Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-12-06

ty to make all laws necessary and proper
for executing this power, and am salts
fled that this power has not been ex-
hausted by any legislation now on the
statute books. 1t is evident, therefore
that evils restrictive of commercial free
dom and entailing restraint upon ma
| tional commerce fall within the regula-
tive power of the congress. and that a
wise and reasonable law would be a
necessary and proper exercise of congress
sional authority to the end that such
evils should be eradicated.
| believe that monopolies. unjust dis
ordinations, which prevent or cripple
competition, fraudulent over apitaiiza-
| tion. and other evils In trust organiza-
| tions and practices which injuriousIy at
feet interstate trade can be prevented
| under the power of the congress TO "regu-
late commerce with foreign nations and
among the several states" through regu-
! lations and requirements operating di-
rectly upon such commerce. the instru-
mentalities thereof and those engaged
therein.
! earnestly recommend this subject 10
the consideration of the congress with "A
view to the passage OF law reasonable
| In Its provisions and effective in it's opera-
tions. upon which the questions can be
finally adjudicated that now raise doubts
as to the necessity OF constitutional
| amendment. IL 1t prove impossible to ac-
| complish the purposes above set forth by
such law, then, assuredly, we should
| not shrink from amending the constItu
ton so as to secure beyond peradventure
the power sought
| Enforce Antitrust Law.
The congress has not heretofore made
any appropriation for the better enforce
mont Of the antitrust law as II now
stands. Very much has been done bv the
department OF justice in securing the en-
| forcement OF this law. but much more
| could be done II congress would make n
| special appropriation for this purpose. to
be expended under the direction of the
| attorney general.
| one proposition advocated has been the
reduction OF the tariff az a means of
reaching the evils OF the trusts which fan
| within the category / have described
Not merely would this be wholly ineffec-
| i've hut the diversion OF our efforts in
| such direction would mean the ahan-
| uohincht OF all intelligent attempt to do
| away with these oviis. Many of the larr-
| est corporations, many of those which
shouia certainly be included in any proper
scheine OF regulation would not be af-
| fectcd In the slightest degree nv n
ohahge IN the tariff save as such change
| hteffered with the general prosperity OF
'ho country. The only relation of the
tarin to big corporations as "A whole IS
| ,hht the tarin makes manufactures pro-
"'"pie' ana the tariff remedy proposed
. would haa In OF. IL.
factures Improbable. TO remove the
'"flu as punitive measure directed
against trusts would Inevitably result ln
rum To the weaker competitors who are
struggling against them our aim
should be not by unwlse tariff changes Ia
give foreign products the advantage over
domestic products, but by proper reguIa-
ton tn give domestic competition a fair
chance; ana this end can not be reached
hy any 'arir changes which would affect
unfavorably an domestic competitors
good and bad alike. The question of
regulation OF the trusts stands apaPt from
ihe question uf tariff revision.
Counse!s Caution in Traffic Matters.
stability of economic policy must al
ways he the primo economic need of this
country. This stability should NOT b,.
fossilization. The country has acauisc.a
IN the wisdom OF the protective tnrif
principle. II is exceedingly undeslrable
that this system should be DESTROYED or
that there should be violent and radical
changes therein. Our past experi.nca
shows that great prosperity In this coun-
try has always come under a protective
tartn .and that the country can not
prosper under iitfu! tarin changcs at !
shoft intervals. Moreover II the tariff
laws as whole work well. and IL bust |
ness has prospered under them and is |
prospecting, II In better to endure for a |
time slight inconveniences and m
equeiities ia some schedules than 10 up- |
let business by ina nuicl and Aoo .adi,.l