Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-11

mant Congress may wen inquire wheth-
or NJ should not seek other means for
carrying into effect the law / believe
that an corporations engaged In Inter-
state commerce should be unlor the
supervision of the national government.
l do not believe in taMng steps hastily
or rashly and it may be that an that
Is necessary IN the immediate future Us
90 pass AN interstate commerce bill
comforting upon some branch of tho
executive government the power Of et-
ioctiye action 90 remedy the abuses w
connection with railway Uanspo1a-
ton. But IN the end, ana iu my ludg-
ment nc a time not very Ear of, we
shall have 90, or 8t least we shall hul
that Eve ought 20, take tuther action aS
regards an corporations doing iuter-
state business. The enormous Increase
in interstate trade, resulting from the
Industrial development Of Tie last quar-
ter Of a century, makes Il proper mat
the federal government should, $50 far
as may be necessary to carry INTO ei-
feet Cts national policy assume "a de-
gree OF administrative control OF these
great corporations.
1T may well be that We shall tiu1
that the only effective way Of cXerclsius
this supervision IS To require all corr
poratlOns engaged I'm interstate CONF
lnerce to produce proof satisfactory
say, To the department Of commerce,
that they are not parties to any con-
tract or combination or engaged I'M any
monopoly in interstate trade Ina Niola-
tion Of the antitrust law, and mat
their conduct on certain other SPECIFIED
points is proper, and, moreover that
these corporations shall agree, with a.
penalty of forfeiture Of their rieht ~
engage in such commerce, IN FURNISH
amy evidence Of amy Kind q 10 their
trade between tho states whenever so
required by the department of COM
morcc.
CERTIFICATES NECESSARY
at is the almost universal policy Of
the several states. provided by statute,
that foreign corporations may lawfully
conduct business within their Oouu-
darlcs only when they produce Cortil-
Gates that they have compiled with the
require mcnts Of their respective states,
iu other words that corporations shah
not enjoy the privileges and immuuites
afforded 10y the state governments
without FIRST complying with the policy
Of their laws. Now the benefits which
corporations engaged iu interstate trade
enjoy under the United states govern
mont llo mcalculdblc and iu respect OF
such trade the jurisdiction of the fed
erM government is supreme when 1T
chooses to- exercise &C.
DRASTIC MEASURES
"Whcu. as ls now the case, many Of
tho great corporations consistently
strain Che Inst RESOURCES of legal trch-
uIrlUtN to avoid obedience To- % law for
the roa souablo regulation OF their busi-
ness the only way effectively 90 meet
this attitude on their part ls 10 give to
the executive department of the gov,
arUmDut more direct ana
therefore more efficient supervision
and control of their management
In speaking against the abuses
committed by certain very wealthy
corporations or individuals, and Of tho
necessity Of seeking go far as fl can
safely Doe done TO remedy these abuses,
there is always danger lest what Is
said may be msrcprcsented as an at-
tack upon men Of means generally
Now A can not too often be repeated IN
a republic like ours that the only way
by which it Is possible permanently 10
benefit the condition Of the less able
and less fortunate Is so 70 shape our
policy that all Industrious and efficient
people who act decently may be benz
cnted; and this means, Of course that