The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-03-05

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is as jcl uipa . - ao.
than it.- ice t. HI. hf. ai.o 81
gIa eemIrom bal tH i 1 4
Isl. yesterday.
Tsa., If littlr ~ ,l f,r nGe ee of
opinion ur5n lhe IL 2at r.
dgcti j bin which passe! tht senate.
II hos been carefully considered ~
Ia hest manufacturers. Wholesale and
retail merchants. olher business men
ard able lawyers. 1t Is Drawn With
tive objects in view: l. To reduce
frtig1. rates >. To giye wholesale
dealers in North Caroline i chance T.
sell To q re nil trade That $ nou
denied them. The demand for this
bin is mucT greater than 10 pas
<cHger reduction and that demand has
been substantially complied nith. III
the House VIII pass the Holt bill re-
ducing frcishts and preventing dis
ordinations that injurt North Caro-
lima towns it viii make another
that viii be approved BY the
Geople.
Bat. by far me most important piece
Of legislation is the pending anti
trust bill. Tho House passed as 4 sub
bill substantially the Reid anti
trust bill which has been
made d special order fiji the
Senate On Tuesday. Men may
differ as 70 whether the Democrat
tic platform says a passenger reduc-
ton TO two ana a fourth cents or a ten
per cent freight reduction. bat there
can be 10 division among Democrats
that the party is pledged 10 stringent
antitrust legislation. To-Day IL North
Carolina there is not a line Of anti
trust Legislation. The Aycock bill or
the Holt bill may be better han the
Reid bill. but the hostility If the oil
and tobacco and other big trusts TO
the Reid bill is the best evidence that
lawyers believe it will do the
business for these trusts. The Sen
judiciary Committee. or rather Il
majority of that committees. presented
a report that cuts the heart out Of the
Reid antitrust bill. Mr.. Reid Will Of
q minority report which will re-
view Of the fact that the session is
its close. some wise men believe
the best course for those Who wish
legislation that is in keep
ing With the needs and complies with
the Democratic platform Will be for
he Sannfn 70 nnSG tho Einllca anti-
trust bill. 1t is really the Reid bill
taken up BY the judiciary Commit
Is it the medicine needed? Such
as Senator Reid. Judge Yin
borne and MI. Justice. who nave given
the matter serious study. say that it
Will reach the trusts, That IS what
the people want. If we are 10 have
a law, let it be a law With teeth.
If We do not wish to legislate ef-
fectiyeIy against the trusts that rob
the people and use the money eNtort-
ed from tobacco farmers t. injure
them, let us say 50 plainly. To pass
bill as Goctored by a majority Of
the Senate Judiciary Committee
would be to write a statute hat Would
over two OF three pages IN the Laws
of 1907 and be buried there as worth
nothing. That bill as changed
is not as good as the old antitrust law
the Code commissioners left out
Of the code because it had never
amounted to anything. It provides no
adequate method of enforcement and
best portion of the bill has been
cut out. ElfeWhere is published Sen
atoe Rcid's minority report which
points out in detail how the majority
report destroys his bill.
There is a story of Edgar Allen
Poe. III his lighter yein-the story Of
the mar that was used up and who
Il hero OF the KickapoO Var and had
performed "prodigies of valor'' a ro-
bustious man, with 4 front and an air
and a voice of thunder. But. when the
hero of the Kickapoos was dissected,
there remained Il photograph and a
collection of artificial legs ard arms
and limbs that would have done justice
to the heroine of a Babelaisan comedy.
What had happened to the General
among TIE N~lCNdIDOS NUS IldJ ne
was used up"
The antitrust bill as changed by the
majority of the senate committee is
that man. He may strut and he may
spout. but the Kickapoo war in the
Silly chamber of death. With the sub
dued atmosphere of the Senate Judi
ciaIy has left him harmless and rend-
cred him weld. To put such a bill on
the statute books would be 70 give US a
Kickapoo General Of an act.
The Federal Government is moving
along the lines Of prosecuting
the trusts. Yesterdays paper
brought new that it is collecting in
formation that it can use in prosecut-
ing the tobacco trust In his Wash
inston special Of yesterday. Mr.. Pence
said:
On ifaiI OF Tobacco Trust.
The administrator is 81 on the
trail OF ,he tuhacco trust. the prose-
cuGon Of Ilc American To3, Geo Com
pany was the subject of a White
House conference at which there were
present. Attorney General Bona
pafte. Henry M. Taft. a brother Of the
Secretary If War. Who VAS until 70
Gently in charge IF the prosecution Of
these cases. Nh. Taft's place iii the
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