New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-13
Hill and Morgan Above the Law.

The Northern Securities Company. which
was organized to consolidate the Great
Northern. the. Northern Pacific and the
Burlington railways. ALI competing lines
WAS declared Illegal by the federal Supreme
Court. James J. Hill, ]. Pierront Morgan
end their associates proved themselves to
he above the law and higher than the
courts by proceeding Immediately to de-
stroy competition in railroad rates through
out the Northwestern states by indirectly
doing what the Supreme Court had decided
was unlawful for the Northern Securities
Company 10 do
The advanced freight ties demanded by
THE railroads and now being considered by
the Interstate Commerce Commission were
agreed to by the combined railroads of the
United States and are. therefore. clearly
in violation Of the Sherman antitrust law.
The Sherman antitrust law provides that
crime punishable by hne or imprisonment
or both. The Judge on the bench who in
sists on holding the corporation responsive
for violation Of law. and not being bic to
eend the corporation 20 prison assesses a
fine against il as punishment for robbing
the public of thousands OF millions of dol
1srS +broug, il,aesI coratjnati ons in re-
straint of trade. and discharges the officers
who get the money and are the real Grim
lnalS in the case Is wholly unfit to occupy
responsible a public office.
7 do not in any sense share the opinion
sometimes EXPRESSED that the official acts
of q Judge are too sacred 10 be criticised.
There is no more Gisreputable citizen than
The unjust Judge who brings discredlt and
disgrace TO the Office that should be held
sacred A Judge belonging to the last
named class is and ought 70 be proper
subject for public criticism. and he ought
20 be publicly branded, so that ne could
he forever after Identified
Governor Stubbs strongly opposed ap
pointuent OF or election of judges for
life term: urged an income tax law.
mandatory lew providing prison sentence
for persons or officers of corporations who
are responsible for unlawful combinations
in restraint of trade. and also providing
receiver shall operate such corporations
until assurance is given they will obey the
law
Woodrow Wilson's Speech.
woodrow Wilson, Governor-elect of New
Jersey was also speaker at the dinner
Tonight Discussing Business and Poll
ties" ne reiterated his well known views,
saving in part:
has concerned itself with effort to regu-
late business. has been that the problems
~ reimbursement between private and pub
lie interests have not been fully compre-
hended- We are only slowly approaching
full understanding of the elements OF the
legislation We are trying TO effect In the
field of legislation. which is the field of
adjustment. have experimental first IN
one direction and then in another First.
legislation is tried to help one set of in
reresrs and check another set. then il has
tried 20 shift its barriers and transfer its
hnuhiles anu ldNetS II tdS beSIl d SdiiS
81 alliance first with one set of forces AND
then with another. They have been set off
against one another and their rivalries en-
phasized nd enhanced
In order 10 carry out derided purposes
IN The field Of legislation said DIR. Wilson
fn conclusion. III is necessary that ii
should he universally understood that our
object Is not war. hut peace and accom-
mediation: not destruction. but the building
together, as well the building Tp Of the
forces that constitute our strength.