Show VIEWS OF OTHER E EDITORS I ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES Oppressive Combinations Combinations which red reduce lice the ex expense expense ex- ex pense pense of producing and nd give the people a Q share in an that reduction are an advantage advantage advantage tage to the country It is i economically and therefore morally T right to avoid unnecessary cost in tle and distribution of goods Combination is justifiable as a means of f. f preventing waste for all aU that Is needlessly expended expended expended ex ex- ex- ex is wasted Even Evena a monopoly that gives lives the people better better goods at lower prices by reason of its ts exclusive control would not be unpopular al although although al- al although though it would be a violator of the common law doctrine that tha tha forbids forbids com in restraint of ti trade But a a. combination which uses its monopolistic power to ex exorbitantly run up prices is a public ene enemy t There are area a num number r of ot these an and andi l if ife Ave have no law by the application of of- which they can be suppressed it is time that such sucha a remedy was provided Cong Congress ess has full fuU authority to regulate interstate commerce It can re enforce re-enforce the Sherman Sherman Sherman Sher Sher- man trust anti act in a v ay way ay to make it U effective if it needs r re re The indignation atlon of consumers who are held up by monopolies a and c compelled to pay dividends on billions of fictitious capital l is justified by the the facts Arid s sonic some me of the most exact exacting g and oppressive oppressive sive dye combines are she sheltered red by tariff I schedules schedules- which Cong Congress s refuses t to I touch Washington Washington Post I Not ot Regarded as Christians Chi Reassuring news abo about abot t the attitude of the Moros of Mindanao toward Americans we find in th the the Manila Times Mr William D. D Potter who vho hO ds is superintendent superintendent of f schools in the province of Northern Mindanao told a reporter for that newspaper newspaper per that he did not think a war with the Moros imminent imminent nent neat for the reason that he had found them exceedingly frie friendly IY to Ameri Amen c cans ns He explained this this' by saying They do not regard us as Christians If they had made the lamentable mistake mistake mis mis- take tale of thinking us Christians why then s std said ii Mr Potter they would have expended us their fanatical hatred hatred hatred ha ha- tred for all things Christian But after after after af af- af- af ter narrowly observing the conduct of our soldiers in garrison they found plenty of evidence that we do not come from a e. representative Christian Christian nation n and thus were ready ready fo for pleas- pleas art apt relations as with fellow fellow pagans S Some me of them were a little troubled bythe bythe by bythe the foolish attempt of one American teacher to Introduce a little religious Instruction in his school but Superintend Superintendent tend nt t Potter promptly put an end to that and so redeemed and vindicated the American reputation as ns consistently heathen New heathen New York Post HaTes Here's Imperialism In congratulating Kitchener King Edward spoke of of my brave troops and my South AfrIc African n dominions and in reply the veteran of a hundred battles said I humbly thank your Majesty It requires more tha than a a. patent medicine to relieve the tired feeling which all this begets in an anAm Am American ican What if the Hotspur in the White House should cable to my brave troops his congratulations upon their success in ending the Insurrection Insurrect n once more in my Philippine dominions And what if Gen Chaffee should reply I iI humbly y beg to thank Your Tour High Mightiness In that case we should not only cry imperialism mi iru earnest but have a a. few Insurrections here at hoyne Whether he styled himself King Ted or Emperor Theodore the monarch would be called down so quickly and sent to the rear so much after the manner of a mIsbehavIng misbehaving misbehaving having schoolboy that he would be stunned out of all recollection of pt his own strenuousness Macon Macon Telegraph |