The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-07-12

trust came down without shoot
ing.
The prosecution of the Kansas
City rebate cases was another
government victory where the
court imposed q fine of $4,000.
each ON four companies and fines
of $1,000 and So % on two Of the
Individual defendants. The in.
vestigation Of the tobacco trust
Is not yet completed but there has
been enough brought out already to
Justify one prosecution. The Amer
ean Tobacco Company and Mean
drews. Forbes 4 Co, were hailed
into court and ON refusing 70 pro-
duce the books desired were adIudg-
ed ia contempt by the supreme court
and the cases will soon come to
trial.
The suit against the western pas
senger elevator combine comprising
thirty firms has already been sue
eessiully fought aud resulted In
smashing the trust.
The list already Is almost too long
to go over. The trust Of the retail
grocers at Nome, Alaska. where the
price % eatables was being held up
ON the starving miners. has been at.
tackled and defeated and the ternL
nal cases ot the Eads' Bridge aud
the Merchants Bridge Terminal Com
panies in 81. Louis where the bridge
people wanted To control the pas
sage OF the Mississippi ARE under
way and viii In all probability soon
come to u successful conclusion. The
case against the FERTILIZER trust has
been pushed vigorously and while
the end Is not yet In sight. the price
OF fertilizer controlled by the eombi.
nation has already dropped on an
average Of s. per ton. Considering
the hundreds Of thousands OF tons
sold annually. this amounts In the
aggregate tn a great deal.
The prosecutions ot the drug trust
and the Proprietary Association are
already well under way and the Ut
partment Of Justice Is now going
rapidly after that most gigantic Os
all m~onopolies, the standard OH
Company. Indictments have been
returned against the American Su-
gar Refining Company I'm New York
aud the SUCCESS Of the government
In the Chesapeake Hnd Ohio Conl
ease before the Supreme Court Open
ed up "a new vista In the way oi
things that thu government could
do with the trust aud mOnnpOly
problem when Il got ready. Indeed
this was a pivotal decision and
gave "A nip To the coal and OH In
vestigntion Of the Interstate Com
merce Commission that has had
much To do with the SUCCESS OF the
commission In exposing the Futten-
ness oi the system that seemed to
permeate all Of the coal roads. IL
VIII furnish material for the Depart
ment Gf Justice In the further prose-
eutiOn Of thase combines and ought
to do mueh toward lowering the
price OF living and giving the people
"a little Of what IL coming 20 them.
The suits for Rotating and discFim-
nation on the part Of the railroads
are in fact just commencing and the
good effect Of these actions viii he
? found. IA has been pointed out. not
10 much In fines and jail sentences
against individuals, as in their
moral effect aud In deteFring the
giant coFpoFntlonsirom doing whRt
they know themselves is wrong
when they hnd a government ready
To prove Il Illegal and 20 punish 1t n
need be.
This II the record with which The
Republican party II ready tO go In.
fore the people at the next election
E and u il "A record that nu other par,
[ " has eve approached ia the his,
tory Of the country. Much 1T thg
credit u due personally 60 the Pres.
! ident. But the party As IA whole
Z has shown what the government
cnn do when determinRd IN the con.
) troll Of trusts and combinations.
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