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Show KNOX AND lilt TRUSTS. In Sat u i day's K-,uo of The Journal editor (iokIoii dellnes the Republican proposition on the ti list question and intimated that the appointment of a tmst oiganier as Attorney-fJeneral Is the st taw that bleaks the camel's back. No one w 111 deny that Attorney Knot has a gieat leputatlon as a corporation cor-poration lawyer, that until his appointment ap-pointment by President Itoosqvclt he was frequently employed by trust magnates and invariably won his cases, but will The Journal Insist that this in itself uullts him for the position posi-tion he now occupies? Why would It not the better lit him for his ',tlght against the trusts or does Tlio Journal Jour-nal want to spread the Idea that Knox while occupying a Government position is still at the beck ami call of the enemies of the Government that he will not do his duty as the oath he took requires? Such would seem to be the Implication. Now let's look at it another way. We understand that Gordon was a Republican until he was emplojed to write Democratic editorials. editor-ials. Must we believe that he w 111 not do his duty by his employers, or rather shall we not believe that ho will put his best efforts into the work and do both himselfand his employers just Ice. If Gordon was himself a good Republican Repub-lican and studied the weak and strong points of the party, this knowledge within Itself ought the better tit him for his present duties likewise with Attorney-General Knox. If that lawyer law-yer was a trust organizer ho must know the trusts' btrength, also Its weaknesses, hence his lltness. Tho trust question is manifestly one of law, and at present not a matter of legislation. It is equally certain that thcro are now on tho books "antitrust" "anti-trust" laws, the ciTect and clllclency of which have never been fully tested. President Roosevelt litis given it out that th"se lows shall be tested and there aro few In this country who doubt that ho means business. After such a decision on tho President's pait, tho one thing necessary was that the conduct of this legal battle be I placed In competent hands, and the public testimony Is that no more masterful man could have been selected select-ed than Knox. The President, the representative of a majority of the people, has seen fit to leave this law case to a competent la'wycr, and It would seem fit and proper that the general public should await results patiently. |