Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-03-02
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thOSe at nand are ignored DN the
tariff makers? Mr. Mann of Him
ois is a republican and a protectiOnist
He and his special committee put be-
fore the house three thousand printed
pages of testimony taken at hearings
, and a report recommending a real
and honest downward revision of the
paper and pup schedule. Instead
of accepting that report. congress
made a trifiing reduction. and the
dust gatherers on the Mann report as
it will upon the tariff boards report
il one is ever made. unless mean
while a party and a president with a
different purpose shall come 10 make
and execute the laws. It pleased
Mr.. Taft to ascrihe a part AZ least OF
the unfavorable newspaper opinion
of the tarih to the retention of the
/ duty on white paper It is our be-
lief that not a single newspaper OF
any standing and influence was az
fected in its Judgment Of the new
tariff by the rejection OF the Mann
recomm endations. But II probably
comforts the president to put con
jectural in place Of real motives for
condemning a law born in such dis
honor.
Nothing could 90 50 FAR 70 lift from
I the presidents soul its present weight
Of alarms as & decision from The sd.
preme court in the tobacco case ac-
h.
sham's brief that q trust that does
not indulge in vicious and morcpo-
lizing practices is not open 10 prose
cution under the act OF 1890 Such
decision might save the Taft ad-
ministraton. u is doomed past al,
saving If the court, following a long
I line OF decisions in the spirit of the
Trans-Missouri and the Northern Sc
curities cases. shall sustain the low
er court in holding that this trust
must be dissolved Notwithstanding
the fact that It has been fair TO PRO
Queer and consum r and has Cypress
ed no rival. Hence we see Air. Taft
insisting that the antitrust act is aim
ed only at those that seek 70 elm
mate smaller concerns and control
output and prices The court has
repeatedly rejected this construction.
( II in the tobacco case it shall agin
( declare the Law applicable 20 the pos
: session of the power to restrain trade
whether the power be exercised OF
not. President Taft viii find him.
self confronted by an appalling choice
OF evils. either to desist. in vocation
Of his oath anG Of his repeated prom.
ises. from prosecutions under the
law, or to unsheath his sword and
destroy all the innumerable corpor-
atoms now existing in violation of fl
and make a heroic sacrifice of him
,eif in the ruin he would bring upon
/ the business and the Industries Of
the country and upon his own admin
stration.
/ Yet well knowing that, as his pre-
decessor declared, it is impossible
/ for the business OF the country TO
be carried on without violating this
statute. the highest thought that
: presents itself to Mr.. Tafs mind for
utterance in such an emergency is
this: "If the enforcement Of the law
is not consistent with the present
ethods of carrying on business. then
it does not speak very well for the
present methods of conducting bust
ness. and they must be changed to
| conform to the law" That delecta.
BILE reasoning would be equally appli-
cable TO a law making It a capital
crime TO do business at all This is
only one Of the many superffuous con
tributions recently made by Mr. Taft
to the existing stock of causes for dis
! satisfaction with his administration.