Show j NEW jEW PLAN PROPOSED Since the American Sugar Refining company compromised the suit of the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company agreeing to pay in cash and cancel the loan Joan of or through which It secured control of the Penn Pennsylvania sylvania concern a new plan to crush trusts has been broached The results result following the efforts of the government in this direction have not been happy even when the prosecution was con conducted conducted conducted ducted with ith vigor which did not always happen One of oC the young senators In congre congress said Id to possess great legal ability has haa pointed out that the action of the Pennsylvania Pelm company and Its Us result re points the way to the most effective effective effective tive handling of the trust problem yet shown In this country He says We 8 should have such a system of laws that men who have been dam damaged damaged aged ged by a trust or one of those big corporations 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 we had such a system of laws then when whenever whenever ever eer a trust or a big corporation by any of the thousand unfair and oppressive methods which they the know how to em employ employ employ ploy put a man out of business he would have a chance of obtaining redress dr SS There would always be a motive for such a man to bring an action whereas now there Is never any motive for tor the government to undertake the task The department of or justice offers little reward In the way of honor or glory glor and none at all in the way ay of pay to any man manto manto manto to make a record In that kind of work The result re is that if It we get an attorney general who is desirous d of or making a roe rec record ord one or two eases cases satisfies him and after 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 I the government act adequately it re requires requires requires I quires constant pounding and even een then the result is usually far tar from satisfactory satisfactory tory Just think what would happen to the sugar trust and the Standard Oil com corn company compa pany pa y and the beef trust trus and such con concerns concerns cerns if they were ere called upon constantly to face tace juries in such suits sult but the gen gon general gonera n eral era procedure U is so and there are so many opportunities to delay dala the actions and to increase the expense that ordinarily the damaged individual cannot afford to fight If It the system of procedure were sim elm simplified simplified and th the way were made easy then every man who had been made the vic vie victim victim tim of the greed med and oppression of these trade conspiracies would have bave his remedy and there then would be an end to the present trust methods Many suits have been brought In times past pa t against the Standard OH on company and other offensive monopolies monopolies monopolies lies by men who had been financially crushed but the law was invariably found inadequate to reach them If It the statutes were to be amended in ac accordance accordance with the tho 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 Induct duce duct President Pre Roosevelt to order its prosecution and that Attorney General Bonaparte was unable to secure evi evidence evidence dence Now after having been fined two or three million dollars for tor stealing tealIng from the government by means of un the trust makes makos practical acknowledgement t of ot its being an illegal combination In restraint res of af trade by compromising with the Pennsylvania company This was one of the good trusts of the Roosevelt re ic regime regime gime It is said that the department of at Jus Justice Justice justice tice has bail at last taken of the American Sugar Refining company and I that prosecution will follow the die dis discovery covery of the necessary evidence to convict which should not be difficult in view of ot the recent compromise The law firm of which Attorney General Wickersham Is a member having re ze recently defended this particular trust complicates the situation somewhat |