The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-11-22
Sherman Law Carries Pris-
on Provision For Guilty
Trust Magnates.
IF TRUSTS GAN &c DISSOLVED
Why Cannot Men Who
Organize Them be
Prosecuted?
Republicans Said to be Try
ing to Work New Shell
Game on People.
BY c. II. Tavcnncr.

Washington, Nov. 22.-Why is the
Wlckersham suit aHllnst the Steel
trust one in equity instead of Grim
lnal prosecution?
The Sherman antitrust law car
r!es a provision by which guilty trust
magnates may be -ent to Jail. IL 1t
Is possible to dis olye the steel trust
under the Sherman, law--and Presi-
dent Taft and Attorney General
Wickersham boast that II Is easy TO
dissolve every Illegal combine in the
land under this statute--why are not
the men who organized and directed
these Illegal monopolies equally la
bic to successful prosecution
with the fact admitted that It was
in j. p. Morgan's library that the
steel trust conspiracy was developed,
that It was he WAC sent Gary and
Frick to see President Roosevelt
about the Tennessee Coal and Iron
co. merger. and that Morgan received
$4,000 900 in clear profit for his part
In the organization work, 1t would
appear to the lay mind that Morgan
Is Just as liable to prosecution for hav
ing organized am Illegal monopoly as
said monopoly Is liable to dissolution
for being in existence in violation of
the law.
Guilt Is Personal.
The American public is about con-
Nnced that trust magnates care lit
tie or nothing about suits, as Ions
ns they are directed against corpor-
atoms and not Individuals and cspec-
tally if the government trust buster
Is TO be former trust attorney and
member Of political party whose
campaign funds we're supplied by the
very trust he proposes to dissolve.
Rebating by railroads could not b'
stopped until the offense was made
penitentiary one. When this wal
done, rebating stopped.
A remote possibility of having t'
| dissolve" under a plan which the!
thems elves can stlpulate, (see Su
| premc courts acceptance OF the to
| bacco tru % reorganization plans)
or the thrtl, ei hne against the trus
instead OF individuals, has time ant
again proven an insufficient deter
! rent 10 trust magnates who see al
/ opportunity % make millions OF dol
lars annually by dlsregarding the law
There is one thing that trust mag
mates are afraid of, and apparent
oao thlag only That is the peni
| tertiary.
when an attorney general can .
found who viii enforce the onl
feature Of the sherman law tina
will cause trust magnates TO reall
obey the law and not until then wi
the public be Justified In eNpectin
relief from trust oppression an
the consequent high prices.
What the People Say.
The people OF the United STATE
pay a subsidy In artlhcially high pri'
es to the wool Industry OF at lea
S104, 900 600 a YEAR according to n
calculations Of Hon Oscar w. "
derwood Of Alabama, chairman OF II
ways and means committee OF u
house OF representatives.
"The Payne Aldhich tarin lof
l,cents per yard, to say nothing Of al
increase in tax as It passes to U
jobber, makes not less than $lO4
100000 paid each year to subsldi
the wool industry OF America sa
Mr.. Underwood. NOW the entire du
les actually paid the United stat
on all imports Of woolens In 10
amounted 10 less than $l5,OoO,Ot
which means that Of the $lO4,OO'
600 extorted from the purchasers
woolens nearly $9o.0O0,0OO went
the wollen Industry
'Ts It fair or just or right to nal
tain these enormous taxes undnly
: foster the business OF less than on