Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-09-18
PRESIDENT IS
IN MICHIGAN
Begins His WhirIwind Tour
of the State in Drizz.a
of Rain Today.
SPECIAL TROLLEY CAR
Will Make Many Speeches in
Different Towns Before
Passing to Next State.
sBscial by United Press Wire.


Detroit, Mich, Sept 1S.-A driz-
zle Of rain greeted President Taft
when he began his four days tour Of
Michigan with a rapid fire of visits
to Detroit today.
The President was in town Just
one hour this morning, and the only
function he attended was breakfast
with the Board of Commerce. I'M
medlately after making a short talk
10 the members of the board he was
taken aboard a special trolley car to
begin his swing around the state
with Pontiac as the first stop.
This afternoon he will return to
Detroit to address the crowds at the
Michigan state fair A Board Of
Commerce luncheon and an auto ride
will complete. the day. Saginaw and
Bay City will see the President this
evening, while several other places
will be visited before he leaves the
state Thursday night.
A crowd met the president, and the
city officials made preparations to
handle q record breaking crowd to
hear his address.
Il propose to take up the question
which has occupied the attention of
the American people for now twenty
years, that Of industrial combinations
known as trusts" he said During
the last year we have had two great
decisions by the supreme court of the
United States. They are epoch rnak-
ing, and the public has not yet come
to realize the effect that those cecis-
ions are certain to have. II is not hat
the construction which the court has
put upon the act is different from that
which most members Of the profess
sion, and most subordinate courts and
indeed the supreme court itself had
before indicated as the proper con-
struction OF the statute, but 1t IS that
1t is now finally settled by two fully
considered decisions IN respect TO TWO
Of the largest and most powerful OF
these combinations, what their IL
Legality consists in and how they are
to be treated In view OF the iiuding
that they are Illegal and do violate
the provisions Of the socalled boy. trust
or Sherman act.
as as II rS1ss- groSys 70 De u1rt'rE'rt. 'Esse
near future will be a signal for The
voluntary breaking up all com hina-
tions in restraint of ira e within tho
inhibition of the statute and viii. I
hope, lead 10 g complete revulSion of
feeling on the part Of the business
men of this country and to clear un-
derstanding by them of the nmita ions
that must be imposed by them upon
any business combinations made By
them in the future. The operation of
the statute has illustrated the slowness
Of judicial procedure, and Of Tits 7
have often made complaint, but IN the
settlement of issues of this Importance
two decades are no great length of
time, and If in that period we shall
have stamped out an evil which would
certainly have carried US to socialism
as q reaction from the vicious control
Of the few, the time spent, the eff
fort and the litigation are worth the
cost. There have been times when
among others l have thought that the
enforcement Of the law might have
been facilitated had the courts Visited
its breach with severer punishment,
but Though the mills o. the gods
grind slowly, YET they grind exceeding
small and without the severity hat
some Of US urged and would have been
glad TO see used. q revolution in bust-
ness methods where they have hereto
fore been violatiYe of the statute will
be accomplished. and with least dis
turbance to business which is awful
u wish to repeat this now, and to
SAY further that the attorney general
mas instituted investigations into all
the industrial companies"