Show A OP J PANACEAS S. Baltimore American A veritable riot of panaceas for every imaginable ill m of the country Is threatened to deluge de tie- loge luge the land lane Every E man who assumes to address an any anybody countr countrymen upon UllOn any am theme bod body of his suffering long of oC human h man Interest inter between the cradle and the tho grave feels teds called upon to dent deul with problems for the sake of ot showing how ho consummate a master masler he is of or industrial conditions In this way enough h of or raw thought Is being dumped at the doors of the American merican people to supply them with concentrated opinions for Cor a i cycle of or centuries marketable product If canned thought could become a before bankers an and Of or this sort are alo mall many of ot tho the addresses CS lawyers and mid other eminent bodies ma massed in their various state stale conventions throughout tho the country countr worse than man many others was Not any better not an any the Wisconsin Wiscon- Wiscon I the contribution made b by a n speaker before beCore Milwaukee This gentleman Bankers Bankers' association at sin to l laboriously reviewed the Sherman trust anti law and proceeded pro pro- There I is no evidence t it Ills hits batteries ce ed to open upon that the Bessemer steel protected bit of legislation has suffered from lom this latest bombardment The ground was taken b by the speaker that man many of the industrial conas conspiracies con con- t denominated b by the law of the theland as the they are arc land arc are In reality combinations in restraint of or trade t for tho the good of or comp competition lili n and that many other combinations combinations combinations com com- flourish nourish that ar are suppressive e of or competition under n er the shadow shado of or the tho law la After Arter having ha worked this hypothesis to some conclusion the moral of or the te whole all trade agreements S should first be matter was as that submitted to a commission for Cor approval before being put to work This ingenuous proposal loses sight si ht of the e ef f fact ct t that al tra trade e agreements like some people are aro eminently emi ml- ml respectable at some stages of or their careers and are arc at it others Any corporation attorney who r rollicking rakes could not make a vicious trade agreement look hook like e the Anti Sherman law Jaw an would not be worth his fee tee It is wh when n the thing gets upon the tho rails or in the In word when it is in factory factor or down in the mines mines mines-In a that it docs does Its mischief operation and out of or sight that sight A certain college president once received a delegation of or rebellious but highly conscientious students who laid before him a course of oC action the they had Ingenuously marked out In a a- a certain case and asked him to sa say In advance whether It would b bd bet in violation of or the college rules roles r a grit of or the teeth and a flash of the eyes the response Ie ponso came as the speaker cr pointed to a printed copy of or the regulations There Is the law obey It whether you OU like it or not nol disobey it and you rou will wiIl be ex ex- gelled The Sherman trust anti-trust law was made not for evasion but for observance The corporations can read its of ot Interpreting them clear c ear provisions and are arc capable Let Iet them obey it whether they like it or not If they In Infract infract In- In tract it ft the they n ite invite the tho penalties While the petty word doctors argue and agitate over the industrial situation and Its Us nce needs s tho the law remains fixed 1 and the courts at al the instance tance o of the administration are arc Inflexible in a applying it There Is la no need for proprietary proprietary pro pro- panaceas the les legal l trust remedy Is being vigorous vigorously vigorously vigor vigor- ous applied |