The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-29
AN EQUAL SHOW NEEDED
M. L. LOCKWOOD THINKS THAT
WOULD MEAN SALVATION.
Antitrust Law Is Enforced by Texas
and It Can Be by the United States
II President Wills.

NJ. L. Lockwood. National president OF
the American Antitrust League, has IA
vored The Post with his views on the trust
question. the attitude OF the president In
his message and of some of the labor lead.
ers who have recently held conference
with the representatives. OF the trust sys-
tenn In New York. Among other things be
calls attention to the existence Of the
sherman antitrust act, which makes 1t an
onense punishable by hne and lmprlson-
ment to create monopoly or to attempt
to create monopoly, and the failure Of
the attorney general OF the United States
to Insist upon compliance Herewith, and
says;
When honest capital is given an equal
show. and equal rates over the railroads
are given TO every man then the old laws
and the old customs viii prevail and merit
and not monopoly win sell and the people
can then purchase their necessities ut com
petltve prices, and the overcapitallzation,
the ,watered stock OF these great Industrial
combinations will not be worth cent a
hushel. Is this danger to the holders of
watered stock the real and grave danger
the president fears with all of Its baletul
consequences and recommends that "a reso-
lutte and practicable effort must be made to
correctT
1T need not be said that the Nattona
antitrust law can not be enforced II the
same kind OF law is enforced In the State
or Iexas ana as result, In a short eleven
months, the people here have created the
faculties and are marketing from 10000
70 10000 barrels of oil day, this, too, in
the face of railway service grudgingly
given. only because they fear the power
forced law. What an evidence is this OF the
mighty capacity OF the American people
70 DO business when they are not sand.
bagged by railway discrimination Has the
noticed ~ OF ~ he
| forcement of the antitrust and anti.dis.
elimination laws Of Texas that the indie
pendent oil producers OF PENNSYLVANIA and
west Virginia have finally gotten their pipe
llne through to the seaboard and can reach
the markets OF the world, except in the
United States. unhindered; that Standard
trust stock has dropped 200 per cent? His
captains OF industry are only strong AMI
foreeful' when they can crush their com.
peutors with railway Discrimination. II he
ana his attorney general will enforce the
laws of the Nation with the same energy
| which Governor Sayers and Attorney Gen,
| erAl Bell enforce the laws OF Texas he
can be Of great good TO the American peo-
Win regard TO the conference Of labor
! leaders and representatives OF the trust
! system. held In New York. Mr., Lockwood
| says;
\ u see that some Of the leaders OF organ
/ lied labor are In New York In conference
| With Hanna and Scbwab aud Rockefeller
and Cleveland representatives of combina-
! tloh and monopoly and that two of the rep
resentatlves OF organized labor have apollo.
glzed TO Mark Hanna-that they have
/ created kind Of supreme court and have
| made Mark Hanna chief Justice thereof
/ that they pave set up a kind OF govern
ment inside Of and Independent OF the
| regular government OF the people. These
/ trust magnates are resourceful fellows.
| When they get Into this far enough the
| boys who wear the biouses will ind that
1 they haven't any sheriff to enforce any
| decision not satisfactory to and In the
/ interest OF corporate and InOnopellstic caPi'
| tni-that In fact. this Is little scheme
| to get their votes. to help perpetuate the
/ rule OF mOnopolies and trusts.
Can II be possible that any OF these
! representatives. Of organized labor can be
/ humbugged and Induced By promises tina,
! they are 20 have a part of the plumber, ID
/ consplre with these trust conspirators and
/ Join them In plundering the balance OF
/ the American peoplet II they can, they will
! ind that II VIII he hard work 10 drag the
/ Self-respecting men of. which their organi
/ Nations are composed with them Into such
| a conspiracy.
mid II ever strike these men that W.
need IN this country only one great labor
Organization, and that composed Of all
| the men whose labor produces wealth con
sciendously and prayerfuily golng to th'
! polls with a ballot upon which Is written
! Equal rights to all men and special privi
leges t. no men that any man who want.
| more than an equal show win only he used
and r. AZ subject for an imperialism
Did they ever think that such labor 81
| RaniBatinn could make their govern nisn'
| sust wAss tag yanfs6 Il - BEL TaAf ,,