Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-25
President Roosevelt Declares
That Violations Of the Law
Will Be Prosecuted
WILL CONTINUE THE WAR
Unless the Big MonopoIies Abide by
the Law, Government Will Continue
to Bring secutions-Moody Sub
mits List Of Trusts, That Will Be
Prosecuted.

| Washington, June 25.-President
Roosevelt has declared that the trusts
must abide by the law or go.
With all the energy and determina-
ton of which he is capable he has en-
tered upon this fight He will give no
quarter.
Not one or two trusts, but all the
gigantic corporations which are volat-
ing the law will feel the sting of his
attack, which will not cease until he
has won the browning victory of his
administration or suffered his first de-
feat.
The prosecution of the Standard Oil
trust is but an incident in the presi-
dents battle plan. Already plans are
we'll under way to test the strength
of half dozen other of the most pow
erful corporations.
The determination of the administra-
ton to weed out the trust evil root,
branch, and flower, was eloquently
demonstrated in the senate Saturday
The attorney general was to supply
congress with a list Of the trusts
against which proceedings have been
instituted.
List of the Suits.
This is the list with which MIR.
Moody startled the senate and demon-
strated the earnestness of President
Roosevelt's warfare:
Criminal proceedings against the
Standard Oil Company.
Suit to enjoin the tobacco trust.
Suit to enjoin the elevator trust.
Suit to enjoin the drug trust.
Suit against the beef trust
Suit to enjoin the Northwestern pa
per trust.
Indictment of persons connected with
the elevator trust.
Suits to punish railroads for re-
bates given to the sugar trust
Suit against the st. Louis Terminal
Association of st. Louis.
Bitter Fight.
1t will be the bitterest fight all round
that the administration has entered.
Every cog in the powerful judicial
machinery will be arrayed against the
trust. Against the administration will
be arrayed the vast power and wealth
Of the trusts.
The administration does not promise
to win all the suits it has instituted.
The Standard Oil Company, for exam
pie, will exhaust every means in It's
power TO prevent punishment. 1t will
have the ablest legal talent that money
can buy. 1t will take advantage of
every technicality. The suits that will
be instituted against it and against the
roads which acted in collision with it
in violation of the law promise to be
of long duration.
War on Tobacco Combine.
The proceedings against the tobacco
trust and railroads charged with grant
tinuing in New York Only recently
the supreme court laid down the prin-
ciple in the tobacco trust case tina.
corporations, being the creature of the
state, must produce their books and
papers on demand. This decision
promises to be the greatest assistance
to the government in the prosecution
not only of the tobacco, but of other
trusts.
Following decision of similar i'm
port in the case of the paper trust, that
abandoned its defense
against the governments suit for it's
dissolution, and, curiously, the price of
paper to the consumer fell substantial
ly 80 per cent.
The escape of the beef packers was
a bitter pill to the president and at
torney general who We're certain of
had they been able to get
the facts before jury. The drug trust
has been using strong influence to in
duce the president to withdraw the suit
filed against it and subsidiary con-
Germs. The evidence upon which pro-
ceedings have been instituted is strong,
however, and Mr.. Moody is confident of
This trust has proceeded
in high handed manner according to
made public by the de-
partment, and it is believed that it's
will result in immediate
benefit to the people.