Arizona republican., 1910-02-13
METHODS 0F BUSINESS
 MUST CONFORM ID LAW President Taft Informs Those Humorous Captains of
 Industry To Whom Business Is Above Law HIS LINCOLN DAY SPEECH AT NEW YORK CITY In the Party Pledges Which Are Being Redeemed There Was No Promise to Legalize Operations of Trusts and Monopolies- The President Again Defends Tariff Law Which /Has Been Misrepresented By It's Opponents and Will Be Further Msrepresented
HIS LINCOLN DAY SPEECH M NEW YORK CITY

The reason for the rise in the
 cost of necessities can easily be trac- ] ed to an increase in our measure of values, the precious metal. gold, and i possibly in some cases. to combina- tions in restraint of trade
 The question of the tariff must
 be argued out. The prejudices crest- f ed by early attacks on the bill and | gross misrepresentations of its char ! acter, must he met by a careful pre- sentation of the facts as to the con- ! tents of the bin and also as to US | actual operation and the statistics ] shown thereby.
 T believe we have strong case if we can only get into the minds of | the people. Should disaster follow us and the republican majority in the ! house become a minority in the next house. it may be possible that in the democratic exercise of its power. the people of this country will see which is the party of accomplishment, which | is the party of arduous deeds done,
 and which is the party of words and 1 irresponsible opposition.
 l A WORD TO WALL STREET.
 ''I only want one more word. From 1 time to time attacks are made on the administration on the ground that it's
 policy tends to create panic in | Wall street and to disturb business. All I have to say upon that subject in this: That certainly noF one re-
 sponsibIe. for a government like ours would fool;shly run amuck in busi- | fi- dence just for the pleasure of doing ! so No one has d motive as strong as the administrator In power to cul- tiyate and strengthen business and business prosperity.
 ; But it does rest with the national government to enforce the law and ! if the enforcement of the law is not ! consistent with present methods of carrying on business, then it does not speak well for the present meth ods of conducting business and they
 must be changed to conform to law.
 There was no promise on the part of the republican party to change the antitrust law except to strength en it or to authorize monopoly and suppression of competition and control of prices. and those who looked for { ward to such a change cannot now visit the responsibility for their mis- take on innocent persons.
 THE LAW WILL BE ENFORCED.
 "Of course. the government at
 Washington can be counted on to enforce the law in the way best calculated to prevent the disturbance of public confidence in business but
 t.4 rnws-
 without saying.
 T am glad to be present and meet your distinguished governor whose name is such power with the people of this state and of the country that
 to lose him for a candidate for gov ernor by his voluntary withdrawal is to lose the strongest asset the republican party has in the state, to enable it to win at the next elec- tion.
 OTHER SPEECHES. Governor Hughes made an address in which he said: American people are fair enough to recognize a great president filling d great position and doing his duty with absolute fidelity. For that reason Mir. Taft will be re-
 nominated and reelected
 Governor Fort of New Jersey. said: There is room in the republican party for advanced thinking. Senator
 Deliver. Senator Nelson and Senator
 Beveridge are not thoughtless men. They know their people and they are familiar with conditions in the middle
 west They are only a little in ad- vance of the rest of us, but they ura n i in his Springfield speech in 1858 Speaker Cannon had been expected but sent q letter of regret. which said in part: Your president and mine
 who is with you tonight. is worthy successor to Lincoln, and he is called upon to exercise some of the patience that characterized Lincoln's adminis- tration. especially in your great me- tropolis. where extremes in advice are always in evidence and particu- larly so at the present time."
 WADING IN NEW YORK POOL President Taft sitting for an hodr and a half today in conference with the republican state leaders showed
 much concern in the latest scandal ai-- the Conger-Allds bribery charge at | Albany, and in departing confided to his intimates that the situation
 looked very bad.
 The president thus passively. at least. waded into the troublous whiri- pool of New York state republican politics. brought to an acute stage ! of late by charges of bribery by one state senator against another.
 The conference was held at the