The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-08-22
In, Looking after the Public
Welfare and Achieving
Great Good.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
In a Speech Reviews Great
Work Done by the Taft
Administration.


with a general defense Of Presi-
dent Tafts administration. His dis
cussion ranged from the platform
upon which Mr.. Taft was elected -
the tariff. the trust question and n
score of other issues. Each he took
up in great detail. Summing Up
President Tafts term. the attorney
general said in part:
President Taft has enforced the
laws. civil and criminal. without dis
elimination and without fear. The
indictments OF the members of the So
called Wire Pools for violation OF the
antitrust Law embraced some eighty
mon. most OF whom were prominent
IN business life, some of them per-
sonal; friends of the president. The
Indictment OF Dan Hanna and other
Individuals and corporations in north
Lern Ohio for taking railroad rebates,
brought upon the president the bit
terest hostility OF powerful business
and financial interests and resulted In
giving to Mr.. Roosevelt effective aid
in his primary campaign in Ohio. The
prosecution OF the great United
States Steel corporation as an illesal
monopoly came as a surprise to the
financial world, because they, In their
arrogance, had assumed that no ad-
administration would lift hand against
that powerful combination. The in
dictment Of the beef packers in chica-
go under this administration was lot
rendered abortive as was that obtain
ed under Mr.. Roosevelt by the use rf
information obtained for the purposes
of confidential statistical Investigation
and then diverted to the purposes Of
criminal prosecution; but, after year
of meeting and overcoming every
species OF technical defenseg known t.
the resources OF the criminal lawyer,
the government brought these men OF
wealth and power face TO face with a
court and jury, in trial on the facts
and the law, and although the jury ac-
Quilted them of the crime, 1t was not
for lack of full presentation Of all
the facts upon which crime could be
predicated; and the 'prcsG&Ion has
already resulted in the dissolution of
the National Packing Company,
which was the vehicle OF concerted
ACTON among the packers and the dis
trtbution Of some sixty million dol
lars worth OF properties among COM
petitive interests.
So. sa ofousmt unuer me
1 - i'.,at Jaw iei' peHuihs az me eS-
-, - - ''st NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
l ~. "t''l 'ne eNeePs'of, 81 inc North-
|" sou 'S'es Gdse' "nish was carried
-. 'u..eS7. - eoAc.osi'H ny al
~ w, "i.en nc was attorney genera !,
~ ms important cases when naa
go Dioush. py !. were lett penang
,n" ue'eLi"'''eu mas peeh carried
a'. ,o"9" ~ eo''eiusio"' anu IN Almost
Every instance 10 successful conclu-
s m
an - ns eo"ue'ihat,on ci me sR'hdard
-, rus. was ioiio"ea-and could
ny ,,', ~ ioiiowed--oy precisely that
~, N.nu - ,ulissoiu'ioh whieh ar. Roose-
, re-. , .r a,,orney general haa demandef
80. ."e o'1a'eo ! fust was subjected 10 a
. "a. 4'ote drastic ana actual segresa-
''o ..r,
., nus ueeree OF disiniegnN'on has
s .,.,,, 'ne business world mat IT ~
possible TO comply with the law with
o !, assrue'lon Oh iesi'imate proper
~ t's"'S' ana without interfering
' WIN 'ne honest conduct OF lawful
,'.,...,, . Judge OF us eject by the
prices 0oiu Tor a Few sales Of stocks on
'"e eu'" market IN New YORK Is alb,
s .,F. ava !" declare mat this dissoln-I
~" ''as accomplished nothing OF
s sS.ue - 'he community ana mas dem
Illustrated ' 'he inetnciency OF the sher-
nan ." 10 meet lhe question OF mo
Hopo.y' IS Simply 70 display grSss ig-
~ ,ls of 70 "iiiuiiy misr-present
''e l"e'''
~ = WORD the earnest EFFORT of the
president throughout MS administra-
mas oeen TO carry out the pledges
s oIntf0 a15 to enforce the law impaFa-
nror" anu Win, m,,nout alserimination' to