Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
TAFT ON THE TRUSTS
President Planning important
Speech for Monday.
BIG DAY IN TWIN CITIES
Cordial Welcome Given Him in St.
Paul and Minneapolis.
IS TOUCHED BY GREETING
Sympathetically Refers to Message
Sent Him From Sick Bed of
Minnesota's s Executive.
IS TOUCHED BY GREETING

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., September 49,
President Taft, having disposed Of his
views on the tariff at Winona last night,
Is now planning to make two more
speeches Of first Importance next week.
One of these will deal with Mr. Taft's
plans for amending the interstate COM
merce and the antitrust laws and the
general control of corporations. The
President is thinking of delivering this
speech at Des Moines. Iowa, on Monday
While in Des Moines Mr.. Taft will be the
guest of Senator Cummins, one of the
leading "insurgents" in the Senate.
In the second speech the President has
in mind he will take up and discuss the
question Of the conservation Of natural
resources, and may have something
more to say on the Ballinger-Pinchot con-
troversy. This speech the President prob
ably will deliver in Denver on Tuesday
night.
The President has not prepared either
speech in advance. but has all the ma
terial for them at his finger tips
Senator Nelson made his first appear
ance during the Presidents visit at the
banquet tonight In the Minneapolis Audi
torium. when he was one of the score
of leading citizens at the table with the
president. There were 600 diners on the
floor and more than 1,OCO people In the
galleries.
Gov johnson was to have been one of
the speakers at the banquet. A tribute
to him by DR.. Cyrus Northrop called forth
long continued applause. Representative
Frank M. Nye of Minneapolis, introduced
as one who had faced the Cannon s
mouth at Washington but got back
home safe and sound" preceded the
President. 1t was well along toward mid
night when Mr.. Taft arose to speak, and
his address was brief. He paid tribute
again to Gov. Johnson. and again urged
that Minneapolis and st. Paul should be
one and inseparable
II have no doubt that You are coming
together" he continued. "and that you
will stand together as one great metrop-
oils of the northwest.
Limitations of President.
The President dwelt again tonight. as he
has on several occasions since his trip
began on the limitations that are placed
upon the President, and asserted that
the real power of the country is vested in
the Congress, although the man at the
top usually gets the blame"
something has been said here tonight"
he went on. about the ruler and the
ruled. And it always gives me goose
flesh. I am not ruler. l am round in
form, as some of the old rulers were. but
in no other respect have 1 the qualities
that go ito make up that term"
The President, branching out from this.
discussed, for a time. the modern forms
of government and the Constitution of
which he declared the trainers builded
more wisely than they knew.
'.If you want to estimate that Consti-
tuition as it ought to be, I beg you to
take it up and read 1t and then COM
mare 1t with the constitution of the state
Of Oklahoma" said the President amid
laughter.
Mr.. Taft declared the Constitution of
the country had been found to meet all
its needs. and he believed it would con-
tinue to do SO.
Receives Cordial Welcome.
President Taft came to the twin cities
today, and, with the shadow