Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS The decision of the tho supreme court on the commodities s clause awakens wakens varied opinions Rochester Democrat t and Chronicle OW Officials of the department of or Justice ar are quoted as saying that thal this last decision de de clelon will strengthen tho governments government's hand will enable It to correct tho ho real reRI evil at which the tho law waa aimed and will t divorce the railroad business from rota the coal business These hopes must be realized but so to o far as the tho history history his his- tory of tho the matter has gone It Jt has served simply to o emphasize the difficulty In enacting legislation affecting business conditions condition that have grown up slowly with lapse of or years Ears that legal ingenuity In cannot readily find means to evade Boston Globe Under this decision the coal fields of that state slate are arc removed from the domination of tho the transportation corn companies anies The Tho business of production Is divorced from that of transportation trl and by so much the people will advantage M an tags tage by relief from the exactions of a monopoly controlling not only the material material mate mate- rial which they need but the rhe means of bringing to them such material Chicago News The decision now handed down establishes that the company company com corn pany which mines s hard coal for example ex cx- ample must he a distinct anti and separate entity from that which transports the product that tho the dissociation must bo be bona nde Me and In effect that actual ownership own own- or control of the railroad of the producing company must not be cloaked under stock ownership Nothing the court decides Is to prevent tho the government government gov gov- from scrutinizing tho the facts acts of ownership and attacking It when the two companies are virtually one Philadelphia Inquirer It may be be- bere recalled re recalled recalled re- re called that the Standard Oil case was waa decided against the company compan on tic the ground that the Sherman act did lid not prohibit all combinations but that It did prohibit all aU combinations whose t primary primary evidenced f h tho the facts mary mar purpose as ut by va was to effect or promote the Institution of a 8 monopoly This reasoning Is IR In absolute absolute ab Rb- ab- ab solute accord with the the- present decision and It would only be bp logical for tho the supreme supreme su suo su- su preme court to employ It ii In the Important important tant lant adjudication which Is pending Baltimore News evs So sa S 'S far as l lay y analysis sis is of the decision may mayRO go o It appears that the result I is to 0 o tho the Hepburn law oper operate to an as against the tho Intent rather than against th fact and that the tho burden burden burden bur bur- den den will be upon the government o to show show- that the control and management of subsidiary sub sub- companies are are of such uch a character charac charac- Iter ter as to nC negative th the bona Ides fides Idl of th the control as simple stock ownership o of oC a separate corporation Buffalo Commercial The railroad company ma may not do by Indirection what IR is expressly forbidden by law Itma It ma may not riot commingle le the affairs affairE of the producing company with t those of Its own on so 80 aa as to cause them to be one Inseparable arable arabic There Thero mu must t b no jug Juggling of stock Interests to make possible the then evasion eva eva- n sion slon of the clear intent of the thela law w. w Dispatch It seems probable that the court Is In this ruling letting It Itself Itself itself It- It self down as as easily as po possible from the ml mistake of Its first JIO position Nevertheless s sIt It leaves the tho subject In much touch more confused confused con con- fused used condition than If It It had declared the obvious fact that thal a stock Interest In a manufacturing or mining corporation Is III to 10 sa 60 sam the J least a t an Indirect Interest |