| Show urn a JUDO JUDGE GROSSe UPS NOVEL PLAN fOR TAMING THE TUE TRUST JV r T Is U too soon to pass an anDE anCE DE CE opinion nn as to the Ihl elm ellI ellIA iary or 1 4 A of time tho antitrust taw lav r enacted by congress nut but It Is U not m In I i too soon to promulgate theories as all to trust re reo restriction o tome some people ril I seem to think Some SomeI I sI ap them theta have luwe arrived at the settled corm con that curbing the trusts Is about latr he ime same samme as nil lassoing lan a n locomotive It ather allier easy caRY to 10 do but bUI hard to hold on 11 ut at The f he latest Idlest I est theory so far tar put forth l la is tat hilt announced as coming corning from Cram that lino nt lawyer Judge Peter Ieter S Gross dross V Up p who It Is said laid the Iho peo pea letting of or these vast aggregations aggregation of I 1 and rendering them harmless by byth I tl th them theme over to the people Peo lelie leaza the trusts and you will render hem Innocuous he declared to me iii rally for tor or thereby you deprive themE them t f the very principle that makes make them E to the general run of ot man mUll mantaro taro mind Is a u word coined o 0 fur as 1111 we wo know by liy the talented Ju juc eT c Island up to the present writing can con canot conat I ot of be te found In any dictionary of ot the theten ten len Inglish language but what Is meant Is lit 1 the time popularizing of o those use me 11 ul Institutions In In their very ver widest n e that U is they are to 10 be removed a COn on h rom their lofty perches and made to toDo toI I Do poet t Among the people st p Out But Will trill they That Is the W o t tat Sat at agitates agitate the commonalty Will WillIt r It 7 sty seT take Kindly to 10 any measures rn that pub lv west t th them m of or their and tike make theme them minister to the wants of at the Ih 1 e tarry any When hn the very tOry essence of ot their theirl l rIng Bing resides In the fact that they were IM rented r f t d by and Ind for the few II Ucho litho alone answers and the answers am f t are Ire usually unsatisfactory n r the I rat t place who ho will bell the d tat itT Various tattoos laws have been framed iii nd rid many solutions of o the problem live ae been be n advanced but hitherto th the i 1 rusts have flourished after the Ih manner t C the historical gr green en lay bay 00 tree and sad the th people en masse have hn been loen l left ft out nut In III the cold colel It Is quite natural that the free freo and enlightened people ople of ot these United States should desire a 1 partner partnership ship chip In h the great combinations that are absorbing the capital to them them themselves selves elea and und clamor for a R distribution of bt the till profits Human nature has lIal been the same ever since the time world begun only at this stage BIage of at Ite Ile Is Ismore Ismore ismore more acute and highly high trained than Ihan when say the ark arlt trust was wan at formed by II Noah Nonh or th the first Bret cave man od odthe the efficacy ey of ot shinbones as weapons and cornered all ail the visible supply for his own ouri benefit It Is l one thing to want a timing thIng but quite qUill another to get Iet It as many have ha Ie discovered to their sorrow However it ItIs ItIs Is lit patent to 10 all nil that the trusts are here and It looks as ns though they were wore here hereto hereto to 10 stay slay This being admitted the time ques Juel question lion tion before bet ore the country Is how to snake make them tham beneficial to the masses mas 8 without destroying their usefulness It Is very well to 10 suggest them and the th sentiment accords with prevailing opinion but when they the are will the Ihl wealth per capita of ot this room coun country try be he any an larger than thon It Is III now no That Thai ThatIs In Is the tho real and burning question and whatever tends tn to Its It will HI be welcomed by a along long suffering public Now Nol there are at least lenat two Iwo defini definitions lions of ot trust given gln In tn the dictionaries ries rles and If It they could b hi be more nearly reconciled the millennium would be within hailing balling distance before the end and of oe the century The firm and usually accepted definition at nt present prevail lag In is le Is an organization or association of Industrial corporations u a majority at lit least leash of ot the stock tock In ea each h of which la ls I transferred to a central committee committe or board of t trustee who ho while l mi log Ing In to the stockholders certificates showing their Interest In to and right to dividends exercise t the IIII voting power of the stock slack In electing boards of at directors for tor time the various associated corporations and In other ways direct their v for Cor forthe he the If common object of at lessening compe titian regulating production and ancl lowering low lowering ering Its cost co t and Increasing profits profit The second and old fashioned defini definition definition tion lion U la a confident reliance or practical al resting of ot time the mind on time the Integrity veracity Justice or other sound principle pIe of another person perMan or upon his friendship or upon his promises as in involving these e the trusts then Ihen would be merely merel combining all nil the trusts for tor forthe time the Ih benefit of or the world at large and In Introducing the Ih humanizing Influence of pro pio bono publico In point of or fact tact the trusts themselves are composed of In Individual individuals but the real r objection to th them m seems to be bo that they do not in include Include include clude Individuals enough In their schemes Corporations are combinations combinations combinations of ot Individuals some wise wl man has fold sald and trusts trust are merely merel combinations Mona lions of ot corporations So Ho there you lave have It In a nutshell Throw 01 olen oien en the trusts to an nn Increasing number of ot people and amI eventually In Include Include clude olude all the voters oters of ot the time country and und the trust evil wilt will abate ns as rapidly as lit asa asa a n rough sea Bea at nt ebb tide The chief evil of ot the trust Is II that it Il makes the rich man who Is 18 Inside richer while the poor man on the outside pays the bills Let Iet the poor man In and give him but taut buta tauta I a small share rc of or the profits Ii II and he will cease to complain it take la much to 10 satisfy mUsty u II poor man because his hll desires have not been b en expanded by 11 self Indulgence It Is III the rich men and wo Wt women women men alone alon who are AN area the really I fled eel OUCH ones In short It If the millionaires and the trust magnates would only ap op apply apply ply the Golden Cowen hula Hale In their dealing with their fellow men and do unto them themas as they would like to 10 be done by Ly Instead of ot doing them all alt th the time t the trust problem would auld soon solve ol Itself So this thin Is II time Ill essence of Judge dross Oros cups Utopian scheme schem of ot time the trusts The trusts will be lie that is l given over to the th I ople I the time the lion and ant the lamb lie III down together without occupying time the respective live tive positions of Jonah and the whale I S Q 0 U 4 f fr r m im i il l 1 1 p k y c 2 b a r rj I j S fl Ii 4 If JC Judge Grosscup can ran bring about such a condition of ot things he tie should be honored honore by being elected perpetual president of at this tads country for tor he would have done more toward bringing capi capt capital tal and labor Into nto accord than any oth other other other er man mon who ever lived on earth There Ther Is no doubt that this learned Judge has the time Inclination for Cor reconciling ing the people and the thu trusts now ap traveling along divergent lines Ines for tor his record guys gors to show It 1867 he lie Is now In the very Cry prime of or life lite Educated In the public schools of ot Ashland and anel graduated graua lell from tram Wittenberg college Springfield 0 he began professional life Jle as a lawyer aft after or er obtaining a u degree degre at the Iho Boston Law school to 10 Chicago In n 1883 he entered the Iho law la firm at the head of or which was Leonard Swett a n former partner of or Abraham braham Lincoln and built up UI a reputation second to 10 few tew fewIn tewIn fewin In the country In IBn he was wa appoint appointed ed Id to 10 the Iho United States district bench by President Harrison and two years ears later laler sprang Into Inlo prominence when to together together gether ether with Judge W V A Woods Wools he Is Issued Issued sued Bue the time Injunction against the participants participants participants pants In the Iho Debs fobs strikers of and In ra favor or ot of the its to 10 the grand gran Jury alter gale hum a lion which ma mahave many ot tJ have fully i he 11 II 1899 hp he ha has been Judge Q of tit i e rt rob States circuit our ourt ande ore of ar arable hn able Issuances u is Ha tk M s t the beef beet trust lIe Is n a mud and bly supported the a v In Porto Rico nico IIi iii and A ft ii pines Judge 0 route j at Jt It ti In his latest bolte a taken a step In III a ci r tk and In the anti and Justice Ills well null grasp p a subject In It its I a wide range of or lyly with the judicial blu of Is III mind would seem stem to PI b fa that the subject U out carefully ELDERT 0 G VC JQ tt l |
