Show TAFT TALKS I TO FARMERS' FARMERS 1 I CONVENTION I Best Present Conservation Is Passage of Land Withdrawal Withdrawal With With- Bill ST. ST LOUIS May 4 Addressing a a. joint meeting of otho tho farmers farmers' union nulon and the he people of ot St. St Louis today President Taft devoted himself to a technical discussion din din- of the fhe subject of ot the conserva conserva- tion Hon Ho no declared tho the term covered a wide ran range o of subjects But as concerns concerns' con congress at this thi l time he be added II conservation r resolves olves itself into tho necessity of passing at once the tho J hill ill which will give he to ro the executive e unquestioned authority to withdraw lands ands for power sites site an another and other purposes With this power in the hands of the president of the United Stat States we wo can sit comfortably by am and discuss and devise deviso the best means o of disposing of the great eat public domain to tobe tobe tobe be of benefit to present and future futuro genc gun gen n. n c rations Governor introduced the president president dent at the tho farmers farmers' convention convention- and de declared dared tho greater ater movement of reenacT conser conservation sincere sincer had no more earnest earnest and effective friend than th n resident Taft The president called caned out laughter laugh ter t-erand t and applause from the from the a agriculturist By oy announcing that ho he pr probably was th the tho only man in in public l life e in the country countr who bo would admit he had never had an aD any farming experience It was was' reported today ioda an attempt would be made to tOI hand President Taft Tart Tafta a labor petition not Dot to attend the Cleio e land Louis ball baU game ame this afternoon b because tho the Cleveland Cle park was built bui by non union nonunion union men Up Up to luncheon time however th the paper had not reached Mr Taft A Aho As Aslie ho lie does dos not approve of tho the boycott he be announced that such a petition would not doter deter him President Taft After Alter the ball ban games will motor through the residence and will bo be taken to a dinner of th the Traffic attic club When he has finished spooking speaking at the Traffic attic club dinner h ho will be taken to his train which I is fa scheduled to start for Washington a at 1130 o'clock Thursday morning Time TIle president at the conclusion of th the tho breakfast briefly He referred t to the fact that the tho Commercial club of StLouis St St. Louis had visited Panama some same years ag ago and had warmly Indorsed the canal pro pro- He lie said ho he hoped the club would woul find an opportunity to go again It aIt needs two trips he said to th the Isthmus to understand what Is being done don there to realize the enormous enterprise that is being carried by the army engineers engineers en en- without noise without advertis- advertis ing and I am glad to say without elander slander slander elan- elan der or scandal It It Is of inestimable benefit to have hav men nina In charge of or a work like this this' 1 in fn whom the tho people have absolute faith Slanderers blackmailers and makers o of scandal are met by the tho high confidence I the tho pc lo have havo In the army engineers and their wares are arc no longer market markot- 1 able i |