The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-10-19

COntcht Win lne grown OF thell
enterprises in fair competitive field
embracing the opportunities land
sharing the profits that were com
mon to all engaged in like business.
The first demanded, and secret,
received, lower freight rates from
the railroads than their competitors,
This enabled them to make larger
profits, to control the trade, and tt
grow faster than those with whom,
they were competing. They 20
big. They acquired power,
Aot over their competitors alone,
out over the railroads and the
people, and they did not hesitate tc
:xercise their acquired power in Sc
cuing other advantages. When theys
became large and strong enough,
hey provided themselves with then
own facilities, their own cars, ano
offered their products for shipment
in these cars to the railroads, nol
It the rates fixed by the roads foi
All shippers of like products, but a
rates fixed by themselves which they
demanded and which the railroads
had to give.
The exercise of this power, un
lawfully acquired, made them mas
ter of the common carriers of tn,
country, and enabled them to fix tn,
price of transportation of raw ma
terial and finished products, and to
take in at their own price, or 10
crush out at their own will, those who
would compete with them for tbt
business In which they were ell
! gagged.
The beef trust and the Standar
Oil company, through their power
over the railroads of the country.
destroyed the equality and uniform
ity of freight rates, and made com
petition impossible in the industries
'n which they are engaged, thus
creating powerful and dangerous
mon0polies. Their aggressions
have not been under the law, but
in spite of it.
We are today dealiag with the
problem of making these and other
concerns that make or distribute
articles or commodities of genera,
use and public necessity, deal npon
the same terms with the men, in a
fair competition field. The efforts
of the Republican party to preserve
equal opportunities for all men,
great or small, under the industrial
system of today, began many
years ago.
1.-The anti trust law OF 1890 was
passed by republican congress
and signed by a republican Presi
dent. This law was enacted in
spite of the opposition of the Dem,
ocratic party, and under it. of
tenders against the laws of .oornpe
tition and fair trade are indicted
and prosecuted in every section of
the country by the Republican ad-
ministration now in power. This
old law is applied where it will
remedy TIE wrongs. Indictments
nave been found and suits prose.
cuted against the Standard Oil
company, the beef trust, the paper
trust. the tobacco trust, the drug
rust. the sugar trust, the grocer's
trust, the fertilizer trust, the coal
rust and the Northern Securities
company, or railroad trust, and the
powder and other trusts are booked
or prosecution.
In this State, antitrust laws en-
'cted by Republican legislatures,
IRE being enforced by Republican
The lumber trust, the
chool book trust and others
combined to control prices, will be
made to answer for violation of the
avs Of the land.
The Republican pirty is dealing
With these industrial problems
" enacting and enforcing
avs for the regulation aud con-
rnl of great enterprises authorized
Q do business under public fran