Arizona republican., 1912-05-09
TAFT MAKES NEW CHARGE AT COLUMBUS Says Roosevelt and Dixon Helped Democrats Des- troy Arbitration
 Treaties DISCUSSES THE
 TRUST STATUS Says the Rise in Oil and Tobacco Stock Is Due to Plain Economic
 Cause
DISCUSSES THE
 TRUST STATUS
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0N1~ N -N AO 1Ac- ANldN o4-ElHSiuPnI Taft charged tonight in a speech in Memorial hall that Roosevelt. his campaign manager. Senator Dixon and democrats in the senate are re- sponsible for the "emasculation" of the arbitration treaties with Great Britain and France, and that in con sequence of their action, the pacts were so changed as to be of doubt full utility.
 These treaties. the president de- clared, would have been wide steps toward universal peace; would have signalized the movement for uni versal arbitral court. and were as progressive measures as ever were suggested to the American people For some reason unknown to my puzzleWitted brain," he said, 'Roose- welt opposed those treaties. and by these men who supported the opposi- tion, his manager. Dixon, and the democratic votes in the senate, these treaties were so emasculated it is difficult to see whether they con tain anything of value which ought to be ratified into Il treaty.
 Replying to a statement that the result of the decrees in the Standard oil and Tobacco cases was really benefit those trusts and that the administrations prosecutions of them had been intellectual because oil has gone up, and the stock of both com panIes have increased in value Presi- dent Taft told why he believed these have resulted from natural economic To said tbhx- mn cause in the dissolution the facts had come out. and stockholders who were holding the stock down low had
 to reveal to the public generally that they had q great deal more money in these companies than the public had 1 known they had. He said the price i of oil had gone up because under the ! old plan the Standard Oil company could control the price of crude oil 1 and had kept it down. T know what 1 I am talking about he said. be cause 1 had to approve contracts i down in the Indian territory with re- spect to oil The price went down, ] suppressed by the Standard, so that we did not know what to do with 1 those Indian lands. Now, because competition has come about, crude oil has gone up. and the price of oil i generally has gone up.
 Then about the tobacco business, They say the decree is I sham. Well.
 what is the effect of it? Don't you
 remember out in Kentucky. they had night riders who tore up the tobacco plants. killed people and drove others off the farms in order to reduce the supply of Burley tobacco, because they could not get any price for it? | That was because the tobacco trust went in there and bought what they wanted and paid the price they
 wanted to pay Now, what is the re suit of the tobacco decree? Why. Burley tobacco has gone up under competition that has come in there. Answering Roosevelts charge that President Taft has an alliance with 1 the bosses. the president criticised | his predecessor for attempting to in 1 feet into national campaign ques- tions which properly concern the states and with which the president has no direct concern. He criticised
 the recall of judicial decisions, which he said amounted to writing restric- tfons of your constitution in water He gave a long list of legislation enacted during his administration which, he said. showed him to be progressive. He said he accepted the
 support of Joseph G. Cannon when speaker, on the advice of Roosevelt although the colonel now attacked him for it. He went so far as to say that for time he contemplated an attempt to defeat Cannon for re- election to the speakership, but after receiving letter from Roosevelt ad- vising against that course, he chang ed his mind, having received Can non's assurance not to oppose legiS~
 lation he though necessary
 COLUMBUS. May S.--Pldns tor
 President Tafts swing through Ohio
 next week made public in part here to-
 night. indicate the president intends to
 make a spectacular and strenuous flght
 to control the states IS delegates To
 the national convention. Entering Ohio next Monday morning at Marlet-
 ta. he will speak in practically every
 city and town of 5000 or more. which he has not visited before. He will
 travel more than a thousand miles ill the state on a special train. He will be in the state nine days and on seven of these he will be in full action Esti- mates were made tonight that he will
 speak 75 times The president will vote
 in Cincinnati on Tuesday and return ] to Washington that night. He male | IC0ntinIled on Page 2)