The Sentinel=record., 1911-06-02
TRUST LAWS
 DEFECTIVE
VET THEODORE ROOSEVELT SAYS IT WOULD BE FOLLY TO
 ATTEMPT A CHANGE
Favors Putting the Great Interstate Corporations Directly Under the Management of the Gov
 ernment

New York, June 1 Theodore Roosevelt has an article on "Tls Standard Oil Declsion-and After ir the Outlook. It says in part:
 The decision of the supreme court in the Stan ard Oil case has, ui course, brought out many proposals for altering or amending the anti trust law. There are two classes o. men whose respective attitudes in reference to this law are in theory diametrically opposed, and in results almost identically the same; those men who wish no interference what ever blythe government with any com blnations or corporations; and those men who under the plea of being against all combinations and big cor porations, propose absolutely to pro hlbit their exi-tence.
 i.n theory these two sets of men aIe diametrically opposed. In prac tice the activities of the seconi class who wish totally to prohibit all cor porations can result only in practi cally fulfilling the visa of the frs class by leading the present funda mentally unc hanged.
 The actual experience with th, autt<.,.e4 1,.t ovt1ndtro oYnr r.,ar years has shown that it does not ans cannot by any possibility be made t what the extreme antagonists of COT porations desire or assert that the desire. As construed by the ou preme Court, the antitrust law at complisnes a certain amount of gooG and it has heen a good thing to ob tain the decision that has been 0 tained against the Standard C Company.
 But as means of effectually sra bling on behalf of the whoe pecp,, with the problem created by wha aie commonly called trusts -that Is of enormous combinat ons of corpor ate capital engageJ in interstate busi- ness-the antitrust law is radicalls and vitally defective and any cffor to strengthen 1t woua DC worse tna futile and would result only in pr. longing the time during which t. corporations will escape control o tle kind demanded in the interest oi the people.
 The antitrust law was framet on the theory that 1t was possible t turn back the wheels of progress l. industries and in an age of combina ton to put step to the combination under which business was carried on. While, as 1 have said. the antitrus law a now construed does accon plish certain amount of good Il war out of the question that. framed as 1t was in such spirit and with suel a purpose it could achieve in any but the smallest degree what it's framers hoped. and any effort to achieve tlis purpose simply by making the law more stringent will re.ult either T n1taing or in changing the situatio for the worst.
 What k generally needed is tho enactment of drastic and far-reach ing Legislation winch shall put ths great interstate business corpora tions of the type of the Standard o ] Company. the sugar trust. the stee trust and the like, at least a. com pletely under the control and regul; tion of the government in each ant every respect as the interstate raj ways are now put
 "To break the Standard Oil Con pany as the recent Neclsion ha broken it up. does certain amour of good. but it does not do anythin like the amount of good that would b' achieved from the standpoint of tla public. if the proper governmenta body were given the same super vision and control over it as the in terstate commerce commission ha establisheI over certain of the rail ways of the country.
 sqt may be well that in the en' government control of these great in terstate corporations may have to -g much further than is indicted by ta present government control over tn railways. but within any event, tn only possible satisfactory method Q dealing with theae great corporation of monopolistic trend which arc no