Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31
HITS TAFT AT HOME
La Toilette, in Cincinnati, Raps
Antitrust Law.
UNFAIR TO UNION LABOR
Declares It Should Be Amended to
Remove Restrictions.
SAYS TARIFF MUST BE CUT
Holds Control Of Money by Trusts to
Be the Greatest Menace to Com
petition, However.
UNFAIR TO UNION LABOR
SAYS TARIFF MUST BE CUT

CINCINNATI, Ohio, December so
Senator La Toilette invaded President
Taft's own territory today. The pro-
gressive candidate for the republican
nomination for President stopped at
Hamilton, Butler county, drew together
a crowd that filled the hall in which
he spoke, and after a. brief reception by
the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce
entered President Taft's own city In a
drizzling rainstorm.
In Hamilton, although ARRANGEMENT for
the meeting had been made too late to
permit any extended notices. skating
rink hastily outf1tted with chairs was
well filled. Senator La Toilette, who.
with watch in hand, announced that he
would talk but half an hour, warmed
into his speech and talked nearly three
times as long. His voice had become
husky and he gave evidence Of being
fatigued by his first week Of his speech
making tour.
At Music Hall here tonight he attacked
the judicial construction which brought
labor union combinations, under the re-
striction of the Sherman antitrust law.
Should Amend Sherman Law.
1T is strange" he said. that when
the court goes to It's furthest limit in
imposing penalties on combinations of
capital all Of the capitalist owners get
away with the full value Of their prop
erty, but when the court goes to the
same limit of enforcing penalties on
combinations of labor it takes away the
homes and savings Of the guilty ones.
1.-The fact is the law was not under
stood by the people to apply to labor
organizations, and it is a mistaken jul
dicial construction that has made 1t so
apply. The law should be amended by
taking out from under it's operation all
labor organizations and all employers
entirely from its prohibitions the col
lective bargaining of labor unions and
employers.
For Individual Commission.
IN addition to strengthening the laws
against restraint of trade there must be
a reduction or repeal Of the tariff where
it fosters unfair competition. Instead OF
two or more commissions. like the tarfn
board. the proposed board to deal with
restraint of trade and others, each inves-
tigating the same facts and corporations,
there should be single boards of experts
statisticians and accountants to deter
mine facts and acquire information for
the use Of every branch Of the govern
ment."
Administration of the patent laws, Sen
ator La Toilette said, should be placed
in the hands of the commission, with
power to prohibit any unreasonable re-
straints. The commission, he declares,
also should have authority to prevent
restraint Of trade through any monopoly
of natural resources and control over
raw material.
Menace to Competition.
1.-The greatest menace to competition at
the present time," he said, 'is the control
Of credit and the concentration Of money
in the hands Of those who control the
trusts. Elasticity in our currency is
imperative, but any plan to secure it.
like that Of the proposed national reserve
association, which puts control in the
hands of the banks and the money inter-
ests, will strengthen the power Of the
trusts to get capital and to keep COM
periors from getting it.
1T will be the peoples money that will
give security to any plan. and the peO-
pies money must not be controlled by
those who. on the plea Of elasticity, will
use it to kill off. competitors OF the
trusts.