Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-06-22
ANTITRUST MEETING
Governor Of Washington's Reasons
for Not Attending.
The EVILS OF The TRUST SYSTEM.
Prof. Bemis speaks at Chicago Of the Trust
PrObiers - Senator COckrell's Anti
Trust Remedy The Industrial,
Commissions Investigation.

Austin, Tex, June 20.-Gov. Savers
yesterday received letter from Gov.
Rogers, Of Washington, declining to
attend the antitrust convention at St.
Louis. He presents his reasons in the
following letter:
In reply to your invitation allow me to say
that 1t will be impossible for me to attend 1t
has occurred to me In this connection that many
people are advocating state control Of trusts
with insincerlty, thinking in this way ~ pass
through the next national campaign with
safety to themselves, feeling sure that what
ever state legislation may be enacted which
will really curb the power Of trusts will
eventually be declared unconstitutional by the
United States supreme court With those VINO
thus and for that purpose advocate state egis-
latlon regarding trusts can have no sympathy
and am bound to believe, too, that legislative
action which seeks to control the formation
and management of trusts will prove Intellectual
In the first place the word trust Is mslead-
Ing when applied to a great many industrial
combinations now threatening the prosperity of
the people. In many instances socaled trusts
are merely larger corporations 1t has occurred
to me that corporations will be declared to pos
sess vested and constitutional right to buy
and sell Clearly 1t seems to me corporations.
as well as natural persons, have right TO buy
and hence a right TO sell whatever is offered
for sale in the market II a sufficient
weight Of capital be employed corpora
tion or u natural person has the ability
and the constitutional right to buy all Of GER
tain product offered for sale, and this will I'M
questlonably operate to fix the price at which
such product will in future be sold. | am at a
loss to see too, how the natural and funda-
mental right Of either natural or corporate per-
sons to buy and sell can be nterfered with by
legal enactment under our constitution. For
this reason | can see no remedy for the trust
evil save public ownership This new question
Of the trusts is really the very old one OF capt
tai versus labor or, stated differently, the at
tempt OF the almighty dollar to entire suprem-
acy In the affairs Of men. There is in all this
an irrepressible conflict which will not down at
the bidding OF any state legislature.
THE EVILS OF THE TRUST SYSTEM.
Chicago, June sO.-Prof. L. W. Bemis,
of this city, speaking Of the trust
problem, says:
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are obvious Thero is a droc, ,ncro.so n, Tho
unemnloved tbro,ah Tho c,os,r, =, ,oo,o.,a.
hut ,hs ia No, svs,n,or,,u d,ra.en, ,.a.., ,,,n,
occurs in nil ,rvont,or IN ,vorror, tha ,,ronor.
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more than 5,OOO,o)O wage workers (as well MS
one-half Of the capital ofthe country that are
IN ~ mihlhacturihg TO say nothing OF
,o,o m' an de vposen es"sea IA
Il appears that nearly one-haIf Of
the agricultural voters of the county to-
Jay, and possibly one-half' are connected
s'sioo, '''' " "a a'oAoo'' ,nuus'''es nnu
10 advance the Interest," NJ heir ON.
poyers politically What is to be donc2 We
'lanot smash the trusts without such com
p's o'e''urn y, slle rorpor'se lornS 0, aong
win not come by reropressiou to The extensive
business methods of Me past. Yet this remedy
WIN I've the first trieg- Recognizing the trust as
IheVllole' eN'or'ioha'e charees IN many OUT
Ny Nv nlcuus uil' cases can H cuecRed by re-
moVai OF tlrih oarrerS III all industries where
strong trusts exist, inc iree trade conditions
IN England doubtless help 10 account for her
from trusts thnh prevails here.
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Oro sc tarirs havs ,heir mace N''''''A
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