The Forrest City times., 1905-08-18
SENATOR sENGEL ON THE
 ANTITRUST LAW.

"tiA NhlAo | was member of the senate, and the bill was finally passed after l had retired. did not oppose the bill upon the grounds that it would not hold water and was illegal. took it for granted that the bill would be valid if passed, but took my stand upon the two opponents of trade insurance and integrity.
 Where the merchant can secure no ln~urance he can get noacredit for while the jobber is fully saus. fled as to the integrity of the mer. chant, he will not give him credi, unless he has the insurance. If the merchant should barn out and has no insurance, he could not pay the bill that he would otherwise. IT tho merchant cannot get credit. he cannot supply the farmer and there Is the antitrust bill right back al home.
 Strict enforcement of this law would keep all bagging and ties for cotton, barbed wire, iron and steel sugar and coffee, and all of the staples in the way of dry goods out of the state.
 Mr. Farmer goes to his country store for some bagging and few bundles of ties with which to cover few bales of cotton. Tho mer- chant replies that he is sorry, but he cannot handle them as tho anti trust law prohibits their sale in this state as they are made by trust.
 Well, 1 must fix up my fence a little, so you may let me have few bales of barbed wire" says Mr. Farmer.
 Sorry, but cannot let you have them; We do not handle them any more as they are made by q trust, . replies the merchant.
 For goodness sake, what am l 10 do?"
 "Go back to your farm and split rails like you did ten years ago"
 If l can't get those things l guess you had better let me have about q dollars worth of sugar and some coffee. Mandy said for me to bring them home and l had about forgotten it. :"
 "Sorry again, but these are also trust products, although they are necessities. You will have to go home and parch aeorns as you did during the war and put sorghum in your improVised coffee as a sort of long sweetening,o
 "Well, what is the cause of all th1s, who had that antitrust law passed2'
 Jeff Davis, the governor of the state, calmly replies the merchant, as he puffs away on cigar made from homo made tobacco, and hero ends the conversation with the farmer, seeing the evils of the anti trust law in their full light.
 The best way to kill bad law is to enforce it to the letter, and hope that. this,one will be enforced in that manner.
 When the antitrust law is en- forced to the letter and spirit in Arkansas, her citizens wall have to go elsewhere to exist. Nearly every commodity, nearly all the neeessaries of life, all the Iuxuries, even matches, the paper on which your iavorite home paper is print ed, needles and pins, etc, are all made by the trusts, and this fool law prohibits their sale in Arkan- sas, when so made.
 But the antitrust law of Arkan. sas will never be enforced, except in certain quarters. and was never intended to be, except for political purposes, and then only in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the unsuspoeting and over oonfd- ing voter.
 And If the trusts and their prod uets are run out of the state, the goods of so called independ ent concerns will rise rapidly in value. They will rob the people to their hearts content, because they will have monopoly of the business in their line. and may charge what they please for the goods that you are forced .o buy by the law of your own state.
 We hope Attorney General Rogers will enforce the law to the letter becauso if law is a bad law it's rigid enforcement wifi hastou It's repeal.
 We feel sure that our position on this subject is the correct one. and