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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-01
DUAL CONTROL IMPOSSIBLE
Nation. Not State. Can Act Wisely
s.t..s and Effectively.

Nation. Not State. Can Act Wisely
,.s..s and Effectively.
The decisions Of the supreme court
in the Minnesota and North Carolina
cases illustrate how impossible is
dual control of national commerce.
The states can not control it. al
they can do is to control intrastate
commrce, and this now forms but a
small fraction Of the commerce car.
ried by the railroads through each
state. Actual experience has shown
that the effort at state control is sure
to be nullified in one way or another
sooner or later. The nation alone can
act with effectiveness and wisdom: it
should have the control both of the
business and Of the agent by which
the business is done: for any attempt
to separate this control must result in
grotesque absurdity.
This means that we must rely upon
national legislation to prevent the
commercial abuses that now exist and
the others that are sure to arise uu.
less some efficient governmental body
has adequate power Of control over
them. At present the failure of the
congress to utilize and exercise the
great powers conferred upon it as re.
CARDS interstate commerce leaves this
commerce to be regulated, not by the
state nor yet by the congress, but by
the occasional and necessarily made
quate and one-sided action of the fed
1raI judiciary.
However upright and able a court
It is can not act constructively; it can
only act negatively or destructively, "a
an agency of government; and this
means that the courts are and must
always be unable to deal effectively
with problem like the present which
requires constructive action. A court
can decide what is faulty, but it has
no power to make better what it thus
finds to be faulty. There should be
an efficient executive body created with
power enough to correct abuses and
scope enough to work out the complex
problems that this great country has
developed. 1t IS not sufficient objcc-
ton to say that such body may be
guilty OF unwisdom or of abuses. Any
governmental body, whether court or
Q commission; whether executive, leg
isiative or judicial: if given power
enough to enable it to do effective
work for good must also inevitably re-
ceive enough power to make it pos
si0ly effective for evil.
Therefore it is clear that (uniess a
national incorporation law can be
forthwith enactedr some body or bodies
In the executive service should be Civ
en- power to pass upon any combina-
ton or agreement in relation to ill5
terstate commerce, and every such
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-01

| yield to what he thinks wrong. HUT
In question which is emphatical!y
one Of public policy the policy which
the public demands is sure in the end
to be adopted: and a persistent refusal
to grant 10 a la:gn portion of our peo-
| pie what is right is only too APP in the
end to result in causing such irrita-
ton that when the right Is obtained it
is obtained in the course of move
ment SO i'll considered and violent as
to he accompanied by much that is
wrong
The process of injunction in labor
disputes. az well as where state laws
are involved, should he used sparing-
~, and only when there is the clear
est necessity for it: but it is one so
necessary to the efficient performance
Of duty by the court on behalf Of the
nation that it is in the highest degree
to he regretted that it should be liable
to reckless use; for this reckless use
tends to make honest men desir" so
to hamper its execution as 10 destroy
its usefulness. Every farsighted ma.
triot should protest first Of ali against
the growth in this country Of that evil
thing which is called "class conscious
ness"
The demagOgue. the sinister or fool
ish socialist visionary. who Eyes to
arouse this feeling Of class conscious
ness in our working people does foul
and evil thing; for he is no true Amer
lean, he is no self-respecting citizen Of
this republic. he forfeits his right to
stand with manly self-reliancp en- a
footing of entire equality with all 9th.
er citizens, who bows to envy and
greed. who erects the doctrine VI Class
hatred into shibbole;h, who sub
stitutes loyalty to men of particular
status, whether rich or poor, for loyal:
ty to those eternal and immutable
principles of Righteousness which bid as
treat each man on his worth as man
without regard to his wealth or his
poverty. q
But evi though the influence Of
these demagOgues and Missionaries is 1t
is no worse in its consequences than
the Influence exercised by the man Of
Siedl "tUlul- Tie man VI power
and position in the industrial world.
who by his lack Of sympathy with and
lack of understanding of-still more
by any exhibition of uncOmpromising
hostility to-the millions of our work
ing people. tends to unite them against
their Americans who are bet
ter off in this worlds goods. 1t is a
bad thing to teach our working peO-
pie that men Of means, that men who
have the largest proportion Of the sub
stantial comforts Of life. are EecesSari-
~ greedy, grasping, and cold-hear ell,
and that they unjustly demand AMI
appropriate more than their share Of
the substance of the many Stern
oondemnatio should be visited upon
demagogllee and, visionary who teach
this untruth. and even sterner upon
those capitalists who are in truth
grasping and greedy and brutalIy DIS.
regardful OF the rights Of others. and
who by their actions teach the dread.
full lesson far more effectively than
any mere preacher of unrest A
"class grievance left too long with.
out remedy breeds "class conscious
ness" Nnd therefore class resentment.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-01
ARE SUCH LAWS NEEDED7
President Says Yes, and Gives an Ex-
ample of Sinuosity.

President Says Yes, and Gives an Elk.
ample Of Sinuosity.
Allegations are often made to the eff
feet that there Is no real need for these
laws looking to the more effective con-
troll of the great corporations, upon
the. ground that they will do their
work well without such control call
your attention to the accompanying
copy of a report just submitted By
Mr.. Nathan Matthews, chairman of
the finance commission, to the mayor
and city council of Boston, relating to
certain evil practices of various cor
porations which have been bidders for
furnishing the city with iron and stee;
The report shows that there have been
extensive combinations formed amOug
the various corporations which have
business with the city Of Boston, in
Guiding, for instance, carefully
planned combination embracing prdc.
tically all the firms and corporations
IN the United States engaged in manu-
featuring or furnishing structural stee!
for use in any part of New England
1t affected the states, the cities and
towns, the railroads and street rail
ways, and generally all persons hav-
ing occasion to use iron or steel for
any purpose in that section. of the
country. AS regards the city Of Bos-
ton the combination resulted in par
ceiling out the work by collusive bids.
plainly dishonest and supported BY
false afflrmations.
In its conclusion the commission
recommends as follows: comment
on the moral meaning Of these meth
DDS and transactions would seem
superfuous. but as they were defended
at the public hearings of the commits
sion and asserted to be common and
entirely proper incidents OF business
life. and as these practices have been
freely resorted to by some OF the
largest industrial corporations that the
world has ever known, the commission
deems it proper to record its own opin-
ion. The commission dislikes to be-
lieve that these practices are, as al
legged, established by the general Gus
tom of the business community; and
this defense itself, If unchallenged,
amounts tn grave accusation against
the honesty Of present business meth
DDS.
ITO answer an invitation for public
or private work by sending In what
purports to be genuine bids, but what
In realty are collusive figures purpose
ly made higher than the bid which is
known will be submitted by one Oh
the supposed competitors, is an act
of plain dishonesty To. sp.T olt~.hesc
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-01
STERLING CENTER SIFTINGS.

F. Brontz purchased horse of Am
boy parties last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Secrest of Am
boy were callers on Mr.. and Mrs S.
NJ Grover last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Loomis of
Amboy were callers in this vicinity
last Sunday.
Miss Mary Fisk spent Friday and
Saturday with Mr.. and Mrs. Kelly of
Vernon Center.
j. A. Fisk arrived home last Satur-
day.
Don't forget the dance in the hall
day, April "a Tickets IS cents. Music
by Phelps orchestra.
Mrs. Rebecca Ellis is on the sick list.
Byron Troy arrived home Sunday
from Decora. where he and his wife
have been visiting Mrs. Troy stayed
over for few days as her sister is
very ILL.,
E. w. Parks was on the sick list
last week.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-01
CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS
Reasons Advanced for Strengthening
the Anti. Trust Law.

The strengthening Of the anti trust
law is demanded upon both moral and
economic grounds! g. Our purpose in
strengthening it Is to secure more eff.
fective control by the national gov
eminent over the business use Of the
vast masses of individual, and special
ly Of corporate, wealth, which at the
present time monopolize most Of the
interstate business of the country. And
we believe the control can best be ex-
ercised by preventing the growth of
abuses rather than merely by try ing to
destroy them when they have already
grown. In the highest sense of the
word this movement for thorough cen
troll of the business use of this great
wealth is conservative '' ~-''-
We are trying to steer a safe middle
course, which alone can save us from
plutocratic class government on the
one hand or socialistic class govern
ment OH the other. either of which
would he fraught with disaster to our
free institutions, state and national. We
are trying to avoid alike the evils
which would flow from government
ownership of the public utilities by
which interstate commerce is chiefly
carried on. and the evils which flow
from the riot and chaos of unres ricted
lpdividuallsm. There Is G ave danger
to our free institutions In tile cor.
rupting influence exercised by grea.
wealth suddenly concentrated in t,c
hands of the few We should i'm some
manner try to remedy this danger. in
spite Of the sullen opposition of these
few very powerful men, and with the
full purpose to protect them in all
their rights at the very time that we
require them to deal rightfully with
others.
When with steam and electricity
modern business conditions wer,.
through the astounding revolution
which in this country began over half
century ago there was at first much
hesitating as to what particular gov
ernmental agency should be used t.,
grapple with the new conditions. AT
almost the same time about twenty
years since the effort was made to
control combinations by recuIatjn.
them through the interstate commerce
commission. and to abolish them by
means IF the antitrust act: the two
remedies, therefore. being in part mu.
tually incompatible. The Interstate
commerce law has produced admira-
bic results. especially since it was
strengthened by the Hepburn law two
years ago. The antitrust law. though
IT worked some good because anything
is better than anarchy and complete
absence of regula ton, nevertheless has
proved in many respects not merely
inadequate but mischievous.
Twenty years ago the misuse o.
corporate power had produced almost
every conceivable form Of abuse, and
had worked the gravest injury to BUSH
ness morality and the public con-
science. For long time federal reg
ulation of interstate commerce hal
| been purely negative, the national
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-01

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County of
Blue Earth. District Court, Sixth Ju-
dicial District.
Stella Neff. Plaintiff. VS.. Harry c. Neff,
Defendant, -
SUMMONS.
THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. to the
ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT:
You are hereby summoned and re-
aured to answer the complaint of the
Plaintiff in the above entitled action,
which is on file in the office of the
clerk of said court and to serve copy
of your answer to the said complaint,
on the subscriber at his office in the
city of Mankato. in said county.
within thirty 600 days after the
service of this Summons upon
you. exclusive of the day of such ser
vice; and if you fail to answer the said
complaint within the time aforesaid.
the Plaintiff in this action will apply TO
the court for the relief demanded in
said Complaint.
Dated this Sth day of April, A. d.
1908.
S. B. WILSON.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Mankato, Mimi.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-01
AS TO LABOR IMMUNITY
President Gives His Views on That
Important Subject.


important Subject.
A strong effort has been made to
have labor organizations completely
exempted from any Of the operations
Of this law, whether or not their acts
are in restraint of trade. Such excep-
ton would in all probability make the
bill unconstitutional, and the legisla
ture has no more right to pass a bill
without regard to whether 1t is cOnsi,
tutional than the courts have lightly
to declare unconstitutional a law,
which the legislature has solemnly en-
acted. The responsibility is as great
on the one side as on the other, and
an abuse Of power by the legislature
In one direction is equally to be con-
demned with an abuse of power by the
courts in the other direction.
1t is not possible wholly to except
labor organizations from the workings
of this law, and they who insist upon
totally excepting them are merely pro
viding that their status shall be kept
wholly unchanged, and that they shall
continue to be exposed to the action
which they now dread. Obviously an
organization not formed for profit
should not be required to furnish
statistics in any way as complete as
those furnished by organizations for
profit. Moreover, so far as labor is
engaged in production only its claims to
be exempted from the antitrust law
are sound. This would substantially
cover the right of laborers to COM
bine, to strike peaceably, and to enter
into trade agreements with the ELI.
ployers. 90 a~<. '
But when labor undertakes in a
wrongful manner to prevent the dis
tribrtion and sale of the products of
labor, as by certain forms of the boy
colt, it has left the field Of production,
and its action may plainly be in
restraint of trade, and must necessar-
ly be subject to inquiry exactly as in
the case of any other combination for
the same purpose, so as to determine
whether such action is contrary to
sound public policy. The heartiest en-
cOuragement should be given to the
wage workers to form labor unions
and to enter into agreements with
their employers; d, and their rights to
strike, so long. as they act peaceably.
must be preserved, But we should
sanction neither a boycott nor back.
list which would be Illegal at common
law. ..,.ss.-.
fl, The measures / advocate are in. the
interest both of decent corporations
and of law-abiding labor unions, They
are, moreover, pre-eminently in, the in
terest of the public, for in my judy
ment the American people have def
nitely made up their minds that the
days Of the reign of the great law-de-
flying and law-evadlng corporations
are over, and that from this tune on
the mighty organizations of capital
necessary for the transaction of bust
ness under modern conditions, while
encouraged SO long as they act honest
~ and in the interest OF the general
public, are, to be subjected to careful
supervision and regulation of a kind
so effective, as to insure their acting
in the interest Of the people as
whole.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-01
DISCUSSES THE INJUNCTION
Recommendations as to a Change
in Procedure.

in Procedure.
First, as to the power Of Injunction
and of punishment for contempt. In
contempt cases, save where iriinedi.
ate action is imperative, the trial
should be before another judge. AS
regards injunctions, some such legis-
lation as that I have previously rec
commended should be enacted. They
are blind who fail to realize the ex-
treme bitterness caused among large
bodies Of worthy citizens by tie use
that has been repeatedly made IF the
power of iuiunct. Oh in labor disputes.
Those In whose Jhdgme IT we have
most right to trust are of the opinion
that while much of the complaint
against the use of the Injunction is
unwarranted. yet that 1t is unques-
tionably true that in a number of
cases this power has been used to the
grave injury of the rights of laboring
men.
ask that it be limited in some such
way as that I have already pointed
out in my previous messages. for the
very reason that do not wish to see
an embittered effort made to destroy
1t. 1t is unwise stubbornly to refuse
to provide against repetition of the
abuses which have caused unrest. IN
a democracy like ours is idle to ex-
pcct permanently to thwart the de.
termination Of the great body of Guy
citizens.
1t may be, and often is, the highest
auty or court legislature, or an
executive. to resist and defy gust of
popular passions, and most certainly
no public servant. whatever may he
the consequences to himself. should
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-01

Results of primaries; state conven-
ton be held this week.
The state conventions on this week S
political program are those of West
Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina
Maine, Arkansas, Colorado. Vermont
Maryland, Mississippi and South Caro-
lima. The Pennsylvania convention is
the largest of these. but the primaries
held recently have indicated positively
what the convention will do, and the
sixty eight keystone delegates can be
safely accredited to Senator Knox.
The interesting phase of the situa-
ton lies in the fact that six of the
conventions will be held in what are
called southern states. and will give
a good line. on the attitude of south
ern republicanism.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-01
MANKATO FREE PRESS

I ~
combination or agreement not thus ap-
proved should be treated as in viola
ton Of law and prosecuted according
~. The issuance of the securities of
any combination doing interstate bust
ness should be under supervision OF
the national government
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-01

FOR SALE-Seed Barley, wheat and
oats. S. H. Grannis, SOP South Front
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-05-01
0hioan Keeps Right on Gaining
Delegates Each Week.
LAST SCOOP TOOK Eighteen
Has Fifty Per Cent Of All Thus Far
Selected, VIII Land Bunch in
Next Seven Days.
SUMMARY OF DELEGATES.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-02-05
10y Governor Swanson today;
TO tho General AHSemliv.

% INC Itllp1Ul. ABhtiuitN.
in the act approved March ia. 1906.
thirty thousand dollars for the PUT
poses of a military display, aud for
public state entertainments. ut and
during the Jamestown Exposition to
be expended under the direction OF
the governor. was appropriated and
directed to bc paiti upon presentation
of orders therein. signed by tho ad-
jutant- general. and approved by the
governor herewith in accordance
with the act submit an itemized ac-
count of the expenditures made un-
der the aforesaid act. The vouchers
for all of tho items OF expenditure
herewith named are on file in the Of
flee of tho adiutant- general subject
to your inspection ana direction. The
account submitted herewith iallics
with the books OF the first auditor.
and the vouchers in said office will
verify tho statement accompanying
this message. There has been left
up*xpcnded OF that thirty thousand
dollars. fourteen thousand, seven hun
drcd and two dollars and thirty seven
cents t$lA.Toc.H
The Virginia military went into
cncampment at the Exposition for ten
days, and portion Of the military
was there on state occasions as |
thought was necessary and proper
Tho state extended ample ANA gener-
ous hospitality to all distinguished
visitors from foreign countries. from
sister states aud Of the Federal gov
ernment.
Tho appropriation for entertainment
was limited 10 military display and
for public entertainments aud was
used only for entertainments such as
weIr public aud state under the
terms Of the appropriation. Such en-
tortainments as could not hc classi-
fed as public state entertainments.
though occasioncd by the Exposition
and visitors attending the same. did
not feel iustitied in paving out or tho
appropriation. and hence paid for tho
same personals. | saw no OCCASION OF
using The rcsidue or fourteen thors-
aud. seven hundred ana two dollars
and thirty-seycn cents (S14.J02.2D,
nv the state had done everything that
could he expected or, required. both in
regard 10 its military and tencrtain-
mciit.
Very RESI- e8uuilY
tsienesD CLAUDE x. SWANSON
Governor
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-02-05
CONTINUED on Eighth Pagc)
MALLS FALL IN
Seven HgVg York Flemsn Injured
10 Blaze ID Wholesale District.
WE'RE CAUGHT BENEATH DEBRIS.
Zero Weather Caused Wate,' to Freeze
Shortly After 1t LEFT Nosrlea and
Made Work of Flremer Extremely
DiHieu't-EmpIoyes' Marrow Escape
tBv Associated Press.l


NEW YORK, Feb. i--.Caught be-
tween floors seven .iremen were in
jured tonight while fighting n fire
which destroyed five story structure
occupied by dry goods girms. ut AZ
Worth atree. in the heart of the
wholesale dry goods district. Fire
man Frank Eglanton Is missing and
is believd TO be in the ruins.
The. monetary loss is estimated Mt
100000.
| The Greneu fought the flames in
the bitter cold which froze the water
In the standpjpes and made the pres
sure inadequate TO confne the fire
20 tho third floor where IT started
The injured We're found lying beneath
the ruins in pools of fast freezing
water.
The building was occupied b.
Baldwin. Woodwa & Co. kible,
ChaTe q Morehouse Company. the
Cha,les C. Copeland Company, and
the r X. Master Company. all whole
salers. Tho fire spread rapidly and
the employees i'll the building had 10
make hurried exits. AS they were
escaping from The place the cable of
an elevator rartel aud Tho car. jam
med with frightened women and men.
, dropped to The basement
Fortunately no one was seriously
hurt and 10 their swift; descent they
may owe their lives.
Hardly had the passengers scram-
bled from the w7rcckaSe OF tho car,
when without warning the third hoo,
gave way and carried with II 1ne
second floor and 10 iirsmen who were
working within The walls.
A moment latev score Of fircmen
TGshcd into tho burning wrcckagc
| recklcssly dttermined 10 rescue their
combs dcs. whose cries could be heard
above the noise OF putting engines.
| Meanwhile rhe fire was burning
bTisily on the top floor and streams
OF water th'own from adjoining build
ings half drowned the Imprisoned
men. as well as those who chopped
away valiantly whatever burning tim
hers held n captive. Tho sempcra-
tire was near zero aud the men suf-
feerd intcnscly. One by ono the In
jured men we're released 3ith the
exception of Engictou. who could no,
| bs located.
Though badly injured It Is believed
that the rescued men will recover
1lhn building, had been ruined before
the fire was controlled.