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Show ROOSEVELTWRiTES ON GIL DECISION NEW YORK, June 1. Theodore Roosevolt has an article on "The Standard Oil Declslou and After" In tho Outlook It says In part: "Tho anti-trust law was framod ou the theory that it was possible to turn back tho wheels of progress In industrialism, indus-trialism, and In an ago of combination to put a stop to the combinations under un-der which business was carried on. While, as I have said, the anti-trust law as now construed, does accom pllsh a certain amount of good, It was out of the question that framed as it was in such a spirit, and with such a purpose, It could achieve In any but the smallest degree what Its framers hoped, and any effort to achieve this purpose simply by making the law more btrlngent, will result either In nothing or in changing tho situation for tho worse. Will Result In Good. "What is urgently needed 1b tho enactment of drastic and far-reaching legislation which shall put tho great Interstate business corporations of the Standard OU company, tho sugar trust, the steel trust and the like at least ns completely under the control and regulation of tho government InV oach and every respect as tho Interstate Inter-state railwajs aro now put To break up the Standard Oil company, as the recent decision has broken It up, does a certain amount of good, but It does not do anything Hko the amount of good that would be achieved from the standpoint of the public if the proper governmental body wero glVou the same supervision and control over It ns the Interstate commerce commission commis-sion nab established over tho railways of tho country " |