Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-10-05
PERKINS |NS|STSA
CHANGE IN TRUST
LAW IS DEMANDED.
New Yorker Says Republican
Party Has Failed to Carry
Out Its Platform
Pledges.
PEOPLE ARE NOT SATISFIED
In Recent Elections, He Says,
Public Has Expressed Dis
approval of the
Party's Course.
PEOPLE ARE NOT SATISFIED

Detroit, Mich, Oct. 5.-Spealling to-
day before the Detroit board of com
merce to the topic, 1T is the Function
of the Law to Define and Punish
Wrongdoing. and Not to Throttle Busl-
ness" George w. Perkins. of New
York, said the people had voted i'm fa
vor of amending the Sherman anti
trust law. The voters. he said. had
approved a plank of the republican ma
tional platform in 1908. This plank
read:
The republican party passed the Sher
| man antitrust law, over democratic oppo-
sition and enforced its after democratic
derelic;ion. ii has been wholesome in
strument for good in the hands Of a wise
and fearless administration. but expert
ence has shown that its effectiveness can
be strengthened and its real objects bet
ter attained by such amendments as Will
give TO the federal government greater
supervision and control. and greater pub.
lcity In the management of that class of
corporations engaged in Interstate com
| merce, having power ana opportunity to
effect monopolies.
MIR. Perkins said there could be no
nistaking the language used. The re
publican party had expressed itself in
favor of amending the Sherman act.
it clearly indicated that there existed
companies having power and opp"r-
tunity TO effect monopolies." and also
clearly Indicated the lines along which
| the law should be amended.
Democrats Adopt a Plank.
..r,,e dc,norr,tic narIv.,, he con-
| timed "at tho same time i'm the trust
plank of its platform. among other
| things declared for a policy that would
| pron,bit the control by n .lpapufactui-
| ING o,. trading corporation, engaged in
| interstate commerce of more than 30
| per cent OF the total amount of amy
| product consumed in the United States.
| with these platforms the respectiye
parfies went before the people of this
\ country In a vigorous campaign. Each
| marty attacked the others platform
| AND fine subject was debated pro and
con All over fine land. One is safely
| within bounds in saving that the most
| effective speaker in the republican
| cause i'm that campaign Was Governor
!! Hughes. and equally within bounds in
| saving that the most effective speech
! of campaign was his reply to BRYAN.
| delivered at Youngstown Ohio. Sep
ternber 5. 1905. In that speech Governor
| Hughes analyzed the platforms of the
\ respective parties in no uncertain
| language.
| Mr.. Perkins quoted extensively from
Mr. Hughes speech and added
| with such platforms and after
such a can,paipn. the peonle voted on
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from the Youngstown speech of Gov
ernor Hughes. for the past Year a
member of the supreme court:
hut IN orr progress. we must. seek
| 10 .,,o;,l roino steps Ours must. be t.,e
rule Of reason, cear-eyed calm. patient
and stesdfast. defeating the conspiracies
of intrigue and escaping the pitfalls ol
| folly Supreme must be the sense OF JUS,
oei'e'oei'se
Congress Repud'ated.
4 The congress which adopted this do
nothing policy. which failed To carry
out these as well as other nstruc-
:iops received from The people in the
last national election. was repudiated
by the people at our elections of a year
! ago, and now chaotic conditions exist
iiY' the corporate business world which
i l,mingle the innocent and the guilty III