Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-11
FINAL. SPEECH BEFORE
AN IMMENSE AUDIENCE
Preliminary Statement of Some Rec
concentrations That Will be Made
in First Annual Message TO Con-
aress-congratulates Governor and
Compliments v. M. |. Cadets.


RICHMOND. VA. Nov. 10.-"Dur-
ing my sixty days OF travel there
has been moment or two of de-
liberation and during that time l
have been studying what il is the
dIty OF an executive to recommend 10
an incoming congress in respect 10
future leeislation, and when ! think
of things congress ought TO do ] am
staggered lest il may not find time
TO do them.
In the final speech of his 10000
miles trip through the West ana
South before an immense audience
thi, afternoon. President Taft thus
produced a preliminary statement oil
some of the recommendation his first
message to congress will contain.
He declared himself in favor OF
bends for the purpose and of some
government control over water pow
or sites and coal and phosphate lands
80 that they may not come into the
hands Of one controlling corporation
but may be retained by the govern
ment with the power to restrict the
prices at which the coal. or at least
at which the power is sold, to prevent
the absorption int enc command Oh
all the power on the continent.
Antitrust Law Needs Enforcing.
The antitrust law, he declared,
needs enforcing and the interstate
commerce law amendment, lin order
TO give the interstate commerce trl-
bunal more power to prevent the de-
LAYS which are now incident 10 APP
peals 10 the courts"
He voiced his favor OF a postal saw
ings hank and declared that we must
improve our legal procedure so as TO
make it both in criminal and civil
cases more simple more rapid ana
less expensive. and I mean 70 recon-
mend to congress the appointment Oh
a commission to take up that SUBJ
ject."
Mr.. Taft said he believed the time
had come for the organization of a
federal health bureau.
When / was in the South before.
he said. land before | came TO be 4
President, but when I had a reason
able expectation of succeeding to that
office, said that | was anxious SO
far as the executive could TO show 10
the Southern people that in the eye
of the executive and the adminlstra-
ton at Washington they were as
closely A part of the Union and as
much entitled to it's consideration in
every respect as any other part OF
the county.
This, | said. it was not possible for
the executive to show other than III
speech except by the appointment TO
federal Office Ct men whose appoint
ment would commend itself 10 the
communities in which they live, tnat
they might regard those Appointed .
not as agents Of an alien. but rep
resenting their own government. Now,
in 90 far as I havs been able. ] have
attempted 10 carry out that policy.
A wear has not yet elapsed aud You
mus: give me three more years IN or
der to demonstrate my sincerity IN
that regard.
without Psrtizsn Passion.
We have reachsd point in This
country wien We can look back. not
without love. not without intense
pride. but without partisan passion. TO
events Of The Civil war" continued the
President. and We have reached a
point am glad 10 say when the North
can administer to the full the heroes
Of the Soath and the South administer
a. the heroes q the North.
4 am clad 20 say that in my own
alma mater 81 Yale We have esiab-
Hshed an association for the purpose
Of erecting within her academic pre-
cincts a memorial. not 10 the North
crn Yale men wh1 died. net 70 the
southern Yale men who died. but 20
the Yale men who died in the Civil
war. And 20 g IS hat venture 20
hope that the project suggested by my
predecessor. PRECEDENT Roosevelt.
NAV b. alluded 10 BY me with ap-
prcval md the expression Of the hope
that h IS coming 70 fruition. 10 wit.