The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-29
PUT AWAY KNIVES
Iowa Republican, Factions Unite
in Welcoming Taft.
He Declares UnceaSing War
Against the Trusts.
HIS WATERLOO SPEECH
On the Relations of the Govern
ment to Business.
He Defines PrOgressiveness as
1t Appears to Him.
HIS WATERLOO SPEECH

Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 29-Des
Moines' reception to President Taft to-
day was non-partisan in character. The
Greater Des Moines committee, which
was host to the chief executive and his
party at the Grant club breakfast, also
had charge of the arrangements at the
Coliseum. where the public meeting
was held.
Senator Albert B. Cummins. who did
not join the Taft party yesterday, was
on hand at the Union station here to
meet Mr.. Taft today. With him was
former United States Senator Young
The president was not quite dressed
when the train entered the station, but
a moment after it came to a halt the
two senators were asked aboard.
The greetings between them and the
president were brief but apparently
cordial. After the greeting Senator
Cummins started to leave the presi-
dents car for the waiting automobiles
ahead of the president ''Will you fol-
low Mr.. CumminS ?" some one asked
the president Yes" Mr.. Taft is
quoted as says, I'm always glad to
follow Mr- Cummins.'
Gov. B. F. Carroll and his staff, who
had escorted the presidential party
from Council Bluffs, where the entry
into Iowa was made yesterday morn
ing and from Waterloo and other Iowa
cities, imm ediately on the arrival of
the train here joined the local commit
tee in according the distinguished Wis
itor a cordial welcome. This local
committee was composed of leading
citizens of nearly all shades of political
belief. Following the breakfast at the
Grant club, the entertainment provided
for the visitors consisted of an auto
mobile ride through the business and
residence districts of the city, which
were decorated for the occasion, in
Guiding trip to the Iowa state capitol
building. The doors of the Coliseum
where the president was scheduled to
deliver the most important speech of
the day, were opened early and long
before the executive arrived all avail
able space had been taken up by citi-
zens of Des Moines and Iowa. Presi-
dent Taft and his party left Des MOines
at 11:55 A. m. for Abba and interme e
diate points Ottumwa was the objec-
tive point, where the final speech was
to be delivered by the president before
his departure into Missouri
His Waterloo Speech.
Waterloo, Iowa, Sept. 29.-President
Taft in a speech here defining 'the re-
Iation of the government to business,
announced that the trust prosecutions
begun by the department of justice at
Washington would continue despite
the recent criticism that business was
being made to suffer
He served notice that the "big bust
ness interests of the country must be
brought within the law just as the rail
roads have been, and declined to ad-
NIT that there exists any discretion
which would enable the attorney gen
eral to stay the hand of the govern
ment in dealing with combinations in
restraint of trade. At the same time
the president made an earnest appeal
for reasonable cOnsid Grafton of the
railroads and the big industrial corpo-
rations on the ground that their refor-
nation was being brought about stead
lily and satisfactorily and that nothing
was to be gained by 'vindictive hos
tility" Mr.. Taft denounced those poll
ticians who seek to arouse the preju-
dices of the people and to array one
section of the country against another.
Such utterances he declared to be
those of 1.-The b1indest of men
The trust prosecutions, Mr. Taft said,
need no. be long continued because he
believed the business community was
taking in the effect of the recent de-
cisions of the supreme court and was
preparing to square itself with the law
I'VE nave reached the point he
said, ''where we can call a halt; not
in the progressive movement to keep
business free from abuses, but where
we can call halt against appeals to
spirit of pure hostility to prosperity
on the theory that no one can be pros
porous without being dishonest or
violator of the law"
Here in Iowa, the home of many of
the progressives in congress, President
Taft declared:
1T is not a progressive policy in
any true sense to be hostile to the
prosperity Of any party of the coun-
try
1T is not progressive to be against
a railway corporation because it is a
corporation"
Sectional Prejudice.
Mr.. Taft repeatedly declaimed against
sectional prejudice and unreasonable
denunciation OF corporations by per-
sons seeking political advantage.
Why he asked, should we allow
the political fortunes of any man or set
of men to mislead US into a hostility
toward parts of tie country, which is
certain to work injury to all?
I'VE are all in the same boat; all
tossed about by the same wave. Let