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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-19
Asks Bryan a Question.

/ shalt not attempt to give il q close
lawyer like Interpretation, but | thiAt
il Is not departing from the declara-
ton of the court 10 say that they litt
any contract in restraint of trade
made for the purpose Of excluding
competition, controlling prices, or of
maintaining a monopoly, in part or In
N,lale. is contrary to- the statute and
Is subject to injunction and indiet-
mcnt under this statute in the Fed
craI courts where il effects interstate
trade.
Now. ! would like to ask Mr.. Bryan
or any of the other publicists ana
jurists who have been denouncing this
opinion IS the surrender of the rights
of tac people and a usarpation of jul
dicial power to tell The public what
particular contract or restraint of in
te~state trade he would condemn
which would not be condemned with
in this definition of the court. The
difficulty with tine literal construction
Of the statute Is that Il would de
nounee 2 greet many minor or. Incl
dental restraints of trade, which mad.
the statute ridiculous and weakened
it's effect and lent support to the eriti-
cisms and contemptuous treatment OF
the statute by those who were op-
posed to it's passage and enforcement
For instance. take the instance cited
by Federal circuit judge in which he
said that under the literal construction
of the statute which must be enforced
If there were two persons doing a
wagon express business across a State
line and they united in partnership.
the union in the partnership would be
q restraint of interstate trade in yio-
lation of the statute. Such a result Is
really reductio ad absurdum, and no
one who was i'm favor of making the
statute effective for the purposes for
which 1t was passed, and had any in
telligent appreciation of what the sta
tute was intended 10 accomplish and
what il meant, would contend for such
a construction. II is true that in one
of the decisions of the Supreme Court
shore was a statement maee that tht.
term "reasonabic could not be intro
e,sesed into the statute because Con-
gress had not put it there. but the
very same court and the very same
judge. when a case arose presenting
demned as unlawful if a literal mean
ing were, VI be given to the statute,
said in so many words that 1t must be
reasonably construed, and II must not
be held to include contracts that were
merely incidental restraints of trade
and were not made for that purpose.
In one of these cases a man owned
some steamboats, that did an Interstate
business !, on the Ohio river. He
wished to sell out. He did sell out.
and in the sale Of the steamboats, he
wished to sell the good will of the line
whiehs he had been running "a Accord
ingfy he stipulated that he would not
himselfyengage in that business be-
tween those. same points for certain
number of years. This was interstate
business and his contract was in re-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-19

There Is more catarrh in this section OF
the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. For 4
great many years doctors pronounced it
a local disease and prescribed local
remedies. and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment. pronounced IL
incurable. Science has proven eatarrn to
be a constitutional disease and therefore
requires a constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
f. j. Cheney IL CO.. Toledo. Ohio. is the
only constitutional cure on the market.
1t is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonfui. It acts directly
ON the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case il fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
\ ea"ess: Il. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo
Ohio.
Sold by druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constlpa-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-19
A Line Between Trusts.


Many people conducting great busi-
nesses have cherished a hope ana a
belief that in some way or other line
may be drawn between good trusts
and bad trusts and that ii IL pos
sible by amendment TO the antitrust
law to make distinction under wiiich
good combinations may he permitted
to organize. suppress competition,
control prices, and do it all legally II
.nlv they do not abuse the power by
taking too great profit out of the bust
ness They point with force to certain
notorious trusts as having grown into
power Though crimiEa1 methods by
1.-THE use Of illegal rebates and plain
cheating, and by various acts utterly
lviolative OF business honesty or NOR
lality, and urge the establishment Of
Isome legal line Of separation by Which
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-19
IN ITALY.
Our dollars Are Accomplishing Much
Good In Foreign Countries.

Good In Foreign Countries.
The Italians are celebrating the 6oth
anniversary of the birth of modern ITALY
The debt OF gratitude to the matehless
Cavour to the spirit of MazziuiN and the
dash of Garibaldi are being acknowledged
by a series of jubilees and by great
many exhibitions at Rome. Turin and
Florence. Likewise IS there acknowledge
ment of the work done by Napoleon, and
tribute to French arms which ousted the
Austrians from Lombardy, to those of
the Prussians which prieked them out %
Neniee by the victory Of Sadowa, and
those of the Germans. which freed Rome
of the French.
The close Of the first 80 years finds
Italy nation so substantially bufit that
there IS No tear that its component parts
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-19
"Trusts'==As Treated by
Pres. Taft at Detroit, Mich.

criminal trusts of this kind can be
punished and they, on the other hand,
,lbe permitted under the law to carry
ON their business. Now the public,
and especially the business public
ought TO rid themselves of the idea
that such distinction is practicable
or can be introduced into the statute
certainly under the present an.itrust
law 10 such distinction exists Ii has
been proposed. however, that the word
reasonable should be- made a part Of
the statute. and then that II should be
1T tC the court 10 say what is a rea
sonaSle restraint of trade, what Is q
reasonable suppression OF competition
What is n reasonable monopoly ven
ture to think that this is to put into
the hands OF the court a power inapos-
sible to exercise on any consistent
principle which will insure the uni
formity Of decision essential to just
| judgment. 1t is to thrust upon the
courts a burden that they have no pre-
cedents to enable them to carry, and
10 give them power approaching the
| arbitrary. the abuse OF which might
involve cur whole judicial system in
disaster.
| This paragraph has been quoted and
spread on the record OF the Senate on
The motion of Senator who consid-
cred this TO be at variance with the
decisions Of the Supreme Court. In
stead Of being at variance, it is in eX-
lact accord With those decisions.
Again. from those who have giver
up free competition as an economic
force tina, ought TO De encouraged OF
Ecnforced, and who are utterly opposed
10 the spirit of the antitrust law, We
have frequently heard the question
l'Wel. suppose You convict those large
combinations under the statute. what
are you going 10 do about it? YoJ
lean, perhaps, send some men to the
penitentiary for creating these com
Einations which nave cheapened the
cost of production and given you mos
lof your foreign trade and much Of you,
prosperity. but what are you going tC
DO with the capital invested, the plant
and the organization You can con
lfscatc ii and ruin your country by {
lpanie. but YOU can't divide such com
binations into their component part:
again. for the lines OF division hav,
unsupported into common owner
ship
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-19

straint Of trade, but the supreme
court held that it was q mere Incl
dental restaint, |. e., Incidental to tn"
sale of the good will, ana 50 was not
within the statute. This would have
been the same at common law, where
from time immemoriai such re-
straint as this has been held Ia be
reasonable because limited Ia The ne
cessity of preserving the good Will
when the vender was selling. ard
which but for such an agreement
would be worth nothing. In other
words, the supreme court in this cas-"
gave a reasonable construction to the
statute and eliminated from its opera =
ton those harmless useful incidental
restraints growing out of lawful con-
tracts which are made for an entirely
different purpose from that of con-
trolling prices or maintaining monop-
DIV by suppressing> competition and
which have always been recognized as
properlv enforceable by courts of both
law and equity. | repeat again that
in spite-of all the denunciations that
we have heard of the decisions of the
supreme court in the Standard OIL and
the Tobacco cases. there is not one
who has criticized them that car
formulate q contract in restraint oi
trade that ought 10 come within the
statute that does not come within i
under the decision OF the supreme
court
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-19
Court Met the Issue.

ship.
Court Met the Issue.
| The court has met the issue and the
queries presented by the doubters and
the seoffers. II has indicated the ma
jesty of the law, has illustrated the
wonderful elasticity and adaptability
iof remedy by injunction in equity, and
has at the same time manifested due
regard for the welfare of the innocent
business men and the community at
large. who. in cataclysm caused by
the confiscation of such enormous cap
| ital as are involved in these comhina-
tiens and SUSPENSION Of the legiti-
mate part Of their business, would be
buried with them in a common ruin
| The court has exhibited a courage in
facing the necessary results in enforc-
ling the statute that, instead of
prompting an attack on it, ought to
make every American proud that we
| have such tribunal. 1t is now en-
| forcing its decree against the stand
| ard oil Co. and against the Tobacco
| Co, and is making those great COM
Dinations divide themselves into ac-
tually competing parts under such
provisions i'm the decree that an in
| junction shall be constantly operative
TO prevent by contempt proceedings
any assumption of the old relations of
ter IN reference. to the Standard Oil
Co. because il was easy to divide up
the various companies that We're unit
ed by the ownership of stock of all the
companies in single holding COM
- p ~
could not be worked out so easily, and
III will be necessary to separate the
properties owned by single companies
and to distribute these plants into diff
ferent and differing ownerships in or
der TO create competition between
them and maintain that competition
by the power OF a continuing injunc-
ton against any future union, or any
agreement to avoid future competition.
1t needed these two great decisions to
teach the business public that az least
not in the supreme tribunal OF this
country would the claim be listened to,
that in this day and generation we
have passed beyond the possibility of
free competition as consistent with
proper business growth, or that we
have reached time when only regu-
lated monopoly and the fixing of prices
by governmental authority are consis-
tent with future progress. We did
get along With competition; We can
get atoms with 1t. we did get along
without monopoly; We can get along
without II; and the business men or
TINS country must square themselves
to that necessity Either that, or we
must proceed to state socialism and
vest the Government with power to-
run every business the decision OF
the supreme Court is in the hignest
interest OF the public, ana am glad TO
think that business men VINO nave
been violating the trust law are now
being made TO see the necessity for
putting their houses in order, chang
ing their original organizations, giving
UP the laea that II IS necessary 10 con-
tfol markets IN order 10 make lTOlltS.
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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-01-12
COMPROMISING WITH GRAFT

Judge Kcncsaw Mountain Lands
Of Chicago seems to be Il man of adj
mirahlc spuuk. 1t is refreshing to
see once in while n judge who oh.
jrcts to being tritled with even by
the government.
Three men were indicted in Chi
cago upon charges of having de.
fraudcd the government out of large
sums of internal revenue. 1t is "A
serious OtTrnsr, and conviction car
rics the possibility, or rather the
certainty, Of severe punishment.
one of the three was tried to "A
Jury in Judge Lands court and was
convicted of having aided in dcfraud-
ing the government out of 500, 600
in company with the other two men.
Then the other two got scared and
proposed to settle by paying the
government the revenues withheld
by them. It reached the ears of the
court that the treasury department
was disposed to settle in that way.
The process suggested itself to
Judge Lands as IA revolving one,
unjust to the one who had been con
victCd and not calculated to discOur-
age such crimes.
Wherefore he delayed sentence of
the Culpcit who had been convicted
and openly declared that il the
treasury department settles with
the others he will turn the fellow
loose.
Judge Lands is right about 1t.
Those who defraud the government
or any private person, ought to SUI
fer punishment,
Public officers who settle these
cases and REIMBURSEMENT prosecu'
lions upon merely getting the money
back are pursuing dangerous pol
icy.
1t Is questionable If they have any
right to settle with criminals. II
! looks too much like compOunding {
crime.
Representatives Of the government
have been doing too much OF this
1t doesn't look good. 1t doesn'
look honest.
1t opens a way for suspicion o
bribery of public officials by thOs,
who would escape prosecution 70
crime.
The people will applaud the stan'
Judge Lands has taken and vii
hope to see him stand pat on it,
Let's get some of the shameless
crooks and grafters in the peniten
tiary. 1t will have "A wholesome Of
feet.
1t will not discourage graft t
have it known that the culprit VIII
is caught at it can escape wors
punishment by paying back tn
graft Lincoln iNeh. Star.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-01-12
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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-01-12

IT T begins to look as II the
United States Senate might
declare vacant the seat of
Senator Lorimer of Illinois, whose
election is clouded with the gross
est kind of corruption and bribery.
A majority Of the committee to
whom the scandals associated with
his election was referred, reported
in effect that the number Of bribed
votes of which they were made
cognizaut were not sufficient to in
validate his election, that there
was no proof that Lorimer had
himself purchased any of the votes
cast for him or knew Of the brib'
cry in his behalf, and was there
fore entitled to his seat. The in
vestigation appears to have been
half hearted sort or aHalr aho
didn't try to go beyond the admis-
sions of the self-confessed bribed
members of the Illinois Legisla =
ture. But this report seems to be
hanging fire in the Senate, and q
good many Senators are not dis
posed to accept it, but are stirring
up a sentiment in favor Of declar
ing his seat vacant. There is nc
doubt that there is a very bad odoi
pervading the Lorimer matter, and
it is not reasonable to suppose that
those who have confessed to being
bribed were the only offenders
against decency and honor con-
nected with the case, or that Lori.
mer knew nothing OF the, corrupt
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-01-12
Spit, Quit, Fit.

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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-01-12

United States Senator Stephen
b. Elkins of West Virginia died on
the Sd inst. This will necessitate
the election Of two United States
Senators by the Legislature of that
State, one to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the death of Senator FL
kins and one to succeed Senator
Scott, whose term expires on the
4th of March. The Legislature is
Democratic on joint ballot, and
two Democrats will be elected
making a gain of two on the Dem e.
ocratic side of the Senate.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-01-12
HN the contested election cases
instituted by the Democratic

III y the contested election cases
instituted by the Democratic
candidates for State Offices
before the Supreme Court, on ac-
count Of alleged frauds and irregu-
larlties in st. Louis at the NOyem-
Der election, the Supreme Court
decided that it had no jurisdiction
over the contests for Railroad
Commissioner and State SuperIn-
teudcnt of Public Schools, because
of the omission of the names Of
these offices in the Constitution
and statutes relating to contests.
The Democratic contestants for
these Offices therefore took the
matter to the Legislature, At II
caucus of the Democratic members
last Tuesday, it was decided to
seat Wightmun aud Evans, Republic
cans, for these two offices respec O.
lively, on the face of the returns.
This action was taken because they
were convinced that the power OF
the Legislature to 90 back Of the
returns, open the ballot boxes and
recount the votes, was not clearly
authorized by the Constitution or
the statutes. And as the taking
up Of the contests would tie up all
business of the Legislature until
the whole question was settled, II
was concluded best to let the Re-
publlcans take the offices. The
contests for the Supreme Judge
ships, however, will probably be
pushed to fnality, and whatever
crookedness there was in the cleo
ton will be brought out in them
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-01-12
sSNEPU LICA n politicians
lin claim that there was no

I'm claim that there was no
corruption nor irregularity
in the election pulled off in st.
Louis on the Sth of November, but
in the contests instituted by the
Democrats they are throwing all
the obstacles in the way possible
of reopening the ballot boxes and
recounting the vote. II they are
so dead sure of their position we
should think they would be eager
TO turn on the search light, give
themselves a glorious yindicatlon
and be done and over with it. We
have never had any doubt that
there were fraud, irregulurlty and
incompetency among the Judges
and clerks of election in that city
at the last eIection-probably not
much more than is common Mt all
elections in big citles-but We do
doubt that enough Of the frauds
aud irregularities will ever be un-
earthed to affect the general result
as returned by the election judges
Not that they are not there, but
fraud burrows deep.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-01-12

doings in his favor and that he
had nothing to do with them. A
man under such cloud is hardly
the right man to represent great
State like Illinois in the United
States Senate, and the Senate,
which is the sole Judge Of its own
members, cannot afford to take
him under its wing and shelter.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-01-12

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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-01-12
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