Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1909 — BEYERLY IS LONESOME AS PRESIDENT LEAvES. [ARTICLE]

BEYERLY IS LONESOME AS PRESIDENT LEAvES.

Taft Leaves For 18,000 Mile Tour pf Country Reassuring the Return of Prosperity. - _____ ■■■’.- Beverly, Mass., the summer home of President Taft, is now quiet and the chief executive has started on his long trip to the Pacific coast, and from which he will not return to Washington until near the time when congress will convene on > December Ist. The president will travel about 13,000 miles, visit twenty-nine states and two territories and make about 300 speeches. His first public utterance since the special session of congress adjourned was made at Boston < Tuesday night, when he addressed some two thousand men, who were members and invited guests of three recently merged commercial organizations. The most impressive thing about the president’s speech was the fact that he made no effort to side-track any responsibility, and that he admitted the imperfection of the recent tariff bill, and criticised the banking and currency system of the country. However, President Taft is not going around with a long face and deelar—ing that the country is going to the bow-wows because of these imperfections. Instead he is saying that the recent tariff bill has done much to relieve the conditions that existed for the past two years and that the country is now undergoing a business re--vival that is fast restoring general prosperity. President Taft does not propose to compromise matters with the big violators of the law, and while facing the heads of the corporations he said in plain terms that “the law is for all and must be enforced even against the most powerful.” . The . president criticised the recent suggestion of Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, that the west should organize against the east, and which is really the first real weak statement of Governor Johnson, and discouraged any suggestion of sectionalism, saying “not in the history of the country since the war has the feeling between the north and south been more cordial than today,” ’ * The calm, business-like manner in which President Taft has taken hold of the reins of government, and the optimistic confidence he has in the country and his determination to bring about the pledges of the platform on which he was elected, should cause every citizen of whatever party to place confidence in him and to get right into the game of life and get his or her full share of the approaching

prosperity. President Taft will reach Chicago Thursday morning and that city has fairly outdone itself in preparing a reception for the chief executive. Many people will be in Chicage from other cities and the reception to the president will be a grand affair. Every day adds assurance that the country is in a healthy condition and that its president is meeting up to every requirement of the high office to which he was elected, justifying the early claims of the Republican that in William H. Taft, the country had a qualified leader, a man of brains and conscience and tact and caution, admirably assembled.