The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-11-25
WHEREI IS SIMMONS?
There Win Be a Struggle Be-
tween Him and Kitchin -
For Party Control.

For Party Control.
CONG. MOREHEAD'S VICTORY
Courts Decision Against Standard
Oil Gives Satisfaction-It Is Under
stood that President Taft Will Re
commend Amendments to Anti
Trust Law to Make 1t Even More
Effective - The Communication
Trust-The Trouble I'm Nicaragua.
Special to The Caucasian.
Washington, D. c., Nov. 34.-The
Department of Justice and the Presi-
dent are. Of course, very much graft
fed at the decision of the United
States Circuit Court. at st. Paul, up
holding the Governments contention
in suit started by President Roose-
welt, that the Standard Oil Company
of New Jersey is an illegal combina-
terms of the Sherman antitrust law.
However, they realize fully that the
effect of this decision, even II sustain
ed by the Supreme Court, will not ac-
complish any more than did the vic
tory which the Government won In
having the Great Northern Security
Company declared unlawful and dis
solved.
In that case the Northern Security
Company was dissolved and went out
of existence under a mandate Of the
court, yet it is believed that the rail-
roads that were in that great merger
are still carrying out the same pur-
poses in another way, and there is no
way to prevent the Standard Oil Com
pany, though dissolved In strict con-
formity with the decision of the
court, from doing the same thing, as
the law now stands.
The President, 1t Is understood,
will recommend an amendment to the
antitrust law which will make it
more effective, and besides carry fines
and Imprisonment which the present
law does not provide for in cases like
this.
It Is safe prediction, however,
that when Congress comes to consider
the Presidents recommendation to
amend and strengthen the Sherman
antitrust law, that the Standard Oil
Company, and every other great COM
bination which is today violating this
law, will be On hand to try to induce
Congress to take out some of the
effective parts Of the present law.
The Communication Trust.
Just few days before the decision
in this Standard Oil case was an
nounced, the Bell Telephone Com
pany bought the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, and it is believed
this telephone and telegraph COM
bination also controls the Postal Tel
egraph Company. This will make one
of the most powerful and dangerous
trusts that has ever been organized
in this country. and it Is believed
that the Department of Justice will
waste no time in Investigating this
latest merger and start proceedings
to have it dissolved. just as Roosevelt
started the proceedings to dissolve
the Standard Oil trust
The Trouble in Nicaragua.
The State Department has taken
prompt steps to investigate the con-
ditions under which two American
citizens were tried by drum-head
court martial, or rather ordered to
be shot by President Ze1aya of Near
auga. The two American citizens, 1t
Is true, were in the ranks of the in
surgent army, but they should have
been tried, even il they had been cit
liens of Nicaragua, as soldiers, and
not as spies or murderers.
It Is thought that the State De-
partment will not only demand heavy
indemnity for their death, but that 1t
may be deemed wise and necessary to
go to the extent of giving recogni-
ton to the insurgent army and fur
ther to see that the tyrant Zelaya
who has been a firebrand in the poll
tics of Pan-America, is removed from
| the Presidency.
The Proposed National Central Bank
Senator Aldrich, the chairman OF
the Senate finance committee, and
also chairman of the monetary com
mission which is at work on scheme
for revising the currency system
has finished his tour through the
West, where he conferred with bank
ers and financiers in the leading
cities.
One of the chief schemes which b,
called upon the bankers to conside
was the adoption of a national cen
trail bank in Washington. The propo
sition, however, does not seem t,
have met with very enthusiastic re
ception in the West.
A prominent public official her
said a few days ago, that if Senate
lAldrich was quoted correctly in on
of his speeches as saying: Don
worry about Old Hickory Jackson
opposition to the national centra
bank idea, because he Is dead" tha
it was a very unhappy remark, be
cause the people today believe in tn
? wisdom and integrity of Old Hickor
: Jackson as much as they did when b
was President and made his gree
[ fight against such a proposition an