Show EAK SISTERS flA FLAYED YD ALIVE Aggressive Speech of Attorney General Wickersham at atChi Chi Ohi Chicago cago in Defense of the Admin Administration Administration Administration of President Taft TaftS S t tia ia k EVERY PLEDGE MADE IN PLATFORM CARRIED OUT Tariff Law the Best Ever En Enacted Enacted Enacted acted and Is Producing Good Results Illegal Trusts Be Being Being ing Prosecuted With Vigor REVIEW OF YEARS WORK 1 IlL DI April 9 DIn In the most 1 C aggressive defense e that hue has et been bC D uttered for the policies and o 11 II Taft rn At General Gener George W nt Ut the celebration of otille the Hamilton club tonight flared fl the dents dent detractor smote mot the Republican hip bin ned and thigh reviewed the thenet nets net ut the year of the administration tion declaring that every pledge nude ninde In the Republican platform of 1 illos OS been lieen fulfilled to 10 the extent of Df th tb the possible limit of o executive fiction In u ringing tune tones What other administration can In point to 10 the of ot no an much muck in so o short abort a time I was the general feeling that the at attorney attorney torney general was speaking for his chief as he h recalled the campaign pledges one by b one ones end arid painted to the tho th executives action upon them after taking office The Tit administrations determination to enforce tho the Sherman law against trusts and monopolies he reiterated the tariff J Je Ie e defended and declared that as a reve revenue revenue nue Jue producer it had no equal while its Us maximum and minimum provisions pro provided vided ded a powerful weapon for the tha protection protection tion to of American commerce Pointing to the treasury statement of an estimated surplus of more moro than for tho the year ending on June Tune 30 ro 3 1911 the at al attorney attorney torney tompy general said it reflected which would reduce the annual expenses of government lUlon and turn an estimated annual deficit of or ofa ora a hundred millions into a surplus of oft t tt million while or 01 were eloquently discoursing on the subject Every Eve Republican must c the at attorney attorney torney general declared whether or not he bEl was with the n n party and the President Hint for Insurgents He that hath bath no stomach for the fight tight let him depart quoted Mr Wickersham in a shout which emphasized the th sentiment senti sentiment ment The time of ot running with the hares and the houns houn s Is over Treason has ever consisted in giving aid and comfort to the enemy If any anyone one to Join the Democratic party let him d so II but let him not claim to be a f publican and work In and out of sea n nto to defeat Republican measures and to i the tho influence of tho the can I President I Arranging his he argument to the I sequence of events Mr Ir Wl VJ kershan be began began began gan by saying that the previous aSin jIn a ln I had been characterized by a determined and courageous attack on I abuses of privileges and power po tr upon I I which had bad been reared aggregations of capital whose existence and unchecked I growth threatened the stability of Tree Institutions ns A higher standard of ot business morality and obedience to law had bad been set de declared dared the attorney general but In the attainment of these ends the country had been shaken to its foundations founds and the work of perfecting the machinery by wh li those standards might be main maintained maintained tamed by which to use n the language of Taft Tatt the law aW breakers might be promptly restrained and punished but which should operate with sufficient accuracy and dispatch to Interfere with withe legitimate e business as little as possible was oa na the President ent pointed out In Ws speech peach of acceptance to be the chief function fun of his administration It would be a strained analogy tha the attorney general thought to liken too closely the task confronting the adminis administration administration of President Taft with the work ff of o reconstruction following the Civil war warThe The terms which General Grant had Continued on Page Seven 1 I I 3 I IS S S SI I x 4 i r S I I I GEORGE W WICKERSHAM Attorney General of the united States who delivered a forcible speech in Chicago upholding the administration of President resident Taft WEAK SISTERS FLAYED ALIVE Fl YE ALVE Continued From Page One advised General Le Lee would be accept acceptable acceptable able he said however were as simple and conclusive as those thos which nearly a ahal half hal century later President Taft Tr of offered offered offered monopolies to the managers of great geat trusts trust and On this anniversary of the peace o of Appomattox the mind naturally turns to many points point of ot similarity in the condi conditions conditions tons prevailing In these two different epochs The he danger from armed re so resistance r to constituted authority Is open and manifest and is met by simple ob obvious obvious methods The dangers to free fre In Institutions institutions arising from the concentration tion ton of vast wealth and great power In Ir few hands Is for fr r more mor Insidious than that arising from open oyen revolt against govern government government government ment ment and the oun methods by which these dangers may be met and averted are less obvious and more nor subject to misunderstanding standing than the work of ot resisting force by force The dally daily daly work of endeavor endeavorIng Ing to carry car on the great geat Increasingly complex business of government without perpetual turmoil and commotion but none the less efficiently and adequately Is far fr less attractive to spectacular Im Imagination imagination and can only be done by men who are content to endure misrepresentation tation and misinterpretation of or their acts act and to look to the future rather than to the present for a vindication of their motives deeds and a Justification of their Much Accomplished The administration of ot President Taft has been bon In office a little more mor than a year That It has accomplished much in that time is abundantly attested by the volume of ot criticism and by the increasing increasing ing vehemence It of attacks a tack upon I Mr r Wickershain then thea went on to re review review view the Presidents acts his recommendations to Congress and his efforts to secure legislation promised in the Republican platform The corporation tax he said was a practical application of the provisions pr of the party pledge which declared for strengthening the law against trusts that its Is real objects might be better tetter beter obtained It I was a aper per perfectly legitimate and effective system of taxation he said by which federal supervision over business of ot corpora corporations corporatiOns tons could be established fend nd the knowledge obtained would be a long step toward that supervisory control of corporations which might prevent further abuses of ot power People who had for years been clamoring for greater publicity in the affairs of ot corporations and for gov government government government supervision became highly In Indignant indignant when they found that their own particular corporations were required to make returns as well wen as their neigh neighbors neighbors bors hors What they wanted was pub publicity publicity for others oth and not for them themselves themselves themselves selves he exclaimed The Tariff Board In speaking of the tariff board the attorney general generl declared that by Its Is operations and with wih the aid of ot the in formation furnished through the cor cot corporation tax amendment the country would be spared a repetition of the scenes In the tho framing of the last tariff law which he said were a purely selfish scramble for government aid furthered by every form torm of misrepresentation misrepresentation and misinformation Con Congress green gress gess would never n ver again be bo in the pool position tion ton of ot being compelled to legislate on the tariff on the advice furnished by interested ones in aid of their own contentions The Presidents special messages Mr r Wickersham added had bad recommended amendments to the interstate commerce law taw federal incorporations postal sav saw ings banks uniform safety appliances on railroad trains changes to make the employers liability act more easy to enforce intelligent ent conservation laws of ot mail mal rates and revision of the customs Jaws laws The President had placed before Congress for enactment Into law he declared all aU those measures which the Republican party had pledged I Itself to adopt and If I Congress should I adjourn without enacting them then upon Congress and not the President rested the responsibility for the President breach of faith Measures Will Wi Not Fail Fal But Mr r Wickersham expressed the I conviction that the Presidents program would go through I am firmly persuaded that these measures will win not fall fail fal he lie said and that despite the efforts effort of individuals to magnify their own particular importance Importance importance tance at the expense of party loyalty and party honor the Republican ma in ca will twill mn 1 fl fh i part S party pledges s and d give gi to S Sparty theO the the O country int y the benefit of that legislation the party parti has es promised and which the President has las so clearly clearl and so forcefully out lined economies of ot the expense of ot conduct conducing Ing ng the government the speaker dis discussed cussed exhaustively For the tile first time timen In n the history of the country he said saida a comprehensive budget had been pre prepared prepared prepared pared dealing with wih estimated expendI tures ures and the means of raising money to o defray them The fiscal year ear end InG ng in June 1911 would see a saving of ot more than over 1910 and less than the appropriations for the latter year There has never been boen such a Ion tion In the history of the th government he ic said said nor Is there ther any record of ot any effort by any an other administration to to reduce estimates similar to that made by department heads this year ear The work of the departments he re reviewed reviewed reviewed viewed saying the navy had suffered from rom frequent change of ot secretaries proposed changes In legislation for the department of the Interior he endorsed the he census work In the department of or commerce and labor he sketched briefly and then touched on the work worle of the department of ot Justice Prosecution of Trusts Mr Wickersham referred to the i prosecution of sugar frauds In 11 New York pointing to i tons and only one acquittal by a Jury as well wel as the th collection of more than three and a half hal millions In back duties dutes by the government The Standard Oil 01 and tobacco cases In n the supreme court of the United States he referred to particularly how however however however ever and declared they constituted the most comprehensive attempt ever made by b the government to deal with wih the question of monopoly In effect declared the attorney general with great emphasis on the word effect they Involve the ques tion ton whether or not the entire entre Indus tries ries of ot this country may be legally con trolled by one group of ot men It I Is not to be b Inferred that it Is the intention of ot the Republican party to put any check chek upon the natural and legitimate legit mate development of business enterprise either through Individual or corporate or organization organization But It I certainly has h S been Its Is fixed purpose since the enactment of the Sher Shur Sherman Shurman man law in 18 to prevent the tho perversion of ot laws of corporate organization or through stockholdings to the ac no accomplishment of ot schemes of ot monopoly It Is not essential to American I pro progress pro gross gress or American prosperity that one group of men shall control the entire business of ot the United States In oil 01 in sugar ugar or Iron or any other commodity and no sound round principle of ot economic law laws Is s offended by striking down all al such artificial combinations Administrations Policy Poley When he had finished reciting the t e ad administrations ministrations campaign against ion tion ton the attorney y general said All Al these represent the determined pol polIcy polIcy Icy cy of the government gov to attack atack nfl all special cial cal privileges and undue preferences whether obtained by illegal combinations by bribing public officials by b rebates or special advantages in transportation or 01 orby orby by any other method Is it not time that all al those who call cal themselves Republicans should stop co coquetting queUing with wih the Democratic party part shoUld hould sink their individual preferences about the details of legislation and Join with wih Republican workers in carrying to o tuition fruition under our great patient patient candid wise Republican President the work or of clinching the reforms of ot tho the last eight years ears on the lines so carefully and so wisely laid down In the platform of 1908 19 Wise legislation embodying no sud sudden sudden den len impulse but matured views expressed In n party council is pressed presse 1 for or enact enactment enactment enactment ment When the account Is cast and the Ute popl weigh them in ii the balance at the thelast thelast last ast election who will Wi find most favor The They hey who stood shoulder to shoulder with I the he President In carrying out the party part pledges or those who true to no party part principles hovered like the bat in the Table fable sometimes with wih one sometimes with the other and in the end was cast out and scorned d Uy ly y both So gentlemen in responding to your toast The rhe Administration 1 I have en endeavored endeavored briefly to indicate the principles upon which the President and his ad advisers advIsers advisers have been ben working and some of the results they have accomplished I can cansay cansay cansay say heartily for all al my m colleagues that they are a body of very ver loyal loal very sin sincere sincere sincere cere gentlemen who are striving to serve the people with a devotion true to Republican principles and loyal to the tile President whom one and all aU of ot them thorn aly love and admire Another AntiTrust Suit Sui These organizations present the most obnoxious form where they con control control control subjects of such vital vial importance to the entire entre community as the production production tion ton and marketing of coal and the department of Justice has recently ar argued argued argued gued and submitted to the circuit court courtot of ot the United States In Philadelphia a proceeding brought to break up a com corn combination under which the anthracite coal production of ot Pennsylvania is con controlled controlled trolled by an organization organization of ot railroad and coal mining com corn companies companIes and the department has now un under under under der preparation a proceeding against a similar combination affecting bitu bituminous biu bituminous minous coal believed to be bo equally rep reprehensible reprehensIble reprehensible in Its Is character and obnoxious obnoxIous ious bus in Its Is effect First Public Announcement Washington April Apri 9 Attorney Gen General Generl General eral erl announcement in his speech at Chicago tonight of pros prospective prospective legal proceedings against an alleged combination affecting bituminous ous coal was the first public announce announcement announcement announcement ment that such action was contemplated ed As in the case of the anthracite railroads and the mining companies controlled by them such action acton would be e brought under the Sherman anti antitrust ant antitrust trust act Charges have come to the department of ot Justice from Ohio coal operators declaring the railroads In the bituminous districts |