Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-18

Ten years after the the Coal Trust
first furnished to the of the by my
attorneys decision finally secured from the supreme of
the United States confirming contention that the anthracite
railroads had combined strange competition and opera
ing a combination in defiance of the Anti Trust law
For years during the progress this
have been able to maintain this combination, during all
period reap the millions of dollars Of profit due the
made possible by their illegal monopoly
At the end of ten years litigation attorneys people
failed to secure an injunction against the combination itself
whose proved by Temple Iron Company the
Coal Purchase and merely the supreme
the termination Of these particular of monopoly which
offered as evidences Of the combination
There restoration of the money robbed people
through years extoronate monopoly
There penalty imposed upon OF the railroad and
financial magnaes who created this illegal monopoly robbed
the people by means OF it,
Finally there real relief provided future as there
nothing in the decision Of the supreme will prevent
the railroads and their companies continuing operate
under other form of monopoc combination They merely
will not be allowed continue operate particular
instrument of combination known the Temple Iron Company
and the particular instruments Of oppression
Purchase contracts
result this decision therefore in the case Of the Coal
Trust will be ineffective for the people and as adj
vanageou the of the were the decisions in the
Standard Oil and Tobacco
The individual component companies of may still
proceed IN harmony and complete prices
to monopoze the market Cypress the public and to page the
individual This already evidenced by the rise
in Reading stock by the geeu and congratuatory editorials in
the Trust press and by the expression complete satisfaction nv
Mr. Baer head of the Coal Trust
In the issue of The New York in which the Coal Trust
decision was printed an editorial which says
csion:
owe think brings the legal attack upon the An
thracte Railway Companies that has progress SO long
The New York Times says: The decision the supreme
court IN the OF the Coal Combination that the court
still guided by its fortunate discovery light of reason
President laer says 81 have always Indifferent as TO
the 60 cent contracts As Temple Company de-
cision this is a matter of Indifference
OF all the above mentioned authorities the ticker is the most
reliable 1t never lies and seldom deceived
After the decree of the supreme dissog the Stand
ard OH Trust the price OF the stock from 1914 $50 share
After the decision the Tobacco the price Tobacco
Trust stock rose from 1865 to 1928 for 500 share
in the and in similar apprasemnt OF actual
conditions the ticker has jumped from 1853 IA Reading
Company shares registering increase of the water
ed stock Of that corporation alone
And why not have said that the Temple Iron ConDanv
which soemny dissolved by supreme court was merely
one of the instruments by which the Combination effected
some of its illegal purposes
But the Temple Iron Company was really more than bat-or
rather less than that 1t created for definite purpose of
strangng competing railroad line performed its fc
ton That railroad line has long been eliminated from all
possible competition with the trust
The dissolution therefore of the Temple Iron Companv with
out any injunction which affects the general combination of the
eoacarrying railroads simply another practical
jokes which Mr. Taft reaeonay supreme delights per-
petratlng upon the patient public
Since the supreme court decision pretending dissolve the
nuay increased and the value OF Standard Oil
than doubled
The people know this through their every day experience The
people know that this increase Standard Oil prices increase
in Standard Oil wealth certain playful
performance the of the supreme court which goes through
the motions OF doyng trust without dsoving Just as Ching
Ling Foo the marvellous Chinese ugger apparently causes your
watch to dissolve into thin air and then yonr waist
coat pocket ticking regularly faithfully and effectively
The people know that the combination under Stand
ard on Company and which has to their
pehorc pocket by the legal ugg supreme court is even
better than ever for form of combination has received
the sanction OF the awat least the law is interpreted Mr.
Taft s reactionary supreme court.
The people know that the supreme into the law
certain words that had had not
intended TO have the law and had refused to allow in m
Jaw Just as thng Ling Foo takes of your certain hard
od eggs and rolls Of ribbon and rabbits that put
IN hat and intended your hat and never m
n