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Theodore Roosevelt filed suits against 44 trusts during his 7 1/2 years as president
By 1911, Taft began to back away from his efforts to tame the trusts.
while Taft was in office he, unlike teddy roosevelt, used the justice department to prosecute and bust up trusts. roosevelt had used his force of personality and meetings that he organized to bust up specific trusts that he wanted gone. Taft delegated the responsibility to those in the justice department. therefore there were atleast four times as many anti-trust lawsuits under Taft than roosevelt. Also he allowed the first bill on a nationwide income tax to pass through congress. He also let bills that allow for state refferendums and the recall of elected officials pass through congress.
President Taft
The breaking up of trusts.
The relationship between William Taft and trusts is quite simple. When Teddy Roosevelt was President, he was known as a trust buster. He went after the type of big business trusts that were formed when smaller companies give their stock to people on the board of trustees of a larger company. Roosevelt prosecuted many anti-trust suits. However when Taft became president he "busted" even more trusts than Roosevelt but he was never acknowledged for it. You can read about it in more detail at the link provided belw.
The New Nationalism would back stronger government power to bust trusts, while the Rule of Reason would weaken that power.
Roosevelt believed that Taft did not deal with trusts aggressively enough.
breaking up business trusts and giant monopolies
William Howard Taft's goals as president included implementing progressive reforms, such as breaking up monopolies and regulating business practices, improving the efficiency of the federal government, and promoting peace and stability in international relations. He also sought to strengthen and expand America's presence and influence abroad through initiatives like the Dollar Diplomacy.
to bust any trust deemed hurtful to America. He was the first president to successfully use the Sherman Anti Trust Act to counter trusts instead of labor unions.