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Show I PRESIDENT TAFT IN NEW ENGLAND ' 11 1 I I BOSTON, March IS President Taft W ended his part in Boston's belated 1 1 celebration of Hvacuntlon day and St. I ; Patrick's day hero, with an address to II' tho Charitable Irish' society, and a 1 1 ; "look In" on tbe diners of tho Bank IE I . Officers' association, the Boston Paper 1 1 Tiado aasociatlon and .thetnYalo club Hi of Boston" tonight " ' 1 WI In many ways it was the busiest WA I and, moat demonstrative day the prcs-lll prcs-lll ldent has spent since lip entored tho, I If . White House. From tho time bis 111 train arrived at 7 o'clock this morn-Ill morn-Ill lns until be reUre(J tonight, Boston-K Boston-K II : lans apparently vied with each other I to express their friendly feeling, 'j Hit The president's rccoplion by the m Hi general court of Massachusetts this I In afternoon was one of the most re-Zm re-Zm markablo In point of enthuslnsm that JHtf most of tboso present over witnessed. IflHn When he entered the hall, tbo presi- K3llf donf wac nhnnrorl in hr nfhn Prnin mBC tlle Btlte nouse the president motored I , 'Be out into south Boston and for more I dB an wo nol,rs listened to the cheer- f EB( ing of thousands of Bostonians, saw 1 HjB t thousands of flagu v,aved In bis honor I j and reviewed one of the largest pa- H' rades ever arranged in honor of Ire- I IJIj land's patron saint, and "Evacuation 1 bH day" tjB' Before the Massachusetts legisla- j H ture, ho spoko on prcslcTentlal prl- j SJ. marles pointing out that he favored lKH sucJiregistratlon of the popular will WW In "regard to tbo presidential candi- Ygzm dates where the law safeguarded tho 1MB ballot. - YMM To a delegation from tho Massachu- sjWB setts peace aociety he said he did not urjyB intend to give up the fight for arbl- vMBB tratlon treaties with Great Britain jjH-jBv antl France and added that when Sec-jjfnAwfi- rotary Knbx returned from Central ;5B i America, a plan to resume tho fight 'flaM for arbitration would bo worked Out. iJ): In- his address to tbe Charitable JJJB j Irish society tonight, tho president tt(9$ praised the Irish for their adaptlbll- VB lty In becoming Americans and added mmlmuumumummfKKmmatmmm a word about the evident belief of that race In tho stability of American Institutions. In-stitutions. In this connection tho president saldr "Tbe thing of which I wish to speak tonight, however, is tho well known fact that Socialism and anarchy have found no lodgment -among Irishmen-Not Irishmen-Not from thorn do wo hoar proposals to chango tho fundumontal law, to take away tho independence-, of tho Judiciary, or 10 minimize in any way tho Influonco and power of constituted authority. They welcome progress; they a.rc enlerprlBing and active .to further prosperity. They are not filil of diatribes agaiust the existing orddr. "They are not reaching out for new godB of government. Thoy aro not seeking to Invent a nowsocIoty and turn the present topsy turvy. They are on the Bide of law and order " Tho president spent the night la a Boston hotel. Tomorrow bo will leajvo for New Hampshire to keep engagements engage-ments at Nashua, Concord and Manchester Man-chester In tbe afternoon the president received re-ceived the Harvard Taft club at hs Jjotel. In reply to the characteristic Tollego greeting, he said; "My boys, I have known the time when that Harvard sound did not j$o right to my heart as it doos now. I am proud that you should think it worth while to get together and emphasize em-phasize your Interest in tho presidential presiden-tial contest and should express yopr ' fair opinion of me. I don't know that the contest Is going to shape up finally final-ly in the wa. It seems now to "bo shaping, but St seems to me Important that we should adhere toboae good things that we have tried for 125 years jj-and know to be good tnQt we should not lightly reject that form of govern-i govern-i ment or any part of that form of gov-I gov-I ernment that is fundamental and ' seems to us to bo a pillar, without very great delibcratiou and without; having it borne In on ua beyond a doubt that it safely can bo parted with." oo |