Show EDMUXDV AXTITBUST BILL EIYID US nLL TIIEBU have been several bills Introduced In-troduced in Congress within the last year looking to the prevention oC trusts In the Senile the measure introduced by Sherman designed t accomplish that ol ect his been long pending and h receIved much serious consideration loth in committee and open session But on the 2nd inst thcSenile judiciary committee reported another hilt upon the same subject which is very sweeping and stringent in its provisions as will be Been from tho synopsis of I which was contained In the press dNpatchee I subjects t heavy fine and Imprisonment the promoters of any trust and award threefold damages to any persjn injured in-jured In consequence of the formation forma-tion or transactions of any trust I also csehcats any property that may be fount In transit owned under any contract made in pursuance of any trust conspiracy Such a law would reach eo ninny persons and Irms engaged in bush nc and render criminal or Illegal S3 many customs of the commercial world that it would inoperative Business men would operate to defeat It and Its remit would 0 demoralizing rather than otherwise The trust monster is a formidable one having many heads and tent ell I menaces every Industry and threatens to enslave time people with an abominable thralldom I It can b killed or even curtailed in t growth by legislation by al means let the laws b passed that will do this But it Is possible for legislative remedies be worse than the diseases which they aim t cure and to augment rather than remove the dlf |