Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-18
The Supreme Court Versus the People

preventing injury oppression Furnishing
combination shown decision Of supreme
in the Coal Trust
years evidence OF the existence
first furnished the government of the United States by
attorneys decision finally supreme Of
the United States confirming contention that the anthracite
railroads had combined strange competition opera
ing as a combination in defiance Of the Antitrust law.
For ten during the progress Of this suit the coal roads
have been able maintain this combination and during all that
period reap the millions of dollars Of profit due to the cNorton
made possible by their Illegal monopoly.
AT the years litigation the attorneys the people
have failed to secure an injunction against the combination ITSELF
whose existence proved by the Temple Iron Company and the
Coal Purchase and merely from the supreme court
the termination of particular monopoly which
offered as evidences of the combination
There restoration of the money robbed from the people
through years this exoronae monopoly
There penalty imposed upon any Of the railroad and
financial illegal monopoly robbed
the people by of it,
Finally provided future
is nothing the decision of the supreme which will prevent
the railroads and their coal companies continuing operate
under other form of monopoc combination They merely
viii be allowed continue operate under the particular
instrument of combination known the Temple Iron Company
and the particular oppression known Coal
Purchase contracts
The result of this decision therefore, in the of the Coal
Trust will be Ineffective for the of the people and adj
the of the Trusts the decisions the
Standard Oil and Tobacco
The individual component companies these may still
proceed in harmony and in complete maintain prices
to monopoze the market Cypress the public and page the
individual This evidenced
IN Reading stock by the geefu and ongratuaoy editorials in
the Trust press expression satisfaction
Mr. Baer, head OF the Coal Trust.
In the issue of The New which the Coal Trust
decision printed editorial appears which says of the
owe think brings end legal upon the An
hracte Railway Companies that has been progress
The New York Times says THE decision the supreme
court in the of the Coal Combination the
still guided by its fortunate discovery Of the light of
President Baer says: 81 always Indifferent as to
the So per the Temple Company de-
csion this is matter of Indifference"
Of all the above mentioned authorities the most
reliable 1t never lies and is seldom deceived
After the decree of the supreme dssovng
ard Oil Trust the price of the stock 1914
After the decision the Tobacco price Tobacco
Trust stock from $465 1928 for 800
In the same and in similar appraenen
conditions the ticker has jumped from 158 Il 68 Reading
Company shares registering water
ed stock of that corporation alone
And why not have said that the Temple Company
which soemny dissolved by the supreme merely
of the instruments by which the Coal Combination
of its illegal purposes
But the Temple Company really more than thator
rather less created for the definite purpose of
stranglng competing railroad line performed func
ton That railroad line long eliminated from all
possible competition with the
The dissolution therefore Of the Temple Iron Company
out injunction which affects the general
coacarying railroads. simply another practical
Jokes which Mr. Taft reactonay supreme court delights in
perating upon the patient public
Since the decision pretending
Standard Oil Trust the price of Standard Oil products
hnua increased and the value OF Standard Oil stocks has
than doubled
The people know tins through their day experience The
people know that this increase Standard Oil prices
Standard Oil wealth due play
performance the Of the which
the motions OF dsSolymg without dissolvng
Ling Foo the marvellous Chinese uggr apparently your
watch to dissolve into thin and then
coat pocket ticking Just regularly and faithfully effectively
The people know that the combination the Stand
ard On Company now operates and which has been restored 10 their
pehoric pocket by the legal ugg Of the supreme
better than for form of combination which
the sanction of the awat the interpreted Mr.
Taft 5 reaconary supreme
The people know that the supreme read
certain words that had put the
intended to have in the law and had refused