taft t has started on a trip tho west n and south that will break nil records rt of or executive travel row Few however er tt who WilO ho do not know the presidents president's presidents president's prest- prest dents dent's plans plan would bo able to guess ow 1 1 this projected tour will make history for jt itself Three other presidents of the tho United States have journeyed to the far Pacific coast and lUd it would v seem established a few fc- records of their own Harrison McKinley and nOo Roosevelt l nil all went vent l lIt on handshaking and L speechmaking Daunts and if they it left ft thing anything thing done one in hither Cither ither lino liuo tho the newspapers of their A. A failed 11 tn to record r 1 the tact fact their A. A failed 11 tn to record r 1 the tact fact tiny day J Every ver very t milestone tone along tho transcontinental lines linos was harangued ue and ana every ery co oto eo coyote oto and prairie do dog between the l Mississippi and the tho great reat i divide o got Jot a mew of at It least ono aDO of the three peram peram- presidents says sa s tho the New York 1 Times J It i is is in in the line of economy that Taft Tatt TattI i hill I ill leave o hi his predecessors hopelessly i i D hin In th the tour ho is planning beI be he I Hl be IH accompanied all aU the th way bv by his hiR old ld friend Democratic Simplicity Those fellows fellos lain Sh Show and s Expense who were on the tho Harrison Har liar rison McKinley and Hoo Roosevelt trips to the coa coast coant t will be bo eft left behind behin No matter how strenuously thc they may mar endeavor 4 to tn climb aboard when the tho i i. i president isn't mt looking the they will U not be ue J permitted under any am c circumstances to set Iet foot on the oxe uti car This is isi i f official and also remarkable for who ho hoj j on earth ever eer before heard beard of a public J i official traveling before at tho the public expense without taking one or both of thes old favorites along Quite Quito often it is true tnie Vain Train Show has been left off of junkets planned and 11 executed on tho the q quiet 1 lot ct but never ne in history has hns Needless Need Need- less Jess Expense been given shen such a cruel blo blow by a public servant To Cost Only the most convince Ono One paragraph will skeptical of Mr Tafts Taft's intention to ho hold expenses down to bedrock His i 1 trip rip will cost the treasury no moro more than the coast trip burned up lip of good money Taft has only one ono and one one half half cars at his dispo disposal al Boo bad had a train t of five Taft will travel on re regular lar trains train Roosevelt elt ran special from front Washington to Bellingham from Bellingham Belv Bel- Bel v 1 lingham bam to Los Angeles and from Los Lo Angeles back to Washington again Taft will gill be accompanied by only a small official official of of- party Roosevelt elt had bad bada a retinue of twenty chiT in his wake Still frugality ru as Taft will pro proceed to the tho Golden Gate and sud back his going an and coming comins will cost COt tho the United States trea treasury treas- treas lr tiry ury r infinitely more moro than tho the journey 1 of oC his predecessor six 3 years cars ago ngo This 4 s sounds like a paradox or as though the r vt writer of these J lines nes was waR qualifying ing to take Thaws Thaw's place e in hut but nevertheless nevertheless' sil is ig ms a sober sane an and plain i to matter of tact Jact The Tho Ienus hania Rail hail V. V road load company compan paid the b bill for the entire entire en en- tire jOI journey mado b by Roosevelt Roosevelt for for the Pullman car cars for or time the porters otters waiter nud and train crews for forte or the foo food eaten th time the cigars smoked and tho the cheering hey bev- rages consumed ed during all the sixty sixty- six fix MX days ayt that the presidential par party y v was ns on on n wheels heels So 80 too d did the thc railroads settle tho the bills for the Harrison an and Me- Me fc- fc J J tours to o the time coast const But you remark if the roads were K io o to Harrison McKinley and Roosevelt wh why hy not nott to Taft 1 Why should they not swin swing him Iuni around t the h circle ir too for a handshake with ith the J great American voter oter and his hil wife i Taft lan C U t Vac Passes Parses CS A Tho The a answer l' l in i H easy as to fin find The rime forr for- for r r traveled tru wc cst A t before the time r J railroad rate law w went ont nt into effect effect- x Z I lf f Mr 1 r. r rl Taft t were to accept free trans traut- 7 at tho the hands of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl 1 vania Railroad company or any other concern carr carrying ing n passengers erl acro across a g the arJe of any allY of the sovereign states antes of the union or 01 of time the territories t w r or of the District of Columbia he would i I HU u liable hablo to fine finc and sentence to th the ff t So too ton would t the hn feet mci J bo w ho bo gave a p him the free ride across the time herder border lines R But But while wo we are 18 the tIle sob lIb 11 ct we c not forget that when v Mr r. r el rode lode a at t fill tho he expense e of I 1 i i tho lime railroad companies it il was as net netA A 1 1 the tho la Jaw lu In fact the public j x t it t lu large c held a deep cp seated notion nation th that t tj 1 j i-A- i liny one who could do a u railroad N ii 1 was nas entitled to all h he got t and ought i tU t to receive e the public i thanks 11 ks ILS ns r j well It should i-hould also nIsI he be remembered that suit im in Jn tho case casc of Roosevelt McKinley le and 11 7 r the railroads s were not done in in any sense cne of the word even n hough h the they did contribute the of or tho the nation to tu Every r line that handled the Tents Tents' trains or 01 paid for pro pretender r aboard their cars eira got cot hack back the money I live t to o-I o one cr- cr Crowds of thousands upon m thousands t flocked ell to the he towns where the presidents were cre cr billed to tu appear and the tho crowds ha had to be hauled from Crom r their homes lOme au and aud hack a again ain The extra u iu thus tb handled bj by time tIle roads re rt repaid re- re paid them man many JOany times over o for the move money they the expended ed on the presidential travelers ti el r But Dut this year it ma may be he b guessed sed 1 if the roa roads s can get iet tho the boom Mn in in business without contributing ns as in ini I i r. r lays ilas gone by they will accept with r f 1 S President T Taft ft has at nt h his disposal lt for traveling expenses during j 1 present fiscal al or governmental Jo rs f pear clr which from July 1 to July 5 i t. t L il I President Roosevelt eIt who ho was nU tl time timet e t t f 1 first t executive c uti c to lJ be given a n travel trl fund funi iby hr th congress bad 1111 a similar amount to J j spend f at Jt his hu discretion cr and amid when he eft left office on March Mareli h 1 t turned over to Mr 11 Taft TaCt about of time tile unit fund un nn- Y Had Left P f. f Up to the tho clo lo close e c of tho the ear nr July Tuly 1 I t S. S Mr Taft raft spent about 1000 of thi this thi 1 and anti then them turned back to tho the t 1 treasury t the the- remainder something like 11 fi Of I o strictly speaking Ki 1 neither i en t. t over o fin fingered a T dollar doll a f the mOtleY money and mind never n a cent of th the fund ever vr loft Left the until mitt it was for traveling Then rt it t was tvis S disbursed by u warrant drawn upon tho thin treasurer tr of tho the United States As soon us the tho year ir r for which tho the appropriation was made bad had ended with midnight mid maid night of June Tuno 30 30 the fund was no lon longer er available a it was swallowed l up in in the tho general fund of th the treasury find and mi might ht be used used used-by by 11 the secretary of the treasury for an any purpose for which cash was needed d If the president ha had 15 5 of his travel fund left on ou the tho morning morn morn- in ing of June Junc 30 he ho might mi ha had he been so o disposed hu e handed it over o to some Borne railroad or nr steamship company compan for or Joy rides But on the stroke of midnight tho the fund was snatched from front him andon ant and andon on July 1 ho was absolutely ly broke as ns far as DS travel money was concerned About forty banquet are aio to bo be faced d b hy by the pl president on en his coming trip rip and anil each banquet 11 means a n speech Three times forty speeches speech's arc are expected of oC him glut between n dinners BO so the president Is lookIn look- look hig In forward to a n. fairly busy time In September Octo October r and November No Not more mor-e than ono one or two 0 of the most mOAt Important Im tm- addresses s will wUl bo be prepared bj by b the president before ho starts on time the trip U Hr believes NJ that he ho can do himself him him- self elf better Justice when hf ht speaks on the spur pur of ot the moment and draws his Inspiration from the tilt remarks of ot th those that precede J tutu him on tho platform or from Crom the tho vents 1 that arc are j la laming In review ro Th There ro IM Is no doubt that this program I Is rapidly improving ln him as ate un an extemporaneous extern speaker abort bOr as tho the time has since ho tie out Jut It Into be he Is much much easier I In his manner and rend read read read-I I I ier ler with his hla wits than before last falls fall's campaign President Roosevelt before borore starting on a n tour lour was In the habit of or preparing most of DC the speeches ho tie expected expected ex expected ex- ex to male make |