Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-09-19
Why So Secre: With the Recipe?

surance when he says that if
elected President he will recommend
such an amendment to the constitu-
lion ''as will, without impairing any of
the existing rights Of the states. en-
power Congress to protect the people
OF all the states from injury at the
hands Of individuals or corporations
Engaged il interstate commerce" 1t
thus appears that in Mr.. Bryan's
opinion this matter Of trusts which
has bothered the wisest heads in this
country is the simplest thing magma
! BILE; this great vampire of monopoly is
| ID be brushed aside as one would q fly,
always provided that Mr.. Bryan be
elected President. Otherwise he is So
ing to keep the magic with which he
would DO this mighty thing a profound
secret. Elect him President and he
Will save you from the octopus. not to
lmention leviathans and dangerous in
sects. Otherwise perish. This must
/ be what he means. otherwise he would
have told US what Il do to be rid Of the
! impending doom.
| When he took the trouble to 80 all
the way to Washington to tell the
| Democrats to vote for the treaty which
| brought those Filipinos under our
| laws regardless Of their consent, why
| didn't he then tell them also what to
do to shoe away the trusts? The Shcr-
man antitrust law passed by Repub-
lican House and Senate and put into
effect by the supreme court 50 far as
| found applicable, and far enough to
strange the gigantic Joint Traffic As
| ISOLATION composed Of 81 railroads
united in agreement as to rates, not to
mention the Trans Missouri case and
| the Addystone Steel Pipe ease. where
| immense projected monopolies We're
snothered, this law was found to be
defective and Congress was asked TO
| remedy the defects. The court had
! found that the law couldn't. under the
| constitution, interfere with production
, except as it entered into or became
part Of interstate commerce Accord
ingly It was asked that the country be
permitted to Vote whether or not the
/ Constitution should be so amended a;
I'd empower Congress to define. regu-
u late. control ana dissolve trusts ana
/ monopolies, whether existing III the
+ form Of a corporation or otherwise.
leaving the several states power over
{ the trusts in SO far as their state laws
might not conflict with United States
laws.
What was the result? But four Dem
. ocrats voted for this. while 126 Of them
voted against it. The opponents said
. b. otherwise? Now a state may have
laws against trusts and the neighbor-
ing state laws encouraging them The
government Of the United States cam
not crush trusts until it may have the
power. until the states have conferred
some Of their power upon it in order
that iii may accomplish this. But Mr..
Bryan calmly says he would have
4 both this central authority without
| impairng state authority. in other
4 words would have two conflicting au-
| thorities without conflict, each doing
as it pleased, pulling in opposite direc-
tions ana the people meanwhile getting
just what they might need
Now If Mr.. Bryan could do that with
his manifest absurdity, why did he
not for the good Of the country for the
welfare Of his countrymen, impart the
information to the Democratic leaders
\ in the last Congress and let them pre-
sent a measure to that effect? Why
didn't he do this? Among physicians.
excepting quacks, it is looked upon as
physicians duty in case he has made
= medical discovery. to make it known
TO the profession in order that the
suffering sick may profit from ii. Why
has Nh. Bryan kept his magical recipe