The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-08
PRESIDENT VIEWS
WONDERS OF IDAHO
Sees Some of Most Remark
able Farms in the Entire
United States.
SPEECHES BY THE WAY
Executive Repeats Portions of
His Address Before Salt
Lake Commercial Club.
SPEECHES BY THE WAY
Rv Associated Prcss.

SPOkANb, Wash. Nov. i.-Spokane,
Wash. is the terminus tonight Of one
Of the most picturesquely interesting
davs of President Taft g travels through
the far west.
The day was spent in northern Idaho
and eastern Washington, the principal
stops being at Walla Walla, Wash;
Lewiston and Moscow, Idaho. For many
hours tho presidential train wound its
waY through the famous Snake river
canyon and from his car window the
president saw some of the most unique
farms in the entire United States From
the water s edge these farms rose IN
rolling billows TO tho benches and hill,
tops on either side of the canyon, Mt
some places they seemed almost perpen.
dicular but everywhere was wheat
stubble indicating that the last crop of
the year had been safely harvested. All
Of the farms were in the dry farming
district where the crops are raised with
out the aid of irrigation.
Governor Hav Of Washington met
the president at Walla Walla and ac
companicd him 10 this city tonight. The
governor in his FIRST Introductory speech
Of the day declared himself in favor of
Mr.. Taft S denomination. \ second in
teresting development was the repcti
ton by President Taft at Lewiston OF
various portions of his Waterloo utter
ances on the relation of the government
to business.
Control Of Trusts,
"We have put the railroads under
CONTROL he said. "and they acquiesce
in il, For time they were defiant
Now, under the steady action Of con
gress in increasing the power of the in
terstate commerce commission, they
have realized that the whole people are
greater than any part of the people, that
the whole people if they move in one
direction and are determined to con-
troll and bring about Il Just condition,
are likely to win in the end, however
often they may be deferred in reach
ing that purpose. So. too, with respect
to our trusts, The industrial combina-
tions 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 Tobacco trust decis-
ions of the supreme court, referring to
the Standard Oil as the 'foldest of
trusts, the one which had been estab
lished by more acts of criminality and
lawlessness than any other, the one
which did more business abroad and
was IN that respect the most useful. -
He referred to the American Tobacco
company as a trust "devised by able
ingenious lawyers for the purpose Of
evading the antitrust law. -
The Presidents Hope.
"There are other trusts IN process of
prosecution, the president continued
but my own hope is that they Will
all recognize now that the Standard Oil
and Tobacco decisions were epoch h-mak-
ing decisions; that they are bound TO
change the course and tendency Of bust
ness. If they had not, gentlemen. | do
not know where we would have gone
Everything would have been in a trust.
The only rescue from that would have
been state socialism,
There are those who say we could
get along without competition, those
who say you cannot live if we have
competition. who say it will destroy ev~
erybody, and, therefore, YOU have got
TO have some arrangement by which
trusts can be kept lawful, We lived
by comuetition for centuries and il
was not until the last thirty wears that
there developed this idea that we could
get along without IL, -
Mr.. Taft declared that bis under.
standing of American business was
that competition was desired and that
there was no desire that the state
should take over business and fix
prices. Referring to the need of reform
in the currency system of the country
Mr.. Taft said:
Monetary Commission S Plan.
There has been plan devised by
the monetary commission. The plan has
not been agreed upon IN detail, but it is
hoped that 1t will be so arranged that
neither Wall street nor the political
powers in the government Will have in
fluence IN respect TO the issue Of cur.
rency 10 meet the demands of the
market.
That we are going to have panics
at times said the president. "will
follow the Inevitable characteristic of
human nature that sometimes we spend