The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-19
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classified civil service. But they won't
do lat least. they won't do II now.
III / had the making OF the laws or
this country the first IninS ! would do
would be to include in the civil Gel
vice every collector, deputy collector
and everybody connected wi.n the ih.e.
nal revenue system in local collections
ana put tho whole service on an euec-
tive. non-partisan basis. know that
II would be a source of economy.
know 1t would give the President a
great deal more time TO devote to other
duties. / know that 1t would save a
good many Congressman their seats
and know that 1T would tend to the
elevation OF the public service
The Presidents speech on trusts
follows:
Epoch-Making Decisions.
l propose to take up the question
which has occupied the attention of
the American people for now twenty
years. that of industrial combinations
known trusts" During the last
year we have had two great decisions
by the Supreme Court of the United
states. They are epoch making. and
the public has not yet come to realize
the effect that those decisions are Ger
tain 10 have 1t is not that the con-
upon the act is different from that
which most members of the profes-
sion, and most subordinate courts, and
indeed the Supreme Court itself. had
before indicated as the proper con-
structfon of the statute: but II Is that
II is now finally settled, by two fully
considered decisions in respect to two
OF the largest and most powerful OF
these combinations what their illegal
NY consists in. and how they are to
be treated. in view OF The finding that
they are illegal and do violate the
provisions OF the so-cailcd antitrust
or Sherman act.
Persons who do not understand the
effect or these decisions and really
DO not understand the law have n
great deal to say which is intended
10 lead the public to the belief that In
some way or other the Supreme Court
mas emasculatcd the statute and pre-
NHented It's operation against objec-
t4onablc and Injurious trade combina-
uons and conspiracies. Nothing is
further from the truth.
When the statute was passed in
t teso the expressions used in 1T to de-
Inc IT'S object and what it was pro-
Iosed therein to denounce as unlaw-
Lui were not new, but they were suf-
nIientiy broad and indefinite to re-
thcir meaning. Congress was dealing
win a subject matter in respect To-
mhicn IL may be assumed that the
legislators themselves were not cIen-
as to the exact limitations or ths
Hieahing OF the words in the statute
wss were passing. They knew there
an e'ii which they hoped 10 re-
strain By the enactment of this Law
and they relied upon the courts in
.heir construction OF the law to hedge
ABOUT its operation such restrictIon
aas "ouiu prevent the statute from be-
ing so wide in It's application az To- in :.
hIiNc aosurdity and the irrpract,cn-
Inc early decisions under the
NV ave can not be said to have been for
hunate The decision in what wa
known as the Sugar Trust c,se w.
might case-was really retrograde
s,"p and one which seemed to Iimj,
n,ucn inc operation OF the statute +.
tnepurascd the organization Of com
n,nations which the same cour, h., .
SINCE round violate the statute Tho
cd aAe 70 could tsd not be effectively present.
had .he court because the record
~ NOT neen properly made up. and
III quesiions arising were treated in
.ne opinion in such a way as 10 eirn