The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-06

of complications and requires time.
persistence, patience and willing CO.
operation by executive and congress.
and lets in light on the vanity and USE
lessness of empty denunciatiOn of the
evils without'any clear understanding
OF how they are to be remedied, and
legitimate business interests preserved
unframed. 1t also shows how in
adequate comprehension the canGli-
date for the presidency on the demo-
cratic ticket at the last election had
of the difficulties of curbing trusts
when he announced in the acceptance
of the nomination that the common law
as developed was quite adequate for
the suppression of trusts, and that 1t
merely failed for lack of effective en-
forcement of the law by executive
officers. A letter of Judge Harmon,
Mr.. Cleveland's last attorney-general
to congress, in answer to a resolution
asking him what additional legislation
was needed to bring about an effective
enforcement Of the trust law, shows
the numerous difficulties attending its
execution. and is complete refuta-
ton of Judge Parker's position on this
matter In his speech and letter of ac-
ceptance. The constant appeals to the
last and the present congress for leg
islation and their action to remove the
difficulties involved in the execution
of the antitrust act confirm Judge
Harmon's views. 1t is an entirely fair
inference to draw, therefore, that had
Judge Parker been elected president
of the United States, with his view of
what was needed to stamp out trusts,
there would have been no such eff
fective campaign carried on by the
these evil tendencies of corporate
wealt has we have seen under the
leadership of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Practical Results Of MIR. Roosevelt's
Policy.
The vigorous action which MIR.
Roosevelt has taken against trusts,
through his attorney-general, Messrs.
Knox and Moody, is already beginning
to bear fruit. The paper trust and the
Northern Securities trust have been
dissolved. The mere prosecution and
Indictment of the sugar trust, of the
Standard Oil trust, and of the To-
bacco trust, have led to changes in the
methods of those organizations, and
to an abandonment of some of the
more glaring determinations in rates
and prices which were the instrument
talities for preserving monopoly, even
before conviction has been effected or
final judgment pronounced against
them. The fear of the law has been
put into the hearts of the members
of these great corporations, and this
has been due chiefly to the courage, the
determination and the intense interest
of Theodore Roosevelt in the securing
of adequate legislation and it's vigorous
executive enforcement.
Political Results.
The attitude which Mr.. Roosevelt
took with respect to the Northern Sc
curities case and his determination to
stamp as illegal that attempt to put
into the hands of one set of men two
great parallel and competing railways
from Chicago to the Pacific Coast,
aroused the opposition of powerful
railroad interests in Wall street, and
had much to do with the pressing of
Judge Parker for the democratic
presidential nomination. Mr.. Roose-
welt is no more popular in Wall street
today than he was when the Northern
Securities case suit was instituted, and
the reason is, ont that he is opposed to,
or Is engaged in crusade against,
corporate wealth, not that he is op-
posed to the security that capital must
have in order that it may be used to
the advantage of the public and the
reasonable profit of its owners, but be-
cause he interposed real and practical