The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-03
Coming Message to Congress.

Coming Message to Congress.
President Taft's message to the Six
ty-second congress is completed. He
has written it on the slopes of the 1
Rockies, in the alkali dust of the in
termountain states and on the blush
ing fruit lands of the Pacific slope.
BY the time the peregrinating White
House rolls rolls into Washington on
November 10, little will be lacking
from the document save the execu-
tive's benediction for the lawmakers
and a few recommendations handed
him by members of his cabinet. Taken
as whole, the present trip thus, far
might we'll be called a 'tfy-out of the
message. Mr. Taft has evolved it as
he has proceeded Each town has
been paragraph and each state a
page. At Boston, where his 13,000-mile
tour began, he laid before the finan-
cia1ly interested his ideas on curren-
cy and monetary legislation. His
sympathy for tle Aldrich central bank
scheme was ayowed, and he express
ed the hope that congress would rec
ognize the necessity of early action
along lines laid down by the monetary
commission which would result in our
adoption of financial system more
adequate to the needs of trade. From
Boston the President travelled to Chi
cago, w.aere he gave the business men
dealing with labor and injunctions. He
wished the antitrust law SO amended
that labor unions could not be unduly
Disseminated against, but at the
same time demanded that they under
stand the necessity of obeying the
laws like all otaer classes; he also
wanted to carry out the pledges OF
the party platform in regard to in
functions. At Milwaukee the President
advocated postal savings banks, and
4 at Winona, in the heart OF the insur-
gent territory. he came out in reso-
B lutte defense of Tawney and the tar
if bill, and threw down the gauntlet
to those wilo have charged him with
forgetting his promises of downward
revision In the Winona speech the
Z if revision is needed it will be well
to wait for recommendations of the
: tariff board on the subject, and in
the same address declared his inten
ton of ordering the board to prepare a
dictionary or glossary of tariff terms
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people at large. The Presidents Des
Moines speech was his declaration oil
, Intention to further amend the inter
!, state commerce law for the protec
ton OF the shipper against the oppres
, sions of the carrier and to ash
, for more law against the watering Of
, stock. Denver heard the Presidents
, recommendations for the income ia,
amendment to the constitution, to b.
, put in force only when the countr.
] faces grave financial crises Spokan,
: listened with eager ears to his con
! servation speech in which he pledged
4 himself to continue the Roosevelt pol
!, icies, and Seattle heard with keel
!. disappointment that Mr.. Taft wa
dead set against granting home rul
+ to Alaska. In the same speech h
. came out strongly for ship subsid
' and suggested that congress use tn
. s6,OoO,o0O or $s,OoO,ooO profit annual
i ly realized from the foreign mails t
L start first aid to the vessel owners
3 These, then, are the high points Of tn
# forthcoming message.
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