Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01
ENDS HIS OHIO TRIP
President Taft Speaks at Ban
quet at Akron.
UPH0LDS TARIFF BOARD
Tells Chamber of Commerce the
Antitrust Law Will Not
Be Repealed.


Taft brought his three-day trip through
last night with a reception and a dinner
given by the Akron Chamber of Com
merce in his honor. The President spoke
on the tariff board and gave his reasons
for wishing it's continued existence.
In leading up to discussion Of the
tariff board, the President spoke of the
| relations of the federal government to
business. He made it clear that his adj
ministration intends to enforce the anti
trust law, but said that he favored the
enactment of a federal incorporation act
to enable great corporations to operate
under the Shield of a national charter.
But said the President. whether we
have national incorporation law or not,
we have an antitrust law on the statute
books. That law isn't going to be re-
pealed.
The President said his hearers had
doubtless heard twenty-five lectures with
twenty-five different laws to replace
the Sherman act. all different and none
better than that law. Probably the best
this law that has stood the test more
than twenty years and do our best with
it,
Endorses Currency Reform.
The President concluded with an in
dorsement of the plan for currency re-
| form proposed by the national monetary
commission, and with a plea for the ar
bitration treaties
Mr.. Taft did not appear in evening
dress at the banquet, and there was not
a man at the guest table dressed in any
thing but a business suit, except Maj.
A. w. Butt, Mr.. Tafts aid, who wore
his fatigue uniform. The arrangements
committee, pressed for time, said they
would rather entertain 1.-THE President
than give him twenty minutes to dress.
The banquet was held in a dancing
academy. and shortly after it began the
President donned his overcoat. His cold
was better but his physician did not
wish him to take any chances. He dined
parently. Before he got half through
his speech he found the coat too heavy
and took it off.
Gets Friendly Greetings.
Mr.. Taft came to Akron from Column
bus in his private car. On the trip from
the capital were former Senator Dick,
republican national committeeman; A. L.
Vorys and L. c. Laylin, one of the
managers of the Taft forces in the
state.
The President appeared on the rear
platform of his car at Westerville, Gam
bier, Galena, Danville. Orrville and
few other stops. The crowds that came
to the stations to greet him were large,
and their greetings were friendly, al
though much of the trip was through
territory that went democratic at the
congressional election in 1910.
COLUMBUS. Ohio, February 1.-Presi-
dent Taft in an address to more than fifty
republican editors of Ohio yesterday de-
clared that he believes the party will win
In November, but said much of the brunt
of the fight will rest on the editors.
''The party has had during the last
two or three years hard time he said,
but it is not the first time in it's history
it has had to go over rough places. 1t is
not the first time in history where it has
been unjustly attacked when it has been
misunderstood by the voters and its own
members, and it is not the first time in
Its history when, l verify believe, this
coming campaign is to show, it had the
power in itself to overcome obstacles and
to win victory again, and show that it
is the real agency in the United States
upon which real progress can be based
Whole Story Not Told.
''The truth is we have not had the
whole story told, and we have not been
out in such way that the issue can be
distinctly made and the facts bearing on
that issue brought out. There has been
q great deal of fog. But l think when
We get stripped for the fight and get
down into the arena with only two an
tagonists and the parties drawn up on
each side we shall be able to show q
warrant for our continuance in power
that common sense and diScrimina ting
people cannot ignore