Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1907-07-22 | Page 4 | The Texas Trust Law

THE TEXAS TRUST LAW There recently went Into effect In Texas a law which Is intended to pro pre prevent vent merchants from purchasing goods made by trusts and combinations for sale to their consuming customers in inthe ink k the state In other words Texas pro proposes 1 poses a legal boycott of products The independent manufacturer manufacturer Is to have Texas for his exclusive exclusive sive field Now the law seems all right In theory but that It will work out practically It Is greatly to be doubted There are man many difficulties In the way Suppose a merchant chooses to pay 0 no attention to the law We e will say he buys some of the harmless prod products products of some great corporation which II T is regarded as a trust and retails them to his customers The state begins proceedings against him under the I new law Now It becomes bomes necessary for tor the state before a conviction can be had to prove that the selling cor cort Is a trust and that the mer iner merchant t 1 chant new it to be a trust That cuts out some hard work for the state 4 This though Is only the beginning If sufficient evidence should be pro produced produced to provo prove that the corporation Is Isa IsI I a trust the merchant would not go to jail For It Is a certainty that the supreme court of the United States c would be asked to pass upon the con 1 of the law It would be asked to decide whether or not a state 1 has the right to prohibIt the purchase 4 by a merchant ot of an article harmless In itself wherever lie he can purchase it ItI I for lor sale wIthIn the state Really It Is not possIble to believe that the law can be enforced It can canIL IL only be classed as crank legislation that will be crushed under the weight 1 of Its own foolishness That there are of capital In this coun country country try that should be restraIned Is snot not seriously denied by anybody The pee peo people pie of Texas are known as trust bust busters 2 ers but they are just as human as the people of other states Their m in r 1 chants and theIr consumers will buy where they can buy to the best ad advantage advantage vantage To eliminate the e product o t