The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-10-26

or the law Wnlcn p0rmltS the COlloc-
ton of threefold damages when they
have been injured by trust. That
section is a powerful lever, and
would make those illegally organized
have more respect for the law"
Likewise, the people are surprised
that Mr.. Wickrsham as attorney
general does not take advantage of
the law which makes it possible to
send guilty trust magnates to jail.
They believe it would be an even
still more powerful lever"
A Starving Industry. ..
The wooden trust is the most in
sistent of all the trusts in it's demand
for high tariff. This trust still calls
itself an Infant industry" and its
agents told the members of the Ways
and Means committee that tho trust
, would starve to death If tue tariff
We're taken off of wool.
At Boston, on October IS, William
Wood, President of the Wooden trust,
was witness in a suit filed against
| him by man whom he had knocked
down and run over. The judge
asked how many automobiles he
owned.
81 don't know" Wood replied.
GLOW many chauffeurs do you en-
ploy?' asked the court.
81 never tried to keep track Of
them," Wood answered.
Imagine man so rich he cannot
keep track of the number of auto
mobiles he owns! Then reflect on
how many of the workingmen who
purchase Mr.. Woods highly protec-
ted products are unable to keep
track of the number of wooden suits
they or their children own.
Protection Helps Foreigners.
The Stanley steel trust Investigate
ing committee has made public the
export prices of steel trust products
This is very important piece of
differences in prices in favor of for
eigners, and therefore, probably will
result in a great reduction, if not
the removal, of all tariff duty on
steel.
The figures given out show that
the trust charges American consum-
ers $32.97 per gross ton for steel
plates, while supplying the identical
article to foreigners at $1,000. The
unprotected foreigner thus receives
an advantage of 1896 over the pro-
tected American consumer. The ad-
vantage given the foreigner in steel
rails is 1884 per ton; in tin plate,
$12.54, and in structural steel,
$3.50.
Query: If the steel trust sells it's
products cheaper to foreigners than
to home consumers, who is the act
ual beneficiary of the American pro-
tective system? The foreigner or
the home consumer?
Morgan Crowd Wanted Hughes.
In a recent speech in New York,
George w. Perkins, late partner of
J. P. Morgan, said that Gov. Hughes
was put forward in 1908 by Wall
street to represent the republican
party's position on the trust question
and that Gov. Hughes, in his speech
at Youngstown, O., construed the re-
publican promise to amend the Anti
Trust law as follows:
In our progress we must, avoid
false steps. Ours must be the rule
of reason" etc.
COuSIeSS Iel uScu W loSdllZ0 T6d-
sonable" or any other kind of mon
opolies, so Gov. Hughes was put on
the supreme bench and helped twist
the law to make it conform to the
trust idea of what the republican
promise meant
Add to Mr.. Perkins significant re-
mark, the further fact that Hughes
bitterly opposed an income tax, and
his qualifications as the Taft choice
for the supreme bench become read
lily apparent.
Soft for Beef Trust.
Ed G. Lasater, president of the
Texas Cattle Raisers' association,
says that 800 per cent profit dis
appears somewhere between the pro-
ducers and consumers of beef; that
prices paid producers are decreas-
ing, while prices extorted from con-
sumers are going up. He proposed
to find out who gets these fat profits.
No confidence is violated in the state
ment that he suspects the beef trust.
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