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Stronger Case Can Be Made
Against Other Trusts Than
Standard Oil.
TWO SCHOOLS OF
THOUGHT ARGUING
One Wants Competition at All
Costs, Other Favors Trusts
Regulated by Laws.

cisions. One school believes that
competition should be preserved at all
hazards. These would limit the capi-
talization OF companies as as some states
OF a particular industry that one cor
poration might control. Mississippi
allows no corporation of over $1,000
goo capital to be formed. Missouri
Jersey and several other States have
no limit. In the matter of limiting
the proportion Of business that one
corporation may control, Mr.. Bryan
mas proposed that 1t be placed at rs
per cent. Some Of the progressive Re-
publicans in Congress lean now to
such Limitation as this.
Consider Competition
Wasteful Method.
The opposing school of thought
takes the view that competition is
dead. or dying; that 1t is no longer
capable of being the regulator of
prices; that II is an uneconomic and
wasteful method at best, and ought
not TO be given further license to in
trude its extravagant methods.
These would accept the fact that COM
petition is an Intellectual remedy, and
would permit combination and con-
solidation to go to their logical limits
But they would not allow monopoly to
go unrestrained. Accepting monopoly as
the cheapest method Of production, they
would have the law conserve the pub
lies interest in the economies thus
brought about; they would, in effect
fix prices. They might do this directly,
as in the case of railroad rates. the
charges of public utility corporations,
etc. They might do it indirectly. as
by strict prohibition Of capital imitation.
supervision OF operations. and imita-
tion Of earnings.
Government Might
Regulate the Price
Thus would be brought a situation in
which a corporation with, say, 800. .OO0,O 900
might not issue capital against surplus
or earning capacity; 1t might not pay
over, say, per cent dividends. Unable
to get rid Of excessive profits If 1t was
earning them. 1t would have to reduce
the prices Of the things IT produced. II
necessary, the Government might step
in and compel such reduction, as it has
done with railroad charges and the
rates OF water, gas, street car. and
other public facility companies.
1t is evident that the contest Of the
future, for domination of the govern
mental policy toward great corporations
of the monopolistic tendency, is going
to be between these two views. The
sentiment Of Congress or OF constructive
leaders outside has not so far crystal
lized as to make it possible to determine
which course Is most likely to be adopt
ed. Between the two the fight is des-
tined to be long and hard.
The Washington times., 1911-05-17

The majority Of the directors Of the
Board of Trade don't seem to take
very kindly to the suggestion that they
''let George do it,
The Washington times., 1911-05-17

Business in all its forms is picking up
since the Standard OIL decision was
handed down. Even the rag man is no
exception here in Washington.
The Washington times., 1911-05-17

1t appears that a motor-driven COM
bination fire engine and hose cart in
tended for District service has gone off
on a personally conducted Joy ride.
The Washington times., 1911-05-17
Sports.

Awarding of prizes of annual Washing
ton City Duckpin Association tourna-
The Washington times., 1911-05-17
Production and Commerce
Very Different Things.

Following the rule laid down in the
two previous ones the court here held
that production and commerce are two
very different things. The State has
control over production. Therefore. If a
combination bought up certain refineries
and controlled the production Of sugar,
that was no concern of the Federal law,
because making sugar was very differ
The Washington times., 1911-05-17

The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times Sunday during the month Of April
was 27, so6, all copies left over and returned
when divided by s. the number Of Sundays
during April, shows the net Sunday average
for April to have been E,5a.
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ent from interstate commerce In II. The
mere monopoly of the instrumentalities
Of production was no assurance Of in
tent unduly to restrain commerce In
sugar. Consequently the court held that
the Government had not proved viola
ton of the Sherman act when II proved
that the Sugar trust had come into
monopoly OF the tnstrumentalties for
making sugar.
That decision has ever since plagued
the Government. 1t has been the bull
wark of the trusts. 1t Is overturned in
the Oklahoma case and the Standard
decision.
In the Oklahoma case. the Kansas
Natural Gas Company sought to pipe
gas out OF Oklahoma The Legislature
of Oklahoma passed a law forbidding
the taking of gas outside the State.
The court decides that Oklahoma may
not do this. A State cannot monopolize
its resources. Production Is not to be
regarded as merely State affair. 1t
Is an affair Of the whole people, greater
than the people of a single State.
Complete Reversal
Of knight Case.
Thus the court finds that. instead Of
the State being the sole and absolute
sovereign to rule over production with
in the state, the nation is the sole SOW
er1Rn; the natlOnaI interest alone must
be considered. In essence and in appli-
cation. this Is a complete reversal of
the Knight case.
In these two decisions, therefore. the
Knight case is destroyed root and
branch. The evil OF the Knight decision
lay in this, that it opened the way to
consolidate all the means OF produc-
ton in single control. That was made
legitimate and legal. Now. a single
ownership having been established over
all the instruments for making sugar.
there was no need Of conspiracy to fix
prices. This single ownership need not
Join with any other interest in a-con-
spiracy; II merely fixed the prices by
its own edict. 1t owned the whole sup
ply, and could fix the prices on its own
products, as any man may, whether he
is selling a bushel Of corn or a battle
ship. The element Of conspiracy was
eliminated.
Effect on Other
Combinations Problematical.
The effect that the Standard decision
will have on other combinations that
may later come into court is proble-
The Washington times., 1911-05-17

There will not be seats enough for
everybody at the unveiling of the statue
to Major L'Enfant, at Arlington, next
Monday, but it will be quite worth while
for every one to go along and carry a
camp chair.
The Washington times., 1911-05-17

The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times daily during the month OF April
was Lis, ,662, all copies left over and re-
turned being eliminated. This number. when
divided by ). the number OF days of publi-
cation. shows the net daily average for April
% have been l7l4S
The Washington times., 1911-05-17
Concerts Today
By the q. S. Marine Band, at
Potomac Drive, at S P. M.
WILLIAM H. sANTELMANN.
Leader.

Leader.
PROGRAM.
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auf Wartburg" Wagner
Overture-"n Guarany''. Gomez
Prelude-"Koeningsk
Humperdinck
Excerpts from "Lohengrin"
Wagner
waltz-"The Beautiful Blue
Danube" ....................Str Strauss
Badinage ...................H Herbert
Descriptive Fantasia-"Gipsy
Life ................Le There
March-"The Grand Duke of
Baden" .Friedemann
THE Star-.Spangled Banner"
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Fort Myer, Va, at AIS p.
GEORGE F. TYRRELL. Director.

PROGRAM.
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Overture, Summers Nights
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Excerpts from The Maid and the
Mummy ......................B Bowers
Waltz, Peggy O'Neal' .Lampe
Fantasia on Maryland. My Mary
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(Solo for all instruments.)
Reverie, THE Roses Honeymoon"
Bratton
Selection from the opera. Aida"
Verdi
Finale, "Preciosa" "..............Devery
By the o. s. Soldiers Home Band,
Bandstand, at 4 p. m.
JOHN s. NJ. zIMMERMANN,
Director.
PROGRAM.
March. "Our Governor
Zimmerman
Overture. "Jubilee" ..............B Bach
Meditation, ave Maria"
Bach-Gounod
Grand selection, Martha. -. .Flotow
Fantasia, alpine" .Tobani
Excerpts from Madame Sherry"
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Waltz suite. "Gold and Silver"
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Finale, "a True Soldier" -. .LacaIle
The Star-Spangled Banner"
The Washington times., 1911-05-17

In each issue Of The Times the circulation
figures for the previous day are plainly
printed at the head OF the first page at the
left OF the late line.
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APRIL CIRCULATION.
Daily.

The number OF complete and perfect copies
Of The Washington Times printed daily dur
ting the month OF April was as follows:
The Washington times., 1911-05-17
Old Knight Case Completely
Reversed in Essence
and Practice.
DODGED CONSPIRACY
IN FIXING PRICES
Evil Lay in Ruling That Produc-
ton Is Under State
Control.
BY JUDSON C. WELLIvER.

While the whole nation Is feverish
over the decision of the Standard Oil
case. 1t develops that the highest legal
authorities of the Government do not
even consider that the Standard case
was the most important decided on Mon
day.
While the Standard Oil decision con-
fessedly left the Sherman act enveloped
in more mystery and uncertainty than
ever, the court handed down another
case which is declared absolutely and
completely to have reversed its verdict
in the old Knight case, the historic
stumbling block in the way of trust
control The Knight case will no longer
have its changes rung by corporation
lawyers in the ears of Government
prosecutors whenever the latter under
take to assault a combination. 1t has
been wiped off the books.
Decided in Opinion
BY Justice McKenna.
But this was not done in the Standard
Oil case alone. While the Standard
case comedies in this revolutionary de-
cree, the case in which the court most
completely discusses the propositions
and reverses the policy of the knight
case is that Of Oklahoma VS.. the Kan
sas Natural Gas Company. Some Of the
Government lawyers. hearing the decis-
sions handed down, knew to an almost
absolute certainty, when they heard the
decision in this case read, that the Gov
ernment was going to win the Standard
case. The oklahoma case was decided
in an opinion by Mr.. Justice Nc
Kenna. which was read before the
Standard case. To all intents, 1t Is
declared. the Oklahoma case decided
the Standard case.
+ A remarkable line of cases was IN
truth reversed by this Oklahoma de-
cision. First came Cole vs.. Enrol, in
which the court discussed the relations
of interstate commerce 10 property in
tended for commerce, and took the
narrow view of the nations power.
Then came the case of Kidd VS.. Pear
son, in which the court held that a dis
tillery in Iowa might not make alcohol
for interstate commerce, because a
law prohibited making 1t for use In the
State. Next came the knight case
the great Sugar trust litigation.
Dxo5,c+;oo ,nd Hounu,a,ra
The Washington times., 1911-05-17
Sunday.

The number OF complete and perfect copies
81 The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month OF April was as follows
April 2...........47,ll0 April 23..........47.170
April e...........F.176 April 3o...........4s'lB
The Washington times., 1911-05-17

Entered at the Postoffice at Washington
d. c.. as second class matter.
The Washington times., 1911-05-17

DR.. Madison c. Peters able defense
Of the Jews In his lecture last night
was mighty enjoyed. To this race belong
many of Washington's worthiest citi-
zens, and, as President Taft remarked,
the race as such needs no defense.
The Washington times., 1911-05-17
What's on the Program in
Washington Today.

CThe Times will be pleased to an
nounce meetings and entertainments in
this column)
The Washington times., 1911-05-17

Total for ,236 l99
Daily average for month. b2i4S
The Washington times., 1911-05-17

Thomas Nelson Page spoke very en-
tertainIngly yesterday Of Washington as
''the common possession of all Amer
lean citizens" And while we are on the
subject we will just add that Mr.. Page
is one of the most valued of all our To-
cal possessions.
The Washington times., 1911-05-17

We are getting so accustomed to the
marvels Of modern surgery that we
don't express much more than mild
interest any more when some particu-
larry delicate operation saves a life
that would have been sacrificed a half
century ago. Take the case Of Police
man Daughton, who is in the hospital
with a bullet In his neck. The physi-
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-05-26

seeming dead line. unslung my
pick and got off with the avowed
intention of killing the whole outfit
of burrors on the spot. But when
| touched the ground l could not
move a foot. Looking around /
saw that we were on a great lode
stone. or edge of magnetic iron
and that we were all cemented to
it because of the iron shoes of the
burros and the nails in my boots.
the only wy l could get loose was
to slip my feet out of my bo its,
which ] did.
Il then walked to the valley. in
my stocking feet. where found
a rancher. Here | heard of a new
discovery. about 5 miles away, and
joined in the stampede. 1t was two
years before | returned to the
place where | had left ny hurros
and there | found them still stsI d.
ing. ossified
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-05-26
PURE FOOO CIRCULAR

The agricultural experiment
station of the University of
Nevada with DR.. j.. F. Stubbs
director and Sanford c. Dinsmore
chemist in charge of food control.
has issued circlar No. IL. THIS
circular deals with ~saccharin in
food. In speaking of this the
director and chemist in charge
have the following to say:
Saccharin is derived from coal
tar and is about $50 times as sweet
as sugar. On account of this
intense sweetening power. il has
been used in the manufacture of
food products, as a sub ititute fol
sugar, thus reducing the food
value of the product. saccharin
having no food value whatever.
Under the Nevada food and
drugs law an article of food is
deemed to be adulterated if il
contains any added poi sonous or
other deleterious ingredient.
Articles of food are also adulterat-
ed, within the meaning of the act,
if substances have been mixed
and packed with the foods so as
to reduce or lower or i%njuriously
affect their quality or strength.
The finding of the referee BOARD
show that saccharin is such an
added poisonous or other de-
leterious ingedient and that it also
reduces and lowers the quality of
the product in which it is used as
a substitute for sugar.
In accord with food inspection
decision No 1866, issued by the
United State department of ari-
culture under date of April rs,
1911 we shall regard as adulterated
under the State Of Nevada food
and drugs act, food containing
saccharin which on and after July
j, 1911, are manufactured or
offered for sale within this state.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-05-26

City. were married last evening at
the residence of Peter Miller by
Judge Katie. The Independent
extends congratulations.
The trial of j. F. TRAINER one
of the Inlay murderers has been set
Tor June 26th. He will be tried
at Reno. the defendse having
taken a change of venue from
Humboldt County. His partner
Nimrod Eurie now c pies a
CONDEMNED cell at The state prison.
Z. c. Hawver. the government
expert who was here two or three
days gathering statistics on the
cost of raising sheep a%pd-produc-
ing wool, left for Austin on No. =
yesterday afternoon. He is one of
several experts sent out by the
tariff commission to compile sheep
and wool statistics to be reported
to congress.
Eikoites we're surprised to learn
this morning. that Albert Butler
had left the state on accoun of
being short in his accounts as
sheriff of White Pine County. The
young man was raised here ard
has many friends who hope that he
will return and prove that he is
not a defautlier. 1t is a bard blow
to his aged mother and on her
account we sincerely hope that his
affairs are not as bad as reported.
Thomas Mulvaney. an old timer
in the Smith Valley and Pinenut
country, died suddenly last Satur-
day at the Desert Creek ranch.
He had been an employe at the
ranch for a long time Last Satur-
DAY ne went out to the corral to
do the milking, and not retur ing
Oh time others went TO search for
him. He was found dead on the
ground besides a COW he had just
finished milking. An inquest
which was held showed that he had
come to his death from natural
causes-heart failure Mr..
Mulvaney was y years of age a
native of Ireland and so far as
known leaves no relatives in this
section of the coutry. His funeral
took place last Sunday at Smith
Lyon County Times.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-05-26
STEEL POSTAL CARS

The Southern Pacific mail clerks
are more at ease since. the new
order has gone into effect.
Heretofore their lives were con-
stantly endangered by being COM
PEELED to ride in wooden cars, or
admittedly flimsy construction
directly behind the locomotives
with the many hundreds of tons of
heavy cars behind them to crash
their vehicles into kindling wood,
and then frequently apply a brand
to the kindling should the engine
leave the track.
Now they are safeguardcd
THEIR cars are built of armored
steel. Over their heads is a rod
to which they can cling at the
first intimation Of a wreck and
thus save themselves from shock
or minimize it. The construction
of the cars is such that they a
roll over and over without danger
of collapsing or being t%elescoped,
nor can they burn.
In the economy of railroad
management there are still a
number of wooden mail cars
used, but they are simply the sur
vival of the fttest and will soon
be also retired. In these cars only
through mail is carried and the
clerks are not compelled to ride
therein, except on rare occasions,
and, in fact. they act as buffers
for the steel cars behind
Bonanza.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-05-26
ATTENTION.!

Friday evening at Leonard Hall
commencing at 8 p. M, the Junior
class of the High School will give
a reception for the purpose of rais-
ing money to help defray the
expenses of the Track Team,
incurred upon its trip 10 Reno.
There will be a conundrum menu,
and a program is being arranged.
A candy booth will be run in con.
nection. No effort is being spared
to make the affair the most en-
joyable ever held in EIko. Come,
and show your appreciation of TIE
team that took sixteen points for
Elko by donating your patronage
and having a good time in return.
Admission, 25 cents.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-05-26
BORN

At San Jose California, May II,
1911, to the standard bred mare
Miss Dele, a colt Kinney Low Jr..
by Kinney 2:073. Color jet black
with two white hind ankles.
| will sell the colt at a reasonable
price and will furnish a tatulated
pedigree. Prize S25OO.OO. The
colt may develop to 2:O72 and
when he does he will be worth
$4,000.
Bud Dohle, owner of Kinney
Low, 2:O72, refused $40, OOO.O for
him.
For any information regarding
the colt consult ne at Whiterock.
J. II. Peck
Peck's Park. Whitcrock, Nevada,
May 81, 1911.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-05-26
HOME INDUSTRY AND FAIR PAY

Not long ago one of our home"
business men brought in a column
or so of copy advertising a local
event in which he happened to be
interested. He expected us %
publish it without charge. which
we did-and to this day we don't
know why we did, because the
copy was written on letter paper
that had been printed outside of
Las Vegas at a saving of perhaps
a dollar on the 1000 sheets.
In u 20 years experience in
the e~spaper business we have
observed that the people who do
the least FIR the home printery
expect the most IN return. Our
largest patrons. those who pay us
from ten to fifty dollars a month
for advertising and job printing.
hardly ver request a favor gratis:
but the fellow who pays us two
dollars a year subscription md
has all his printing done in Los
Angeles, is Johnnie on the job for
a complimentary notice if he turns
owe in bed without rolling the
overs on the floor.
1t affords the local newspapers
large gobs of joy to say nice
things of those who arc working
with it for the u%pbuiding of the
community; but when a business
man who us es not Gle than a
thousand pieces of stationery in a
year sends away for his printing
in order to save a dollar and then
expects the local paper to give him
anywhere from so cents to five
dollars worth of complimentary
notice every time he does anything
oh, well, what's the use? A
person who is built that way wont
be feazed by a mild roast like
this. -Clark County Review.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-05-26
S%almagundi
RON THURSDAYS DAILY

Attorney +. II. McCarren ar.
rived last night on legal business.
The Pacific Reclamation Com.
pany has an interesting ad in III s
issue Read it.
The indications at this writing
look good for a snow storm. The
weather man must have his wires
badly crossed, judging from the
kind of weather he is dealing out in
the latter part Of May.
We rerget to learn that Mr.. ].
S. Gardner is in a very serious
condition. W. sincerely hope he
may reco yer.
w. +. Rutherford and Mrs.
Katherine Hall, both Of Mountain
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-05-26
COMMON SENSE SYSTEM

OF curing Rheumatism; all
Pains and Diseases regardless Of
name raising from weak Nerves
and impure Blood.
OIL OF EDEN
Relhxes. opens Pores. allays
Pain, dissolves and removes all
impurities of external system. from
which pain and disease are
created.
SWEET SPIRITS OF EDEN
Purifies the Blood, Restores
Vitality to all weak. parts. Curin:
Liver Kidney. stomach and Bowel
Troubles.
CURE GUARANTEED
OF Chronic Constipation, Dis.
ordered Digestion, Sick and Bilious
Headache, Nervous Prostitution
liberated Tumors. Enlarged Glands
Rheumatism, Neuralgia and all
complaints, regardless of
name.
These r facts Proven by
Highest Medical authority and
Loyal citizens. A partner or
agent wanted in every city, county
and state by C. C. Medical Co.
Lock Box SO. Reno. Nevada
SEE DIR. JOHN l.. KELLETT,
President and Manager. at Com
mercial Hotel. Elko. Nevada. in
TIE afternoon. He will speak on
the corner, near the Elko Drug
store, Saturday evening. May 81.
at 8 o'clock.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-05-26
BUSINESS CONDITIONS SOLID

The New York Times than which
there is nc harder-headed student
of the state of business has recently
surveyed the whole field of Amer.
lean commerce and industry. AS
the upshot of IT'S Investigations it
reports the following finding:
THE country never represented
stronger possibilities, with a
greater lumber of people out of
debt, with more money in the
country banks and financial
centers. than exists at present.
Our next big step forward will be
on an entirely more substantial
basis than when we pushed so
rapidly ahead during u big boom
and prosperous days"
II is impossible for careful
observers of the country as a
whole not to agree with these con-
illusions, says the Baker City
Democrat.
The reports from the Depart
ments of Commerce and Agricul-
ture, for the good business of
three-fourths of the industrial COR
porations, the inspiring conditions
of the crops are but a few of the
indications that business is in a
fair shape and that matters are
shaping themselves for a new
period of sound property and
vast increase in national wealth.
America has over Il, 200, 900, 900
to its credit in the banks of Europe
available as Don as wanted. Our
exports of manufactures during
the first three months of the
calendar year are the greatest we
have ever made in any quarter.
Our securities are being bought
abroad in enormous volumes. For
all farm produce there is a healthy
demand.
Nowhere in the United States
can be found a disturbing factor
of consequence. There is no
suggestion of a depression of
prices when the markets of the
world have to absorb the next
yield of American fields. Con-
gress and the deliberations of the
Supreme Court nave not checked
the tendencies toward the expan-
sion of manufacturing trade.
No weak spots appear in The
economic conditions of the
country.