| Show ANTITRUST LAW LA PROSECUTIONS Prest Prest Taft Issues Statement De Defining Defining fining Administrations Ati Atti Attitude tude Towards The They JUST THE SAME AS HAS BEEN Xo No Nets Pol Policy I lat latus us as In Message or of Tan 7 1910 Jan Jamm taft al today made public time tho state statement ment as to tho reports report that time the ad I Js is planning a crusade against unlawful combinations of capital No o statement wl Issued from flom time the office or 1 time the White House indicating that the the of the tho administration with reference to under tIme the an antitrust law Is other than as set forth Jim In the message or of time the president or of Jan i v v Sensational statements statement as if IC there thele was to be t a new departure antI and an In Indiscriminate Indiscriminate discriminate of hao hae no foundation The he purpose of time the administration Is ex cx as already stated In the tho preal dents message Time The statement was Issued after the president had talked wih with James J Hi Hill and had received time the that prices were crumbling In York under thu reports printed yesterday and toda today There was no from tIme the White House ex cx except the tho foregoing h Hi on leavIng the House said Ime he dId not pretend to represent or speak for Cor time tho president In anything imo ho said ald but ime he wa vas sure that the tho president dent would not atack attack corporations of oC themselves but only time tho sins of the corporations I It the corporations were I the tho laws of the countr country ho he I book supposed the they would be brought to THE SPECIAL lESSAGE MESSAGE In lila his special message on ole interstate commerce and antitrust laws PresIdent dent luH In connection wih R a act ald for a federal O I I O h time duty and the purpose of oC time the executive to direct an Inv b by time the department or of justice through the grand JUI July or ai otherwise Into time the history and time the purposes of al all time the IndustrIal companies wih respect to there Is any reason reasonable able ground bround for 01 suspicion that the they have been organized for Cor a purpose and andare are arc conducting ss on a plan which Is In violation olaton of oC the antitrust l v 3 n ne rime e woi Is heavy but It Is not be beyond beyond yond the power of oC time the department of oC justice It if sufficient funds are arc fur CUI furnished to carryon carry on the Investigations and to pay time the counsel engaged In thc the work But such an Investigation ant and possible prosecution of oC corporatIons whose hose prosperity or affects the comfort not only of oC stockholders but of millions of om em and associated tradesmen must mut necessarily tend to disturb the con confidence of the tho business community t to dry up the now nosy flowing sources of oC capi ted tal from Cm Is its places pieces of oC hoarding ald produce a halt In our present ityl that wi will cause suffering and strained circumstances among the In Innocent innocent many for Cor tho fault faults of oC te the git guilty few The Tho queston question I wish In this message to bring clearly to the tho consideration and discussion of oC Congress Is whether In order to avoid such a possible busi business business ness danger something cannot bo be done by which the business combinations ma may b be offered a means wIthout great grent financial dIsturbance of changing ti the e character organization and extent of their business Into one under the lne lines of the law under federa federal supervision statutes securing with the antitrust |
