The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-17
PROTECTION
FOR TRUST
MAGMA TES
Not q Single GulIty CtTfOrailaI.
OfftndsT Has Been Sent
TO jail
lBy Clyde Il. Tarennerl

tBy Clyde H. Tsyenner)
Washington Oct i5-Presiden
Taft is demanding 70 know with
great bravado. what sine.e case o
combination in restraint OF trade
which ought 0 be condemned could
not be reached under the supreme
courts Interpretation OF the anti
trust law in the Standard oil and
Tobacco cases
There are few who care TO take is
sue with the president The aver
age man believes taat the trusts
could be reached. j. the govern
ment would set out in good faith 20
reach them.
The vital issue is not whether the
trusts could be reached The real
important uestion is: Why is that
not single guilty trust magnate has
been sent to jan, or even called 10
the bar of Justice? The answer is
that the government does not send
trust magnates TO Jail nor control
the trusts because tle trusts control
the standpat Republican machine,
and for fourteen years the standpat
Republican machine, in recognition
of campaign fund donations and 9TH
er favors, has permitted special priv
ilege 10 name the man to be in
charge of the prosecuting machinery
of the government.
Former Corporation Lawyer
The present attorney general Is
George W. Wickersham, whose las
act before taking charge of the gov
ernment prosecuting machinery WIS
TO draw down his share of a hand
some fee paid his law firm by the
sugar trust Wien a movement was
started to bring about congression-
al investigation OF the sugar trust,
Mr. Wickersham headed it off bl hay-
ing President Taft send i message 10
congress advising against the inves-
tigation on the ground that 1t might
give imp8iinity TO the men higher up
and otherwise embarrass the admin !
istRatiun Although the trust prac-
aically admitted having stolen over
81 100000 from the government by
returning il after the crime was dis
covered, not a single one OF the trus
magnates into whose pockets the 81
900 900 would have gone had not tae
theft been discovered. was called TO
the bar of justice, much less punish |
ed. Mr.. Wickersham permitted an |
i1ilNGt4t li4- hENlEAd4s GiA "a tNN N~N''- I
hands TO alone stand the vengeance +
OF the law. When American sugar !
interests purchased vast tracts OF
nm ar iands in the philippine
in violation OF the law, Mr. Wicker
snam again came TO the rescue WITH
an opinion upholding the sale.
Poses As Trust Buster i
Mr Wickersham is now posing as
the great trust buster. He pretend
mat he will drive the trusts out oil
business, and some OF the trusts pre- 4
tend that they take his threats sefi-
ously. But the record Of the attorney
general is not one that gives the peo-
ple any reason to hope for enforce
ment of the law against criminal
trusts or guilty trust magnates le
first thing Mr. Wickersham did upon
taking Office was to drop importahJ
suits against members of the peel
trust. His explanation was that ne
didn't believe the trust oiiiclals
meant 10 do wrong
The extent of Wall streets great
fear Of Mr Wickersham as prose.
cutor of trust magnatea is ndlcalea
by the remark Of ] p Morgan, VINO
when ne was asked by newspaper
man what he thought Of the attorney
generals great antitrust speech
which had been delivered more han
4 week previous, replied; i don
mink anything about d. because
haven't read 1t.
BEGINNING OF CHRISTIAN ERA.
In the year 391 Of our era Theodo-
sinus the Greek issued IN edict aDol-
nhia.. .nranisn- and idnlalrn ihrough- !