The Sentinel=record., 1911-09-29
TAFT TALKS
 0N TRUSTS'
SAYS THEY MUST AND WILL BE BROUGHT WITHIN SCOPE
 OF THE LAW
But Must Not Be Destroyed By Enmity-Makes Plea For Har- mony in Progress in All
 Sections.

Waterloo, Iowa, Sept. 2S- Presi- dent Taft in q speech defining "The Relations of the Government 70 Business, announced that trust prosecutions begun by the depart ment of justice would continue de- spite recent criticism that business vas being made to suffer.
 He ferved rovce that the "big business interests of the country must be brought within the law, just as aIe railroads had been, and de- clined to admit there exists any dis cretion which would enable the at torney general to stay the hand Of the government in dealing with con- binations in restrain of trade.
 At the same time tine president made an earnest appeal for reason able consideration of the railroads and the big industrial corporations on the ground of their reformation and that nothing was to be gained by "yindicative hostility"
 Mr. Taft bitterly denounced those politicians who seek to arouse fhe of the people and to ar ray one section of the country against another Such utterances. he de to be those of "the blindest of men,
 The trust prosecutions, Mir. Taft said, need not be long continued, be- cause he believed the business com munity was rapidly appreciating the effort Of the recent decisions of the supreme coart and were preparing to square themselves with the law.
 We have reached the point he said, where we can call a halt. not in the progressive movement 10 keep business from abuse, but where we can call halt against appeals to a spirit Of pure hostility to pros perity on the theory that no one can be prosperous without being dis honest or a violator of the law"
 Here in Iowa, the home of many of the progressives in congress. Pres fdent Taft declared;
 fEt is not progressive policy in any true sense to be hostile to the prosperity of any part of the couh- try.
 gt is not progressive to be against railway corporation be- cause 1t is a corporation"
 Mir. Taft repeatedly declared against sectional prejudice and un- reasonable denunciations of corpor- ations by persons seeking political advantage.
 why" he asked. should we al- low the fpolitIcal EoiFunes of any man, or set of men, to mislead us into hostility toward parts of tho country which is pertain to work injury to all?"
 "wc are all in the same boat, all tossed by the same waves. Let there be prostration of business in one large section and that prostra. ton vii spread quickly to all tho rest.
 Let us reason together" exelaim- ed the president
 CT .t ,,n h. oh,ri.ot,to .ra 1xind Let us not be so suspicious and ascribe corrupt motives to everyone in the community. but our particular friends and political associates. Let's have legislation that helps or an absence of Iesislaison if it is unnecessary. And let's approve and praise the great business enterprise and genius that honestly and by proper methods that accumulates property and puts it into productive industries that support thousands of workmen and furnish profit to those whose saeings have gone into the shares and bonds of the enterprise
 Business is halting now. There Is doubt and distrust among investors due to fear of blind enmity to- ward successful enterprises. What is the remedv2 It is the restoration of confidence between the classes of persons who have been opposing each other in time after the reforms are initiated and are in process of being effected, ought 10 com altogether in amity and make the best use of the enormous resources we have in this country for the promotion of gen. ! eral prosperity and the securing and