Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-02
\ THE PRESIDENTS NAME SECRETARY ROOT FLAYS HEARST

principle is invoked in this warfare
against corporate wrongdoing that has
not 1or centuries been familiar to the
common law of England and America; no
control is asserted over business which
was not recognized and approved In the
days of Mansfield and Eldon Marshall
and Kent; but to exercise that same
measure of control under the new condi-
lions or our day new agencies and new
methods have had to be provided by law
and sanctioned by the courts.
For the accomplishment Of this due
measure OF control which from time i'm
memorial our laws have recognized as
necessary, the government of the Unlted
States has taken up the task where the
several states have failed, and is perform
ing and purposes to perform it's duty not
beyond. but to the full limit of its consti-
tutional power.
The structure of our prosperity will not
be weakened, it will be made strong and
enduring by removing with the care of the
experienced builder the rotten timbers of
disobedience to law and disregard of moral
ity.
The republican Congress has stood Loyalty
by the President; the act creating the bu-
reau of corporations, the act expedIting the
trial of trust cases, the anti-rebate act, the
act for the regulation of railroad rates
have made possible redress which was i'm
possible before. Under the direction of two
successive Attorneys General of the first or
der of ability, sincerity and devotion, in
hundreds of courts, incessant warfare has
Deen WdSeu ana IS DelnS WageQ unOer the
federal laws against corporate wrongdoers
The Northern Securities Company, which
sought to combine and prevent competition
between two great continental railroads,
has been forced to dissolve by the judgment
of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The methods of the beef trust in combining
to suppress competition in the purchase of
live stock and the sale of meat has been
tried and condemned, and the trust has
been placed under in JUNCTION to abandon
those practices by judgment of the Su-
preme Court.
The combination of paper manufacturers
in the territory from Chicago to the Rocky
mountains has been dissolved by the judg-
ment of the Supreme Court, and the COM
bination has been abandoned and the price
of white paper in that territory has gone
down 30 per cent. The Retail Grocers' AS
ISOLATION in this country has been dissolved
by decree of the court. The elevator COM
binatlon in the west has been dissolved in
like manner. The salt combination west of
the Rocky mountains has been dissolved by
decree of the court.
The Wholesale Grocers' Association in
the south. the meat combination and the
lumber combination in the west the COM
bination of railroads entering the city OF
st. Louis to suppress competition between
the bridges and ferries reaching that city,
the drug trust, which Suppresses competi-
ton all over the country, being vigor-
ously pressed in suits brought by the fed
eral government for their dissolution.
The salt combination has been indicted
and convicted and fined for failing to obey
the Judgment of dissolution. The beef trust
has been indicted for failing to obey the in
junction against them, and have been saved
so far only by a decision that they had
secured temporary immunity by giving evil
dence against themselves. One branch of
the tobacco trust is facing an indictment of
it's corporations and their officers in the
federal court in New York. and the other
branches are undergoing investigation. The
lumber combination in Oklahoma is under
Indictment.
Fertilizer Trust.
The fertilizer trust, a combination of thir-
ty-one corporations and twenty-five indi-
vduals to suppress and fix prices, has been
indicted, the indictments have been sus-