Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-22

political work in Minnesota in the In
terests Of the business. Kellogg hap
peued to be in New York, and Nor
gan sent for him.
81 nm q lawyer, not a politician, Mr..
Morgan" Kellogg is said to have re
marked after the proposition was put
to him and also after some language
more sulphurous had been uttered. u
am glad to do the steel corporations
legal work, but I won't do It's politics,
and much less will | do its friends
politics. II 1t is necessary for me to
become political orderly for corporate
interests in order to hold my job I'll
resign the job"
Kellogg did not resign, nor did he
become d political orderly. Outside OF
steel he is a consistent trust buster,
In the cases instituted under Attorney
General Knox against the western pa
per trust Kellogg was special counsel.
He secured an injunction dissolving 1t
into the minor concerns which COM
posed 1t, and this precedent is highly
useful in the St Louis suit against
Standard OIL Kelloggs coup put new
life into the Sherman antitrust law,
which most lawyers supposed had CIV
EN- up the ghost. He proved that law
is not dead one so long as you can
stick pin in 1t and make violator
howl
Mr. Purdy. by the way, did just
about the same thing to the old Elkins
law, which seems primarily to have
been designed for the protection OF
Wall streeters under the guise Of a
righteous statute Purdy resurrected
the Elkins law and used it In putting
a quietus on railroad rebating, which
was almost universal.
Verify, he that breatheth the breath
Of life into defunct statute and
maketh 1t sit up and kick Is Of more
value to society than he that taketh
city by the neck or gobbleth railroad
system.
Another important man in the trust
busting fraternity Is Herbert Knox
Smith, commissioner of the bureau Of
corporations. This bureau, organized
four years ago, is one of the most eff
fective measures for the curbing of
corporate anarchy that we have.
James II. Garfield, now secretary OF
the interior, was the first commission
err. Mr.. Smith, who halls from Hart
ford, Conn, was his assistant for q
time, going to the head Of the class
when his chief was prom oted to the
cabinet.
Wise Beyond His Years.
Mr.. Smith is not yet thirty-eight
years old, but he is said to possess
wisdom beyond his years. Perhaps
enthusiasm is the filter term. 1t is his
business to investigate corporations
which lay themselves liable to inyesti-
CATION OF course he has large and
able staff, but he directs the work.
Just recently he has reported on the
Standard Oil company. His letters Of
transmission Of these several reports
to the president are admirable epit-
ONES Of the longer text. The letters
gleam with positive statements, such
as these, which are backed up by the
body of the report:
1.-THE Standard has consistently used
its power to raise the price of oil dur
ing the past ten years not only abso.
lutely but also relatively to the cost
Of crude oil"
1.-THE Standard has superior efficien-
cy in running Its own business. 1t has
On equal efficiency in destroying the
business of competitors
Edwin w. Sims, the young district
attorney for the United States at Chi
cago, whose age is little less than
that Of Mr. Smith, Is notable in the
trust busting battle. He was for
time assistant commissioner of the
bureau Of corporations. 1t was Sims
who directed the epoch making case
against the Standard OIL which re-
suited recently In fine of 500 100000
being imposed by Judge Lands
James C. McReynolds, Kentucky
born Democrat living In Tennessee,
is closely associated with Mr.. Purdy
in the tobacco trust prosecution.