The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-24
BUSY TIME FOR
TAT 7 WHILE IN
OLD MISSOURI
President Makes Six Speeches,
Takes Auto Ride, Opens
Football Season and
Sees Ball Game.
VISITS MISSOURI CLUB;
LAYS CORNERSTONE
After Night Address at the ST.
Louis Coliseum, the Exec
utive Starts for Insur-
gent Kansas.
VISITS MISSOURI CLUB;
LAYS CORNERSTONE

~ I. LOUIS, Sept 23-During 4
moderately busy day here today
~ President Taft made six speechc
took forty.mile automobile ride,
opened the local football season by
tossing the pigskin on the gridlron at
st. Louis university, laid the corner
stone of new Y. ". c. A. building, sat
St. Lonis and Philadelphia National
league teams, visited the Masonic club
to be made life member of that or
ganiZation and, after addressing vast
throng in the Coliseum tonight. had
nothing to do but travel all night III
order TO be in the iusurgent state OF
Kansas tomorrow.
On the eve of entering this reputed
hostile territory President Taft put
forward the suggestion of n wider pow
er of impeachment as substitute for
the more radical proposal of Judiciary
recall. The president declared that
the law S delay unquestionably was one
of the great causes of unrest in this
country and said that undoubtedly the
recall idea bad grown out of the fact
that the courts in many Instances are
not performing the functions that they
should.
Shame of Americans
Judges should be made more respon-
sible, Mr.. Taft declared, and the
means of impeachment made more SIM
pie. There should be judicial proceed
ure, a proper hearing, rather than pub
lie clamor Mr.. Taft declared that the
delay in administering Justice In this
country should bring the blush Of shame
10 all good Americans and that the
courts of this country made Il very
poor showing in comparison with those
of England. where The Judges keep
up with their dockets and where Grim
inals find swift punishment awaiting
them.
The president spoke with great
deal of earnestness on the subject OF
reform in judicial procedure He said
1t was something with which he was
most familiar both as a lawyer and a
Judge and he felt free 10 discuss the
matter from the frankest possible
standpoint. The speech on this subject
was entirely rmpromptu and followed
the conclusion of luncheon ut the City
club. The president s set speech of the
the purpose of the tariff board,
Mr.. Taft s reception throughout was
the most cordial and demonstrative he
has received on any of his previous
visits here.
At breakfast at the Mercantile club.
the president referred briefly to Can
adiau reciprocity. He declared himself
content with the outcome, for az law.
yer he had learned that when de-
cision hits YOU right between the eyes,
the best thing to do is 10 sit still
Mr.. Taft said he believed and still
believes that reciprocity would inure
to the benefit of both countries.
Makes Modest Protest.
Twice during the day the president
was introduced as the chest and great
est president of the country" He mod
estly protested on each occasion. At the.
Masonic club the president said he had
on two OCCASIONS worn the Masonic
apron which had belonged to George
Washington, who was the greatest man
in the history of the country.
In his speech on the need of Judicial
reform, the president said:
cone of the real reasons for discon-
tent is the character of the procedure
and the slow administration of justice
in our courts. I believe that the states
Of this country and the young lawyers
of this country should devote their at
tention to a constant discussion and
pressure upon the legislators for cut
ting short judicial procedure and e1-
pediting Justice. IT is the one thing,
in my Judgment, that Is more easily
reached and moro needed under our gov
ernmcnt than anv other.
CT wonder what you have thought
of the tendency that we have had in
that kind of legislation from the time
the constitution was adopted in this
and our courts were organized
until now, and especially in the west
and as YOU go west. Trial by Jury is
a good thing 1t brings into the ad-
of Justice the people and
in popular government they feel safer
IN that they are called in TO determine
issues of important facts: but trial by
Jury, MY friends, as stated in the con
stitution. was a trial by jury Of the
facts under the inspiration of a Judge
hat had the power to tell the jury
what the law was. aud had the power
20 hold the courtroom under his control
and not let it be taken away by the
counsel for the prosecution or the coun-
;el for the defense,
"And vet the suspicion of the people
# the Judges has been such, the move
nent Of all legislation from the Atlantic
westward hns been such TO take away