William Taft actually said...

"I recommend that this be done at once as a matter of emergency."

"An evil which menaces the general health of the people strikes at the life of the Nation."

"The need is urgent for legislation which will prevent the raising of false hopes of speedy cures of serious ailments by misstatements of fact as to worthless mixtures on which the sick will rely while..."

"The statute can be easily amended to include the evil I have described."