The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-31
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scarcely inconvenience them-whtIe II
would confine the predatory corpora.
lions 10 the state Of their original. Just
as a license TO sell liquor allows the
possessor of the license to sell only in
accordance with the laws of the states
in which he resides. so a corporal ton
license granted by federal commission
| would not interfere with the rights of
each state to regulate foreign CORPORA
tons doing business within its borders
4 III corporations were required to take
out fedora. license the federal gov
eminent could then issue the license
| upon the terms and conditions which
would protect the public. A corpora
tlon differs from a human being in that
| IL mas no natural rights, and as all
| or It's rights are derived from the stat
utes. 1t can be limited or restrained ac-
cordlng as the public welfare may re-
quire.
Congress Can Control.
The control which congress has over
interstate commerce is complete and If
congress can prevent the transporta-
tlon OF lottery ticket through the
mails by the express companies or by
Ire1ght II can certainly forbid the use
or the mails, the railways and the tele-
graphs to any corporation which is en-
| ueaNorlng to mOnOpOliZe an article of
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credited with sincerity if il condemns
the trusts with words only and then
permits the trusts to employ all the in
strumentalitieS OF interstate commerce
IN the carrying out of their nefarious
plans. 1t is far easier to prevent mo-
nopoly than to watch it and punish il
and this prevention can be accom-
plished in practical way by refusing
license to any corporation which con-
trols more than certain proportion Of
the total prOduct-this proportion to be
| arbitrarily fixed at a point which will
give free operation to competition.
Tariff and the Trusts.
The tariff question is very closely
allied 10 the trust question. and the re-
auction of the tariff furnishes an easy
means Of limiting the eXtortiOn which
the trusts can practice
While absolute free trade would not
necessarily make a trust impossible
still 1t is probable that very few manu-
featuring establishments would dare TO
enter into the trust If the president
were empowered to put on the free lists
articles competing with these controlled
by trust. While I shall take occa-
sion at an early day to consider the
tariff revision more at length. l can
not permit this opportunity to pass
without expressing the opinion that the
principle embodied I'm the protective
tariff has been fruitful source of 4
great deal of political corruption as well
as the support of many of our most in
iquitous trusts 1t is difficult TO con
denim the manufacturers for uniting 10
take advantage of a high schedule
when the schedule is framed on the
theories that the industries need all the
protection given and it is not likely
that the beneficiaries of these sched-
ules will consent TO their reduction so
long as the public waits for the tariff
to be reformed by it's friends.
Crying Evils of Protection.
But one OF the worst features of tn
tariff levied not for revenue, but for
the avowed purpose Of protection. is
that il fosters the idea that men should
use their voice to advance their own
financial interests. The manufacture
has been assured that ii is legitimate
for him to vote for congressman who
whatever their opinions on other sub
jects may be, will legislate larger div
idends into his pockets; sheep growers
have been encourage TO believe tina
they should Rave no higher aim I'm vot-
ing than to- raise the price of wool
and the laboring men have been urged
to make their wages their only consid-
Grafton. For q generation the fat
turers by the Republican congressional
committee and then the manufa cturers
have been reimbursed by legislation. |
With the public conscience educated to |
believe that this open purchase of leg |
islatiOn was entirely proper no wonder !
that insurance companies have used the |
money Of their policy-holders to carry |
elections. No wonder that trusts have
FASTENED TO purchase immunity from |
with liberal donations. Now |
can we draw a moral distinction be- |
tween the man who sells his vote for |
80 on election day and the manufactur- |
er who sells his political influence for |
$50 or 800. payable i'm dividends. How |
can we draw a moral line between the |
senator or congressman elected by the |
trust to prevent hostile legislation and /
the senator or congressman kept in |
congress by the manufacturers TO Sc
cure friendly legislation? The purity |
which justifies the one form Of bribery
cannot be relied upon to condemn the
other.
Time Ripe for Tariff Reform.
There neyer was a time when the
tariff reform could be more easily en-
tered upon. for the manufac turers by
selling abroad cheaper than at home,
as many of them do. have not only
shown their ingra titude toward those
who built the tariff wall for them but
they have demonstrated their ability to
sell in competition With the world. The
high tariff has long been a burden to
the consumer in the United States and
IL is growing more and more a menace
to our foreign commerce because it
arouses resentment end provokes re-
.alation.
Railroad Regulation.
The railroad question is also inter-
woven with the trust question Nearly
all the private monopolies have re-
:eived rebates or secured other advan-
ages over competitors. Absolute equal
ty of treatment at the hands Of the
would go far toward gripping
he trusts and | rejoice that the pres
dent has had the courage to press the
question upon congress. While the law.
as ii was finally distorted by the SEN
ate. is not all that could be wished it
deserves a fair trial
rate regulation was absolutely nee
'sSary and it furnishes some relief from
he unbearablc conditions which previ-