The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-10-08
EXECUTIVE SPENDS DAY IN
WASHINGTON AND NORTH.
ERN PART OF IDAHO.
TALKS ON THE TRUSTS
Declares That tho Railroads Have
Been Placed Under Control and tho
Monopolies Are Fast BEING Put
Therc-Gives a Hint That He Could
Be Induced to Run Again.

Spokane. Oct. 7.--Spokane. Wash,
most picturesquely interesting days Of
President Tafts travels through the
far west
the day was spent In northern Idaho
and eastern Washington, the principal
stops being ut Walla Walla, Wash.
Lewiston and Moscow, Idaho. For
many hours the presidential train
wound It's way through the famous
Snake river canon and from his car
window the president saw some of the
most unique farms I'm the entire United
States From the waters edge these
farms rose in rolling billows to the
benches and hllltops on either side of
the canon: at some places they seemed
almost perpendicular, but everywhere
was wheat stubble. indicating that the
last crop of the year had been safely
harvested. All of the farms were in
the dry-farmng district where the
crops are raised without the aid of
irrigation.
Governor Hay of Washington met
the president ut Wllla Walla and ac-
coinpanied him to this city. The gov
ernor In his first Introductory speech
of the day declared himself in favor
of Mr.. Taft's denomination A second
interesting development was the repe-
tition by President Taft at Lewiston
of portions Of his Waterloo utterances
ON the relation of the government to
business
Railroads Under Control.
I'VE have put the railroads under
CONTROL" he said, land they acquiesce
in it, For time they were defiant.
Now, under the steady action of con-
gress in increasing the power of the
Interstate commerce commission, they
have realized that the whole people
are greater than any part Of the peo-
pie; that the whole people, II they
move In one direction and are deter
mined to control and bring about n
just condition. are likely to win in the
end, however often they may be de-
TERED In reaching that purpose. So,
too, with respect to our trusts. The
Industrial combinations that have con-
trolled prices are now under the anti
trust act ana are beginning to feel
the heavy weight Of the hand Of the
law"
The president then spoke of the
Standard Oil and tobacco trust de-
cisions of the supreme court, referring
to tine Standard OIL as the oldest OF
trusts. the one which had been es-
tablished by more acts of crminality
and lawiessness than any other, the
one which did more business abroad
ana was in that respect the most use
ful."
He referred to the American To-
5acco company as trust devised by
able. ingenious lawyers for the pur-
pose Of evading the antitrust law"
Epoch Making Decisions.
'"There are other trusts in process of
prosecution" he continued but my
own hope Is that they will all recog-
nize now that the Standard Oil and
tobacco decisions were epoch making
decisions; that they are bound to
change the course and tendency of
business. III they had not, gentlemen.
! do not know where we would have
gone. Everything would have been In
trust. The only rescue from that
would have been state socialism.
"There are those who say we could
get along without competition, those
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