The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-10-23

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week 20 break up the trust evil tAan
all the Prosecutions inaugurated.
BY giving the comparison OF the rec
ord of the Roosevelt administration in
the matter OF prosecutions rs COZ
frasted with the records Of Cleveland
Mckinley and Harrison you invite a
comparison Of the records of these ad-
ministrations as 10 trusts. Carefully
compiled statistics show that trusts
were organized in the Emitted States
under the past four administration a.
follows Under Harrison. -: under
Cleveland (secOnd term q: under Nc
Kinley. III: and under Roosevelt. log
InaSmuch as there are now - trusts
In America II appears that there We're
twenty-tlree before Mr.. Harrison be
came president and that 26I have been
organized since lSSS. II the depart
ment Of justice has been os dligent as
the interests OF the people demand.
would the number Of trusts have nul-
tiplled so rapldlyg Not only would
the trusts doing business have been
put out II business. but men would
not have put money into new trusts
II they had believed that the law
against trusts and against persons
guilty Of combining would be vigorous
ly enforced.
submit that by the test of punish
ling lawLreakess and deterring Others
from violating the law-the eternal
and true test-ihe execution Of the
antitrust laws 10y the federal govern
ment Is a failure. and that tire exist
ence aud fourishng condition OF the
very trusts you have prosecuted con-
lvlnces the people that the trusts are
superior 70 law, or as Wsodrow VII
son. president OF Princeton university,
SAID last week:
"The most striking fact about the
actual organization Of modern society
is that the most conspicuous. tie most
readily welded. and the most formida-
BILE power is not the power OF the gov
Iernment. but the power Of capital Men
OF our day In England and America
have almost forgotten what it Is to
fear the government. but have found
out what il Is TO fear the power OF
icapital. 10 watch IL with jealousy and
suspicion, and trace 10 il the source
II every open or hidden wrong"
/ / submit that the collection OF fines
from trusts aggregaiing a million dol
liars. II you had collected SO much,
which has not been done. would Ice no
punishment worth the name Of pun
llshment To the 2S7 trusts with an ag-
lgregate cap talization OF $G.9T2. AS
s5l.UO The ining process In trust
lprosecution is analogous 10 those fines
Imposed 10y police justice upon per
sons keeping Illegal resorts In towns
These fines often operate as a sliding
scale OF license lax-sO may dollars
Whenever the aroused moral sense OF
the community will no longer be silent
while the lawless dive debauches the
lpeople. What the people wish 10 know
lis this: How Hany trusts have yOu
lconpelled 20 disSOlve-in truth. and
not merely 70 officially dissolve. and
then continue 10 fix the price. as the
dissolved paper trust has dunef The
meat trust paid a fine and soon put up
the prices 81 all that men must eat by
some now w.you-see-it-and-now-you-don' (
sleight OF hand that seems 70 escape
further prosecution while continuing 70
levy a tax upOn all the people. No
prosecution OF the trusts is effective
tLat Is not felt by the public in re-
lIieving them ~ trust imposition In
what they buy. Your department says
the paper trust was prosecuted and
dissolved but the publishers know that
the mills In the trust have cOmbina-
tion now rs injurious to them as before
your prosecution. You say you have
prosecuted the tobacco trtasf but thai