The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-07
St Louis Welcomes the Can-
 didate to the Pageants
GLAD HAND FOR UNION MEN
After Drinking Two Pitchers of Milk Taft Delivers an Address on Trust Regulation at the Coliseum
 to a Great Crowd.

to a Great Crowd.
 St. Louis, October 6.-With a twelve hour demonstration of cordiality, political enthusiasm and intense interest, this city today and tonight finished an appropriate climax to the western campaign trip of W. H. Taft which ended here today
 The candidate spoke to an immense au- dience in the Coliseum from which as many were turned away as got in. He followed this with an open air address at Clayton, county seat of St. Louis county, and then rushed to East St. Louis where he addressed a large gathering Of employees of the stock yards.
 The plans for an orderly reception to the public at the Planters Hotel were upset; the crush of men and women swept aside the guards at the door and pushed their way Into the lobby and up the big staircases. It was seen at once that nothing could be done with the crowd and passageway was cleared for the candidate to get away. On reach ing the first landing he turned and said with a smile:
 "As l remember mythology, there was a gentleman named Briarereus who had hundred hands. 1 wish l had them all for my friends, the people of St Louis"
 Once in his room Mr. Taft was fur nished with two pitchers of milk, and allowed to rest. He was next escorted to the Coliseum by a committee in a long line of carriages of which he was the last
 The speech he delivered to his aud fence was comprehensive but the position of the candidate on the question of trust regulation was made the important fea- ture.
 q wish 1 had a voice like a steam whistle" remarked Judge Taft to his Coliseum audience
 Bill Is Pleased.
 We don't have to hear you, Bill; it's good enough to see you, came an en- thusiastic voice from the gallery.
 Well" responded the candidate, that s kind of friend l like to have"
 How about labor unions? he was
 
 asked.
 'I have done more for labor unions than Mr. Gompers," was the quick re- tort, and then MT. Taft explained that the decisions he had delivered as a judge on the bench and which were now being misrepresented as placing him against unionism were really being used at pres ent in the courts by union labor as the basis of their tights.
 Another interruption was a query about campaign contributions. He replied that so far as he knew no contributions had yet been made that would have the slightest tendency to embarrass any one.
 Any gentleman here who desires to make a contribution to good cause, |" he added, may regard this as the time and place..
 After the three speeches had been made MT Taft was escorted to the hotel, from where he reviewed the grotesque parade of the Yelled Phophets whose carnival has the city firmly in its grasp.
 MT Taft visited the ball. for few mo- ments but did not participate in the fes- tivities.
 Talk on Trusts.
 The trusts and how best to deal with them was emphasized by MT. Taft in the speech he delivered this afternoon.
 He made it clear that he was not op- posed to the aggregation of capital for the purpose of effecting economies.
 Such aggregation he said, lis to be commended rather than condemned. It is not inconsistent with competition, and is an aid to our material progress.
 When however," he continued, ''it is accompanied by an attempt to monopolize business and to control prices. it then be- comes illegal, and the evil must be stamped out. This should be done by greater supervision of the business of such corporations, by federal control, the department of commerce and labor, by series of reports each month, by constant examination by government agents, and by immediate and persistent prosecution of all violations of law"
 Turning his attention to the remedies proposed by Mr. Bryan, MT. Taft said that the Nebraslean proposed, first, to put all trust made articles on the free list; second, to impose a license for all cor porations who make 25 per cent of any produce in the United States.
 As to the first he said "To put trust made articles on the free list would not only destroy the so-called monopolies and trusts, and throw out of employ ment millions of working men engaged therein. but it would also destroy ab solutely the Independent competitors of the tluts. and thus in one grand confagation would destroy the interests of both the innocent and the guilty
 License Remedy.
 The bjection to the second or license remedy, he said, was that it would in- clude a lot of small corporations mak- ing special articles that have no re- lation to trusts and arc now within the evil which monopolies bring about. He added:
 "A much better remedy would he t classification according to the capital of corporati tions. l think all corpora tions having more than s6,000.000 or $10.000 900 would probably include all the corporations that are likely to have any temptation to the formation of combina tions in restraint of trade and illegal monopoles
 If they were subject to government