Evening star., 1911-06-11

MED them. Senator Kenyon of Iowa
who was until very recently the chief
trust buster Of the Department OF JUS
tice, already is pressing an amendment
to the Sherman law. making il obliga-
tory on the trial judges 10 jail the con-
victed defendants. and In his amendment
he provides for the imprisonment OF di-
rectors.
Another good effect Of these decisions
against the oil and tobacco trusts is the
satisfaction and announcement Uncle
Sans trust busters get out OF the vic
tories The government pays then moth
ing like the fees the trust lawyers set.
but that doesn't stop them from taking
real interest in the cases and from work
ing hke beavers
Look at the trusts they got after in
1910 and so far in 1aI1-beef trust. powder
trust cotton corner trust. hathtuh trust.
Wholesale grocers' trust. steamship trust,
electrical trust. lumber trust and milk
trust.
The trust-busting force of the Attorney
General is working day and night TO drag
the offenders before the supreme Court
Al Washington. There are only about
five on the force namely. Chief Trust
Buster Edwin =. Grosvenor and Assist
ant Trust Busters Gregg. Mckercher and
Harrison
Chief Trust Buster James A. Fowler
of Knoxville, Tenn, came into the fold
only very recently. He has. however, al
ready mixed up in the lumber and milk
trust prosecutions. He was formerly an
assistant attorney general on other work.
His private secretary knows what work
after hours means. He is about forty
five years old.
Deputy Chief Trust Buster Edwin P
Grosvenor is only about thirty-five years
of age He was of the two govern
ment attorneys who brought the tobacco
trust to book. having been tke mainstay
Of Chief Counsel j. c. McReyroids n that
prosecution.
Mr. Grosvenor engineered alone the
prosecution Of the bathtub trust and the
window glass trust The window glass
combination was beaten SO badly that
there is now keen competition among the
former constituent members of the COM
bination. The bathtub trust case has not
yet been decided
There is no sinecure in the branch of
the Department of Justice which has TO
do with the prosecutions Of the trusts.
Nor are they likely to get through with
their present calendar for years. One OF
the great troubles with our judiciary sys-
tenn. says President Taft is the delays
made possible by technical motions, etc
Like the parties on the wrong side of
suit. the trusts are not anxious to reach
the end of case. Going to law. so worri
SoiiiC " IlaIN tdudiSt JuSL 1ilcIIs PIE
for the trusts.
And there will. of course, be other
trusts caught Combination is here to
stay. The. tendency to combine can no
more be checked than the tide of the sea
very likely, however. after the present
prosecutions against the gigantic monop-
olies are over, the principal work of the
Department of Justice will consist in
looking after those combinat ions that
have just crossed the line between right
and wrong under the antitrust act In
deed, the time is here already when a
lawyer who is able to advise corpora :
tions how to go close to that dividing
line without crossing it need not worry
about his meal ticket OF course a
combination is perfectly willing to pay
million dollars, if Necessary, to any
body who can show it how to make hum
dreds of millions out of the dear pub
lie" without getting .'in bad with Uncle
Sam.
There have been hints all the way
along in this article of the restraining
influence, the moral effect. that the re-
cent Supreme Court decisions will have
on the prevailing evil impulses of the