The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-14
VITAL WASHINGTON NEWS
Prosecution of Beef Trust in the
 Courts Nine Years.
By c. H. Tavenner) Especial Washington Correspondent Of
 The Farmer.)

(by V. n. ldVcuu6T.J Especial Washington Correspondent Of The Farmer)
 Washington. Sept. 12-On the tenth day of May. 1902, the government filed a petition for an injunction against the Beef trust in the federal court at Chicago. On July 9th, 1911, the pack CTS, after having obtained fortXtwo delays and postponements in the in- tervening nine years, again pleaded not guilty, and for the forty-third time their trial was postponed, this time until Nov. 20 of this year. The status of the beef trust prose- cution, therefore, is exactly where it was the day the first papers were filed nearly decade ago. The much her aided "prosecution" of this gigantic trust-a prosecution which his been directed by one republican attorney general after another has amounted to nothing.
 Every man, woman and child in the country is convinced that the trust operates in violation Of the law, both statute and moral, and yet nothing has been accomplished in the alleged campaign to stop these violations ex- oept the disbursement of thousands of dollars in fees for special trust bust inss' attorneya
 BIC STICK" IN NEW ROLE
 What the people of Arizona really have to do to obtain statehood, is story that the American people have never fully heard. Information has gone out over the wires from Wash ington that President Taft will permit Arizona to enter the union by simply striking the recall of the judiciary provision from tis constitution
 But only when the following facts are considered can the full significance rSf <7o17f ir,,a
 First, that the people of Arizona by a vote of three to one declared in fav- or of the recall
 Second, that in order to obtain state hood the people of Arizona must go back to the polls and vote against principle of government which they have already voted in favor of, and which they believe to be right.
 By thus coercing the people to vote against a thing which their best judg- ment tells them to be wise, threaten. ing to withhold from that people un- less they vote as the chief executive dictates, right to which they are just Y entitled under the constitution. President Taft has committed himself to an action which is without preced- ent in the history of the American government.
 The President has said to the people of Arizona, in effect: No matter whether the majority believe that the recall of judges is wise or not; unless that majority goes to the polls and pretends that it is against the recall II will deprive the people of Arizona of statehood. Yes, I will deprive the people of Arizona from statehood whether they are entitled to it under the constitution or not, unless they Vote not the way may desire, but as I command them to vote."
 While this rnntl1o6 nf f0rrino tho people to vote against their will may be perfectly compatible to the mental workings of an executive with a 'sju- dicial temperament" isn't it after all making farce out of representative government?
 PRESIDENT MAKES ANOTHER
 MISTAKE
 It Is difficult to see how President Taft's 13,000 mile swing around the circle can end in anything but sorry spectacle for himself.
 If he tells the people the truth about how he vetoed the honest attempt of both branches of Congress to re- duce the high cost of living this country; how upon taking office he filled his cabinet with men connected with the law breaking trusts, and how he tried and nearly succeeded in giv- ing Alaska away to land grabbers, he will discredit himself.
 If MT. Taft juggles the facts in the slightest degree, the Insurgents swinging along in his trail, will point out his misrepresentations with such truth and logic that the President will be more discredited than if he had re- mained at home.
 The record of the Taft administra- tion is one that cannot be debated win any credit to the President Mr. Taft has himself to blame, together with men like Aldrich, Penrose, Gug- genheim and Lodge, to whose advice he listened exclusively
 SHODDY wOOLENS
 The wool trusts practice of cheapen- ing the quality of it's products while at the same time maintaining prices at the highest level ever known, has drawn the fire of the medical journals all over the country Through these journals the physicians of the nations are protesting against the lack of warm and enduring underclothing, a fact to which they attribute the spread of many injurious diseases. Women and children suffer most from this form of greed. The medical journals are demanding repeal of the high duties-amounting to 100 per cent. on the commoner grades of wool-recog- nizing in these duties the source of 'the evil of which they complain.
 SEE TAFTS DEFEAT
 President Taft has declined a chance to greatly cheapen the cost of clothing, wire, etc., and in so doing has defended what he said was inde- feasible. The presidents vetoes of the tariff bills will make it difficult for him to be renominated, and will practically insure his defeat if he is renominated''
 This is an extract from the weekly market letter of the New York Consol- idated Stock Exchange firm of W. W. Erwin and Co. It shows that the New York business interests and Wall Street have concluded that Taft can- not be reelected and are preparing to throw him over SUGGESTION FOR AN ARTICLE