Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-02
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 < DOZEN EGG55 Anti Tras Legislation 2. Washington Does No A1.o m so That, Says High O al.
 EVEp HING TRUST Threat Imprisonment and Fines no s5i 'menat to Anyfhing Standard eu Makes Public Pay DearI, Ter III il Losses by Laws.
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 Wasdfa m. D. C, May 2-The startling. hank admission is pri- yatelg h4ada l high official of the administration that all the antl trust leai#IafTon and proceedings in the courts have not been worthl q dozen e2gs in benefit 10 the pub lie and in bringing about com petition in the business world Of the United States.
 Practically everything made, worn and consumed in the United States, is in the hands of trusts and combines and all the law suits go far decided and brought by the legal department of the government have been unable 10 open the way for competition
 The sane official, who has had az much f9 do with the proceed ines of The government in the courts as any other. declares that competition will be a thing of imagination in interstate com merce uHtil congress passes a law that will give to the national gov ernment=thc right to license every concern doing an interstate busi- ness, limit it's capital stock and empower the courts w>Th the right to suspend the business of viola tors of the law.
 "Threateaed Imprisonment and fines do not amount to anything, declared the official What does a great combine care for q fine of a few thoasand dollars in several cases. when it can turn around and make the public pay the fines by fixing the prices at which it's com moditea may be sold The Stand ard Gil company will make the public pay dearly for all it loses in the various suits brought against if in all parts of the country. The people suffer in the end, the public is deceived into the idea that the trusts are being daily brought to their kne E. and 1he legal depart ment of he government is losia@ time doing practically nothing.
 The oGicial explained that there are so aaa4 kinds of combinations possible for trusts that if th courts dissolve one Kind the trusts form another and go right OH.
 "The administration has received credit from one end of the country to the other for the supposed clout- Ing it gave the meat trust, went on the official, and vet every man who has fhe sense of a mule knows that the trust still exists and he knows that he is paving far more for meats now than he did when the trust was hammered in and out of the courts. All of this looks nice to the great public, but s'lp- pose they have begun to see that the trust has raised prices sNf ticiently to reimburse itself for all it's expenditures in the courts. Take the famous Northern Securities case. II accomplished absolutely nothing. as the roads that received an adverse decision a. 9 being op- erated under a different sort of combination that does the same thing they had in view in the first one" .-... -,,1.4>'-',
 v The official believes that no real results will ever be secured until courts have the right to suspend the business of a giant corporation that violates the laws and prevents fair and open competition, \ six months suspension would play havoc with the business of any concern, he be- lieves He thinks that law could be put upon the books that could stand the test of the courts.