Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-25

the labor union men, but will pull
largely from other elements in the COM
munity.
Dissecting DR.. Wilson's attitude to-
legislation which will improve the social
and economic condition of the people, and
! protect them against social and industrial
wrong, TO the end that each individual
citizen may be of the highest possible
character and of the greatest value to
himself, his family, his community and
his country.
merce Commission shall nave full power
TO fix railroad, express, telegraph and
telephone rates, and to make valuations
Of the physical properties Of such con-
merce act should expressly prohibit any
transportation company from engaging
directly or indirectly in any other business
than that of transportation. and from
holding any stock in any other company
than a transportation company, and from
holding any stock In any competing Trans
portatton company.
Commerce Court Useless.
We demand the abolition of the Conn.,
merce Court, which was forced into the
Interstate commerce net by President
Taft, with the effect of practically de-
stroying the entire work of the Inter-
state m Commission, which
was rapidly coming 10 De one OF Inc
greatest and most efficient means of
securing at least "A partial degree of
justice TO the farmer, manufactures
and general shipping interests of the
country.
We believe that all our natural resources
covered by the public domain belong to
the people of the United States, n that
there inherently exists in the government
the power to protect and conserve the
property of the people to the end that All
the property of the people may be saved
and reserved for the whole people instead
of the favored few.
Not a single acre of public land should
hereafter pass into private ownership ex-
cept for the single purpose Of bona hde
homestead settlement. The right to m11e
coal, to use the timber and the mlnersi
should be leased under strict regulation
with a provision that failure to use or de-
velop the land granted shall operate to
We favor the establishment of a COM
mission government in Alaska with these
powers: ~
and to build new ones as the needs of the
Territory require; to build all needed tele-
graph and telephone lines; to provide Tor
the lease of all coal, mineral ana tlmpeI
lands, with a provision in each lease that
failure TO use or develop the land granted
shall operate to forfeit the lease, provided,
however, that such commission may grant
the right to build a railroad, a telegraph
or telephone line, subject to the right OF
purchase by the government, at an ad-
vance of 10 per cent. upon the actual
cost.
We declare that no person or corpora-
ton should have any advantage or special
privilege whatever through the forms OF
law over any other person or corporation,
and to this end we demand:
should Enforce Sherman Act.
First-That certain practises which
were shown In the Standard OIL and
Tobacco cases to be peculiarly Obnox-
iOus to the sherman act should be spe-
c~ificnlly described and prohibited with
out otherwise affecting in any way the
meaning, scope and power of that act.
l. Selling below cost in certain areas
for the purpose of destroying competition
while maintaining higher prices in others.
2. Refusing to supply goods to customers
who trade with business rivals.
3. Obtaining by corrupt means contden-
tial information about competitors busi-
ness or customers.
a. Making combinations or agreements
between competitors to control prices, to
limit output or to divide territory.
5. The monopoly of natural resources
for the purpose of sitting competition.
Second-We demand that a law be
passed providing that the burden Of proof
shall be on any concern making a com
binatlon or agreement to show that 1t is
not in restraint of trade. The law should
also provide that when any concern has
been convicted under the anti-truSt law
those who have been injured by its Illegal
practises' may bring suit for damages, n
that the statute of limitation shall run as
to them only from the time of conviction.
Third-We demand that a Federal ad-
ministratiVe body or commission, similar
to the Interstate Commerce Commission,
should be established and given power to
exercise over concerns doing interstate
business the fullest supervision and regu-
lation. This body shall. however, have
no power to permit any future or legalize
any past act which is Illegal under the
antitrust law.
This administrative body shall have
the power, as to any concern doing an
Interstate business, charged with or
suspected of illegal practises, to value
its property, to Investigate its capi-
talizatIOn, it's cost of production,
methods of doing business, prices and
profits and the extent to which any
patent rights controlled by 1T are de-
YeIOped and used,
The present patent law is both unwise
and unjust. While the patentee should be
protected in his rights as a %discoverer or
inventor, the people from whom he Sc
cures his patent should be protected
against collateral control of trade.
We are opposed to the wholesale pur-
chase and suppression of patents by great
corporations as inimical to the interests
of the people and detrimental to the
ment OF those material things that con-
tribute to the general welfare.
Fair Thrift Commission.
We are in favor of a tariff commits
zion to the end that protection may be
guaranteed to the as well as
the producer. We are in favor of a
tariff based upon ascertained facts, and
are opposed to n tariff based upon cor
rupt agreements. We are In favor OF
n tariff which measures the difference
in the cost of production at home and
abroad. More than this IN unfair tC
the American consumer, and less thar
this is unfair TO the American Iaborer
We condemn the Payne-AIdrich bill be.
cause 1t was not framed in accordance
with these principles.
We are unaIterabIy opposed to TIN
AIdrich financial scheme as ecODOfni
CHILLY unaOund. inimlcaI to the interestl