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Show 'CORPORATIONS WILL NOT BEDESTKOYED NKW YORK. Dec. 1J Frank n. Kellogg, who, us special counsel fr I hi- noverimitTit, prosecuted tbe Standard Stan-dard Oil dissolution suit, spoke of railroad legislation lKilore tin- Eco-nomic Eco-nomic club of Now York toiiixht. "Tho American pp(ijilr." pair! Mr. Kellogg, "do not and could not. If they did, under this constitutional govern-( govern-( lvienl, destroy or contlscate tho p . i i erty of rallioads or rorporatlons. J Agitations, of course, may do smo harm, hut wroncs breed agitation and aaltation leads lo reform. What People Have Done, "What tho American people have done in the marly forty years of legislation leg-islation and experience Is to e-nb Ilsh a Klky for tho conti-ol of tians-porlatlon tians-porlatlon and Croat abrogations of capital In corporate form. "I know whereof 1 speak when I sav that prior to 190'?, few. If .my, of the lartcc- shippers In this country paid the tariff rates. In my opinion, no lasting prosperity, no permanent Individual growth, should to lftscd on such an unstable, corrupt nnd dishonest dishon-est system. And I do not believe tho Government will ever reduce rates a. low as the railroad manacers reduced them during the years of paying rebates re-bates and cutting rates. Th only way to control rates Is by inquiring into their reasonableness through accumulation ac-cumulation created with power lo fix them; this, of course, subject to the final Judgment of the highest court in th- land. |