The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-02-05
Aotfoot After the Trusts.


trusts. The assault is all along the
line. Public officials, state and nation
al, are whetting their knives for these
masters of: commerce To help the
crusade along private persons who
have been wronged by them are ap-
pealing to the courts for redress of
grievances. This dispatch will make
mighty interesting reading all over
the country:
Chicago. Jan. 19.-Alleging violation of
the Sherman antitrust law, Samuel Ly-
ons. dealer in silverWare, has begun suit
in the United States circuit court here for
100000 damages against the International
Silverware Company of New Jersey. Ly-
ons alleges that the silver company and
its officers, together with other silverware
concerns controlling 40 per cent Of the sill
verware output in the United States and
Canada, have entered into conspiracy
resulting in control Of prices. Purchasers,
it is alleged, were compelled to sign con-
tracts not to sell articles lower than stip-
ulated by the alleged combination. Lyons
says he cut the price Of articles, and the
combination refused to sell him stock
thus entailing a loss to him Of 100000.
Governor W. L. Douglas, Democrat,
Of Massachusetts, is making good. It
is well to keep an eye on him these
frosty January days. He may 60 far.
His official deeds up to the present
writing prove that he is making head
way. His appointment of Lieutenant
General Nelson A. Miles to a position
on his staff increased his popularity
somewhat in the country at large and
very much in the old Bay State, for
there is general impression that Gen
eral Miles was treated shabbily by the
last two administrations. Now comes
Governor Douglas and settles the Fall
River strike. This is bound to aug
ment his prestige at home and to keep
him in the public eye all over the land.
II he keeps up this lick he is certain to
be reelected next fall and In 1903, as
1t il the rule in Massachusetts, to elect
a satisfactory governor three times. He
would In that case be governor Of
Massachusetts until January, 1908, by
which time the entries for the presi-
dental race will ali be made. To be
the Democratic governor Of that ven
cradle commonwealth at the beginning
Of 1908 would certainly entitle him to
great consideration as q presidential
candidate. This will be granted him
most assuredly il tariff revision and
genuine reciprocity are to be among
the leading issues of that campaign.
The chances Of Governor Douglas to be
the next president of this puissant re-
public are not by any manner of means
to be sneezed at. If nominated, he
would probably be elected, because he
would have the hearty support of a
large contingent of the labor vote. II
he could poll as great a per cent of
them nationally as he did in his own
state he would carry the country with
a Whoop. He would also be popular
with the business men of the country.
"A fellow feeling makes US wondrous
kind" so it is said, and they may con-
elude to set aside lawyers and soldiers
and to elsct for once man of their
own kind. Another class of men who
would be very friendly to him would
be the publishers of the land, for he is
one OF the most liberal advertisers in
tie laad. The Republicans in 1903 will
have no man to run whose face and