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MONDAY EVENING.
TOPEKA, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 18, 1911.
MONDAY EVENING.
TWO CENTS.
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ED !.1AD1S0N DEA
Popular Kansas Congressman
Dies at Breakfast Table.
Apoplexy Causes Death of Well
Known RepresentatiTe.
GREAT TIME PLANNED
President Taft Was on Way to
Yisit Dead Man.
Came From Fighting Stock,
Dating Back to Revolution.
Dodge City, Kan.. Sept. IS. Congress
man E. H. Madison, of the Seventh
Kansas district, died at the breakfast
table this morning of apoplexy. He had
rot been ill, but his health had not
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Congressman Kd II. Madison. Who Ti
City Tliis
heen robust for several months. His
death, unexpected as it was came as
a shock to the city and his thousands
of friends.
Mr. Madison was attacked while eat
ing breakfast with his wife. She
'hastened to aid him but he died almost
instantly, her arms clasped about him.
He did not utter a word after the first
attack. A physician reached the house
in a few minutes but death had preced
ed him.
Mr. Madison's two daughters are in
"Washington. E. C. Mo steps toward
the funeral arrangements will be taken
before tomorrow.
Voted Against Ballinger.
On September 7, 1910, when the Bal-linger-Pinchot
investigation committee
was in session at Minneapolis, Con
gressman Madison voted with the
Democratic members of the committee
in favor of a resolution providing for
The removal of Secretary Ballinger
from office. Senator Duncan W.
Fletcher of Florida introduced a reso
lution holding the secretary of the in
terior was an unfaithful public servant
ami should be removed.
Representative Madison submitted a
sub.-titute resolution, declaring that the
charges made by Gifford Pinchot and
T.onis Glavis. an ex-chief of the fieid
division of the land office, had been
sustained. Representative James of
Kentucky offered an amendment, pro
viding for the removal of Secretary
Ballinger from office. Mr. Madison ac
cepted the amendment and the Demo
crat members of the committee and
Representative Madison voted for it.
When the vote was taken Senator
George Sutherland of Utah and Con
gressman Samuel W. McCall of Massa
chusetts left the room. Senator Nelson
of Minnesota, chairman of the commit
tee, put the question and voted on it.
but declared that there was no quorum
present. Four Republican members of
the committee beside McCall and Suth
erland, were not present and the Re
publican members of the committee
held the vote was not valid because the
full committee was not present.
Representative Madison and the
Democrats opposed this view and
charged that the Republican members
were purposely delaying action on the
Ballinger Pinchot controversy.
President Taft. now on his way west
Ftated only last week that one object
in making his present trip was to ac
cept the invitation extended him to
Kansas. The president has been noti
fied of his death.
He had worked hara at the recent
ression of congress taking an active j
Tart in the reciprocity debates. He was
p. member of th special committee that '
investigated the Ballinger charges. j
A l eader in the National House. '
"Washington, Sept. IS. Represen
tative Madison was one of the strik
ing figures in the strenuous fight
made over the rules in the last con
gress which resulted in the curtail
ment of the speaker':! powers and
radical changes in the code govern
ing the house. Madison and Murdock
of Kansas and other progressive Re
publicans under the leadership of
-S'orris, of Nebraska, in the closing
hours of the sixty-first congress
waged and won the battle for reor
ganization oi the house methods. It
ws a fight marked by bitterness and
parliamentary strategy for majority
control in place of so called arbitrary
Power of the speaker.
Mr. Madison served through two
congresses, was re-elected to the pres
ent one and was active in the work
of ihe recent extra session. He was
a member of the Ballinger-Pinchot in-
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vestigating committee and took an es
pecial interest in the Philippine ad
ministration investigation at the hands
of the house insular affairs committee,
of which he was a member.
He vigorously defended the then
President Roosevelt attack in connec
tion with the secret service appropria
tion controversy several years ago and
Roosevelt frequently expressed grati
tude for his loyal support. Represen
tative Tawney of Minnesota had of
fered a provision that none of the ap
propriations for the secret service
could be used in l"11 "tf
duct of senators and representatives.
President Roosevelt in commencing
the defense hv Madison and others de
clared that the secret of that fight on
the secret service appropriation was
the realization of members of con
gress that he, Mr. Roosevelt, in his
drastic message urging the appropria
tion waT hitting at them, though no
names were mentioned.
Mr Madison was recognized as one
. , , . ji lo,rvro In the hOUSe
of the leaums . - .- .
and was a frequent participant in de-
bate.
Belonged to Young Crowd.,
Edmond H. Madison of Dodge City
was one of the young crowd that
-.1,,-., a,,r.Vi a nrominent part in Kan-
-o. iitis rhirinar the last years of
his life. In 1896 and 1S97 he was
1 i
ed Suddenly at His Home in Dodgv
Morning.
president of the Kansas State League
of Republican clubs, which was made
up largely of the younger members of
the party. He was a brilliant orator
and his services as a speaker were in
great demand in all political cam
paigns. He acted as delegate to state
and district conventions and wag an
untiring worker for the success of the
Republican party. He served several
times as a member of the Ford county
central committee and was a member
of the Seventh district congressional
committee.
Mr. Madison was active member of
the Sons of Veterans in Kansas. He
served as division commander in 1894
and the order thrived under his lead
ership. He was a descendant of a line
of fighters which dates back to the
Revolution. His great grandfather
Madison was an Englishman who
served with distinction in the first
great war. Another ancestor saw Te
cumseh fall during the war of 1812.
His great grandmother was the daugh
ter of General Andrew Lewis of Revo
lutionary fame. His father, James "W.
Madison. fought at Fort Donelson
and Shiloh.
Born in Illinois, December 18, 1865,
Mr. Madison had only the advantages
of a common school education. At the
age of 17 years he began teaching
school. Coming to Kansas in 1885, he
began the study of law at Wichita in
the office of G. W. C. Jones, who was
then county attorney of Sedgwick
county.
In November of that year he married
Miss LiUie Vance of Wichita. Five
children were born to them. Mrs.
Madison died in Topeka in 1899.
In 1SS7 Mr. Madison moved to Dodge
City. He was admitted to the bar the
next year and elected county attorney
of Ford county. In 1892 he was a can
didate for the state senate but was de
feated along with other Republicans by
the Populist wave which carried every
thing before it. in 1S97 he became a
member of the law firm of Sutton &
Madison. He was appointed judge of
the Thirty-fifth judicial district by
Governor Stanley in 1899.
Known as Peacemaker.
Congressman Ed Madison undoubt
edly held the record among modern
Kansas politicians as a peacemaker
and a friendmaker. In his party he
was considered as a man, rather than
as a member of any faction. When
the legislature redistricted the west
half of the state, and Victor Murdock
was placed in the new Eighth district,
the big Republican leaders at once set
upon Judge Ed Madison as the logical
candidate for the Big Seventh. Among
those named as possibilities, when the
Republican leaders looked over the
situation in June. 1905, were suc.h men
as F. Domont Smith. W. Y. Morgan,
Judge Hutchison of Dodge City, Chas.
Starr. Charles Lobdell and Judge
Francis Price. Judge Madison was the
choice: Dumont Smith, one of the
most powerful Republicans of the dis
trict at that time, refused to be con
sidered for the position, and boosted
Judge Madison from the first, refusing
a state office in the same year because
he thought his candidacy might em
barrass Madison. It was Dumont
Smith who came to Topeka during the
last session of the legislature and
started a quiet boom for Madison as
the compromise candidate for gover
nor. Madison refused to stand for this
boom, and it is generally understood
among the leading politicians that he
intended to go after Bristow's job as
ITnited States senator at the next elec
tion. Judge KTancis Price of Ashland,
and state senator, was a warm admirer
of Madison, although Price was known
as a "standpatter" in the state senate.
(Continued" on Page Six.)
BIG DAYFOR TAFT
The President Reached Detroit
at Seven This Morning.
Entertained at a Breakfast With
50 Newspaper Men.
CITY IN HOLIDAY GAEB
'Welcome President Taft Rec
iprocityWorld Wide Peace"
Inscribed on Banner at Entrance
to Highland Park,
Detroit, Sept. 18. President Taft
arrived here at 7 a. m. He was es
corted to .the Detroit club, where he
was entertained at breakfast by Mil
ton A. McRae and fifty Michigan
newspaper men. He was scheduled to
speak at Pontiac and the Detroit
state fair grounds before 1 o'clock.
Detroit was in holiday garb to greet
President Taft on his arrival this
morning from Erie. Business houses
and private residences along the
streets through which the president
was scheduled to pass were decorated
with flags and bunting, while at the
entrance to the village of Highland
Park, a northern suburb, there hung
a large banner, bearing the words:
"Welcome President Taft reciprocity
and world-wide peace."
The president found a busy day out
lined for him when he reached the
city. Every minute of the nine and
a half hours which his visit will cover
was accounted for. Following a
breakfast at the Detroit club, the
program included an address at Pon
tiac. After a 26 mile trolley ride a
speech at the opening of the Michigan
state fair, a luncheon and address at
the Wayne pavilion, an automobile
ride about the city and an informal
talk to the delegates to the conven
tion of the national association of in
ternal revenue officers at the hotel
Cadillac. The president's train will
leave for Saginaw at 4:25 p. m.
Four Days iu Michigan.
President Taft inaugurated his four
days' stay in Michigan with four
speeches in and around Detroit. The
more important of these he reserved
for the Chamber of Commerce lunch
eon at Wayne pavilion in 'this city,
where he had announced he would
discusa the "trust" question in gen
eral and the recent decisions of the
United States supreme court In the
Standard Oil and tobacco trust cases
in particular. Mr. Taft reached De
troit after an all-night ride from
Erie. Pa., he left his train in a down
pour but while breakfasting at the De
troit club the ciouds began to give way
and there was a promise of sunshine
for the out-door events on the prer
idem a program. A crowd of several
hundred gathered in the rain at the
station and there was a cheer as the
presidential automobile whisked by.
At breakfast where the president was
entertained by Milton A. McRae and
met fifty or more newspaper editors
and proprietors he spoke briefly of
his former connection with newspaper
work in Cincinnati.
"I was assigned to the courts," said
the president in describing his re
portorial career, "and the first big
'scoop' that I got was an advance story
of a decision on a very important case
which was exactly the opposite of the
decision which the judges handed down
next day."
Amid laughter, the president added
that that was the nearest he had ever
come to contempt of court.
Mr. Taft said he had listened during
the morninp- to a number of editors
discussing the difficulty of nearly al
ways having to defend some one. Some
of the editors boasted that they were
not troubled that way.
"I haven't got a newspaper," said the
president, with a smile. "But I am a
sort of brother-in-law to a newspaper.
So while it may be embarrassing to a
newspaper at times to be related to a
statesman, it sometimes may be em
barrassing to a statesman to be re
lated to a newspaper.
Asks Their Prayers.
"I am starting on a long trip, gen
tlemen, and I ask your prayers both for
my mental and physical well-being.
This trip. I may say, was not entered
into with malice aforethought. Some
times when I contemplate it I hold my
breath. But. being in, I am going
through with it."
Senator Wm. Alden Smith joined the
Run, cctfSAfcN
BUT ILL 6T YCU
president's party today and will make
most of the trip through Michigan.
Following breakfast the president
was taken by special trolley to.Pontiac,
where he was scheduled to make a
brief address before returning to the
state fair grounds to assist in opening
the annual exhibition there. Two of the
smaller granges of the state boycotted
the fair this year because of the in
vitation extended to the president, baa
ing their action on the president's reci
procity campaign. Michigan has been
particularly interested in reciprocity
and there has been more or less of a
conflict between- the cities and the
rural districts, the former favoring the
pact and the latter opposing it. The
president adhering to his announced
program of avoiding reciprocity until
after the Canadian election next
Thursday, had nothing to say on the
subject today. The president heard
with deepest sorrow of the death of
former Senator Thomas H. Carter of
Montana and sent the following tele
gram to Mrs. Carter at Washington:
"I am greatly shocked and grieved to
learn of the death of Senator Carter.
He vas apparently in robust health
when he dined with me in Washington
late in August. For more than twenty
years we had been warm and intimate
friends and I knew his great ability,
his patriotism and his loyalty. I ten
der to you and your family in your
deep sorrow and irretrievable loss my
profoundest sympathy."
President Taft today received an in
vitation to visit the LTniversity of Wis
consin at Madiwon. Madison is the
home of Senator -LaFollette. The pres
ident was compelled to decline. The
itinerary Is said to be complete.
Returning from Pontiac, President
Taft was greeted by a big throng at
the state fair grounds, five miles from
this city. In the absence of Govenor
Osborn. Mr. Taft was introduced by
Milton McRae.
"Three cheers for the next president
of the United States," yelled an en
thusiastic man close to the platform as
the president arose to speak.
"I am afraid you are a very poor
prophet." said Mr. Taft with a smile.
The president's speech followed the
lines of his Syracuse address in which
he urged the adoptioh of scientific
methods in farming and the conserva
tion of the soil. Evidently convinced
that "race suicide" had been checked,
the president remarked that if car'
was not taken the crop of babies would
increase more than any other crop the
nation produces.
"The one thing you need," said the
president, "is to increase the price
farmers get for their products and then
boys born on the farm will stay there
and will find themselves better off than
lawyers and doctors and other profes
sional men in cities."
MUNICIPAL CONGRESS.
And Exposition Ope-ns in the Coliseum
at Chicago.
Chicago, Sept. 18. Informal inspec
tion of the exhibits of cities and manu
facturers marked the opening of the
international municipal congress and
exposition in the Coliseum here today.
Mayor Carter H. Harrison of Chicago
and John M. Ewen, chairman of the
exposition, were scheduled to officially
open the event at 2 o'clock this after
noon with addresses of welcome. To
day's program included addresses by
Darius A. Brown, mayor of Kansas
City and president of the League of
American Municipalities; John E. Rey
burn. mayor of Philadelphia, and John
F. Fitzgerald, mayor of Boston.
BASEBALL WEATHEK.
Western League.
Denver at Omaha, clear, 3:45.
Lincoln at St. Joseph, clear, 3:30.
Pueblo at Sioux City, cloudy, 10:30.
Topeka at Des Moines, clear, 3:30.
National Leasrue.
New York at Pittsburg, clear, 3.
Brooklyn at Chicago, cloudy, 3.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati, rain, 3.
Boston at St. Louis, clear, 1:30 and
230.
American League.
Detroit at New York, clear, 3:45.
Cleveland at Boston, clear. 3:15.
Chicago at Philadelphia, clear, 1:30
and 3.
t. Louis at Washington, clear, 3:30.
American Association.
Toledo at Milwaukee, clear, 3.
Indianapolis at Kansas City, threat
ening, 3:15.
Louisville at Minneapolis, cloudy, 3.
Columbus at St. Paul, clear, 3.
George Young Gets Job.
Belleville, Kan., Sept. 18. George
Young has received word that J. N.
Dolley, state bank commissioner, had
appointed him a special deputy bank
commissioner, to report for duty at
Wichita today.
"SWINGING AROUNND THE CIRCLE.'
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HE HITS A TREE
Rodgers, the Third Ayiator to
Enter the Race
For the Hearst Prize, Meets
With an Accident.
I1E FALLS 35 FEET.
His Injury Is Slight, But Ma
chine Is Wrecked.
He Started From Sheepshead
Bay Sunday Afternoon.
Middletown, N. Y., Sept. 18. In at
tempting to resume bis flight to the
Pacific coast this morning, C. P. Rod
gers, the third aviator to start in com
petition for the Hearst prize, crashed
into a tree and fell with his aero
plane 35 feet to the ground. The air
man received scalp wounds, not se
rious, but his machine was wrecked
so badly that he probably will be un
able to fly tomorrow.
Rodgera stuck to his seat during
the plunge but was thrown out when
the machine hit the ground and
caught under one of the wings, just
escaping being crushed to death by
the heavy engine. At first it was
thought that he was badly hurt, but
after a physician had dressed his
wounds he went back to the scene of
the accident and worked with hia
helpers ascertaining the amount of
the damage. After the first inspection
he said if the engine could be repaired
the other broken parts could be sup
plied from duplicates in his special
train. If obliged to send back to New
York for another engine he did not
know how long he might be delayed.
In any event he had no expectation
of getting away again before tomor
row morning.
The transcontinental racer rose
before daylight today intending, if
possible to create a new distance rec
ord for one day's flight. He left the
ground at 6:15. Although there was
little wind he failed to get a good
start and nearly struck the four foot
stone wall surrounding the pleasure
grounds from where he took off. Then
at a height of 20 feet one of his planes
struck the limb of a willow tree.
This threw him dut of his course and
he crashed full speed into a big
hickory just beyond.
The branches of the tree partly
broke the force of his fall, but the
machine came down so hard head-on
that the engine was partly buried in
the soft ground. Rodgers was pulled
out from under his plane still smok
ing a cigar, he lit just before the
start. He was assisted to his special
train, which stood waiting near by
with steam up ready to accompany
him on today's journey over the Erie
railroad. Rodger landed here at
6:18 o'clock yesterday evening, after
making his first day's flight from
Sheepshead Bay, about 80 miles in
one hour and 53 minutes. If all went
well today he had hoped by Tuesday
to pass his competitor, James J. Ward,
who was delayed at Owego, N. Y., by
an accident last Saturday.
Rodgers said investigation showed
that everything was wrecked except
the radiators and one gasoline tank.
The machine is practically ruined, but
it may be possible to save enough in
reconstruction so that it will not be
necessary to start again from New
York with an entirely new machine.
Apparently Rodgers will not be able to
make another start before Wednesday
morning.
Realizing the hopelessness of his
machine, Rodgers said he would re
turn to New York tonight and make
another start in a new aeroplane.
Jimmie Ward Readies Elmira.
Elmira, Sept. 18. James Ward, on his
coast to coast flight, flew over Elmira
at 11:15 this morning, having left
Owego, 36 miles, at 10:45. He did not
stop here.
Wi.h his new engine working splen
didly James J. Ward, the young coast
to coast flier, made a successful get
away from here at 10:42 today. Just
before leaving he was informed of
Rodgers' mishap this morning. "That'.
tough luck," said Ward. "I know just
how he feels."
Ward expects to reach Brantford,
Canada, tonight.
Corning, N. Y.. Sept. 18. Ward ar
rived here at 11:31 this morning, land
ing in a field north of this city. First
he circled over the business section of
the town, flying very high. He re
mained for luncheon.
Ward's landing at Corning was due to
the blowing out of an oil feed connec
tion while he was directly over the city,
which allowed all of his lubricating oil
to escape and badly burned his engine.
He telephoned to Hammondsport, 27
miles distant, where the Curtiss factory
located, for repairs and may resume
his flight later today. He left Owego
at 10:48. landing here at 1:31, making
the 56 miles in 43 minutes.
STOLYPIN IS DEAD.
The Wounds Inflicted by an Assassin
Prove ratal.
Kiev. Sept. IS. Premier Stolypin, who
was shot by an assassin, died this af
ternoon as the result of his wounds.
At 1:30 o'clock this afternoon it was
stated that the patient's condition was
becoming worse from minute to min
ute, his temperature was 95.9. The
pulse for a brief period slowed down
and then rose with renewed violence.
The medical means to relieve the pre
mier were unavailing.
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Premier M. Stolypin, "Who Died Today.
One hundred and ' fifty arrests of
lawyers and other acquaintances of
Dimitry Bogroff. the man who shot
Stolypin. have been made in Kiev.
Bogroff talked freely today and fur
nished the authorities valuable clews.
The original confident behavior of the
prisoner has given place to despond
ency and he is now receiving medical
treatment.
Among the versions of the circum
stances leading up to the crime and
which must be investigated is the as
sertion that Bogroff belonged to a new
autonomous revolutionary group, the
aim of which is to assassinate indi
vidual statesmen. In the course of the
questioning Bogroff declared that he
held Stolypin as one of the most per
nicious men of the state. Another
version is that the revolutionaries put
Bogroff, who. according to the police,
had been filling the dual role of revo
lutionary agent and police ' spy in a
dilemma where he had to kill Stolypin
or be himself killed.
Bogroff chose the first alternative.
STORM HITS CHICAGO.
Several Persons Injured and Much
Property Damaged,
Chicago, Sept. 18. Two persons
were killed, twenty injured and a
property damage of $500,000 resulted
early today from a storm which was a
remarkable combination of lightning,
thunder, wind, rain and hail.
The Dead.
THOMAS MATHEW, 28 years old,
found in a rain-lilled gutter in front
of his home.
JOHN McPHILLIPS, 73 years old.
killed by being blow n over a hand rail
ing into a basement in front of his
home.
The wind struck with such sudden
ness and force that ships in the har
bor dragged anchors but no vessels
were wrecked.
A bridge tender's house was blown
into the river, but the tender swam
safely to land. A small house in the
outskirts of the city was moved sev
eral feet from its foundation. Two
men were rolled from bed in this
house. They rushed out to see what
was the trouble, but the wind having
passed, they returned to bed.
The most extensive single damage
was the crushing of all the glass in a
large green house owned by Alder
man Reinberg. The damage is $20,
000. The wind took the chimneys and
most of the roofs off a row of thir
teen cottages in the north part of the
city and carried many planks and
hoards from a nearby lumber yard to
various places within an area of sev
eral blocks.
Later the body of Thomas Mathew,
28 years old, was found in a rain
filled gutter in front of his home. The
police believe he had slipped on the
wet pavement and. rendered uncon
scious, rolled into the gutter.
The steamer City of Chicago was
caught in the gale on Lake Michigan
and two members of its crew were in
jured. The passengers were panic
stricken.
Damage caused by the storm is es
timated at about $500,000.
The Illinois naval reserve gunboat
Dubuque dragged Its anchor and was
dashed against the government pier by
the wind. It was towed back to its
mooring in the inner harbor. Three
large passenger steamers returning
from Michigan ports were buffeted
about for five hours before reaching
Chicago a large number of yachts and
launches were torn from their moor
ings and suffered damage. Twenty-five
fires were caused by lightning anu
many families were driven out of their
homes. A number of houses were un
roofed. THIS IS Al'Tl'MN' WEATHER.
Mercury Takes a Drop and Conditions
Are Unsettled.
Today we are having the sort of
weather one would expect the firsc
week in October. Sunday the average
temperature was four degrees higher
than the normal for the middle of July.
There was a feeling like fall today.
The rainfall up to 2 o'clock for the
day was .12 of an inch, a hard shower
beginning at 11:55 Vclock this morning.
The hourly readings:
7 o'clock 1
8 o'clock 61
9 o'clock 63
10 o'clock 64
11 o'clock...
. . .65
...60
...56
12 o'clock...
1 o'clock...
2 o'clock...
Athletics Beat W hite Sox.
Philadelphia, Sept. IS. First
R.H.E.
Chicago 1 7 1
Philadelphia ?. 8.0
Batteries Walsh and Sullivan; Coombs
and Lapp. Umpires Mullin and Evans.
Weather Indications.
Chicago, Sept. IS. Forecast for
Kansas: Fair tonight and Tuesday.
Not much change in temperature.
TAFT 0NJI1USTS.
The President in a Speech at
Detroit, Slich.
Defends the Supreme Court of
the United States.
CHALLENGES IIIIYAX.
To Point Out Any Wrong In Re
cent Decisions.
Introduction of the Word Rea
sonable in the Opinions.
Detroit, Sept. 18. President Taft at
luncheon with the board of commerco
here today, made the first of what may
be termed the political speeches of hi
six weeks' tour oi. the country. He tooK.
up the trusts" and dearly outlined
his views concerning them. He defend
ed with vigor the Uci itions of the L'ni
ttd State supreme court in the Stand
ard Oil nd Tobacco trust case ami
there was a distinct campuign note In
Mr. Taft's challenge to his ancient po
litical enemy. William Jennings Bryan,
to point out what particular contract or
restraint of trade he would condemn
which would not be condemned within
the definition of the statute ns laid
down by Mr. Chief Justice White.
Mr. Taft added rather signiflcantly
that persons who do not understand the
decisions and really do not understand
the law have had a great deal to fay
about them. It was not fair to tho
court, he declared to say that It hud
read the word "reasonable" into tho
ar.ti-trust statute.
"I am entirely opposed to an amend
ment of the anti-trust law," paid tbe
presideni, "it is now a valuable gov
ernment asset and in.xi rument. Tested
and brought into beneficial use by 1MJ
years of litigation and construction by
the highest court, why should we Im-
I peril its usefulness by experiments?"
A lltj UUU IJ AOI MIIU'llUIllPIlLH. lOllOWing
the supreme court's decisions, the pres
ident said had resulted in proposal
piepared without a real unueratandini;
of the law and he added that w bila
this agitation might serve the purpose
of promoting unreasonable and unrea
soning discontent it certainly ought not
to be considered seriously. Mr. Taft
referred to the fact that immediately
atter the rtust decisions were handed
down by the supreme court Senator I-a.
Follette spread on the public records
a1 quotation from one of tho president s
messages as being at variance with tho
''.rule of reajtin" laid down by. the court.
The president asserted that his views as
expressed' in t he message were in exact
accord with the decisions.
Tl5 Speech in FHill.
My Fellow 'Citizens: I propose to
take up the question which has occu
pied the attention of the American
people for now twenty years, that of
industrial combinations known as
"trusts." During the last year wo
have had two great decisions by tbe
supreme court of the United States.
They are epoch making, and the pub
lic has not yet come to realize the ef
fect that those decisions are certain to
have. It is not that the construction
which the court has put upon the act
is different from that which most
members of the profession, and most
subordinate court., and indeed tho
supreme court Itself, had before Indi
cated as tbe proper construction of
the statute: but it is that It is now
finally settled, by two fully considered
decisions in respect to two of the lar
gest and most powerful of these com
binations, what their illegality consist
in, and how they are to be treated. In
view of the finding I hat they are il
legal and do violate the provisions of
the so-called antitrust or Sherman act.
Persons who do not understand the
effect of these decisions arid really do
not understand the law have a great
deal to say which is Intended to lend
the public to the belief that In some
way or other the supreme court has
emasculated the statute and prevented
its operation against objectionable snd
injurious trale combinations snd con
spiracies. Nothing Is further from the
truth.
When the statute was passed In
1K90 the expressions used In it to de
fine its object and what It was pro
posed therein to denounce ns unlaw
ful were not new. but they were suf
ficiently broad and Indefinite to re
quire judicial construction to settle
their meaning. Congress was dealing
with a subject matter in respect to
which it may be assumed that the leg
islators themselves were not clear ns
to the exact limitations of the mean
ing of the words in the statute they
were passing. They knew there was
an evil which they hoped to restrain
by the enactment of this law. nnd they
relied upon the courts In their con
struction of the law to hedge about Its
operation such restriction as would
prevent the statute from being so wide
in its application ns to Involve absurd
ity and the impracticable. The parly
oVHpinns under the law can not be paid
CCo-"- ed on Pare Eight.
ADVERTISING TALKS
WRITTEN BY
WILLIAM C FREEMAN
THE CHIEF VALUE OF
THE DAILY NEWSPAPER
to the national advertiser, it
seems to me, is the fact that
IT PERMITS HIM TO TALK
DIRECT TO THE CONSUMER
in communities where dealers
sell his goods.
It permits him to HAMMER
AWAY every day or every week
about the MERITS of his ar
ticle, and in the same advertise
ment to tell the reader where he
can buy the article in his town.
THE NEWSPAPER IS THE
DIRECT LINE INTO THE
HOME. What is the use of tak
ing a circuitous route when the
direct route lies open to you?
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