Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS What the tho newspapers newspaper think of the presidents president's advocacy of changes in in the trust anti laws St. St Paul Pioneer Press Prest c. c President I Taft not only indorses the tIle rate fixin fixing proposition imposition of tho the original H Roosevelt I recommendation but goes farther and aud urges es the enactment of oC several cral new I Il l fates tho the effect of which will he pe to give iYe the interstate commerce commission commission commis commis- sion add additional powers and authority to pro provide de for a l court of appeals to prevent pre vent delays delas in securing a final adjudication cation of cacs ca cs arising out of interstate commerce findings s and in tho tho end to sec secure ro prompt a adjustment of of every overy question in issue between transportation tion companies and shippers St. St Louis Republican l President Taft is carr carrying federal control over the business of the country far beyond the limits of law w wand and of safety 1 j. j jen en now nos ho he is proposing to extend the powers of the interstate intestate int tate commerce commission commission com com- commission mission over o matters that are aro in no wa way concerned with interstate traffic traffie If the Ule corporations tax is inot not declared invalid b by tho the courts or repealed rcpt b b- b congress the spies epics and secret t service agents of oC tho the federal government will be overseeing overseeing over oyer seeing tho the business of rY ovey concern to which a state has issued a license of incorporation It is time to draw the danger lino inc for these destructive inno inno- Dem Denver r l r Republican The Thc aim of the law Jaw should bo be to preserve the freedom of competition and md prevent monopoly If it achieves this end it will serve C the tho purpose of legislation eg on directed against tJ 1 the trusts trusts Tho The details of legislation legislation leg leg- eg of this kind should shoud be determined determined deter deter- mined by hy con congress after careful consideration consideration consideration con con- of or the whole subject but whatever Cl its its' specific form its primary purpose should be the preservation of freedom in competition on Boston Herald President Taft T finds it difficult to define by br law Jaw lawf the good and tho the bad among co combinations f Yet the law aw fi finds ds no difficulty in delimiting delimit ing ri right ht and wron wrong in the business busine 8 transactions of individuals indi Philadelphia Inquirer So far as the anti antitrust trust law seeks to prevent discrimination and rebates and makes for Cor hon hon- honest honest est dealing jt it t. t is a blessing lt But as aB years have o worn sworn on it is found that there are arc pro provisions in the net act that arc an In actual detriment to honest and entire entirely lawful awu combinations t r Hartford Times There i h is a stroll strong and aDd sometimes well wen founded belief belie that many ninny public service enice corporations fa fall short of their full fun duty dut in iii this matterand matter matterand and will jJ continue to do o so o o unless the public through h a a- suitable a agency ency has power to compo compel the proper service ice What hostility to corporations' corporations exists is not hostility to corporations as such but to their supposed neglect to make proper return for what the they have hac re ro- |