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Show LIMIT Tlll'MM AMI MKIHCAiES. The question of trust and syndicates la being revived In a beer form. It appear that recently all tbe Kentucky bourbon whiskey dltll!rl hare been jurrhased by an l.millali compauy for Jll),iX),0d0, and the lx great lmal. Itacklnrx concerns of Clilc go sold to a similar cnmptuy for t" BIW.IMO. It la coiitenjed that aome ate should t-o taken to discourage such rest aggro-gallons aggro-gallons t( capital, either by a ayatem of laxnllun or by restriction. In the form of law. It la a Imlttnl In Ihe meantime, that rotrathija are aa anuch entitled to proii-cltnn n lu llrl luala, and that a limit to the fortune of tho former coul i not wltli propriety be Imposed, without appla lug the nuu law to the latter. The Han Francisco Ihronlo't suggest sug-gest the following. "If It lie dlrb!o to put a check tu tbo ot oration of agirregtted capital, thero would erein to W no more practicable method than lo pm a lax on proilurtlon . arylog with tho outpuU Thu a whisky lrutwblchprndiicr,,l,iKii gallons of whlkyainonth, or wlllilu n apocllled lime, might b compelled to pay an Inter-liatresenue Inter-liatresenue duly ul f I or a gallon, while tbe Indlrldual distiller whose pro-duel pro-duel waa ,ery amall might pay only CO centa a gallon, orxoinellilnguf that aort. Tbe Chliago pork-packing ayndtcalea might be taxeil on the aamoUsI, Ihe principle being to encourage Individual production and discourage (bo labor of trusts and ayndlca.es." The objection to this plan 1 that It discriminate for and agalnat classes, and claaa legislation I opposed to the genius of the Constitution. Whatever I Ian I adopted muat not Invalo the principle of equality of Inllvlduali end clasaia before Ihe law. The aubjeot I a perplexing one. |