Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-09-21
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By WALTER B. HILTON

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AMERICAN POLITICAL VAUDEV LILLE is bright
ened lust now by an elephantine laundering act of
President Taft He is playing the western circuit and IS
being headned The act is very humorous and combines
Juggling and contoron He juggles the supreme court
decisions the trusts and COMPETITION and IN the fnale
makes them all fall In the hand, where they lie Inc
contortons are incident to the accomplishment OF this
wonderful feat and his manner OF doing 1t Justes the
description of laundering
He saws that the supreme court decisions in favor OF
REASONABLE restraint of trade by the trusts is good
thing for competition and that the supreme court has not
read reasonable into the law because, although Its
original decision stated that restraint was restraint
whether reasonable not it later began to give
reasonable construction to the law Therefore, because
1--WE did get along with competition get along with
competition and as did get along without combina
lions, we can get along without combinations =
This is all clear chilled asphalt Mr.. Taft plain
does not deny it. and does not deny that he does not
deny it. And he defes any insurgent HIGHLAND Low
land far near, to deny that he has not denied it.
Mr. Taft ought to do thing the other and enjoy
the merit Of consistency He ought admit that he favor
justification and agrees with the Socialists that COMPETE
has been competed out of existence should stand
against combination in industry and agree with the few
remaining scattered fold fashioned Democrats and
surgent Republicans who are working overtime squirt
ing saline solution into the WORKOUT of compe
tom In trying to be all things to all men he founders
ludricously. = 
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Either the supreme court decision weakened the
trusts and strengthened competition weakened COM
petition and strengthened the trusts IT did it did
not do the other The evidence preponderates that it
strengthened the trusts insofar it has made plain and
legal the path toward consolidation The court has shown
them how to combine and be reasonable and therefore
immune from prosecution The path toward consolidation
has in twenty years become regular highway and is
crowded now and this decision will but hasten the pace
of those who ELL it. Mr. Taft friendly he has always
been the big interests and representing them he
does today In the White House, just he formerly rep
resented them the federal BENCH if he wse would
not dssembe and pretend but tell the truth he knows
1T about the trend toward the saving of CONSOLE
dation and offer the only remedy that capitalism can
clear He the head of the Republican party would face
the legendary contention of the old time democrat party
and would witness interesting and square fight of
government controlled combinations against indViduals
tic competition.
In not doing this he fools no one but himself and his
financial hackers. They not all brainy as Gary,
and do not know that their only shelter the impend
And their foolish advice Taft is foolish enough accept
Government regulation is coming. It is already
heres In the Interstate Commerce Commission and the
Railroad Rate Commission 1t will spread to other spOkes
of our industrial Wheel Then the people will learn that
the government cannot regulate industry long the
captains of industry regulate the regulators and from
time to time honest regulators will stand up here and
there and tell this truth
The transition to government ownership is then
simple and gentle STEP One by the industries will
fall under governmental CONTROL usually by purchase and
this will be Estate Socialism," Steadily and surely the
movement of democracy in government will go forward
the people will gain control Of their government Bonds
will be retired private profits will be eliminated prOduc
ton viii be for alone and the worker will get the full
social value OF his product. This will be Socialism
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