The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
AMERICAN BAR
ASSOCIATION
Twenty-ffth Annual Meeting Be.
gins at Saratoga.
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ROSE
REVIEW OF TRUST PROBLEM
AND PROPOSED REMEDIES.

CARAToGA. N. 2. Aug. 27.-The
y American Bar association be-
gan its twenty-fifth annual
meeting here today with a large
attendance of delegates. President
Z. NJ Rose, of Little Rock, Ark.
delivered an address. He spoke
feelingly of the death of Presi-
dent Mckinley. and said that the ex-
ecution of the assassin failed to satisfy
the just demands of the violated law
He depiored the fact that anarchistic
literature is disseminated freely
g the mails and that public mee-th
through the mails and that public
meetings where speeches of the most
incendiary character are made by refu-
gees from foreign lands" are permitted
! to be held
President Rose spoke at length on
trusts. saying in part;
Our country during the last thirty
years has witnessed a change of such
magnitude as TO be without a single
parallel in history. BY means of vast
| aggregations of money corporate mon
| opolies have been esta blished in al
most every branch OF industry. What
effect these tremendous creations will
| have on our future destiny, morally
| socially. financially, legally. no one ven
/ lures to predict with any degree of
Oliver Cromwell, that no one goes so
| far as the man that does not know
where he is going. we are apparently
entering upon long journey.
Gravity of the Situation.
THE supreme court of the United
States and several of our presidents
have more than once called attention
/ to the gravity of the situation, and we
I cannot suppose that men occupying
such positions of responsibility would
! only excite public apprehension Presi-
dent Roosevelt has said more than
| once that the power of corporations
over prices should be subjected TO pub
/ lie control. Very recently he said:
We may need. and. in my belief,
we do need, new legislation, enacted in
/ no radical or revolutionary spirit. but
/ in spirit OF common sense, common
honesty and resolute desire to face
facts as they are
J This language is clear and will meet
with general approval. The principal
/ difficulty pertains to the remedy"
Proposed Remedies.
/ President Rose said that a remedy
! sometimes proposed with seeming con-
| fidence was that of publicity. but he
| declared that publicity would only
serve to prolong the present situation.
/ <AuOlIeE remedy SuRS6Sleuy NE
I said. lis an amendment to the federal
! constitution giving power to congress
/ to control all corporations; a very
/ drastic remedy indeed, one that would
! greatly strengthen the lobby, one that
might introduce an era of political cor
ruption hitherto unknown.
Lastly, it is suggested that the fed
! eral constitution should be so amended
as TO enable congress TO prevent, by
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rivals by local underselling, by factors
! agreements and by similar devices.
/ This would not prevent the investment
/ of large sums in corporate hands, and
| corporations with large capital would
still have an advantage. but laws of
| that kind would no doubt be rigidly
/ enforced by the juries Of the country
and public sympathy for new and
/ struggling enterprises would probably
go long way 70 redress the balance"
/ President Rose said that the Sherman
antitrust law fails to meet all the diff
1 ficuities of the situation, adding:
Whether this act extended the ex-
/ hauSted powers of congress over the
subject matter is question about
which there may be a difference Of
opinion
The bar association tonight elected
a general counsel from each state and
territory. including the following:
/ Alaska, Melville c. Brown. Juneau;
| Arizona, Everett Z. Ellinwood, Flag
/ staff: California. Charles Monroe, Los
| Angeles; Colorado. Lucius w. Hoyt,
| Denver: Iowa. William W. Woods,
/ Wallace; Montana. ". V. Sanders,
/ Helena: New Mexico. Thomas B. Cat
ron, Santa. Fe; Oregon. Charles H.
/ Carey, Portland; Utah. Charles S.
Varian, Salt Lake City; Washington,
! c H Eauford Seattle; Wyoming,
] Charles y. Potter, Cheyenne.