Show Mr Tafts Taft's Message I I I IT T is expected that President Tafts Taft's is message to Congress on the state of the Union and thc the recommendations he may make for or correcting whatever whatever what what- cv ever r in his judgment needs correction will win be bc read in both houses today There is not so much curiosity curi about it perhaps as in former ormer years as Mr t Taft has ta taken n the people pretty generally into his confidence as to the subject t upon which he shall shan dwell at most length and the recommendations he will make upon that issue It was semi semi officially officially announced from the White House some days a ago that the first message will deal almost exclusively I with the trusts with a n report on what the thc administration administration administration admin- admin has been able to do and the legislation it thinks should be enacted to enable it to conclude its task with an assurance of success There can be no question that the policy to beI be I used in dealing with the trusts interests the public generally more nore than other any ln subject The Thc man in the street believes that the general prosperity ty of or the country depends in a Jar largo large e measure upon the degree of prosperity enjoyed by the tIie great corporations corporations corporations cor cor- he beli believes cs that money which is in hiding hiding hid hid- ing must be coaxed out into the thc arteries of business busi busi- ness bc before ore Uncle Sam is in as good condition commercially as he was a few years n ago o. o The pres pres- intention to en enforce orce the thc law with unabated vigor is not problematical because the thc President t has hns declared it to be his intention t to do this an and d td the public has learned that Mr fr Taft ah a always s keeps keep s his word But the thc country i is deeply int interested rested in know know- in lag ing whether there will be bc legislation that will rill definitely deft fi fix the Jen lengths to which a corporation may v I go IO in stifling competition an and andl whether the Pre ident i- i dent has hag a plan that will win restore competition in th the C oil on business for instance or the tobacco business I after after- of ter- ter tune thc great trusts which controlled in this field 1 of human endeavor been beon dissolved |