Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-31

and agents OF wrongdoers who have
for so many years gone scot free and
flouted the laws with impunIty, against
great law-defying corporations of i'm
mense wealth. which. until within the
last half dozen years have treated
themselves and have expected others
to treat them as being beyond and
above all possible check from law.
MUST FACE DIFFICULTIES.
1t is especially necessary - secure
to the representatives OF the national
government fun power TO deal win
The great corporations engaged In IN
terstutc commerce, and above all vita
the great interstate common carriers.
Our people should clearly recognize
while there are difficulties in any
course of conduct to be followed IN
dealing with these great corporations,
these difficulties must be faced ana
| one of three coures followed
The first course is TO abandon all ell
| fort TO oversee and control their ac-
lions IN the interest of the general pub
lie ana to permit "a return to the utter
lack OF control which would obtain IL
they We're left to the common law. j
do not for one moment believe that our
people would tolerate this position. The
extraordinary growth of modern indus
tIialism has rendered the common law,
which grew up under and was adapted
To dGdl with totally Inherent COnul-
tions, In many respects inadequate to
deal with the new conditions. These
new conditions make 1t necessary to
shacsle cunning as In the past we have
shuCkled force The vast individual
and corporate fortunes, the vast COM
binations of capital. which have mark
ed the DEVELOPMENT of orr Industrial
system, create new conditions, and ne
cesstate change from the old atti-
tude of the state and the nation to-
ward the rules regulating the aconIisi-
ton and mtrammeled business use OF
property. I'm order both that property
may be adequately protected and that
al the same time those who hold IL
may he prevented from wrongdoing.
The second and third courses are 10
have the regulation undertaken either
hy the nation or by the states. or
course In any event both the national
! government ana the several state gov
crmcnts mus, do each it's pau, and
each can do Il certain amount that the
| other cannot do, while the only really
satisfactory results must be obtained
10y the representatives of the national
ana state governments working heartily
I 8g, w,'hi dnear rtSptStMs spheres
and satisfactory control can in the end
only be obtained by The action of the
national government, for almost all the
corporations of enormous yyealth-that
is, The corporations which It is espec-
| inlly desirable 10 contrOl-are engaged
In interstate commerce, and derive
their power and their importance not
from that portion OF their business
which Ia iutrastate, but from the inter
| state business, II is not easy always
80 decide Just where the line Of de
marcation between the two kinds of
business falls. This line must ulti-
matcly bc drawn by the federal courts.
Much of the effort 90 secure adeduute
control OF the great corporations by
state action has been wise and cffec-
tive, but much Of II hns been neither.
for when the effort ~ made To ;ccon-
plish by the action OF the stato what
cam only be accomplished no no ort,on
OF tho nation, the result cen only he DIS
appoluting. and I'm the end no law Yin
probably be declared unconsttIutj,,,ai
So likewise ln the national arena N,,.
who believe In the measures berein "A '
vnrated are hammered ANA nj ni,,Dd
by the eytromists vrbn uJvacatn artior
sl violent thnt N vyo,,ld sitbs,, he -.
Icsa ON else would cai,s. mora r,iacbioc
than II would ren,edv
FEDERAL AUTHORITY.
In "a rcc,,t I,,,,- TO-. ,....,
Judge of rba sunrc,io co,, r rnrnu 70.