The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-04-13

President Tatt's administration has
otoheh Az records Tor proSecut ions
brought aud won Under the Sherman
anti trust law Without fear or favor
II has brought to the bar of Justice cor
poratiuus aud persons engaging in lille
gu combinations in restraint of trade
tn" ultimate purpose OF each cumhina.
tlon being to create monopoly and to
raise the prices On its products In
two years and eleven months of his
ministTtiou President TAFT has
caused 10 be brought four more civil
suns and fifteen more criminal prose
cutluDS than Mr.. Roosevelt brought in
the seven ana one half years OF his ad
miuistration
nth Mr. Taft became the president
the administration OF Mr. Roosevelt
held the record in both particulars
Thus has President raft who was Nh
Rouserelts right arm during his aSt
administration, kept his pledge to the
American people TO uphold and main
tain the policies of his predecessor In
Furnishing the criminals aud undeSira
bic element In the big business of the
country
| In the Republican national platform
OF lElS reference was made 10 the
| prosecution OF evil trusts and muuopo
lies rs one of the great accomplish
meutS of the Roosevelt admiu s;ratiou.
and the platform declared that the
! Sherman antitrust law had been 4
Wholesome instrument for good IN the
hands of II wise anl fearless executive
In his speech of acceptance Mr. Taft
pledged himself to the enforcement of
! this law and has Kept his promise
Problems Confronting Taft
Stripped OF controversy as to- tie
exact meaning OF certain language OF
the sherman antitrust act. the ques
lions that had to he determined by
those in administrative authority alld
those who judicinlly determine their
acts were first. how effective the law
of formerly competitive producer, and
dealers. individual and corporate, who
through interrorporate stoclholdine
mergers. consultations and otherwise
had acquired So great IA control over
a particular line of Industry rs to en-
able them Ia dominate II aud to eN
clude or admit competition ms they
might choose upon their own terms
secondly to determine whether that
construction Of the law was correct
which had been given TO II by some OF
the Judges of the circuit court In New
York IN the tobacco ease and in the
opinions of some of the justices of the
supreme court IN other cases to the
effect that any combination which IN
any respect operated to restrain to any
degree preeSsting competition II
Interstate commerce was necessarily
condemned ny law.
In the three years of the Taft ad
minStration all OF the sixteen case,
left pending by the previous admins
tration have been disposed of eXcep
two. which have been argued and sub
mitted to the supreme court of thu
United States and are now awaiting
decision OF the remaining cases tn,
standard Oh case was argued early
during the present administration and
after an appeal. decided entirely II
favor Of the government. The SAINT
was also true of the tobacco cases
with the ultimate result of the disin
tegration of that big trust into four
teen separate and distinct corpora
lions This. II II believed. will effee
lively prevent continuance of tn
monopolistic conditions complained OF
Taft Antitrust Record.
During the Taft administration up t,
February. 1912. twenty-five civil suit
have been brought and forty crimna
| indictments found under the Sherman
, law. making in all sizty-two proceed
fngs. As result there were f1fteel
indictments, and eleven OF these in