The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-10-10


nois Central and Hartman lines are
seeking a recognition Of the union.
Spokane, Wash, Oct 9.-Spokane
was the terminus Saturday night
of one of the most picturesquely il
teresting days Of President Taft 5
travel through the West The dcy
was spent in northern Idaho ard
eastern Washington, the principal
stopping place being Walla Wa !,
Wash, Lewiston and Moscow, Ida D.
For many hours the president Il
train wound its way through the "a
nous Snake river canon and fir q
his car window the President SOW
some of the most singular farms n
the entire United States. From he
waters edge these farms rose up 70
have realized that the whole peo--' e
side of the canon, at some plac
seeming almost perpendicular F'rt
everywhere was wheat stubble, indi-
eating that the last crop of the year
had been safely harvested.
Governor Hay of Washington net
the President at Walla Walla, and
accompanied him to this city SatDr-
day night. The Governor in his first
Introductory speech of the day de-
clared himself in favor of Mr.. Taft's
denomination. A second development
was the repetition by President Taft
at Lewiston of various portions of
his Waterloo utterances of the rela-
ton of the government to business.
Eve have put the railroads under
CONTROL" he said, "and they acquiesce
in it. For a time they were defiant
Now under the steady action of Con-
in cir a Of
Interstate Commerce Commission
they have REALIZED that the whole peo-
pie is greater than any part of the
people.
$50, too, with respect to our trusts
The Industrial combinations that have
controlled prices are now under the
antitrust act and are beginning to
feel the heavy weight of the hand of
the law"
The President then spoke of the
Standard Oil and the Tobacco trust
decisions of the Supreme Court, re-
ferring to the Standard Oil as the
"o1dest of trusts" the one which had
been guilty of more acts of criminal
| ity and un1awfulness than any other
| the one which did more business
abroad and was in that respect the
most useful. He referred to the Am
erican Tobacco Company as trust
devised by able ingenious lawyers for
| the purpose of evading the antitrust
! law.
There are other trusts in process
| of prosecution" the President con
tinued, "but my own hope is that
they will all recognize that the Stan
dard Oil and Tobacco decisions we're
| epoch making decisions; that they
4o hn
tendency of business. If they had not
gentlemen, I do not know where we
would have gone. Everything would
have been. in a trust. The only re
scue from that would have been so
| cialism.
"There are those who say that we
could get along without competition
| that it will destroy everybody and
therefore you have got to have some
arrangements by which trusts can be
kept lawful We lived by competi
ton for centuries and it was not un
| til the last thirty years that there
developed this idea that we could gel
along without it
Referring to the need of reform
in the currency system of the coun
try, Mr.. Taft said:
| "There has been a plan devised D5
the monetary commission. 1t is Hopec
that it will be so arranged that ne1th
er Wall Street nor the political pow
ers in the government will have IN
1uence in respect to the issue of cur
| rency to meet the demands of the
market"
The President spoke of the pros
4 perity of the farmers and the hope
of extending the usefulness of the
i Postoff1ce Department through a par
cells post system
with the parcels post and rura
} free delivsrY," he concluded, "ant
with farm prices doubling every tel
years, the money of the Unitet
States may soon be found in th'
country instead of in Wall Street.
i Mr.. Taft last night proceeded t.