The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-10-10
TRUSTS MUST BE CHECKED.

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, the in
innate friend of the President, took the
opportunity at meeting Of the Essex
Club in Boston recently, held to ratify
the recent State nominations, to make a
notable speech dealing with the coal stu
alton and also with tariff revision. He
expressed earnest sympathy with and en-
phatic support for the President in his
efforts to end the coal strike, confident
that the party would be with him in
whatever further steps be might take.
Continuing, he said:
with the matter in the position in
in which it now is, do not wish to say
what think at this instant of the merits
of the case as presented to the county
this morning after the conference in
Washington.
II feel rather strongly in regard to the
attitude taken by some Of the conferees,
but 1 do not think it is the part of wis
dom, while the matter is still pending, to
inflame feeling or aggravate the situation,
which is bad enough; but there is one
thing which think We can all say, and
that is, that the President of the United
States has acted in manner which all
Americans, without regard to party, ap-
prove.
1.-The President will not let the matter
rest where it is. Aside from any economic
question. the coal companies of Pennsyl-
vania do not today stand in position
where they can ask for protection, even
if they needed it. l think it is painful
illustration Of the wisdom of what the
President has been saving in various
speeches in New England and elsewhere
in regard to the necessity Of some Govern
ment supervision or regulation of what
are commonly called trusts.
There are trusts in the anthracite re-
gion. There are certain large corpora
lions which it is the fashion to cali trusts,
and there are certain large corporations
in the anthracite coal fields, and this
strike shows the necessity of some kind
of supervision and regulation by the
national Government of these great cor
porations which produce the necessaries
of life. These great corporations are use
full to business, they are necessary to us
in the economic contests of the present
time. They are as essential to modern
business as anything can possibly be.
They are good servants, but they are
dangerous masters
There must be some power that can
a cry to take the duty off coal-the little
duty there is, 81 cents ton. l should
like to see Congress pass law authoriz-
ing the President to proclaim the removal
of the duty on bituminous coal coming
from Canada just as soon as Canada takes
off the duty from our coal going into
Canada"
speaking of tariff revision, he said:
"The removal of the tariff on trust
made goods would be the most destruc-
tive to the competitors of the trusts and
least to the trusts themselves We need
authority to regulate and supervise these
trusts. The greatest safeguard in this
country is publicity. If there had been
power in the hands of the President to
send commission to the coal regions,
and hear all there has to be said on both
sides and that nothing could be done
until that was given to the public, there
would be no strike or lockout. This
would stop nearly all the strikes and lock-
outs. We should have proper account
ing from these corporations that have an
air of mystery about them. To 60 about
it by reducing the tariff is q silly propo-
sition.'