Show l CONGRESS OUGHT TO- TO PAY Unless our nation shall desire to exclude Je an any but millionaires from crom the tho Presidential office congress should ap lp mone money for President Tafta TaUs contemplated tour of ot the country It ItIs ItIs S Is a a. trip that ho should take tako an and It Its Is s unreasonable lo and Improper to expect him to pa pay his own o expenses Imposed h by that trip His proposed Journey journe to the West est Is 19 In tho the Interest of ot the whole hole nation It cannot greatly advantage ad al- advantage ad- ad vantage him It will be bo laborious It would be more moro so far tar as comfort and demands of or office are mo concerned for him him to remain at home The country can hardly ask ash him to do dothe dothe dothe the harder task an and pay his own hula bills while doing It Ito President Cleveland eland never did realize real real- Izo ize tho the Importance of ot the tho West Vest II He was ono one of ot the most mORt provincial of ot otmen men the time most r rest In view of or oran an any recent President It was because e ehe he did not know the countr country Theodore Roosevelt was ono of ot the most useful of at PreBl Presidents because he did know the country He traveled lIe He lived In the West Vest He ne knew the South He Ho was In perfect command of ot conditions In the East Ho knew mew America A President should have havo actual contact with all sections of ot tho the na na- na- na tion Ho He should meet men of ot ever every ref re- re f 1 I I 1 l glon gion on th their lr own ground Ho can never get a u just understanding of oC conditions con con- milLions In distant sections b by sitting in Sn Washington n anti nd reading rending reports or h by iy talking to the few tess' ew visitors who travel ul timers there to see him hahn President Taft raft starts start his administration adminis with nn an unusual equipment for handling world affairs and with a West middle mans man's view of Influences an and conditions in every part of oC tho nation Ho ITo can better guide the destinies destinies destinies des des- of ot tho tIme country b by retaining W hh intimate hold hoM on tho the affections of ot allmen all allmen allmen men everywhere by his hais continued a ac acquaintance ac- ac with t affairs wherever er great projects are arc afoot wherever men struggling to advance the nation ore aro assembled together Ho He has been asked to come west In fn Inthe inthe the summer Ho would woul J be better forthe for forthe the coming coming and and t the tae e whole nation would bo ho better for it H too In tho thao Interest In- In terest nf or the flirt nr of nf everY state the tho people of ot cyer every occupation of every con condition and of or every evory party he should make the Journey journe An And he le should not bo ho asked to meet tho the expenses ex cx- ox- ox of ot tho the trip from froni his own funds Let congress appropriate tho the mon money |