The Penn's Grove record., 1911-02-10
guished law officer it up and tale NO


guished law officer BIT up and take NO
tice:
9" have been presenting arguments
and data to the department of Justice
for 10! these many years. The at.
torney general is a good lawyer, but a
poor detective, and is utterly oblivious
to the fact that he needs facts to es-
tablish a case. He argues the law
most learnedly, but seems utterly IN
capable of a~scertaining the existence
Of those discriminating acts which the
law was designed to punish"
Facts Indicated by the Evidence.
In association with Mr.. Stanley
agents of the American Antitrust
league have been working up the evil
dence in the case. l am informed that
the foes of the trust promise to prove
at the hearings such significant facts
as these:
The directors of the trust control
the manufacture and price Of steel
in the United States.
They form practically the dominat-
ing force on the diractorates of the
great railway systems of the United
States.
They dominate the mobile banking
capital of the New York financial COM
munity.
The colossal financial Of
the three great New York insurance
companies are at their command.
Attack May Depress Business.
This is a prodigious and a danger
GUS power to be held in a few hands
even If the owners of those hands
are as responsible and as conserva-
tive as j. Pierpont Morgan and his as
sociates on the Steel trust directory.
And even their conservatism is a mat
ter of some question. MI. Stanley as
serts that Judge Gary threatens
boldly that to attack tho steel trust
is to destroy prosperity in this coun-
try, and his power to pro
duce panics and depression whenever
congress dares to do it."
Nobody doubts the ability of the
steel trust magates to accomplish
this execrable task If they undertook
Though perhaps in doing it they
might break themselves as did the
New York banks when they started
out to give congress an object les
son" in 1898. But merely by enforc-
ing curtailment of railway co2struc-
ton and expenditures they could bring
on a serious depression in business.
However 1t may be remarked paren-
thetically that a trust which sells in
Chilli for $14.75 per ton the same steel
rails that 1t purveys at home for s28
is not unself1shly encouraging railway
construction in the United States.
The criticism has been expressed
upon Mr.. Stanley's resolution that
being brought in at this short session
there will scarcely be time to get
action upon 1t, and, furthermore, that
if it is adopted the Investigating com
mittee will be a Republican commit
tee and might be predisposed in IA
vor of the trust. But the Stanley
resolution provides for the selection
Of the committee by the whole house,
not for Its appointment by the speak
er. | am informed that the so-called
insurgent Republicans will join with
the Democrats and appoint a commit
tee that will really investigate. If half
the allegations which were made by
Representative Stanley in his COM
mittee address can be su~bstantiated,
the attorney general will not only be
forced to proceed against the United
Ctafoc CfoaI oornorotiop b,,f mill ho \
obliged to give some heed to Governor
Harmon's famous maxim: Guilt Is
always personal"
The New Republican League.
And speaking of the insurgents,
they are beginning now to insurge to
some purpose. The establishment of
the National Progressive Republican
league has, of course, been widely n
nounced through the press associa-
lions. The character of its officers
and charter members give to it a Pc
culiar political significance which
probably has not been SO generally
celebrated. To begin with, the presi-
dent is Senatore Bourne of Oregon,
who won a feeting fame as the In
ventor of the phrase "a second cleo
toral term" and urging R~oosevelt's
denomination on that theory. But
Bourne deserves better fame for his
speech on the Oregon plan," in
he admirably advocated every
progressive doctrine from the initia-
tive and referendum to the election of
senators by direct vote of the people.
All that program President Taft OPP
poses. The first vice-president of the
league Is Representative Norris of
Nebraska, who precipitated the fight
on the Cannon rules and was for some
time ruled out of the White House.
The treasurer is Charles R. Crane CT
Chicago, appointed minister to China,
denied an audience with the secretary
Of state for the purpose of getting in
and then peremptorily re-
called after his family and his bag
gage were on the ship which was to
take him to his post.
1t does not look like a very friendly
for President Taft to
face in his effort to secur a renomi-
nation, does it?
Nine United States senators, among.
them Bristow, LaFollette, Beveridge
and Cummins, sign the declaration OF
principles. Six governors and 13 rep
resentatives, one of the latter a sena-
Observation-Disclosures of Washington
Among the unofficial signers
are such thick-and-thin Roosevelt
men as Clifford Pinchot and William
Allen White. But l am quite conf