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Show -, CURB POWER: OF' TRUSTS. Aged Massachusetts Statesman Discusses Measure Intrcluccd by Him in the Senate. Hoar said that the Attorney-General Lad gone far already under It to break up a monopoly which affected the whole freight and passenger traffic of the . Northwest, another affecting the cotton trade of the South and another the price of beef. He believed that Congress had power to go further oh the lines Indicated Indi-cated by Attorney-General Knox In his Pittsburg speech and the enactment of a law on the general lines of his bill he thought would be only another step in the direction of the anti-trust. WASHINGTON,' Jan! 6. Senator Hoar delivered his anti-trust speech in the Sonata today. Senator Hoar's speech was devoted entirely to the question of trusts and partly to an explanation of his recently recent-ly introduced trust bill. He said that as yet there had been only apprehension and a large but not serious Injury, except ex-cept In the case of the recent coal strike on account of trusts. On the. contrary, the progress of our prosperity had been greater in the past few years than ever before had been known and our workmen work-men were better off. Still there is, he said, actual peril and it is none the less real because it Involves only the future and not the present. Mr. Hoar took up the question of trusts as they now exist pointing out what he conceived to be their chances. Mr. Hoar said that he did not agree with those who think they find an adequate ade-quate remedy for the evils of the trusts in the removal of the tariff from all trust-made articles. He opposed the Government ownership of great labor employing Industries, including coal mines and railroads. Socialism, he said, furnished no remedy but would be quite as bad as the trusts themselves. Discussing the accomplishments under un-der the Sherman anti-trust law, Mr. |