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Show charm, of others from the other side who were willing or were Induced, whether willing or not to become wives of northern men, so that It may not.be the worst lot should your fate ever carry you north of Mason and Dixon's line, for we know a good thing when we see it." Mr. Taft then went to the Haines normal; and Industrial Instltuto for Negroes, Ne-groes, where he delivered an extended extend-ed address on the benefits of education. educa-tion. , Expressing the mast profound sympathy sym-pathy for the struggle upward of the negro race, Mr. Taft remarked, having hav-ing in mind the recent utterances of Senator Tillman: "I do not think It unapproprlate to refer to some expressions that fall from the Hps of men prominent In political life, that are utterly lacking In sympathy and that are cruel and abrupt In their meaning, If they are to bo given the meaning that the words naturally bear. I refer to those gentlomen who deem It necessary neces-sary to affirm that In the Interest of this country the negro race should have no education. Now, I am .glad to know and believe that those men In their hearts do not believe that, that it comes rather from a desire to say something that shall have a sensational sen-sational effect than It does from a real spirit. I was going to say of cruelty towards a race that deserves from those of us who are white all the aid, the assistance and all te sympathy wo can give. I know that you know that those expressions do not represent repre-sent the feeling of tho great body of Intelligent white men In this country'-" Missouri politics was the subject which Mr. Taft talked of today with W. S. Dickey, who spoke of the avall-abllty avall-abllty for a cabinet place of Charles Nagel and President Swlnney of tho First National bank of Kansas City. R. C. Kernes of St. Louis likewise had a conference at the Taft cottage. NEW -ATTACK ' ON "SOLID SOP" Taft Addresses School for ' Girls, Believes Women ! Will : Get Suffrage. Augusta, Ga., Jan. 19. What might be considered an entirely new point of attack on the "solid south" was made today by the president-elect -when he put In a good word for the warm hand and ardor of northern men "who know a good thing when, they seo It" in the charm and beauty of the southern women. This lighter win f Mr. Taft's humor was given vent before w'aat he termed a "bouquet of ibright and charming faces" the students stu-dents at Tubman high school for ,rls- , , 1 Tho charming appearance of tho student body, ho said, impressed him : as an entirely new and convincing argument in favor of tho separation of tho sexes for education. When trained Intelligent women of. the country wanted suffrage he pre- 1 dieted they would get It, on the very i natural ground that they always get ! trhat they want. .'. Matrimony, as Mr. Taft said at Athens last week., was not the only future to which a young woman should ' look, and no unsatisfactory accept-i accept-i ences should be made of the marrlago proposals simply to avoid being an ! old maid. Tho great success of many i unmarried women of his acquaintance, justified this assertion. ' "But of course In the south, you are ! not troubled as they are In Massa-I Massa-I chusetts," he continued," where there j are so many women that there is no 1 possibility that they can all marry and it 1 a real serious problem as I to what shall be done with the unmar-j unmar-j ried women. Here I know that tho situation is different. ' ' "But my dear young ladles, I did j not come here to make a prepared ! address. I came here trustlng;to the inspiration of the moment for what your bright eyes and pretty faces and . your charming presence might bring out of me. I trust I am not too old yet to yield to tho charm of beauty and that to which even a northern . anay be awakened to. 1 know there Is a theory that we are all cold In the north, but I assure you It is not true. I remember while once in Nashville of making inquiry regarding a great many families there and I found that i Immediately after the war there were a great many northern officers who exercised ex-ercised admirable taste and who found young ladies of beauty and |