The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-07-21
None will Fave So Large a Per.
centage of Business as to be
Anything Like a Monop-
oily, He Says
SPEAKS AT The HOME COMING
Attorney General Says Depart
ment Will Go Right on En-
forcing Laws If Money
is Provided
BIG VICTORIES HAVE BEEN WON
County Has Profited Greatly by Prose-
cutions Against illegal Business,
and Under Taft Work
Will Continue.
BIG VICTORIES HAVE BEEN WON

Attorney General Wickersham, who
Is Hancock's distinguished guest today,
arrived I'm the city about noon, and this
ing park. the exposition grounds of the
homecoming celebration. He said:
Fellow Citizens of Hancock:
Il have Just been To Duluth to talk
10 the Minnesota lawyers. 1t is always
comparatively easy to talk TO men of
ones own craft We speak Il common
language and deal In similar prob
lens. But II Is also pleasure for a
lawyer to talk to his clients. That is
sometimes II is a pleasure. When their
csaes have gone well and the lawyer
has won out for them. then he likes To
different matter when counsel has to
explain to his client why he has not
won his lawsuit for him.
We'll, / am fortunate in the fact
that / come to meet you-some of the
clients whose legal affairs have been
endeavoring To attend to--able to re-
port very large measure of success
in the matters entrusted to me on
your behalf.
Great Victories Won.
First of all there are the great trust
cases, in which you. i'm common with
tho whole country. have been so much
Interested. The government scored
great victories there. Do not let any
body deceive you as to that. If the
court had held that every contract
that put any restraint of any kind up
on commerce among the states how
ever slight. was violation of the|
Sherman law. the Department of JUS
tice would have had to illustrate the
truth OF what Edmund Burke said:
You can't draw an indictment against
n nation For there are not lawyers
enough i'm the government. nor for that
matter I'm the country. to draw indict-
ments against everybody who makes
any contract that I'm any respect op-
crates I'm some measure to restrain
inter state, commerce. But when the
Supreme Court said we must read this
statute as reasonable men and give IL
an Interpretation that will not stran-
gle all trade, but which will prevent
any undue restraint. prohibit all con-
tracts and combinations that are in
tended To interfere with tie natural
course of trade. or which will have
that necessary effect-then the court
gave us n means OF preventing those
evils which led to the enactment OF the
law. And this Is especially so In view
OF the fact that the court gave full
force to the prohibition of monopolles
and by Its decrees has ordered the
breaking up of the two largest and
most successful monopolies or trusts
which ever have appeared In this
country.
Trusts Will Be Split Up.
"But some people are saying that
these decisions don't really mean any
thing: that the big trusts will simply
reorganize under other forms and go
on just as before. Don't believe any
such talk. Take my assurance for 1t
that those big combinations are going
to be split up into a number of sep
arate and distinct parts, no one of
which shall have any connection with
or control over any other. and no one
OF which shall have so large a per-
centage OF the business ms to be any
thing like n monopoly. That Is what
| understand the court to require. and
nothing less will meet my interpreta-
ton OF the decisions OF the Supreme
Court.
We'll. you have put I'm the hands of
your Department Of Justice n great
many other laws to enforce. ana we
have been enforcing them, and we
shall go on enforcing them unless Con-
gress next fall shall fail to give us
money enough to do so. For you can't
work up evidence and punish viola
tions OF law all over the United States
and keep general supervision OF IL all
from Washington. and meet the oppo- |
sition of the ablest lawyers and the
highest priced lawyers of the United
States. and win out, without spending |
money.
Government Has Proffted.
And yet. even SO. we collected more
money as a result Of the suits brought |
and prosecuted by the Department OF
Justice during the fiscal year ending |