Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-06-23
rad Oil case says

Tau VII CdSc
while dissolsing the Standard
Oil Company. it the (decisionl
virtually amends the law so as to
make il necessary to prove that
any restraint of trade complained
of is unreasonable. The effect of
this practically will be to nullify
the law and TO make il necessary to
amend the Sherman antitrust law
and make it more stringent"
We wish that Mr.. Bryan would
rouse himsef and go back to what
first gave him real fame that he
wOIld take the stand that the
trusts. some good and some
vicious, are bat details after all;
that the n great gold combine is
what is sapping the strength of
the country; that il is Or ostrating
Business and makingall Americans
servitors of that mighty gold
power, which is paralyzing husi-
ness and demoralizing the whole
country and proclaim that it
must be shorn of its abnormal
power; that the first essential is to
call a congress of the nations to
fix upon a fair ratio between gold
and silver and on that basis; then
to create a financial system
through which the country's bust
ness could be adjusted so that
business men could carry on their
enterprises withot fear of panics,
and if they needed loans they
could on good security, get all the
money they might need at fair
rates, a system which would cnce
more make money a medium of
exchange ard a fair measure of
values. If he C uld do that he
would be the next president of the
United States. and could have
something else vastly more
satisfying namely. the consciousness
OF hlvilI served hts country and
his country men more effectively
than any other mar has since the
great way closed.
The truth is, The American
people are working now for
clothes and board merely, with the
prospect before them that the
failure of one crop could PROSTATE
the business of the lard for years
to come. During the great war
the whole north prosperpd on
which to do business though that
medium was in an imperfect one
depending upon the wisdom of our
statesmen and the valor our
soldiers to make it Of any value.
Wat is needed now is such an
increase in attainaLle money as
will pc rmit business TO go on un-
hampc red-not such moEey as
was forced on the people in the
war;. but money as good as gold
that people on ample security can
obtain.
Wise men have been fighting the
Standard Oil trust for years.
What for? Because il is a
monopoly though il has supplied
the public with better oil tn an
they ever obtained before and at
cheaper 'ates. But they lave
non of them attacked the methods
used by that company. in combina
ton witr other companies in their
handling of the profits of their
business though that combination
was finally through its awful
power, able to obtain control Of
all the gold in circulation and made
Of the people of the United States
mere servitors of that combine. All
other questions-tariF, recir-
rocity. ordinary trusts, c%onscrva-
ton, arid lands, swamp lands are
trifling compared with this. There
must be a new financial system
put in operation in this country
or with the failure Of one crop our
country would be the pity Of
Venezula or San DOmingo.-Judge
Goodwin in Salt Lake Telegram.
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