The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-02-11
HOW TOCURB THETRUSTS


about the sanc clcacst and most suggestive tcrancc yet
made on the subject the verdict OF the Hartford Post 2cpD
Attorney General KnoNs communication the House and
Senate judiciary commissioners question; and the
Ittsburg Dispatch agrees that the root OF ono-
poly 1t understood that the Prcsien ndorses Mr.
opinions indeed he did not inspire them and tev have been
formulated in bill that has been introduced into Congress If
Congress fails antitrust law this session. pre-
dicted that the President will call the next Congress in extra Sos
sion after March to make good the defect
Monopoly would be impossible in this country declared Mr.
Knox, in his communication, If competition
fair and open field SO he proposes that Congress its
over interstate prohibit railroad rebates and dscrm
nation prices Then he would have created
make digen investigation into the operations and conduct OF all
corporations combinations and concerns engaged in interstate
or foreign commerce and TO make specific recommendations
for additional legislation The g of his
contained in the following paragraph
"My suggestion, therefore, that first step policy
be persisteny pursued until every industry large and small in
the country can be assured equal rights and opportunities and
until the tendency mOnopOzatOn of the industries
of the country checked that all discriminatory pactises affect
ing interstate trade be made oenses enoned punished
Such legislation be directed alike against those who give and
those who receive the advantages thereof and dscrm
alton against competitors particular localities
sorted for the purpose destroying competition in
and foreign trade well discrimination by carriers.
The milk of the is make the railroads the enemies
of the instead OF their coparne says the Baltimore Am
erican (nd and Mr. KnoXs plan would emboy
of the elements OF efficacy than are to be found in anv OF the other
and very suggested remedies, The Detroit News
(nd) says of railroad rebates and determinations:
The law of gravtaon hardly generally accepted than
the statement that the Standard Oil Company the greatest
all trusts built up the of enterprises destroyed by
Rockeees criminal agreements with transportation companies,
which made competition impossible While the attorney
generals being made public Washington
terday representatives of the Ptsburg Plate Glass Company
submitting the evidence
show that the freight pounds of plate glass from Pitts
burg to Minneapolis rs than like merchandise
nom Antwerp Belgium to the same point Some years ago 1t
established beyond doubt that box npate bought
Wales the price quoted in Psburg could be laid down
Chicago less than the product bought the
Pennsylvania city When such preposterOus determinations
these possible clear that manufacturers thus favored
hopeless disadvantage and must eventually either
welding this irresistible weapon choose offer Not the
cynical combner defend such practices either ethical
legal grounds and the right and duty the Government
necessary length prevent them clear that the New
York Sun itself could hardly claim that any legitimate interest
threatened by efforts i'll that direction.
That they be prevented the aWmaing and aWenfOc
ing officers honestly and fearesy ndubabe That
forms of discrimination exceedingly difficult OF detection is
true there impossible and the oense
that heavy penalties should be provided few railroad
presidents and managers prison for long would put
the business and the Administration wholly right in
holding that the grantees and granto OF such unjust avors be
considered equally guilty
But course Republican Congress going do any
thing says Norfolk Nirgnan-Eot (Oem and, the New
York World (nd Dem doubts there is "he slightest posi-
bty" of such thing. The New York Sun Rep) calls the
posed program adca Experimental and "of doubtful
stitutionaly," and adds:
he basis of this alleged power the constitutional clause
torizng Congress regulate Carried to
logical development throws all other parts of the Const
the dust pile and enables Congress reign absolutely
every association OF who don't wish to be inn
proned individually commercially within the limits of their
particular Ali reforms all scientific experiments in soco
logy be tried by Congress through the drastic of
the clause and the restraints OF the Cons
and the OF business Where we at!
Literary Digest.