Show 1 THE VIEWS OF AARO JONES rf I l l t k i 1 T l ARO ON JDNES JONES OF Or INDIA INDIANA NA WOr t s e of the 1 of dry needs attention a from somebody son in in l authority In Ii ant an address ss before the National l f l now o in n session lie le says sas several thinks things ts L links prices of ofT T 1 i articles farmers buy are too high compared Wll the prices of I what they have to sell and aud he lie urges remedial action He also alsot r t I expresses presses a alarm ala m at t the growth of industrial ind combinations and wants a constitutional nal amendment to give s the right to 3 j regulate corporations Further he urges an enlargement of the C fb powers p s conferred c upon po the interstate i commission and he l e adds 11 t i t these th e remedies s would strike S a hard blow hlo at monopolies and andI I trusts f Mr Jones evidently means well He knows knois something is is wong wrong in in the industrial situation and a d without t the honor ho or of his acquaintance one may m ma judge Jones accepts Hanna as his gude gu de deI J I The constitutional amendment nt dodge d dge bears all the Hanna f earmarks Suppose the Jones were ere by some mir acte dt adopted and a constitutional ona amendment secure giving congress power to tc regulate trusts Would V this new Republican congress do anything against the he trusts rusts trus Would Mr McKin leys attorney general g from New Ne Jersey Jerse J begin serious proceed proceedings 1 ings sig against them If Worthy Master Jones has any grasp of the situation at all he lie knows that he and Iris Ins associate agriculturists are being robbed wholesale by the th trusts and aJ i they will ti ue to be robbed so long as the trusts can elect their friends r to control of the government The need of the country countr is is not more inor l or laws l ws but better r administration of the laws we have All the constitutional amendments that could be Ie drafted will v ill avail vail 4 against trusts so longas long as the trusts themselves es name the who administer r justice j ustice under the constitution Nor Noa can any any law defeat lefeat monopolies so long as we have havea a tariff framed ex cx expressly pressly pr ly to give favored interests absolute control of the markets the raw material and a d the labor in in selected industries ics The suggestion of legislation legisla on to stop rate nite discrimination is anold one and a good one It would abase some of the evils inflicted d by railroad affiliation with trust interests but its effect effectiveness heness would depend on the good faith of the administration in executing the die law Jaw and that in in turn would depend upon the atti attitude attitude tude of the men who dominate the railroad situation in in this coun caU count l lv lh lc t try fry v h I c Considering all ail the facts it does docs not seem likely that the trust i question is is likely to o be solved soon and yet the he very triumph of or orthe the trusts in iii this election ejection has bas a hopeful side They y are sure to toJ toI toS J I S ee e in JI the situation their chance to fleece the lambs lamb who wio have hae ha fol their leading The shearing will be bc an extremely painful p process and the shorn ones will call for a reckoning Then Worthy V orthy Master Jones and a d his brother patrons S witt atop p talking ab at theoretical theore reform r n long enough ah to elect men to office who ho hoL mite ite monopolies p t es hip Wd thigh L |