Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-01-30


mouths * there woaid hayc been
swoeplng reductions IN tho tariff on
foodstuffs and other necessities OF
Infv. Congress would have responded
10 IN Jnslstent public semand. hut
Ithore Nas no reyolrat tae time whom
such an uprising would nave been al
most Immediately effective
spencer Cannon said IN an inter-
eiew last MAY 'Of an the letters on
the tariff ! reaeivs-and I got a good
many mot one ID fifty makes ans OBJ
lection ID the tariff bin as framed ~
inc house or 70 the amendments pro-
posed by the senate. The World x
( pressed tha opinion OF the time that
Nh cannons statement was correct.
Practically ms only protest made BY
an organized bods Of CONSUMERS dur
ing the Whole period OF tariff revision
was tliat Of the clupwomen VINO peti-
toned against tnc duties on stock
inra The World aud other indepcn-
dent newspapers appealed 90 The pub
|iie III ia own interest 70 demand q
reduction IN the cost of living. but
there was no general response. Com
seauents privilege had its own way
about tnriff revision.
-Thc same general criticism can be
mad 81 the public's attitude toward
the enforcement ~ tee anti-trust
laws. state ana national. a. Repre-
sentative Hamilton az Michigan said
in a Tribune ~interyiew yesterday. n
the victims Of high prices Will moy
FOR the prosecution of an who are
engaged IN combinations in restraint
or trade. they viii quickly remove one
cause OF its increased cost of living
This would have hecn tfuo At any time
during the last five years When the
cost OF living has been advaneirg
randy. Congress and most of ihe
state legislatures nave enacted sweep
ing ANTITRUST laws, but these laws
viii not enforce themselves
"As long as the country was satis-
rcd Nth government by pronunciation,
Mr. Roosevelt was careful not 10 run
amuek ia the enforcement Of the
sherman Jaw The trusts were Wiling
that Mir Roosevelt should rant about
m~alefnctors Of great wealth so long
as the government did NOT invoke the
criminal clause of the antitrust ac1
Governors followed the example
of the president Il Is usually safor
FOR a politician 10 denounce wrong
doing ia high places han 20 punish
wrong-dolne Ia high places. organ
izpd wealth has a longer m than
the public. and only an insistens pub
NE opinion Fan compel the enforce
ment Of lnws restraining privilege.
The Thing for the president Of the
United states to do, says Mr. .Hamii-
ton. s. not to petition congress, but 70
smoke out the prosecuting Officers
The ching Tor tho public to do is to
smoke out tho president. 20 smoke out
governors, q smoke II attorneys gen
oral and 10 smoke out d~istrict atior-
neys.
Kew York recently convicted the
ice trust IN 4 criminal prosecution a
grand jury is going to take up the
milk trust The attorney general Of
tho United states Is preparing for @
criminal prosecution Of the beef trust.
Pack of every such proceeding Is the
principle that guilt is always personal
81 the public has sense enough 60 de-
mand that this principle De applied.
but az long is II 50 willing 10 tolerate
government for privilege aud pluto
craey. that Is the Kind u government
ii Mil got. ana that y the KIND Of gov
crnmsnt it must pay FOR.