The Mena weekly star., 1911-09-28
.TAFT'S BUSY DAY
 IN ST. LOUIS
The President Spoke Six Times and Did Many Other Stunts-ORers Impeachment in Lieu of Re-
 call-Upheld Tariff Board

Ieiiie III Nl. LOUIS yesterday, PfeSi- dent Taft made six speeches, took { iO-mile automobile ride, opened the local football season by tossing tht Ipigskin onto the gridiron at St Louis University, laid the corner stone of the new Y. W. c. A. build ing, sat through nine innings Of cx- citing baseball between the St Louis and Philadelphia Nationa League, visited the Masonic Club tC be made life member of that or Iganlzation, and addressed a vasI throng at the Coliseum at night. Monday he will be in the insur- gent state of Kansas.
 On the eve of entering this hostile territory, President Taft put forth the suggestion of wider power oi impeachment as a substitute for the more radical proposal of a ju- dietary recall.
 The President said the laws de- lay unquestionably was one of the great causes of unrest in this coun- try, and declared the recall idea had grown out of the fact that courts in many instances are not performing their functions.
 Judges should be made more re- sponsible, the President said, and the means of impeachment made more simple. There should be ju- dicial procedure, a proper hearing rather than public clamor.
 Mir. Taft declared the delay in administering justice in the courts should bring the blush of shame to all good Americans, and that the courts of this country made a very poor showing in comparison with those of England, where the judges keep up with their dockets. and where criminals find swift punish ment awaiting them.
 The President spoke with great .earnestness on the subject of re- form in judicial procedure. He said it was something with which he was most familiar, and that both as a lawyer and a judge he felt free to discuss the matter from the frank est standpoint.
 The speech on this subject was impromptu and followed the con- clusion of luncheon at the City Club. The Presidents set speech for the day was on the creation, the work and the purpose of the tariff board.
 In his speech on the need of ju- dicial reform, the President said:
 "0ne of the real reasons for dis content is the character of the pro- cedure and administration of jus tice in our courts.
 Would Expedite Justice.
 Tt is the one thing, in my judg- ment, that is more easily reached and more needed under our gov ernment than any other.
 If judge is not frightened by anybody and will carry on a court as his court then you will have your administration of justice as il is in England.
 'lf you examine the statistics yot will blush as Americans that WI have not shown ourselves moro adaptable to the issue which ha' arisen here with respect to whether crime shall be punished, and have not made a machine that has ac- Icomplished the purpose.
 The tendency of legislation ough | to be toward giving the judges more power and then making the judges responsible. There is no difficult, about making the judge responsible either. l know it is proposed t' take a short cut and cut his heat | off without any reason just becaus' the people wish it, under the the ory of judicial recall.
 q agree that the movement ha foundation in the basis which have stated, namely, that the court have not fulfilled the function the, ought to fulfill, but l do not agre lthat therefore you ought to kill tn eourt, and that is what l think yo' are doing if you make every tenur of office dependent on an election.
 Impeachment Healthful.
 @e.eal lemen. that that w~en't dn- Max your judges responsible. Impeacl them. Impeachment of a judg would be very healthful thing | llhese times. It is not necessar lthat we have an impeachment b Ithe legislature; that IS a clums method. We can have some othe method of Investigating the quail lncations of judges, and if the don't fill the measure to remov them after some sort of judicis hearing in which the facts shall b lconsidered."
 1 In his speech at night PresideT lTaft declared the attacks made uI lon the tariff board were not candl criticisms of that boards worl based on the showing made, bt Ica,,,t ssssfrena thnughtless heat of pc llitical controversy and ought Ihave no weight with unbiase friends of the public veal"
 l In expressing himself regardir lthe defeat of Reciprocity in Cana
 da. he declared himself conteI
 with the outcome, for, as a lawye The had learned that when deci' lion hits you right between the eye llhe best thing to do is to sit still.'
 Mir. Taft said he believed and stl believes reciprocity would inure