The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-05
Chief StatisticiaI
WARM RECEPTION GIVEN TO
TAFT BY ST. LOUIS PEOPLE
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public journals and in what ] may call
the cant of the damagogues disposition
to charge that Kind of bent in favor or
corporate wealth and corporate greed and
corporate monopoly when there is no
justice attached at all.
Class Declaration
"This assumption of peculiar honesty
manifested by class declaration and the
building up of class spirit is something
that ought to be deprecated in our re-
public or else it will lead to great danger.
We ought to take up the discussion of
public questions and discuss their effect
with judicial calmness and not have our
minds diverted by charges of prejudice
and corrupt motives-I say charges ut
terly unsupported by evidence of calm
consideration
and. so my friends. I have taken up
more than my allotted two minutes
(cries of ''go on') No. all I am appeal
ing for is justice and square deal
not especially for myself for indeed | am
In position where | can get along bet
ter than some of the rest without it, but
am appealing for justice in dealing
with all classes.
81 said all classes. OF course, prac
tically 1t Is pretty hard to give 1t. To
our socialistic friends, who are engaged
in decrying our present institutions, !
could furnish a good deal better ground
for their complaints than they give them
selves I have talked about this before.
and 1t is not a new theme with me.
think II they were to object to our adj
ministration of justice and the delays in
It, arising from the traditional methods
pursued In courts, by which the man
with the longest purse has the advantage
because the litigation is drawn out they
would be getting, as the children say,
pretty warm in reaching subject
which will bear full discussion and on
which we will have to have very decided
reform.
Courts May he Reformed
I'VE have got to arrange 1t so that
cases are decided promptly. I am bound
| to say that the United States courts are
not models in this regard, but all courts
may be reformed in this regard. what is
driving your merchants out of courts into
| arbitrations? It is the cost of litigation.
Now we ought to have courts that can
dispose Of business properly, promptly
and end litigation, and I speak as law
yer, and I speak as judge, and there
fore, speak with confidence. because
know what ] am talking about. feel
much more at home on this subject than
I do In discussing agricultural subjects
with farmers.
II would be lacking in gratitude and
| courtesy II I did not say how much
am indebted to this Business Mems
league of st. Louis, both for Its hos
pitable reception and for most inter
esting and instructive trip down the Mis-
| sissippi river. learned great deal
In that trip learned great deal about
the Mississippi river and the POSSIBLE
ties of making 1t a great stream for the
transportation of commerce. learned
too, that the government had done a
great deal on that stream and that its
engineers had acquired great deal OF
information with reference to the eco
nomical expenditures of money to make
II a great highway of commerce, and
though 1t Is coming, it may not come
gentlemen, with the speed that you hoped
for. 1t is not coming next year. or the
year after, but 1t is working along SC
that in time you can get any depth Of
water you choose"
Speech ut a Banquet
Earlier in the day the President hat
made a little speech on the Panams
canal at a banquet of the Commercial
club and had addressed the Farmers
union In the Coliseum on the subject O.
conservation.
After the Business Mems club lunch
con the President visited both OF the BIZ
league baseball games that were belni
played here this afternoon. He wen
first to the National mark. where h
saw the st. Louis team start out In TIL
very first inning with lead of f1v
runs over the Cincinnati club. He mex
! was whirled to the American Lcagu
park, where he saw several close inning
: played by the st. Louis and Clevelan
teams. At both places the President 80