The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-20

are ana should be in violation OF the
antitrust law and should be punished
as such; and theresis no room for the
| expresslon-reaso or unreason-
ute.
If the statutes were limited to COM
Dlnatlons, conspiracies and contracts
to restrain trade with intention to
monopolize Interstate trade, or with
intent to suppress competition there
in, 1T would probably not include
within its denunciation a boycott
against goods going into interstate
trade, because such a boycott is a re-
straint against interstate trade with
the intention to restrain it, but it is
not restraint of interstate trade with
intent either to suppress competition
or to maintain a monopoly of the
goods with respect to which the con-
tract is made.
Opposed to Exceptions.
Il am entirely opposed to except
ing from the operation of any law of
general application class of persons
mers or ministers or teachers or law
yers- Take the present antitrust law,
therefore, and insert a special excep-
ton to the application of that law by
providing that it should not apply to
the trade unions class, and it would
be legislation of the most vicious
character; but when you make the
law apply only to conspiracies seek
ing to suppress competition or to
monopolize the trade, then the labor
boycott is probably not included.
simply because the statute would not
seem wide enough to include it in it's
scope and this result is obtained with
out class legislation at all.
Il am in favor of this change because
1 believe that the ordinary action in
{ guilty by injunction in any place where
the boycott is operative can effective
ly accomplish all the purposes that
ought to be accomplished in the sup
preston of such an evil. On the other
the purpose o. suppressing evils grow
ing out of the labor organizations. is
to take advantage against such unIaw-
full labor organizations of the literal
terms of statute which probably was
not intended to include that which
judicial construction could not avoid
including within its w"rds.
Have Special Bureau
1T would probably seem wise to es-
tE blisE an accusatory bureau in the
department of Justice to institute
for violations of the in
terstate commerce law and of the anti
trust law, while it would he wise to
continue the bureau of corporations,
charging its scope somewhat perhaps
to maintain The registration of corpor-
atoms and the investigation into their
operation so far as interstate trade is
1T has been found most difficult to
the administrative from the
luasi judicial functions of the interstate
commerce commission. but it is though.
that it would be wise to take away
from them any responsibility in regard
to the investigation Of the validity of
-neir orders before the interstate &C M
nerce commission seourt and to leave
he maintenance of~those orders to the
department of Justice when the appeal
comes to be heard In the court.
1.-The two statutes which must
claim the attention of our congress
in its next session are the interstate
commerce law and the antitrust law.
Another series of questions for
congress are with reference to the
of resources. These I
shall not discuss now but shall do |
so later in my journey.
1.-The monetary commission will re- |
port so that its final conclusion may |
be considered at the end of the com
ing session or at the beginning of the |
next. In any event as we look for
ward to the work which this congress
mas to do, we must be conscious that
he measures 1 have. proposed will
consume all the time there is.
"All this is in the line of perform
ng the promises of the Republican
platform and we can certainly be
lischarging no higher or more sacred
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