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Show TAFT TO ENTER WISCONSIN TODAY ST PAUL, Minn , Oct. 25. President Presi-dent Taft tonight bade farewell to Minnesota and departed for tho "real home of the enemy" "Wisconsin. Before Be-fore leaving St. Paul Mr. Taft expressed ex-pressed his gratltudo for tho reception recep-tion accorded him here and in Minneapolis. Minne-apolis. Ills speech here tonight was on the arbitration treaties and waB devoid of politics. The president arrivod In SL Paul after a two-hours' automobile ride from Minneapolis. He was taken to Minnehaha Falls, to Fort Snelllng. to the stato soldlors home and to other points of interest on tho way. In addition to his speech on peace here tonight tho president made two important addresses during the day-One day-One was on the subject of the Panama Pan-ama canal at the luncheon of tho Young Men's Republican club of Minneapolis Min-neapolis and the other was a lot of homely advice to the students of the University of Minnesota. To tho latter tho president suggested suggest-ed that the activities of college Hfo might be better devoted to more elo-vatln-s subjects than "barbaric yells" and ho was suro that the young men who started In life -without means was bettor equipped than tho rich man's son not used to nn Income sufficient to live upon without working. The president also made a plea for fairness in sport, whether it ho upon tho college gridiron or on the professional profes-sional baseball field. "I love baseball." exclaimed, tho president, "but I also love a fair deal."' Tho president's remarks about college col-lege yells ere called forth b) yells ho received In greeting by tho .Minnesota students headed by cheer leaders, who jumped in front of Mr. Taft and went through all sorts of gyrations. The president spoke generally upon the responsibility of university men and women. ''University men go out Into thC( vorld without any money, as a rule," dald Mr. Taft, "and those who have not money usually serve the public bosL If there is nuythlng .that la a burden, if there Is4 anything that l difficult for a young man to overcome, ty is a-n .income that will enable him to. live without work. ' "You don't applaud that enthusiastically," enthusias-tically," he added with a smile. "Von would like to try It the other wax. But 1 am giving you the benefit real experience. You look abouL after af-ter yon have boon out of college fivt years ;mri, pick out, if you can. a 6lnglo man that hrfs made a real success suc-cess and had a great deal to live on vhen he left college. If you find him I -Ji ho is entitled to a great deal moro credit than you are if you have had to hustle In order to get enough to eat, for ho has overcome more obstacles obsta-cles and more difficulties than you." The president said ho wanted to stop here, for if hj proceeded lie would have to criticise somo phases of college lffe. Thoroywcro countless cries of "go on. go on," so Mr. Taft went on "I suppose it i3 necessary," he said, "to keep up these barbaric yells that aro supposed to be an expression of university life. I suppose it is necessary, neces-sary, too. that the leaders go through the contortions that we saw hero in order to invoke the real college spirit, spir-it, but it was not necessary thirty or forty years ago. They got along with a less sharp yell than the rest and with a more graceful hurrah." Mr. Taft suggested that American universities might well devote a little lit-tle moro attention to a study of manners. man-ners. Tho Anglo-Saxon, the northern races, he said, prided themselves on their straightforwardness, on their tolling each other just what they thought; whereas they might learn a great deal from tho politeness of the Latin races. "Heaven save ine," exclaimed tho president, "from a candid friend.'' |
