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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-16
It PLEASES JUDGE GARY
Decision Should Have Good Effect
on Business, Steel Man Says.
VOICES GENERAL FEELING
1000 Combinations Must Plan
Reorganization, A. H. Walker
Says-Government to Act.

Ex.Judge L. H. Gary. chairman of me
hoard of directors Of the United states
Steel CORPORATION, was in consultation WIN
Washington over the long distance tele-
phone Yesterday after the Supreme Court
handed down its decision in the STANDARD
Oil case He talked with several lawyers
who were present in the courtroom wher
the decision was read.
The public has been waiting with grea'
anxiety for this decision Judge Gary salh
The fact that the case has been disposed
of should be of great value and beneht
From information received. the language
employed by the court should have good
effect In the comparatively near future
business conditions will be improved as a
result
Not only Judge Gary. but many other Of
ficers and managers of big corporations ana
their attorneys were in anxious consulta-
ton with Washington Yesterday afternoon
and evening The general feeling was one
Of pleasure at the language used by the
court, as reported over the telephone by
those vino heard the decision read.
AS We understand the decision from the
reports we have received" said the repre-
Sc NATIVE of ono large corporation. the Ian
guage shows that IT is intended 10 apply 70
corporations and combinations that have
pLrposely endedvored TO restrain trade
Judge Lacombe in his decision said that II
the Sherman law were strictly construed ac-
cording TO its language, there would be no
choice but TO force the large corporations
and combinations 10 dissolve"
The Supreme Court does not seem 10
have taken this attitude. From the re-
ports We have received Of the language OF
the court, corporations that have endeav-
ored 10 conduct their affairs in such a
way that there would be no complaint
from the public or from the officers OF the
government need not fear that their busi-
ness will be disturbed.
1T is my opinion that the decision was
an eminently fair one and just what was
needed in the case. If the reports / have
received are correct, ] would not change a
word If / could have the writing of the
opinion myself II should do a great deal
of good. There should he a great inn
provement in business. IT may not he
sudden. | do not think there will be any
sudden Improvement in business, but there
should be d gradual Improvement that be-
fore long will make itself felt all over
the country.
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that the statute could not he applied under
the facts in the case without impairing the
rights Of property and destroying the free
dom of contract Of trade which is essen
TALLY necessary TO the well-being of So
ciety.
But the ultimate foundation Of all
these arguments" said the Chief Justice,
"is tho assumption that reason may not
be resorted TO in interpreting and apply.
ina tho statute, and therefore that the
statute unreasonaby restricts the right
to contract and unreasonsbly operates
upon the RIGHT to acquire and hold prop
erty. As the premise is demonstrated
to be unsound by the construction we
have given tho statute. OF course the
propositions which rest upon that prem
se need no; be further noticed
Applying the Remedy.
Finally. the Chief Justice came to apply
the remedy. He said that ordinarily where
violations of the act were found to have
been committed it would suffice to enjon
further violations. In case, however,
where a monopoization or attempt 10 mo-
nopoize was established, or the existence
of a combination is proved, the continuance
OK which was a perennial violation OF the
statute. further relief was called for.
The lower court he pointed out had first,
enjoned the combination and in effect di-
rccted its dissolution; second, forbidden the
New Jersey corporation from exercising
any control by virtue of its stock owner
ship over the subsidiary corporations and
enioned those corporations from recognize
ing in any manner the authority or power
Of the New Jersey corporation by virtue Of
such ownership; third, enJoined in the sixth
section Of the decree the subsidiary cor
porations. after the dissolution, from doing
any act which could create a like Illegal
combination; fourth, enjoined the New Jer-
sey corporation and all the subsidiary cor
porations from doing any business in inter-
state commerce pending the dissolution Of
the combination by the accomplishment Of
the transfer OF stocks which the decree in
it's essence required. and. fifth. gave thirty
days 10 carry out the directions. of the
court
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-16
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-24
Editorial Comment
A Bishops Argument for War.

1NeW York World1
1t is depressing TO find a chufehman
| like Bishop Goldman of Maine using
such words as these:
| / believe we should be on our guard
lest We carry the talk of peace ana
disarmament too far. With
out war nation would degenerate
would become etfeminate morally ana
physically. War is a training
in moral courage, in elf-discipline,
Is 1t not evident that if riskins HE
and limb alone saves a. nation from
moral and physical effeminacy that
nations preparation for war will nev-
er save it? For can man well en-
ter any safer occupation than military
service in time of peace Is there any
training in courage, physical or moral,
In the life of a man scientifically
housed and dieted, under constant
medical supervision, whose work con-
sists mainly of calisthenics? Is it not
fact that the mortal risks which
ironworkers take in one year on the
skyscrapers of New York are greater
than the risks of the whole German
army during the 40 years since its war
with France 1t il not therefore, on
BlShop Goldman own line of reason
ing, by the perils of peaceful eecupa-
tions rather than by the security of
warlke preparations that a nation
keeps fine edge on its courage in
times of peace?
And when war itself comes ii does
not create courage but simply utilizes
and sacrifices the courage with which
peace has provided it. For war is the
test and not the generator Of courage.
1t is the spirit of no past or future
war that causes the thousands of hero
ic acts in our own present daily life
Neither war nor preparation for wal
is needed to preserve from etfeminacy
nation in which an army of more
than $4,000 brave men each year are
killed in the hazardous pursuits OF
neace
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-24
RaiIroadina in Darkest Africa.
(Boston Transcript

tbOStOil IIdliSCiiPt-y
Unless Sir Charles Metcalfe is car
red away by sanguine temperament
the world is soon to witness the open
ing of an era of great railroad deVel-
opmeHt in mid Africa. The general
scheme, the completion of which VIII
shorten the journey from London TO
Rhodesia by a week or ten days, Is
to bring about the cooperation of Brit
sh. Portuguese and Belgian interests.
for the construction of lines which
shall link the existing local railroads
into one system extending from Ben
guela on the Atlantic far up to the
north of Rhodesa. Incidentally to
this general plan it is proposed to have
the railroad meet the boat navigation
Of the Congo at Katama, while the
two lines under contemplation Will be
branches and feeders of the Cape to
Congo system
Work VIII be started first on the con-
struction Of the extension of the Ben
guela road to Katanga in the Congo
State. This involves the laying of l56
miles of rail- and Sir Charles Metcalfe
is confident that the rate Of progress
can he pushed to 500 miles year.
Such figures to Americans recall the
booming days of the early SOS. when
our railroads were racing across the
Southwest to the cheerful tune of "a
mile a day" Such speed is not likely
to be equalled in the United States in
the near future, for we are pretty well
"railr0aded." and the time is more OPP
perfume for new traCkage rather than
for new lines. In Africa, however, the
conditions are favorable for records"
Labor is cheap and abundant, the right
| of way costs nothing and capital is
willing. Rival national interests slim
| ulate construction of some lines,
whereas international understandings
| like those basic to the latest develop
| ment have the same effect on others.
| Clearly in the present advance of the
| rail from the Atlantic to RhodeSia
| there is cooperation of British, Belgian
and Portuguese promoters the first
| named supplying a good deal of the
working capital, seconded by the Bel
| gians. The Portuguese contribute
their knowledge of the country, their
finished surveys and their good viii
in consideration of a share of the ex-
tension beneficial to their somewhat
backward possessions.
The great vertebral line of railroads
In Africa is what is known as the
| Care-to-Cairo system. Today its rail
mead must be at least 1900 miles north
OF cape Town, and transportation has,
lor more than a year, been carried on
regularly. The northern part of the
project from Khartoum to Cairo has
io4i miles of track in service. but be-
tween the two sections is a gap of
rather more than 1900 miles. the SPAN
hlhg OF which must depend in great
measure on the profits attendant upon
the operation of the completed divis-
lohs III these bring up population
from the southwark, if the Rhodesian
Doom reVlVes, the promoters will fee
IKE pushing the rail towards Khar-
toum' put it is quite probable that
conservatism" will govern their on.
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The Murderous Fly.

Pittsbrrg Chronicle Biography
In view of the revelations concerning
the deadly nature If the fly il can be
readily understood how one member of
family may be stricken down by
ny ohoid, While others escape, i'm a
home where all the ordinary sanitary
precautions are observed. That one
person may have swallowed the only
portion of food that had been infected
by a fly, and naturally there has been
mystery why there were lot other
victims in that home. Country and
city alike are menaced ny the fly, and
every community owes debt of graft
tude to the promoters OF the campaign
having for its object the complete an
nihilation of the ;iy pest. In addition
Ia gratitude there should lie general
cooperation, for L is Il campaign in
which all ear aid. Now is The time to
rid the mouse of flies that survived the
winter months, and then see to it that
doors md windows ere properly
screened. As flies require filth in which
TO breed II Is further recommended
that all mouse and stable refuse be re-
moved 1T least twice week. and be
kept in alright tin reccptacles until
removal. Eternal vigilance is the price
Of freedom from typhoid fever
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-24
A New Triumph for Arbitration.

INeW York W0rld)
That France at the same time as
Great Britain should be a party to the
proposals made by the United states
for general treaty of arbitration is
an added triumph for Mr.. Taft.s pol
lev. 1t was known that the French
Government had expressed sympathy
with the purpose of the negotiations
between the United States and Great
Britain. but that it is ready at the
outset to join them in entering into
similar treaty comes by way of a sur
prise.
A movement for international peace
that begins so auspiciously under the
leadership of three of the worlds
greatest powers cannot fail To i'm
press other nations that have looked
with sceptieism upon the enlightened
ideals of the new century. Sir Ed
ward Grey. the British Foreign Sec
rotary, when in the House of Com
mons he welcomed Mr.. Taft's sHgges-
ton of general arbitration. spoke of the
moral effect upon other countries of
such a treaty between the United
States and Great Britain. France has
already been converted, and the United
States. Great Britain and France.
standing together as examples of what
can be done in the way of putting into
operation a practical plan of peace and
progress, will furnish a lesson which
the rest of the world cannot ignore.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-24
Vital Lampada.

There's GREATNESS nush In the close
tonight
Ten to make and the match to win
A humping pitch and a binding light
An hour to play and the last man in
And it's not for the sake of a rbboned
coat.
Or the selfish hope of seasons fame,
But his captains hand ON his shoulder
smote,
"Play up! play upl and play the gameP'
The sand of the desert is sodden red
Red with the wreck of q square that
broke
The gatling's jammed and the colonel
dead,
And the regiment blind with the dust
and smoke;
The river of death has brimmed his
banks.
And England's far and honor a name,
But the voice of sehoolboy rallies the
ranks,
"Piay up! play up! and play the camel
This is the word that year by year.
While in her place the school is set.
Every one of her sons must hear,
And none that hears il dares forget:
This they all with a joyful mind
Bear through life like a torch in name,
And falling fling to the host behind
"Play up! play up! and play the game p
Henry Newpoit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-24

The town of Presque Isle has voted
unanimously to enter into a contract
with the trustees of the State Normal
schools by which the Normal school at
Pressure Isle takes over about 400 of
the Grade schools in that village for
Normal Training school The PROPOSE
ton provides for the town turning over
TO the State for a period of five years
the old High school building and a
smaller building on the same lot and
paying to the State the sum of $4,000
annually, the state in return to furnish
teachers, pay all running expenses ana
make certain interior changes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-24
Senator Frye,s Home COMING.

Senator William p. Frye leaves
Washington for his Lewiston, Maine
home today wednesday,. He feels
that as nothing is being or can be done
al the Reciprocity session" of Con
gress. he may as well return to a more
comfortable climate. If conditions
arise to create need for his presence
in the Senate he will return to the
national capital
Sunday afternoon Senator Frye
granted an interview to A. Maurice
Low, correspondent of the Boston
Globe, which is of interest and signifi-
canoe to the people of Maine. Quot
ing Senator Frye's words Mr.. Low
gives the following:
AS a matter of fact, / think this
extra session a great political and
business blunder. So far as / can see
nobody wants reciprocity with Canada.
What the Senate will do about it
cannot predict, but l am sure it will
not take long to prove what great
mistake this extra session is
Maine greets her veteran statesman
with Well done. thou good and faith
full servant" and extends a ..weleome
home" For more than 40 years he
has served his people to the best of his
keen intelligence, broad mind and
physical ability. In the closing years
of his service the Pine Tree State re-
gretfully recognizes what he makes
plain in his interview, that he is mot
as young as he used to be-" but, at the
same time. that his mind is still ac-
tive and level in the affairs of his
country Maine will sincerely mourn
when Senator Frye steps down from
the stage of governmental activities
Long years of service must almost in
evitably be necessary to his successor
to acquire his grasp of affair.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-24
Constitutional Prohibition.

tItNiStOH GOun.
The theory of Constitutional prohibi-
ton is essentially vicious. II pretends to
do something that cannot be done-dis-
pose of the subject once for all. As We'll
put the weather into the Constitution.
Or the stomach.
The Constitution is a frame of Govern
ment 1t provides for the selection of
the essential organs of government Ii
establishes certain rules for the per-
formance of the various government du-
ties. 1t repeats some of the ancient
guarantees of English liberty. But ii is
not the purpose to prescribe public poll
cy. That is left to the Legislature con-
trolled by public opinion expressed in
regular elections
Whatever law public opinion prefers
for meeting the drink evil-whether pro-
hibition or high license, or low license.
or wide or narrow local option-that law
should be enacted by the elected Legisla-
ture, and subject To change by succeed
ing Legislatures according as public
opinion changes. 1t has no proper place
in the Constitution.
The proposition before the people of
Maine this year is to take out of the
Constitution what should never have
been put into the Constitution 1t is to
permit and require the people To choose
the law they will have and to keep
choosing as long as they have any doubt.
1t is what is called popular government
There might be something in what
the Lewiston sun says ii the issue had
been framed up so tnat it would be pos
sible to vote for the Suns ideas without
also voting for licensed rumshops Inc
issue could easily enough have been
framed up in that way, but the inter-
ests that are paying for the work against
the Maine law would not have il so.
They do not care a tinker's dam for the
theoretical considerations discussed by
the Lewiston sun, all they want is Ii
cense to sell rum. l-Springvale Advocate.
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armers and Farmers"
New York SUM

(NeW York SUM
Representative Moss, of Indiana the
only member of congress who actually
follows a pillow when not legisla;ing,
today told the house of representatives
that, in his judgment, the Canadian
reciprocity bill would eventually open
markets worth 100000. 900 annually to
the farmers of the United States
Washington dispatch.
Most of the farmers" in congress
who oppose Canadian reciprocity are
lawyers. although they may have been
born on a farm and their earliest re-
collections are of doing the chores.
The Hon. Ralph w. Moss, of Clay
county, still follows the pillow and rides
the moving machine and milks the
cows when he is home at Center
Point. His advocacy of reciprocity
means something. He stands with
Tama Jim Wilson and knows what is
good for the farmer. -
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est friends of reciprocity can hardly
criticise his view on this point.
The measure will not be safe after
1t gets out of the Finance Committee.
The Transcript correspondent always
mas been conservative as to the pros
poets of reciprocity in the Senate and
the events of the last week have not
tended to a more optimistic view. The
natural supporters of reciprocity, the
insurgents, are doing their best TO kill
it, and unless they and the Democrats
stand pretty solidly together in favor
of the bill its chances will be doubt
ful. One of the great difficulties will
be In reaching a vote"
The Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Tribune says: The add
ministration is beginning to realize
that the Canadian reciprocity agree
ment is in grave danger of defeat"
on May I6 the Washington cor
respondent of the Kennebec Journal
sent us the following which was pub
lished May Il:
Opposition to Canadian reciprocity" is
becoming more formidable. The farmer
element, whose leaders kept coming to
the city in successive contingents all the
week, made an impression upon the
members of the Senate finance commit
tee. The language of these farmer wit
nesses was very determined and they
threatened political vengeance in no un-
certain terms. 1t worried those Itepub
lican senator's, who have been intending
to vote for reciprocity. But in the wake
of the rural testimony has come the or
ganized labor witnesses who denounce
- "a
ganized labor. They tell the committee
that il puts laboring men, now accus-
toned to hours day. in competition
with Canadians, who work 10 and II
hours day In numerous trades.
When these labor representatives be-
gan to come on" and uttered protests
just as vigorous as the farmers had ut
tered even such reciprocity advocates as
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who is
a member of the finance committee,
seemed to waver The Bay Sta.e,
disturbed as long as only the farmers
were complaining, but organized labor is
very strong there The Republicans of
Massachusetts are not oYer-anXiouS 10
offend organized labor further.
Some argue that a situation is being
shrewdly framed up by which the Senate
will not vote for Canadian reciprocity
and that the extra session will turn out
10 be a rank failure There Is posi-
bility of this being done through an
amendment to the Canadian pact, by
which the farmers free list, recently
enacted by the House, will be taken
along Enough insurgents are ready TO
vote for it. The question is whether the
Democratic senators will cooperate.
But the reciprocity bill thus amended
would probably be weaker than as a
single proposition and ii is so weak any
way that in combination with the free
list il might fail
We are presenting conditions only
as they are in Washington and assure
our critic that we feel that we can af-
ford TO devote large share of our
energies to other matters now. If
YOU doubt us read what Senator Frye
says today on another page.
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erations. Meanwhile the steady growth
of Rhodesia seems to be an induce
ment for the opening of the new route,
and the people of a successful British
inland African colony are likely TO
bring vigorous pressure to Dear Tor
the improvement of their railroad
communications upon those across the
Soudan as we'll as upon those supple
menting their present facilities. As
Great Britain only bides its time FOR
pushing its influence southwark from
Khartoum, we may expect that when
the time is opportune, the work OF
closing the gap on the Cape-to-C Cairo
line will be vigorously undertaken and
as vigorously prosecuted.
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If the case of a young New York
stenographer is as reported in the
Metropolitan press some change ought
to be made in the New York laws re-
garding the detention of persons want
ed as witnesses. 1t Is claimed that
Miss Elizabeth G. Murphy, a stenog-
rapher, who was wanted as a witness
against her employer, d lawyer charg-
ed with altering the records of a police
trial. was kept prisoner in various
hotels and then a house of detention
for ca weeks. II does not seem right
that an innocent person charged witt
no offence but wanted only as a wit
ness should be treated as person
charged with a serious crime-es-
pecially while the one charged with the
crime is at liberty.
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9 9 o.
tllll I:ttIl
TIME AT WHICH TRAINS ARE

TIME AT WHICH TRAINS ARE Ex-
PEcTED TO ARRIVE AND DEPART,
In effect November n, 1910
FROM BANGOR
800 A. NJ. for Caribou, Van Buren,,
Fort Fairfield and intermediate stations
via Medford.
7.05 A. ID, for Greenville St Francis
FIT. Kent, Washburn. Grand Isle, NADIA
waska. Caribou. FIT. Fairfield and inter-
mediate stations. Dining car Bangor to
Mnlinocket
SIS A. NJ. for Searsport and intelme-
date stations.
250 +. M, for Caribou. van Buren, TT.
Fairfield and principal intermediate STA
lions via Medford. Change al No. Ma.
Jet. for Stockton and Searsport.
$50 p. NJ, for Greenvilie. Brownyfils
and intermediate stations
ARRIVE BANGOR.
7.30 p. NJ, from Searsport and interms-
date stations
$50 A. NJ, from Greenville, Brownviilo
and intermediate stations.
2.10 r. NJ, from Van Buren. Caribou.
and principal intermediate stations. DIM
ing car MilliRocket to Bangor.
BIS Z. NJ, from Searsport and inter.
mediate stations. Change to Maine Gem
trail train at No Me. jet.
$50 p. M, from Madawaska, Grand Isle.
Washbuhn, ST. Francis, Ashland, Carl
bou. FIT. Fairfield, Greenyiile and inter-
mediate stations.
Hos p NJ, from Van Buren,. Caribou.
FIT Fairfield and intermediate stations.
W. NJ BROWN, GEO. Nj. HOuGHTON,i
Genl Supt. Pass'r Traffic Mgr. 3