New-York tribune., 1911-10-29
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within the limits Of their CONSTITUTIONS
rower that they may cooperate VII" '"'
state courts I'm checking. curDlng anu o'"
trailing the most dangerous combinations
49,. ,on, threaten the business, property
a ,rado of the people OF the Umted
| States"
"And for one. he declared, DO not ln'
tend 10 be turned from this course Oy any
fine spun constitutional auibbles reierrihe
70 Senator George and others) or Dy the
nlausibIe pretexts OF associated or corpo-
rate wealth and power.
"The bill" he went on 10 explain uoes
nor in the least affect combinations In ara
of productions where there is free ana tair
oompetition. 1t Is the right Of every man
to work, labor and produce in any lawful
vocation and TO transport his producuo"
on equal terms and conditions and under
{ like circumstances This is Industrial I'D
/ erty"
/ There were numerous speeches. anu
amendments The whole subject was re-
ferred finally to the Committee on the Ju-
dietary. that cosmos might result from
chaos, peace from conflict. The question
was new, but thoughts and words nowed
/ abundantly. Suggestions were made that
/ trusts be deprived OF the power TO enforce
| their contracts; that the mails be closed
\ to them; that their products be taxed in
| ternally. like liquor and tobacco; mat they
/ be prevented from engaging In interstate
commerce, and that their patents when
they had any. be pronounced null ana VOID
A new bill-the law as 1t reads now, with
out the change of single word-was sent
TO the Senate from the Judiciary Commit
tee by it's chairman, Mr.. Edmunds, on
| April 2 Secretary Edmunds wlthdrew from
public life in 1891. the year fohoWlng lie
wrote a correspondent in 1900 that the Ian
gueee of the bill was that OF a member OF
, the committee lie did not mention the
name OF the author, however.
The autobiography OF Senator Hosr was
/ published IN 1903 Sherman" wrote Hoar.
! had nothing to do with framing il Ghe
! bill that passed ultimately whatever
The bill that Sherman had prepared, he
went on to say. provided that whenever
a trust so called dealt with an article
protected by tariff the article should be
put on the free list. Ii was crude, UNI
! lust and imperfect provision. 1t let in
goods made abroad by a foreign trust to
compete with honest domestic manufact-
urers ] drew as an amendment the pres
ent bill 0aw he should have said, which l
presented to the committee. There was
good deal Of opposition in the committee.
Nearly every member had a plan of his
own But at last the committee came to
my view"
The new bill was not precisely what l
! wanted" Sherman wrote in his book en-
titled Forty Years in the House, Senate
and Cabinet" but it was "the best thing
under all circumstances that the Senate
was prepared to give in that direction.
This law" Sherman went on to say,
may not be sufficient 10 control and pre-
vent such combinations (trusts), but IL not
! the evil produced by them will lead to ef-
fective legislation / know of no object of
greater importance TO the people. ! hope
the courts Of the United States and Of the
several states will deal with these comoina-
tions so as to prevent and destroy them
only one vote was cast against the bill
in the Senate. and that by Rufus Blodgett,
of New Jersey, banker and railroad man.
living AT Long Branch He had not spoken
on the question nor did he say why he OPP
posed the measure. The vote in the House
} of REPRESENTATIVES Was uIdHlIHouS' ih'
bin was called up for action by William
Mckinley. Of Ohio
Thomas jefferson, having a weak and uh~
melodious voice cultivated his talents for
putting his thoughts on paper. Being the
hest writer at the convention. the other
delegates asked him to assemble and con-
dense their opinions and compose the Dec
lara,ion OF independence. George frlsole
Hoar performed a similar service for the
Committee of the Judiciary in the Senate.
The trust law, however. will always bear
the name of John Sherman. He intro
duced the bill" says Senator Theodore E
Rurtou. of Ohio one of his biographers,
..and took the initiative in pressing legisla-
ton OF this character upon the attention or
Congress: he formulated the general ideas
and policies embodied into law, and by HIS
iusistcnce. amounting TO antagonism OF
other measures secured favorable atten-
ton of the Senate and the passage of the
bill
D eft is TO be noted Senator Burton adds,
/ that up To this time. neither I'm Congress
nor in the country at large, had the opin-
= ion gained any considerable support that