The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-10
Aggressive Speech of Attorney
General Wickersham at Chi
cago in Defense of the Admin
istration of President Taft.
EVERY PLEDGE MADE IN
PLATFORM CARRIED OUT
Tariff Law the Best Ever En-
acted and Is Producing Good
ReSuItS-IIIegaI Trusts Be-
ing Prosecuted With Vigor.
REVIEW OF YEARS WORK

CHICAGO, Ill, April 9.-Ia the most
aggressive defense that has yet
been uttered for the policies and
administration Os William III. Taft. At
taeney General George w. Wickersham.
az the A2pOmattax celebration of the
hamilton club tonight, fIayed the PresI-
deaPs aetractorsi smOte the Republican
insurgents hip and thigh, reviewed the
acts Of the first year of the adninistra-
ton and, declaring that every pledge
made In the Republican platform of
Ia0S lad been fulfilled to the extent Of
the possible limits % executive action,
challenged In ringing tones, aXVhat
other administration can point TO che
accomplishment of much in so short
a time 2"
Il was the general feeling that the at
torney general was speaking for his chief
as he recalled the campaign pledges one
by one, and pointed to the executives
action upon them after taking office.
The administration determination to
enforce the Sherman law against trusts
md monopolies, he reiterated; the tariff
he defended, and declared that as a reve-
nue. producer it had no equal, while its
maximum and minimum provisions pro-
v.ded powerful weapon for the protec-
ton of American commerce. Pointing to
the treasury's. statement of an estimated
surplus of more than S35,O0o 900 for the
fiscal year, ending on June 30, 1911, the at
which would reduce the annual expenses
of government fOrty-tWo million dollars
and turn an estimated annual deficit of
a hundred millions into a surplus of
tfirty-five millions. while after-dinner or
atcrs were eloquently discoursing on the
subject.
Every Republican must choose, the at
torney general declared, whether or not
he was with the Republican party and
the President.
Hint for insurgents.
He that hath no stomach for the fight.
let him depart" quoted Mr.. Wickersham
in a shout which emphasized the senti-
ment- The time OF running with the
hares and the hounds is over. Treason
has ever consisted in giving aid and
comfort TO the enemy If any one wishes
to join the democratic party. let him do
so; but let him not claim 70 be a Re-
publican. and work in and out of season
TO defeat Republican measures and to
subvert the influence OF the Republican
President
Arranging his argument TO follow the
sequence of events. Mr.. Wickersha N be-
ga by saying that the previous sfNin-
istration had been characterized by
determined and courageous attack on
abuses of privileges and power, upon
which had been reared aggregStions Of
capital. whose existence and Unchecked
growth threa tened the stability OF free
Institutions.
"a higher standard of business morality
and obedience TO law had been set" de-
ciared the attorney general, but in the
attainment of these ends the country
had been shaken to its founda tons, and
the work of perfecting the machinery by
which those standards might be main
tanned by which TO use the language OF
President Taft. the law breakers might
be promptly restrained and punished
but which should operate with sufficient
accuracy and dispatch to interfere with
legitimate business as little as possible
was as the President pointed out in his
speech of acceptance, to be the chief
function OF his administration
II would be a strained analogy, the
attorney general Thought. to iiken too
closely the IA SIX confronting the admins
tration of President Taft with the work
war.
''The terms which General Grant had
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