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Show TAFT SAYS HE IS GOINGTQENFORCE ANTI-TRUST UW NEWCASTLE, Wyo., OcL 20. President Taft again made H cleai. In a speech hero tonight, that It la his Intention to enforce tho Sherman anil-trust act no matter how much offending combinations squeal for morcy. "The supreme court," 0ft'd Mr, Taft, "has rondered two decisions, one against tho Standard Oil company, requiring re-quiring It to bo broken up and disintegrated disin-tegrated into parts, and tho other agalnqt the American Tobacco company com-pany There are other companies that are charged in the same way, some of them are coming in voluntarily volun-tarily to divide themsolves up. And Juat as we are about to reach a prooor and successful administration of tho law, wo arc beginning to find that there are some people that object to tho administration because of the fact that we aro prosecuting those trust3 and enforcing the law. To Got After tho Violators. "It is a case where tho administration administra-tion Is In the situation of being damned damn-ed if, ft .docs, and, damned t it don't. But our iirfdorstmuling'In the administration adminis-tration is thnt when the President lifted his hand and swore to defend tho constitution and enforce the law, It mennt somothlng, and when thero was a law upon the statulo books for twenty years to suppress those combination com-bination against Interstate trade to monopolize and to Interfere with tht trade, and to control prices, tbat It was his business, and the business of all under him to enforce the law, and that 1b what we arc doing. And that Is what "wo propose lo do, no mattor whether ve be damned or not The prosecution of these great combinations combina-tions that havo boon engaged In trv-ing trv-ing to prevent competition must go on until either the law Is repealed or until the law is so enforced that no combination shall exist which shall be able to prevent competition and establish a monopolv and that is the policy which the administration has adopted and that it intends to carry through." Spend6 Day In Cold Region. The President Boont the day traveling trav-eling through northern Wyoming. Ho started at Sheridan in the morninK with tho thermometer down around 25 and stooped for tho nli;ht at Newcastle. New-castle. Not much Improvement in tho temperature was noted. For hour after hour today his train passed country half covered with snow and at times the clouds overhead over-head spit snow enough to mako a blizzard look lmminonL His speech here was bosun Just as Bnow began to fall It was not a heavy fall, but It came faBt. At Sheridan the President was token for a throe-mile ride . to Fort MnKInzle. It was cold onough to make buffalo robes and heavy overcoats over-coats comfortable, and Mr. Taft stopped stop-ped for a few minutes In post headquarters head-quarters to got warm. He spoke thero In the tabernacle under oanvas to several sev-eral thousand persons on peaco and arbitration. |