Excerpt from Neutrality, an Address Delivered by William H. Taft Before the Washington Association of New Jersey Mr. Mills: We will show our patriotic fervor by singing "America." [Audience sings.] My friends, welcome once more to the home of Washington, which has been a Mecca for patriotic Americans for over one hundred and thirty-five years. It is a pleasure to look upon this audience. You may remember that your dearly beloved President, the late Mr. Roberts, used to call you the most representative, democratic, aristocratic, intelligent and distinguished body of men on earth. [Applause.] I would add to this eulogium, except that I do not believe in flattery. Laughter. I can see from an examination of your faces that Father Time has used you well during the past twelve months; much better than he used a relative of mine whose little three-year old grandson once said to her, "Grandma, who put those deep lines in your face?" "Why, my dear, it was an old gentleman named Father Time." "Well," said the youngster, "I think he is a mean, horrid old man, and I would like to tell him so " Father Time is not such a bad friend, after all, though owing to the hardships of the past year many of you, no doubt, feel toward him the way a colored woman once felt toward a friend of hers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.