Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1911 — TAFT AGAINST UNJUST ENMITY [ARTICLE]

TAFT AGAINST UNJUST ENMITY

& Says that Much Business Success la Deserved. TRUSTS MUST OBEY THE UW President Advocates Prevention of Abuse of Monopoly and Undue Advantage, but No Opposition to Prosperity Per Se. Waterloo. la., Sept. 29. —To check i unjust prejudice against the business j enterprise of the country was the appeal with which President Taft faced the middle west. In an address on the relation of the government to business of the coun* try, which he delivered here before an outdoor audience of several thousand people the president said that the people of every section and class of the country were all in the same boat and that to persist in sectional vindictiveness against the prosperity of another section of the country would enforce business prostration throughout the land as surely as night follows day. “We are all tossed by the same waves,” he cautioned them. The comment upon the speech, as to how it would be received in the insurgent district and particularly in this agricultural state was too varied to allow of any conclusion. Mr. Taft w*as not applauded very much, but the crowd gate him the closest attention. His address was a clear effort to point the way “down the middle of the road." The president advocated progress in the movement to prevent the abuses of monopoly and undue advantage, but declared that the time had come to call a halt in hostility to business and mere prosperity or success. He asserted that generally the laws now enacted were sufficient to assure the correction of those evils and counselled only helpful legislation for the future. At the same time he emphasized his determination to enforce those law's. The attorney general, he said, was acting under his orders in the prosecution of the trusts and had no discretion whatever to stay the hand of the government “and so long as such combinations existed they would be prosecuted under the law. Mr. Taft spoke to audiences in eight lowa towns. In most of his speeches he discussed his tariff vetoes and he dwelt several times upon the promise that he would recommend such tariff revision to congress within three months as would conform to the demands of the lowa Republican state platform for a scientific revised tariff. He said that when he did this he wanted the people of lowa to support him and that if he did not do it they could punish him as they saw fit Senator Cummins, the insurgent lowa senator, was conspicuously absent from the delegation of state officials who welcomed the president to lowa.