The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-21
DECLARES PEOPLE
LIVING TOO FAST
President Makes Several Adj
dresses During Busy Day in
New York.
LAWLEss BUSINESS FLAYED
TAFT Declares Against Opening
OF Treasury for Building
Great Highways.

New York, December 2o.-Presidcnt
Taft left New York at midnight to
return To the White House. after
thirty busy hours in New York, de-
clnring In tho last OF several addresses
which he made tina, ono OF tho chief
faults OF this age is that people are
living too fast
The Presidents last speech WAS be-
forc the New York Young Republican
Club al dinner given in his honor.
lie listened attcntivciy 10 Il atlrrInE
ADDRESS by senator Borah With lam
Snisc which the President later de-
acTibcd as having great force,
Imagery and poetry. senator Borah
nayed "iawiess big business" The
PRESIDENT IN his speech agreed with
senator Borah that the country had
defects. and that II was the business
Of the people to overcome them.
The chief OF It's defects" he said.
rs Tic loss somewhat of that respect
FOR law, which we inherited from
across the sea. We have struggled with
conditions and in prosperity have met
harder tests than the Puritan met. II
is true we do not hold the law as
sacred as VIC should. / don't think We
hold anything quite az sacred as we
should.
The President pointed to the ten
deney OF the age toward faster living
and pleasure. and from this turned
to the necessity OF Improvement of
criminal procedure. whatever the
machinery Is. It docs not have the
backing of public opinion" he said.
$50 long as We have head lines that
makes heroes of murdercrs we arc not
going to have the Improvement we
need"
The President. expressed his pro-
mol in mn t,.
"haE come IN the way of real improve
ment In tho history of our country that
cannot be traced 10 party organization
effective reform can be made but in
two ways--cI,hcr inside tho party or
by the breaking up OF the old party
and the founding OF a new. sim have
hope for the redemption Of the Re-
publican party.
Hornb's Address.
Senator William r. Borah OF Idaho.
made an address that hreuthcd fire
In every word for "Lawicss Big Bust
ness" aud little violators Of the Lave
as we'll.
He dre'' significant comparison be-
tween the McSamaraa, the confessed
dynamitcrs, and tho old Standard oil
and Tobacco companies.
To save their worthless lives" he
said. referring 10 the dynamiters
they entered pleas OF guilty. insist
inr that they did II all for principle,
and expect an nstonishcd world 10 ac-
opt their whining apologies"
There Is another court record which
%c viii. in passing. notice also. Bound
up In many volumes you will find the
fun record OF two OF the late noted
decisions Il is tale twice told, OF
sclilshness and greed. eXtortion and
lawlessness. The plea OF justifca Il on
Is not unlike tho plea OF the planters
of dynamite. FOR although the acts are
clearly in violation OF law and the
rights of the public. 1t is claimed
nevertheless that IL was all done In
the interest of business growth and
Industrial progress.
This IL the best plea and the only
plea that twentieth century business can
furnIsh-all that could he said rs. those
70 rarely gifted and richly endowed
with this worlds goods and inteilcc-
tiaI power. and OF whom the govern
nient and humanity have right 10
expect so much"
Respect and enforcement of the law
was one OF the keynotes of Senator
Borah's address Obedience to the law,
nc said. was the bedrock on which
powerful governments arc built, and
he believed this time when a polit-
cal party could afford to make ii a
cardinal tenet of It's faith. IN no other
first-rate nation. nc said. is law so dis
regarded as in the United States.
Life Ia Insecure.
There is no place where ltie is so
insecure against bomb or bullet, where
criminal laws arc so Intellectually en-
forced where corruption is so little
condemned in public opinion. and where
defiance of law in the highest walks
Of business life SO generally prevails
TO leave law nncnforced, to cultivate
a disrdegard for its obligations, is hut
to fallow the ground that in after
years there may be one law for the
poor and another for the rich.' said
Mr.. Borahm.
He added that the Mcnamara cases
and the trust cases wero strong and
uncontrovcrtcd evidence of what is
fast becoming n national disease He
said he had no sympathy with the pros
ecution of business men who erred I'M
knowingly.
II refer alone he said, ito that class
who sit In their Offices with trained
lawyers and plan how they may cvade
the law and Its penalties. IF n man
lies in wait for his adversary and Stays
him, unwarned. will 1t he a defense
Tor his lawyer to say TO the court that
his client has ALWAYS had difficulty in