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Show Dealing With Trusts. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE sent out a letter some days ago to a number num-ber of editors of newspapers of a representative type, asking them what they considered the best method of dealing with the trust question, and particularly whether they endorsed the suggestion made by President Roosevelt Roose-velt In an important speech. In this speech Mr. Roosevelt said: "More and more it is evident that the state, and if necessary the nation, has got to possess the right of supervision super-vision and control as regards the great corporations which are its creatures, particularly the great business corporations corpora-tions which derive a portion of their importance from the existence of some monopolistic tendency." Twenty-five answers have been received re-ceived and published, with the signatures signa-tures of the writers, all but two or three being western editors. Xearly all the writers heartily concur with Mr. Roosevelt's suggestion, although some-of some-of them think that a constitutional amendment will be necessary to meet the requirements of the case. Thus the editor of the Dubuque (la.) Times (Rep.), thinks that only the federal government can deal with the question ques-tion satisfactorily, and that it must have more power than it now possesses in order to do so. He adds that this is also the position of Speaker Henderson. Hen-derson. Several of the writers express the opinion that the trusts ought to be under federal supervision in the same way that the national banks are, and that they should be subjected to similar examination and publicity. |