Show JlLOUWIIW mi inusTs The elate of Now York has Settle gent antitrust law and recently it cut for vitiation of It was brought Those who were placed on trial were all tobacco manufacturers most of them well known lu a business eooo tit tough 0 lit the country the charge In t general terms being a conceited ifljrl to break up tbe business ol others on gajteil In the tame line to that Iliad t Ilia-d might thereby be Able 10 control the Market on their own terms BophlitloaJ and special plead lug bas been exhausted in ufljrte to show that such proceedings do n1 ian conJ the bounds of recognized oompetltlon and that thus Ibo elements 1 ele-ments criminal procedure do not obtain Even a n great an authority author-ity as Ibo late James U Blaine took tho ground that trusts were largely I private allalri with which the government could properly hare nothing to doi bat he could scarcely have had before him at such limo any of the olltct lessons which have become eo numerous since lilt dy Undoubtedly I he looked upon the mat ter so having but two sidelthe right of the citizen to oneaseln legitimate Luslne without the consent of 1 the mlluc power and the lack ol right In such ruling power to restrict or In any manner Interfere with tbo subjects business or tits manner of conducting It Viewed ai a general proportion lucu a ataud li unaiiallabli but ha trusts encouraged by ouch opinion ana entrenched behind untold capital bare awungiwlde of fundamental principle and used It Simply aa text for reference when assailed la Ibo Calls referred to such dofenie or any other resting upon the concrete doctrine of popular rights mutt be utterly unleuauu because having no relevancy In the presence of a duly enacted statute clearly donning what Meted and where the mates and bounds ol trade and IralUo shall be If any much enactment la exclusive In Its operation lilt presses with umriual force upon any particular portion of Ibo community com-munity Inwbluh II has effects It It la itself In restraint of trade there Is a remedy which petit Juries should be compelled to recognize and be mad to know that no part of such remedy resides within or ol themselves In the Now York cage two out of the twelve good men nod true refused to agree with their fellows I fel-lows In saying that the allocutions contained In the Indictment were proved and leave the question 00 to the sulUclency of eucu allegations under the law to a court of review There was no question apparently about every material point timing fully substantiate Ins Rocco were brought forward showing discrimination discrimina-tion favoring those who dealt with the rust and having II tendency 10 sradll ally If not all at once break down those wbo did not so deal and the proof was ai plain aa anything cat bo that relies upon human testimony yet two men who presumably lake Ibo broader low previously outlined because of conscientious scruples or something equally occult at present refuse to register a verdict In acoirdacce wllli the facts The trust triumphs and the law Is reduced for the time being to Ibo condition of a dead letter II la allied with apparent authority tuit something like 150000 In nttornojo fees alone was expended by the combination com-bination showing that they have a proper appreciation or the gravity ol the cast also that they have means to correspond There Is probably no question with which Hiewhole people are brought directly canine that contains more that relates to their lemioral welfare now aud later than this same question ques-tion ol 1 how far corporations and corablnaa have a right to go In the direction of controlling trial fleand emulating the prices of com modules If such power Is beyond the control 11 of tho law II la uasy to see In the not very dim distance a power into In-to laud In the proienoo of which the national government Itself will bo Impotent Im-potent If anoilutlous aro U bo permitted per-mitted with impunity to break down oppasltlon that refusal to be dictated dic-tated by them audio I set Ibo prices of everything at n central point from which such prices and all things eke relating to barter In certain lines among our people are to radlato It then becomes a living fact that ire have an Imperium In Jmcsrio to del I with compared with Which Ibo late rebellion of the Bsutlieru Metes was avery a-very ordinary sort of slUm lIou indeed In-deed doeThe The attitude of several Republican senators toward the new tarlll bill because be-cause 01 direct and Incidental favors to Z certain trusts Is au ominous clrcum Monoc which la I rollavtd of some at Its somber snadc by Ibo gleam of hope contained In lb a a itatemeotol8icretary I fll flints Uberillint the author of the national antitrust law that the moss UrDl6nOt6IfIng9nLotLuh I Perhaps with Much yloiO prevailing at held I luulrs nod the Itoud demon1 for iicimtulne more I iflcctlve a way to equalize conditions may Lo bad as a matter of concession torn the principal beneficiaries who ot rnurso understand under-stand Unlit Is I this pill of wisdom Bcmtlrms not to tote nil but ore cat Bt 1 |