The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-04-27
HIGHER WAGES AND
MORE STEADY WORK
THAT is ECONOMIC REASON WHY
BUSINESS COM RlNES ARE LIKED
ABROAD, SAYS WRITER.
TRUSTS ENJOY POPULARITY IN
GERMANY AND ENGLAND; GET
INTO COURTS IN U. S.
Bathtub Attorney Says Business Con-
ditlons Are Same World Over;
Roosevelt Quoted.

On May lG, it is now known, the
trial of 32 business men from various
portions Of the country will begin IN
the United States district court IN
Detroit, the charge against them be-
ing that they broke the Sherman law
In organizing the "bathtub trust"
Recently the Detroit Journal COW
cred the case with the following ar
ticle, under the heading, TRUSTS
Bring Workers Gain"
Attorney Leo NJ Butzel, OF Steven
son, Carpenter & ButZel, who has
charge locally of the defense In the
so-called bathtub trust case, has re-
turned from New York. He would
not outline at this time the course
Of the defense in the case, which VIII
be heard In the local United States
court in three or four weeks, bat II is
certain the biggest and most deter
mined fight will be made to clear the
indicted tub men. There are 80 in
diviAual defendants in the case and
many of them will have their own
attorneys here. in addition 10 the
imposing array OF legal talent that
A-r. Butza intimated that the bath
tLb men, in facing the prospect OF
possible jail sentences, are In that
position as result OF economic con-
litions that are worldwide, and nos
tile legislation that is local to the
United States.
"ln England and Germany" said
Mr. Butzel, trusts are encouraged and
helped along for the general good. "A
story in last months Atlantic Month
~ gives as clear an illustration Of
tho situation as one could want"
The article referred to is by G.. H.
Montague and entitled German and
British Experience With Trusts The
writer tells OF the growth of trusts
in Germany, where the government
encouraged them in every way, as
the consolidation of effort made bust
ness safer and assured investors in
industrial stocks of safety and per-
manence at the same time increasing
wages OF workingmen and keeping
them steadily employed
England Likes Trusts.
When tho clamor against trusts be-
gan IN the United States, says the
written, a dramatically opposite course
was pursued In England. The British
attitude was friendly instead OF hos
tile and the progress OF the trusts
was viewed with satisfaction, for the
same reasons as IN Germany. No
new laws were passed in England,
but wherever trusts resorted to CO.
ercion or fraud specific statutes then
In existence were applied against them,
whether they were great or small.
1.-THE results of the trust policy OF
Germany and England-if let-alone
treatment may be called policy
are everywhere conceded to be fortu-
Date." says the article. The indus
trial commission of the United States
reported: There Is, relatively speak
fRG, little objection to combinations
IN Europe, and In some countries the
governments and the people seem to
believe that they are needed to meet
modern industrial conditions. There
seems to be no inclination towards the
passage of laws which shall attempt
to Kill the combinations. That is
believed to be impossible and UNI
wise"
Roosevelt Quoted.
The fact that congress appropriated
100000 last June to prosecute trusts
Ia referred to; President Roosevelt is
quoted as saying of the Sherman act:
at Is public evil TO have on the
statute books a law Incapable of full
enforcement. because both judges and
juries realize it's enforcement would
Destroy the business Of the country,
for the result 10 to make decent men
yjolators OF the law against their will
and TO put q premium on the be-
bavior Of the willful wrongdoers."
In the bathtub trust case the gov
srnnont contends that the indicted
ulsn broke tho Sherman law and
STGAnized = trust In restraint OF trade,
vhls ~ defense maintains that the
Arms in 1s alleged trust were merely
ones that secured the right to use
new patent sHAmeling process that
rstuosA the boss q the manufacturer
amast to the vanishing point. while
ut - same tiruo It enabled the work,
men % earn from so TO 100 per cent
mere wages on piscework and also
~ shorten the hours of work 1t Is
certain that this point will be en-
phasizsd to the utmost in the coming
trial. as It is the very reason for the
popularity OF English and German
combinations