The San Francisco call., 1906-06-23
SUGGESTS CURE
FOR TRUST EVIL
Judge Grosscup Speaks
at Chautauqua in
Kansas.
Would Make Competi-
ton Easier to Bring
About.

OTTAWA Kan. June 2z-Judge Pc
ter Grosscup of Chicago of the United
States Court of Appeals delivered an
address here today at the Ottawa Chau-
tauaua dealing with corporations.
Judge Grosscup spoke of the great in
dustrial growth in this country since
the Civil War. He told how the new
life had grown beyond the means OF a
single individual to handle its enter
prises and the consequent appearance
of corporations which latter grew in
proportions as the new life had grown,
until today, in spite of popular re-
sentiment at wrongs done. in spite of
natural Jealousy. in spite Of drastic
anti trust laws, the corporation, as an
instrument of working out our COM
mercia1 and Industrial supremacy, Is it
self almost supreme"
"A constant duty. of course" he said.
lis to see to 1t that the particular COR
porations that are breaking the law
be made to obey the law. To the full
extent that the national administra-
tion sincerely and intelligently, in pur-
suing this duty, public opinion Will re-
main behind IL. But If the administra-
tion and the Republican leaders think
that is the Alpha and Omega OF what
is needed-if they think that the dis
ease will be reached and eradicated
solely through continuous campaigns
against this or that incorporated enter
prise. as IL the corporation in itself
as the embodiment of modern enter
prise, were some alien enemy-I en-
tirely dissent from them.
when Mr.. Bryan denounces the par
ticular corporations that by discrimin-
alton or favoritism succeeded in sup
pressing competitors, or that unjustly
oppress the public, / agree with him.
Every species of device that puts it
within the power of an outside party
to choose which of two or more COM
petitors shall succeed and which shall
fail, is crime against that first prin-
ciple of American business life-equal-
ity of opportunity. But when Mr.. Bry-
an, as the already chosen leader of the
Democratic party, sees no further than
this-when he confuses what under a
| just corporate policy corporate enter
prise could become, with particular COR
porations that have abused their op-
portunities, l dissent.
The Incorporation of enterprise is
not In itself a sin The incorporation
of enterprise has proven itself over and
over again one of the great essential
agencies of general progress and pros
perity. Through it the competition in
many lines has been unjustly and cru
ELY suppressed; competition In many
lines almost destroyed. But the cause
that men have been allowed to In
corporate. The chief cause Is N the
fact that under our present corpora
tfon policy the people at large, though
they have abundant available means,
have no reasonably secure corporate
way offered to them to raise up COM
petitors. The thing to do is TO raise
up competition to rehabilitate the cor
poration, to purify 1t, to restore to Ii
character and responsibility. that the
people may come back into the owner
ship OF the country's industrial prop
critics. For until that is done all op-
portunity for new or competitive en-
terprise will be in the hands OF those
who already have monopoly of the
field"
In closing Judge Grosscup said:
THE message that I have come to
deliver is to urge the people of this
State to take the lead in giving to the
new industrial life of the Union an
embodiment that, instead of losing
sight of. will again lift UP to his right
full place In his countrys prosperity,
the individual man."