| Show RI GiRDING THE TRUSTS abe state of now new york has baa a gent cent anti fiust law and recently a ca cage be for violation of it was br those who were placed on OD trial were all tobacco manufacturers manufacture re meet of them well known in a bustnes 9 sense throughout the country the charge in general terms terme being a 8 concerted effial to break up the business of others en traced in the some same lines so eo that the defendants might thereby be able to control the market oo on their own terms terme and I plead ifa aig has been beed el exhausted bausted in efforts to show bow that such euch proceedings do not transcend the bounan of recognized competition and that t ug ua the he ele ale mente of criminal procedure soure do not obtain even as B great an author ity as the late james jamea G blaine took the ground that trusts were largely private affa laffaira irli with dolob the government Kovero ment could properly have mobbing to do but he be could scarcely arcely eo have tied bad bajore him at such euch time SOY acy of the 1166 BOUB which have become so BO numerous nume roua since hie big day undoubtedly be to lor ked bed upon the mat ter at ar having but two eldee abe fight of 41 the citizen n 10 lo engage to io legitimate bu business without the consent at 0 the fluting power and the lack of right in bob such ruling power to restrict or to in SY ai y manner interfere with the subject object business buRi neBB or hla his manner of conducting it viewed sri as a general such each a tand stand Is but the trust encouraged by such toom and entrenched behind untold capital have bave swung wide of the fundamental inlo ciple arid wed it simply BB as a text fir reference when in the case referred to such deanee or of any other resting upon the concrete doctrine dec trine of popular rights must be rat utterly terly untenable having no do reit vancy in the ibe presence of a duly enacted statute clearly ae defining fining what and where the metes and bound cof of trade and traffic mall ball be if any such enactment t its Is exclusive in its ita operation it if it presses with unequal loro upon any particular portion or of the conin unity to in which it has bag effect it if it is ie itself in restraint of trade there in a remedy which welch petit judda should be to recognize sod and be made to know that no part of such remedy resides within or 0 0 them themselves selver in the new york case two wo out of the twelve good food men am and d true 1 refused to agree with their it M I 1 lows low in saying baying that the allega allegation loup contained in the indictment were proved and leave the question me aa to the tta sufficiency of such allegations under cinder the law to a court of review there we ran no question queendo quee quest noo ioD apparently about every material point being euljy substantiate I 1 us were wele brought forward bowing blob favoring those who deal with tre the trust aud ai d having a tendency t to araia silly if not dot all at once break down those abo did hot to deal and the proof was wae as 89 plain as aa anything can be that bellee apon upon human testimony tee yet two vae bueb who presumably take the broader view i outlined beca because tife ol of Bc or equally occult at present refuse to register a verdict to iu accords ce with the facts the trust truet triumphs and the law is rt deuced for the time belnia belm to the condition of a dead letter it is ie stated with apparent atit authority hority that onet like io in attorney ee ass alone was expended by the be combination that they have a proper appreciation of the gravity ol oi the case also aleo that they lave have means to correspond corree poud there is ie probably no DO question with which the whole people are brought directly to in contact that contains mure more that reia related testO to their te matoral welfare now bow and later thau than this same question of bow far corporations and combines combined have a right tu KO go in trie direction of controlling coo trolling braf tic oo and regulating the prices of commodities modi ties it if such power is beyond the control of the law jaw it ta is easy to see I 1 i the ibe oot not very dim distance a power in ibe ebe und land in the presence pree ence of which the me national government itself will be impotent it if association are to ti be per emitted with impunity to break down all oppi altion that bat refuses to be die dic bated by them and to sa eel the prices ot 01 everything at a central pot poli t fr m which such prices anil and all ail things she ele lug to barter in certain lioe hose among our people are to radiate it hen breames ft a living fact that we have an imperium in imberio to ueal deal with compared with the late rebellious reb elliou of the southern states was wae a very ordinary sort of assumption in deed the attitude of several republican senators ena tora toward the now new tariff arifi bill be cusee of direct and incidental favors favora to certain trusts truer is ib an ominous circum which is ig relieved oi of some of its ite sumber shades by the gleam of hope contained to in the statement of secretary ai 31 8 sito ate sherman the author of the national antitrust anti antl trust truet law jaw that the measure ure is not en ugh perhaps Per happ with such views view at beao base quarters and aad the be morea sou delanu tor for amet B bing more effective a way to equalize conditions may be had bad as aa a matter of concession irom from the principal who of course under stand aland that it to IB the part of wis jow not 60 0 o tahe isko bit all that was one can get |
