The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-27
WILLIAMS ASKS PERMISSION TO
 MAKE SOME LAWS
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L~~.~- Mir. Williams statement regards the boy cott After quoting the Presidents declar- atino that nothing should be enacted to legalize a blacklist or boycott that would be illegal in common law" MT. Williams says:
 Tt is a sad commentary upon this utterance of his that while the federal courts have held that a boycott is comb ination in restraint of trade anC, therefore illegal they have virtually upheld the employer in his assertion of a right to blacklist because one federal court went so far as to say that because the employer had right 70 discharge without giving motive at all therefore, he had a right to discharge because the discharged man was a member of d labor union. It is a poor lule that does not work both ways. An 1 other decision of a federal court I the decision of Judge Gould-has gone l so far as to say that labor man 5 1 newspaper should not publish the name ] of a firm under the heading; We don't | patronize.' A man has a right to pat ronize or not to patronize anybody, ac I cording to his own sweet will, and he, therefore, has the right to publish those Wh om he does not patronize." The Presidents recommendation oi
  list, with corresponding reduction upon paper made from wood pulp, when they come from any country that does not put an export duty upon them,' meets with Mir. Williams approval, except that it does not go quite far enough. Not only ought wood pulp be placed on the free list" he says, but print paper ought to be placed there also. The publishers will not be very much benefited by the placing of wood pulp upon the free list if there be only slight auction of the duty upon print paper"
 Other Things Approved.
 There are other things in the Pres
 ident's message" said MT. Williams, which as one might naturally expect. considering his education in the line of Hamiltonism and his tendency toward l federalism. cannot meet with demo- l cratic approval. One is his idea that I the attorney general, representing the 1 government, should have the right to 1 nominate receivers when common car l rier is thrown into the hands of re- l ceiver. That right ought to rest in a 1 court-not in the executive.
 1 The Presidents utterances concern l ing the antitrust law are an indica- l tion of his inability to see that which l will appear plain to a democrat, to-wit: l that anything approaching a private l monopoly is intolerable and unendur- l able in a free government. His at l tempts to classify trusts as good trusts l and bad trusts, is abhorrent. There can | may sometimes, be a great trust mag 1 nate who uses his powers beneficially l but the power is too much fraught with 1 danger to be vested in few men. We | ought simply to provide that organiza- l tions of labor and of workingmen for 1 the purpose of securing shorter hours 1 or higher prices or more equitable l treatment shall not be construed to 1 fall within the inhibition of any ex- 1 isting law
 "The Presidents idea of letting the l ubstantve part of the antitrust law remain as it is, but giving to some | branch of the executive government 1 authority to determine when a trust | Is good or bad-in effect, license to re- strain another, is so vicious in it's effect | that it could not be tolerated l "If the ways and means committee 1 Of the House cannot have sufficient in- 1 telligence to revise the tariff, then will l it surrender the reins of power to us
 of the minority and let us see whether 1 we can or not"