The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1908-10-02

Roosevelt and these policies he seeks
to maintain.
Judge Taft will be elected. His
! whole record is one of construction
+ and never of destruction, while the
whole history of democracy has been
one of destruction, especially as ad-
vocated by Bryan. s-..
II have the honor to introduce to
you Judge Taft, the next president
of the United States" .'a .-.
Speech in operahouse.
Taft said in part: "T am delighted
to greet a North Dakota audience
of men that do things and in that
respect it is like the republican party.
Il want to take a minute to give
you a little inside personal history
concerning my visit to North Dakota.
l got an intimation that 1 ought to
come out this way to convince the
people that / was not an aristocrat.
! 1t has been said of me that am a
| dude and that l spend my time play
! ing golf-which is said to be a rich
mans game-and that l am entirely
out of sympathy with the common
people,
Here Mr. Taft walked across the
stage, leaned forward as if he was
| getting right down to the people in
his audience, a characteristic atti-
tude, and continued:
! Il want to explain about that golf
game. over in Scotland it is the
game of the people and over in this
/ country, where there is enough ROOM
| it is good game for people who have
! grown a little heavy to play baseball
! or tennis-for people who are not
active enough for those games that
are common in this country. We stout
| people ought to be allowed some game
! that will keep us in trim. We have
| got to have a game of some kind
when we get to weigh 295 pounds and
! l want to tell you that while golf may
| be rich mans game it is also a
poor mans game. l can tell you from
personal experience that very poor
man can play it. But / came here to
show myself and to let you people
| see that do not resemble a dude.
II feel complimented beyond ex-
preston at the big turnout of North
Dakota people and | want to testify
! from the bottom of my heart how
| grateful l am.
1--WE have heard a great deal about
the trusts, but we have not had q
great deal of accurate information.
Bryan says that l do not know
anything about the trusts, in fact
Bryan says that | do not know any
thing about anything. This, Of course
is one os the issues of the campaign
F.. hoe foIy cit n.
the issue I am in duty bound to taks
the other side and to assure you that
II do know something about some
thing.
"The question, : hat is trust? i.
really question of law and / car
say that at one time / was lawyer
have been lawyer and connected
with the law business for about clever
years. For eight or nine years wa!
on the federal bench and while i
was Mr.. Choate who said at a gather
ing of judges and lawyers that we ar,
all lawyers here but the judges,
believe that a judicial experience II
very good legal education.
During my experience as a judg'
had to give great many decisions
concerning the trusts and the trus
question, and one of the most i'm
portant of the cases in which gave
# ruling was the Addison pipe case
That decision has become the bash
on which all trusts are being prose
cuted at the present time. This de
cision was objectionable in length
but when it went to the supreme cour
it was upheld and the judges paid m
the compliment of quoting largel,
from my decision in sustaining tn
judgment
my plea regarding the trusts !
that / began my investigation lon
before intended to become presi
dent cloud applause and grea
laughter).
Il do claim to know somethin
, about what the law means when it de
nounces the trusts
J But / want to explain to you som
{ Of the difficulties that were met wit
] when the attempt was made to cur
: the trusts that were using their powe
and position unIawfuliy and wrong
fully In the first place, this countr
) had been having period Of unprece
t dented prosperity
: "But, in the course of the gres
! march of prosperity which we had
B this country, there crept in evils (
: dishonest management; of lawlessnes
4 among railroads. Of an increase I
Illegal monopolies Al moral awaken
t ing came among the people; the expo
3 nent of that moral awakening we
b Theodore Roosevelt, and he grappIe
I that question with the same energ