Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1903-04-30
liz TRUSTS CONTROL
they VIII Dictate Legislation
By Congress.
THE PEOPLE ARE TO Be FOOLED

TIE Trusts Stay Permit Mild LeS;s-
Iation i-1;ust Themselves, While
P~rcs:Gcn: lco3e.c1t VIII Be Salts
fed N1th .So1nc Lind Of Action"
Trust legislation is possible. but
hardly probable, ct this session of con-
gross. y. compromise bill will pass the
house OF representatives shorn of al!
that viii really curb the trusts. The
bills prepared by Attorney General
KIox and introduced III the Louise Of
representatives by tie chairman Of the
judiciary committee were found after
consultation with tie Republican man
ayers CT the senate to be too drastic to
command Il majority Of the votes. and
Il compromise bill is the result which
is as harmless as Il sucking dove.
President Roosevelt. his attorney gen.
eral, the Judiciary committees of con.
Gress and the leaders CT the Republican
party have all had a hand in incubat-
ing this innocent bill. A prodigious
dl1Ouilt VI NOihA luo OSCh CAPSiibNu VII
it, for it is quite difficult to compose
Il bill that will read like a trust buster
and yet be j trust shelter. That the
bill is to be harmless to tie trusts was
acknowledged Dy the personal organ
Of the administration the Washington
Star, on Jan. 16, when it said:
Two important facts appear today
in the situation concerning possible
antitrust legislatiOn-Grst. tie legisla-
ton proposed by the house will not be
drastic; second. that there is DISPOSE
ton on tie part Of the trust interests
to accept the legislation and permit il
to go through the senate if it is not of
q drastic character.
Private Information comes 10 the
capitol today from trust sources that
it may be possible to reach al agree
ment which Will permit the enactment
of mild legislation regulating tie trusts
and that if aSsuranceS can be given
that the perfected bill will be Of a
character so conservative as to merely
satisfy the presidents demand for
some kind OF action no obstacles will
be placed IL the way Of the bill in the
senate"
These are extraordinary admissions
for the Star to ~n.akc-tirst. that the
trusts Will permit mild legislation: sec
ond. that President Roosevelt will be
satisfied with some kind of action"
What do you think Of that? The
trusts will kindly permit congress to
pass a law nominally against them
selves. So here we have tie FAT footed
assertion by the newspaper organ OF
the Republican administration that the
trusts W congress and dictate any
and all laws; they think desirable or
.eXpedient. Democratic newspapers ard
orators have claimed this for some
years. but i! has always been iadig-
nantly denied until at last the disgrace
full truth is admitted.
But what is the matter with Presi-
dent Roosevelt that be should also
come to be satisfied with any lcgisla-
tion the trusts may dictate? Is the
trust buster so anxious to be again
nominated for president that some
kind Of action" against the trusts will
now satisfy him? Democratic ews
papers and speakers Lave always Civ |
the president credit for Honesty of
purpose. whatever his shortcomings.
but here we have his personal organ,
which is inspired from the White
acknowledging that tie nresi-
dent has Joined the other leaders Of his
party in trying to fool TIE people witl,
fake legislation against the trusts.
Another eminent Republican ut Il
in the history OF the country sad.
You can fool all the people some OF
the time and some of tie people al the
but you cannot fool all Of the
people all of the time 1t is to be
hoped that tie people will not be fooled
more easily today than they were in
Lincoln'S time.
One Way to Make Him Open Up.
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