Show JUDGE PARKER ON TRUSTS judge parker in bla speech of acceptance cep tance was singularly and significantly indefinite in his discussion of the trust question lie said the growth of mo noply of which complaint la justly made cannot bo laid at the doors of the courts of tue country tho decisions of chrt supreme court of the united states the court of appeals of this slate and the courts of last resort in many states warrant the assertion that abo common law as developed affords a complete legal remedy against monopolies standing alone it la difficult to interpret the meaning of this utterance of the democratic candidate for president read in connection with th democratic stale platform of new york adopted at albany last april and dictated by judge parkers friends it not by the judge himself it means that be Is opposed to federal control of trusts and monopolies the trust plank la that albany platform as follows Corpora tlona chartered by the alato must bo subject 0 o just regulation by the state in the interest of the people judge parker regards tho common law as a complete legal remedy against monopolies and his new york platform favors leaving the control of tha trusts and monopolies to the beatea which grant charters to them this was the argument made by the attorneys for the northern securities company when that case came before the supreme court of the united stales those able constitutional lawyers agreed that as the northern so company was a state corporation chartered by the state of new jersey the enforcement of tho sherman antitrust anti trust law against that corporation was an unauthorized interference by tho national government with the internal commerce of that state the court in its opinion handed down by justice remarked this suggestion does not at all impress us the court then held that the sharman law did prohibit buch an interference with interstate commerce and that by the express words of tho constitution con groes has power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several stales and with indian tribes in view of the unanimous decisions of this court there ought not at this day to be any doubt as to the general scope of such power the supreme court also said in that opinion As in the judgment of congress the public convenience and tha general welfare will be best sub served when the natural laws of competition are left undisturbed by those engaged in interstate commerce and as congress has embodied that rule in ano statute that must be for all the end of the matter if this lg to remain a government of laws and not of men the supreme court did not decide the northern securities case in the common law nor did it regard a corporation po ration chartered by a stale aa only to be regulated by the state it swept aside all such technicalities ad those suggested by judge parker and his state platform and decided that great trust because it violated a law of congress which was in conformity with the power granted to congress by the constitution the democratic party opposed the passage of the sherman law and it has opposed all other antitrust anti trust legislation rn the last 13 years prom judge parkers speech of acceptance it would appear that he Is in harmony with his party on this question and would deny the power of congress to pass such laws he would leave such trusts to be regulated by the states which granted charters to them and be donld have cef the northern securities curi ties company to bo dealt with by the state of new jersey but the republican party and the supreme court of the united states regard this as a government of laws and not of men |