The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-09-27

it, features. An equity suit vai
brought BY the United siates arainst
the Sugar Trust. in which ii was al
legged 20 be the declared purpose Of ID,
Trust 81 make sugar ami control urice.
and distribution. to obtain a more
perfect contrcl over renting and sell.
ing" Goth Fei.. Rep. 81. q34.
While this declared purpose oi the
sugar Trust j. in direct violation q the
dr.t -,ction q the Sherman laws di-
rect as human language can frame a
-i4tuie-.he supreme court adhered o.
Iis ruling In the Iowa case. that manu-
featuring vas not interstate commerce.
TIA; even the declared INTENTION
30 violate the interstate commerce was
u0i a violation q the Sherman act. and
hence could not - enjo'ned. LAWYER
who wish 10 read the dissenting opinions
% this remarkable decision should
.pok uY the above reports and also
l7th sup, Court Rep. 572. Some Of
the same justices who denounced the
nulliicatiOn Of the income tax law.
declare that the court errei in holding
that % could not enjoin a criminal in
tent on the part Of organized capital.
IL will De- recalled that the courts fouDd
a way 10 rnioin the striking Chicago
laborers IN ls'j on alleged INTEN.
TION.
In brief, the supreme court has found
a way under the same Law 10 enjoiu
organized LABOR for mere alleged in.
tent 10 DO a wrongful act, but canno,
enjoin d clared intent Of CAPITAL 30
violate the same law.
This il the point that Mr.. BRYAN
lost sight of at Chicagc-but perhaps
be purposely avoided precipitat;ug
political discussion.
THE oRIGGs LE1rLR
was referred 10 at the Chicago confer. .
ence, in which the attorney general Of
the United States says there il no fed. .
eral remedy against truss-that they T.
are amenable 20 the laws Of the state. /
For instance, the state Of New Jersy has T.
a remedy b. suppress trusts. hut a. the
sovereign state Of New Jersy j. a nursery .
of trusts, IL making millions out of /.
trusts, the state will not apply the
the remedy.
Grisgs says the United States j. help
less and the state j. precluded from in.
.erfering by the supreme court decision
10 the Iowa case, unless congress enart-
1 special law a. IL has done in the case
oi liquors in transit or IN original
packages. II would seem TO a citizen OF
ordinary Intelligence that when tru-,
products are loaded on cars, and iu
an-it, under present laws and supreme
.ourt decisions, they are liable 10 seizure
md contiscation A. much a. foreign pro.
lucts transported in Violation Of our
ar'f laws. But suppose a Philadcl.
'hia lawyer would find seventeen thou.
aud ways to get around that.
1HCsrs OR SOCIALISM.
One man Of all the conierrees de-
Jared there was an abu1dance of legal
Thos. Updo. ad 81
owa. He ar Ied that great public good
al come ont Of great combinations ~
ipital, 10y economy in the cost of pro-
uction. lie be- ewes the present i'm.
'rsiatc commerce act-called the
herman antitrust law-could b. in
okcd and enforced 20 protect the peo-
le against extortion and 10 restore
ralthy competition. r
II the trusts cannot be- controlled bv l
ate or national legislation, ii il can fix
+ own prices for IT, products and make
.e consumer pay them, then state so- -
alism b. inevitable, collcctiyi,m il i
gical necessity, aud indn lualism l. =
apostolic. But the anglo.srNon race
and- Tor '1diyiiualism and will dom.
ate, control and subordinate the trust
fore it will adopt socialism.
r.. IloFER.