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Show o KANSANS MAKE TAFT WELCOME TO THE STATE President Makes Addresses at Eleven Elev-en Little Towns and Is Happy At the Reception. Kansas City, Mo Sept. 2."i. Return lng to Mlssouil tonight, Picsldent Taft addiesscil tho third annual National Na-tional Conservation congress In Convention Con-vention hall heie After tho regular delegates w'ero seated, tho doors weio thrown open to tho public and boon tho giant hall was unnblo to nceomniodato thoso who btruggled to obtain admission. Tho president's speech was statistical statis-tical In Its natre. nnd culled attention atten-tion to tho urgent need of conserving tho farm lands Hn predicted that tho "back-to tho-laiid" movement would bo larger dining the next ten jears, Improvement or agricultural education was urged as a solution of the prob lorn of Increasing tbe food supply Whllo the soil Is being stripped of Its fertility under present farming methods, said the piesldent, he Is not of the opinion that tho time will over lome when the United States will be unable to reed Its own people. Tow aid the end of the president's address a man In the nudlenco nioso and waving a red Imnilkei chief nvei his head, shouted "What's the matter with Teddj ?" Mr. Tart stopped his speech uiftll the man had boon quieted Piesldent Tart nnlved hero after spending n huir-up day in southeast-em southeast-em Kansas, making addresses at eleven llttlo towns. Tho piesldent wns tired but huppv ovei the wtiimth or the reception the piogiesslve Kun sans hnd given him Eveiywheiu the pieslilcntlni tialn was scheduled to stop, and nt other btutlons where thcie wns but a pause great crowds waved a gieetlng to the chief executive and wllllnglv braved the tajs of a tot rid sun to listen to H The ciouds during the dav wosc the J laigest tho president has faced dui H lng any of his trnvels '1 he population H or some of the cities had been swel led to twice the normal figures. Ex elusion tialiis weio run from many M dlicctlons. whllo tho piospcious farm M ers or tho section diovc Into town In automobiles nnd viiIoub suits of rigs M Mr. Tuft confined himself Inigcly to M the vetoes of tho woolen, free list nnd cotton tnilfr bills He gavo his hear eis to uudeistund thnt ho wns more M than willing to sign any bills reducing H the t.'iilff if founded upon the teport H of the tin Iff board. Tills bonid, tho H piesldent snld, would be ready to re- pint on the woolen schcdiilo the first of Dei ember His statement on this H point set nt lest the icport that thcro would tie a ileluv H |