Show NEW PLAN PROPOSED Since the American Sugar Refining company compromised the suit of the theP Pennsylvania P Sugar Refining company agreeing to pay in cash and cancel the loan of or through which it secured control of the Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania concern a 11 new plan to crush trusts truit has been broached The results following the efforts of the government In this direction have not been happy even when the prosecution was con conducted conducted ducted with vigor which did not always happen One of or the young senators in congress congre wild mid Id to possess great legal ability has pointed out that the action of th Pennsylvania company and its result points point the way to the most effective effective tive handling of ot the trust problem yet shown in this country He says We Ve should have such a system of laws that men wen who have been dam damaged aged LIged by a trust or one of those thosa big could be certain of securing adequate reparation In court The pro procedure procedure should be made swift and certain In my judgment that would work out the solution of the trust question If It we v had such uch a system of laws then when whenever whenever whenever ever a trust or a big corporation by any of the thousand unfair and oppressive methods method which they know how to em emE employ employ E ploy y put a man out of or business he would have ve a chance of obtaining redress There would always be a motive mothe for such euch a man to bring an action whereas now there is never any motive for the government to undertake the task The department of or justice offers little reward In the way of honor or glory and none at all in the v nay ay of or pay to any ny man manto manto manto to make a record In that kind of work The result re is that if tf we get an attorney a orney general who Is desirous of making a rec ree record recant ord ant one or two cases eases satisfies him and after aftel that things are permitted to run along In the humdrum routine fashion to the end of ot his term In order to have havethe havethe havethe the government act adequately It re ye requires quires constant pounding and even then the tb result is usually far from satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory Just think what would happen to the sugar trust and the Standard Oil rom corn company pany and the beef trust and such luch con concerns concerns concerns cerns If Ir they were called upon constantly to face juries In such suits but the gen general en eral procedure is so and there are ArelIO so many opportunities to delay the actions and to increase the expense that ordinarily the thi damaged Individual cannot afford to fight If It the system of or procedure were aim sim simplified and th way were made easy then thEm every even man who had been made the th vic vie victim victim tim of or the greed and lon of these trade conspiracies would have his remedy and there theno would be an end to the present i trust methods Many suits have been brought In Umes times past against the tho Standard Oil company and other offensive monopolies monopolies monopolies lies by men who had been financially crushed but the law was invariably found Inadequate to roach reach them If It the statutes were to be amended in ac accordance accordance with the views of the senator above mentioned perhaps an effectual curb might be applied It Is worth trying at any rate Regarding the sugar trust it is called to mind that an effort was made to in induce Induce Induce duce President Roosevelt to order its Us prosecution and that Attorney General Bonaparte was unable to secure evi evidence evidence dence Now after alter having been fined two or three million dollars for stealing from the government by means of un the trust makes practical acknowledgement of its being an Illegal combination In restraint res of or trade by compromising with the Pennsylvania company This Tota was one of the good trusts of or the Roosevelt re regime regime regime gime It is said that the department of jus ins justice lice tice has at last taken the trail of oC the American Sugar Refining company and that will follow the dis discovery discovery covery cover of Ute the necessary evidence to convict which should not nat be difficult in view of or the recent recant compromise The law urea firm of or which Attorney General ham is a member having re recently defended this particular trust complicates the situation somewhat |