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territory and have done all the things forbidden by the Sherman law.
The rate LAY brought them to book. Roosevelt said:
1T is admitted by all san people that it is n o longer possible to n
institutions which they were wnen raaroads were hrst bunt, 81 coopera-
ton the public secures uniformity OF rates and harmonious cooperation
in handling freights W. long distances The whole system is made to
work in harmony, and TIL public secures better service in many
ways What is o needed is 20 a law to smash the consolidation, but
something which Will wipe out tn abuses which have grown up We
STOP rate 1scrmlnaton as etwee diVldu n between loHah-
ties. Unduly high rates must be prevented. The shipper must got ade-
auate service in cars, prompt delivery and all such things. To secure this
The government must have a commission with adequate powers"
So the law was passed giving real power to a real interstate COM
of accounting n to cause % every advance in freight rates.
With a n honest commission like the present IN the plan is working
qutew WE'LL -
Taft tried to undo all this by creating a commerce court with power
to veto the orders of the commission, but Congress is on the trail Of
that court and will get it by next March
To apply the same kind Of remedy to the evils of big corporate BUSH
ness is Roosevelts regulation of trusts" Mere bgness he does not
bgness is used 10 work ut economies it should not be ouuawed. Why
lot apply the plan of a regulating commission to curb the evils of big
business without doing proper business harm?
The evils of Big Business consist In certain wen-known commercial
practses. For example:u) the division of territory between previously
salera and retailer; Go cutthroat competition to kill off a weaker compe-
titon; oe the use of leases and refusal to senm machinery, a in the case
troll Of subsidiary competing concerns; % refusal to sell to certain indi-
vduals in certain localities.
If a commission similar o he Interstate Commerce onmissio la
power to hale corporations before it, compel exposure Of its pracuses and
force them to sop oil penalty Of forfeiture of their interstate charters.
it is believed by Roosevelt that there would be, less heard of trust
The principal difference between the Roosevelt remedy and the
lin in part ito adopt, is that Roosevets plan is for enforcement by a
commission and the forfeiture Of Federal charttr RS. while tbe Brandeis-
dentaly, the failure Of the Sherman law is largely attributable to the
refusal of the courts properly to enforce IT, ven after q decree has
been rendered. E
Roosevelt claims that there is n 0 assurance that the courts would be
any more efectual in enforcing the amendments TO the Sherman law pro-
posed by Dr. Wilson and Mr. Brandeis whereas al honest commission
with power to forfeit charters would have more direct action.
Roosevets plan is no a new n with him. He proposed it while Pres
ident, during the third year of his second term. Samuel Gompers and Seth
Low "a tell of a White House conference attended by thirty or forty
representatives If various interests .to discuss Roosevets special message
proposing the above remedy Congress refused to move. and, al it vas
near the emf of his STERN, Roosevelts Big Stick had become rather light,
I'M ne ould secure no action,