The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-09-28
TAFT IN DEFENSE OF
his TARIFF BOARD
ENDS HuSN DAY IN 81. LOUIS
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ST. Louis. Mo. --nurins a moderate
ly busy day in ST Louis Saturday
President Taft made sin speeches,
took Il forty-mile automobile ride.
opened the local football season by
tossing the pisskin onto the gridiron
at ST. Louis university, laid the cor
nerstone OF Il new Young Mems
Christian Association building, sat
AL. during the ST. Louis ana
Philadelphia National league game,
visited the Masonic club, was made Il
life member of that organization, and
addressed a vast throng Saturday
night in the coliseum.
President Taft put forward a sug-
gestion of a wider power of impeach-
men as \ substitute for the
radical proposal of a judiciary re-
call. The president declared that the
laws delay unqucstionably was n
of the great causes OF unrest in this
country, and that undoubtedly the
! recall idea had drawn out the fact
that the courts in many instances
are not performing the functions
that they should.
Reform of Judiciary.
Judges should be made more re-
sponsible. he declared, and the means
of impeachment made more simple.
There should be a proper hearing
| rather than public clamor. Mr.. Taft
declared that the delay in admins
tering justice in this country should
bring the blush OF shame TO all good
Americans and that the courts of
this country made a very poor show
ing in comparison with those in Eng
land, where the judges keep up with
their dockets and where criminals
find swift punishment awaiting them.
The president spoke with a great
deal OF earnestness on the subject of
reform in judicial procedure.
Mr.. Taft's reception throughout
was the most cordial and demonstra-
tive he has received in any of his
previous visits to the city. He was the
guest of the Million Population club,
and during his long automobile ride
saw all the territory that St. Louis
now covers and all that its citizens
expect it to cover in the next few
years in their climb toward the mill
lion mark.
In his address Saturday evening
on the tariff board, Taft spoke in
part as follows:
The MOOtcd Tariff Board.
"The issue which has arisen in
respect to the wisdom and propriety
of the veto of the three tariff bills
which passed Congress at the last
session and We're presented to the
Executive for signature has brought
into greater prominence than ever
before the question of the necessity
for a Tariff Board 20 advise the EN-
ecutive and Congress as to the facts
in reference to the present operation
of an existing tariff and the future
operation of a proposed tariff.
Members of Board.
The Tariff Board has been refer
red to sometimes as a board OF en-
perts on the tariff. This is hardly
a correct description. 1t would be
impossible to secure a board all the
members of which had expert knowl-
edge on the subjects OF the tarih,
for the Ia or Is schedules are very
broad in their scope and include
much of what is manufactured or
produced in the world. Indeed, it is
by no means clear that it would be
of advantage TO have in the board it
self men who are experts upon the
making and sale of particular ar
ticles mentioned in the tariff. 1t is
far better to have in the board men
who are in the habit Of making in
vestigations, who are in the habit of
calculating costs, who a'e in the
habit of digesting and Analysing
great collections of evidence and re-
ducing them to intelligent conclu-
sions which may be stated for the
benefit of those who intend to use
them. That is the profession of
trained economists, and therefore l
put at the head of this board Prof.
Henry G.. Emery, upon the recon-
mendation of the president of a
number of universities who We're
consulted. MIR. Alvin Sanders was
the editor of the Breeders Gazette,
a man of the highest standing. who
had devoted his life to the study of
the agricultural interests OF this
country, While Mr.. Reynolds had
been four years an Assistant Secre-
tary OF the Treasury under Mr..
Roosevelt, in charge of customs, and