| Show NOT THE RIGHT WAY We would think that the administration n would drop onto the fact before long that the prosecution prosecution prosecution tion of trusts as a rule is an unprofitable business merel merely because 1 ause by b all the experiments thus far tried d the business has hus not paid expenses and not nota a it trust has been smashed though some of them have been divided up As s for instance ard Oil That no more exists in name name but it exists Ir in iu all its original vitality and in ha half a dozen states with the only difference that their theil offices being beinO scattered scatter d the expenses are gl great at and the they make the people pay those ex expenses through a slight increase increase increase in in- crease in the price of oil But the Standard Oil company probably p gives givs s- s more smore men employment than any other semiprivate corporation in the world I Now the prosecution of the sugar tr trust tr has has' been p proceeding for months and there is no no present present present pres pres- ent prospect of the time ime coming when it will ill be Closed but we predict that if i it does come it willbe will willbe be closed the same as the Standard Oil the Oil the com companies companies com coni will wili apportion their business to different states states' and it will go on in the same old way wa A A. mu much h more sen sensible ible thing would be with trusts that are obliged to employ gr great at hosts of men to put a tax on their profits and when 1 those profits become unreasonable to confiscate the balance That would be the sensible thing to do an and 1 what benefit anybody will receive through these thes prosecutions prose prosecutions u- u we cannot fathom except that they ma may determine de t termine whither whether or M it ita a tariff is needed on sugar to protect the sugar industry in t this is countr country But for their testimony the present congress will not care mon mony and if with the fall election both houses of congress arc are filled with Democrats they will pay modern da day facts but butwill butwill n no attention whatever t to o will wilt adjust their program p 9 on the thc old rule that prevailed pro pre in the party forty y years als al's ago and in which respect th the Democratic party is absolutely Bour Bour- bon That is it never learns a thing and never forgets a thing |
