Show JUDGE KING BACK FROM THE EAST gives his impressions of industrial conditions in east great unrest prevails in labor circles judge william H king has returned home after having haing pert thrle three weeks on business and pleasure in the east lie he fads as at al washington where here he be argued a lond ind bahe bafo e the secretary of 0 the interior after which he new lork ork and recuperated a short time at atlantic city and anci stopped off dt at chicago and st louis on his bib return things gerier generally aliv are quiet throughout the east judge king to the news but it should not be so because crops are t fi aly good there is considerable building the output ot or the mills was ne never cr greater reater cr and the mines are pouring pour iniz out their gold silver and other metals mets ls there is really no reason wh wha the united states should not today he be enjoying unwonted pro prosperity perit but there is an ominous cloud in the indus tirril horizon although money is fairly aisy in most of the cen lentres tres not t there is a spirit of unrest of waiting of expectancy expectance as if the people are looking for another crisis conditions accordingly are in a chaotic state private enterprise is ir afraid of the great encroaching trusts the trusts trusta are reaching out determined to control the business of ane countr country 5 and a feeling of uncertainty reigns as ai a natural result individuals and small enterprises are afraid to to launch out for fear of being swallowed by the trusts the growth groath of the trusts is so great their power so great that the situation is producing a reduction they are getting control of the manufactories manu factories and other industries of 0 the united states and the people are beginning to cry ry out against these vast cor corporate and nast last industrial combinations it is fast such a critical state that I 1 believe we shall see many of the trusts dissolved things will settle back to a legi ornate competitive basis this would in a measure eradicate the present domination of individual and private enterprise by the corporations 1 I look uvon unon the next few ears to w winnis wit tn 3 nis ss the supreme crisis in the in id u trial history of our e country it will ill determine whether th the e individual air or the C ci tp ip raica will I 1 will be A tion whether harister L ha american manhood amer amen c can an co courage arage nr the trusts w will ill rule this land it will ill determine whether this is a to be a country ot or in lu liberty and freedom as well as one of political icil fre freedom edorn this nation m hi h mi i i well ell solved the question which confronts it for settlement is one of industrial libert liberty 3 business in my judgment will be unsettled until it is knoon whether or not eriv private ate e on a competitive peti tive bisic is to prevail or whether yh ether everi thins is to be run b bi combinations of capital mr Rooi elta intrusion into polities politics i is not contributing t to 0 the bringing about of a spirit of security man feir a further attack on ahat is called capital this creates doubt in the hearts of the capiti capitalists lists chere is an almost general faction with the tariff which is 19 being assaulted by both republicans and democrats this puts the poli poh cicil situation in i A far wore more chaotic condition than the industrial there is a general feel feeling iniz that mr taft has not measured up to the high position ho he occupies he is endea vori g to placate both the insurgents and the stand patters and not succeeding with either the labor situation in the ast cist is one of vast interest to the student of economics and sociology socio sociological log ical matters the trades unions are only a natural product of oe the times an attempt of the people to protect themselves against encroaching encroach me inz capital |