The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-26
President Roosevelt. If he did recog-
nize it his case would fall fiat

I President Roosevelt. If he did recog-
| nize 1t his case would fall flat.
| If the republican party were, as Mr..
Bryan says, in favor of the abuses
which have been practiced by the cor
! porations and the party were under
| the leadership of reactionaries and
| the Bourtson interests. it would GER
| tafnly not have nominated Mr.. Taft
! who has the same views as Mr. Roose-
welt. If the republican party had nom
| mated man who did represent pol
| icy of favoritism TO the trusts. Mr.
Bryan would have just grounds as
every American citizen would have in
| attacking the republican party. Mr.
Taft is not a reactionary, nor is he in
favor of the abuses of corporations so
that Mr.. Bryan's insinuation falls to
earth as falsehood. No one can read
| the reiteratiOns Of Mr. Taft without
! feeling his evident sincerity and high
purpose on the trust abuses. MI
| Bryan has failed again in his cam
| paign of Misrepresentation and falsn
| logic
The remedies which Mr. Bryan pro
| poses are as follows:
l. He demands legislation which
shall make the private monopoly in
possible, by the passing of a law which
| shall make the duplication of directors
in two corporations illegal.
>. He demands federal licease for
all corporations doing - per cent of
the business in its line. which shall
not do away with the right of the
state TO create and cort.ol corpora
| tons"
3. To deny the use of the mails, tic
railroads and the telegraph to corpo-
rations which are private mono3oics.
+. To enforce the corporation to sell
at a given and equal price in all parts
of the union, the allowance being made
foT the cost Of transpo-t2tio@.
! The fault with Mr.. Bryan remedies
is that bo bco+e onor+ two ,,,uh 4,
ready by the statute any combination
Tor the restraint OF trade is illegal and
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and p 1itt,c tho1,c, vo ,,ro s..esio;o.,t
| LEGISLATION airco4v-tbc rocd Sc net
for more laws. bpt for moro onforco.
mont The difficulty boc nc, hoop j.,
the law. hut in thc octuq1 nroof of o,,:,t
before the court
Rut tho VIZ, ro,,,o,.o,. ,,.,,;o, A..
Rrvan nroposos will NOT ~. = o,o.o !,
caoct:on
He oovz that. "1t ic mot ,,oces.,.,, fou
co~cc~ations tn cn+o, INTO ., oo,oo
mont for tba roe+r,;.,. 80 ., -
corrora.;ors o,,, ,,,t+,,,. .:o,..,-
lew rcoob Tho cow, on, =, o,o.,
| the same directors, He fails To die
| tinguish the point that n, agreement
is made by these Same dircctore it
they antor into reetroi,t of +roao 4u.
as mucb &c If +bov ,,oro .o.
boards. They are senarato in tho
eyes of the law alreadv-hence no low
is needed to avoid duplication ot
boards There is M r,,son for ~.
believing that y law would ho ,o,,
stitutiona1 ANYWAY u,,io, MOULD fo,.:5
man from belonoir ~ two h,.
of diroo+ors r WOULD o,,o A..
right of q man of ,ff,irs - too
voice in the conduct of his own bu.i.
ness. Any abridgement of tI,is ~;si,,
would he doneorous evo,, ;f Il ,,oro No,
unconstitutional.
The second remedy Of federal 1ico,s,
with state control of corporations is
absurd on the face of it. for the state
and federal laws would como into con.
flict at evnrv turn IF tho oo.,,o,.,
lions are To be licensed Inv +bo fodo,,,