Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-10-18
Necessity Recognized for Sending to Senate
and House Wise, Careful and Con.
servative Men.
Cook County Will Contribute Ten to the
Illinois Delegation to Washington
This Fall.
Election Of Six Good Men Assured-WiIson,
Foster, Lorimer, knopf, Mahony and
Boutel.

To thoughtful citizens the recent pro
nouncement Of Attorney General Kno,
in reference to the so-called trust ques
ton has added tenfold to the already
tremendous Importance Of the forth
coming Congressional election.
The Attorney General declared in tn,
plainest kind Of language during tn,
past week that the final and satisfac
tory settlement Of the problem presented
by concentration Of capital rests abso
lutely In Congress.
This pronouncement. coming as I,
does on the eve of a Congressional elec
tlon, is accentuated by the conditions
created and the lessons taught by the
great coal strike the possibilities of
which almost exceed the limit Of spec
ulation.
In giving his already world.famous
opinion, Attorney General Knox quoted
the first message Of President ROose.
welt to Congress, touching this subject,
as follows:
There Is widespread. settled con.
viction in the minds Of the American
people, which springs from no spirit of
envy or uncharitableness, nor lack OF
pride In the great industrial achieve
ments that have placed the country at
the head Of the nations struggling for
commercial supremacy; which does moi
rest upon lack Of intelligent appreci
alton Of the necessity of meeting chang
ing and changed conditions Of trade
with new methods, nor upon ignorance
Of the fact that combination Of capital
and effort to accomplish great things
Is necessary when the worlds progress
Is demanding that great things be done
but which Is bottomed upon the sincere
conviction, that combination and con
centration, while not to be prohibited
is to be controlled, and In my judgment
this conviction is right
"These great combinations, now mum
bering thousands, are the instrumen
talities Of modern commercial activity
Their number and size alone appall nc
healthy American. We are accustomed
to large things and to do them In large
way.
I'VE are accustomed to speak with q
justifiable pride of our great institu
tons and what we have fairly accom-
plished through them. No right think
ing man desires to impair the efficiency
OF the great corporations as instrumen.
talities Of national commercial develop.
ment. Because they are great and pros.
porous Is no sufficient reason for their
destruction. II that greatness and pros.
perity are not the result Of the defiance
Of the natural rights or recorded will of
the people, there is no just cause Of
THAT there are some evils and abuses
In trust promotions and management
and effects, none questions. That all
or any Of these abuses are to be found
In every large organization called a
trust no one would assert who valued
his reputation for sane judgment"
Having thus quoted the President,
Attorney General Knox proceeds:
"Conceding that the present law (the
s'ssSs A""y 10 iiol VhNNtlNe
out the situation, we come to the final
alternative: May not Congress, under
the existing constitutional grants,
amend and extend the law, and thus
remedy its defects and SO effectively
regulate national and foreign commerce
as TO prevent the sitting of competition,
the regulating Of output and price, and
the restraining Of national ana ipterna.
tional trade? If the answer to this
question should be in the affirmative, a
second question follows: How might
Congress so amend the present law?
Il do not scruple to say that In my
Judgment the more n thoughtful mind
reflects on the first question the more
unhesitatingly will AN affirmative an
swer be returned.
THAT regulation by Congress In this
way would indirectly or remotely affect
would be no bar"
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