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Show THE ANTI-TRUST DECISIONS. In treating of the results of the pnti-truat pnti-truat suits, especially those against the Standard Oil and the Tobacco combines, com-bines, Col. Roosevelt made inerrv over the futility of the practical results reached, lie pointed out that the stocks entering into the Standard '"'il combination combi-nation increased immensely in value rjpOS the promulgation of the court judgment of dissolution lie made his point directly against Attorney-Genera Wickcrsham, holding him in derision and pointing out the (ns he supposed) infinitely more satisfactory results on the suit dissolving the Northern Securities Securi-ties merger which was prosecuted and determined during Rposovelt's incumbency incum-bency of the Presidential oil ice This gave Mr. Wickersham his opportunity, oppor-tunity, and his reph is overwhelming. Mr. Wickersham shows that proc isely the same principles were followed in the judgment in the Standard Oil and Tobacco trust cases as in the judgment in the Northern Securities merger. Not only this, he shows that immediately after the court dissolved tho Northern Securities holding company, the vail road stocks held by the dissolved concern con-cern rose in market value, precisely as the stocks in the Standard Oil combination com-bination have risen. And so Attorney-Geueral Attorney-Geueral Wickersham scored heavily on Col. Roosevelt. 'But really this is not hard to do; for Roosevelt has no definite defi-nite line of argumentation, and his conclusions con-clusions and assertions are stated with a disregard to facts, precedents, and actual results that make it oasy for anyone having knowledge of the case in citation to overwhelm him with the true presentation of the record. Col. Roosevelt derisively taunted the Attorney General with tho fact that his favorable judgment dissolving the Standard Oil monopoly resulted immensely im-mensely to the benefit of tho concerns involved in that monopoly, and cited the Northern Securities ease as one that was ideal, and was prosecuted to B finish under the Roosevelt Presidential Presiden-tial incumbency. And now, when the Attorney General is able to bring forward for-ward the fact, which indubitably is the fact, that the cases Roosevelt reviled were all precisely on a pur not only as to the. principles involved, the policy relied on. and the results reached, with the case he claimed as his own and held up as ideal, it would seem as though there was nothing further that Col. Roosevelt could do in this matter except ex-cept to proclaim that Mr. Wickersham is a well-qualified member of the Ananias club. Hut this answer has become be-come so stale, aud it has so often covered cov-ered Roosevelt with confusion as show ing that, he, himself is the Ananias, that it no longer has the former effect upon the public mind. The overthrow of Roosevelt in th i b contention is all the more en.iovablo 1o the impartial public, in that he expressly ex-pressly invited that overthrow by his rash misstatements and falsification of the recorcb Game Warden J. A. Uhlig, of Spokane, Spo-kane, was so zealous in enforcing the game law6 that he was spotted by the violators, who conspired against him and warned and supported eacb other so stoutly that I'blig could do no busi ness. Everybody know him, and his presence caused all the poachers to act together and prevented his finding any evidence. He was too good an official to be serviceable, and so ho was fired. It seems to be a case where 'the transgressors trans-gressors got the better of the good and faithful servant, and he had "to be let out. The maxim didn't work; he didn't get his reward. .1. E. Addicks, who by a hold-up at tempted a number of years ago. to extort ex-tort a United States Senatorship from Delaware, is tint in politics again after a considerable period of repose, and announces an-nounces his desire to be Governor of Delaware, elected by the Republicans. Ami be will be a hard man to shake off or deny. $ |