The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-28
HOW TRUSTS GROW
Gov. Marshall Attacks Tariff
System and Monopoly
And Offers Some New Remedies
Warranted to Cure.

augusta, Me-, Aug. 2S.-Cove-,o-
,,o,s.s or Indiana, the Democratic
nominee for he vice presidency. de-
rsiI-- S an aduress at Democra tic
as follows: IN part
All my public utterances ara intend
ca TO be without venom. / want TO
attack systems and not men Pr1S,no
ity is wrong. yet MANY yood -,
swear. Because they are eood tbs,,
Cusht not TO expect me to stand Tor
ehelr profanity Although they know
rebuke is merited Sometimes t,aI,
get angry. A good man is a : IiJxalx, 70
90 TO sleep at a place of dancer as =
PAD man. Because he is good. shall
jolt him to do it?
i know no protected manufacturers
VINO Is not pillar of society. He goes
70 congress and says he must have
nelp 10 run his business. Suppose, to
awaken him from his well led a. d
Sontented condition, I should say to
him. You are beggar.' Would / get
OUT OF town alive? But can This man,
VINO VINO insists that he must have protec-
ton, tell me how he differs from the
man who goes to the overseer of the
poor and says he must have help to
IlSeE Perhaps he has never thought
o1 lt IN thaf light. And when he gets
over his anger, his pride will assert
tseit and he will say, I can and will
set along without help He ought
not 70 get angry at me. Some men
strong arm man. That would be
worse
IF a man honestly believes in this
theory of taxation and his Judgment
and conscience approve, it is easy for
nun to take the next step towards
mSHopoly If the government can
rlghteously give a man the right to
TAX the people, what is wrong in a
close corporation of tax gatherers?
He thinks nothing And so we have
the trust. The Democratic platfoi m
says private monopoly. is indefensi-
ble- The Regular Republicans are go
ing by the legislation of the supreme
court to dissolve the trusts. When we
see the effect of these dissoldtions on
gratitude suggests that on he first
moonlight night of the October term, |
the trust quartette serenade the court
with:
'HaIleIujah! Thine the glory.
Hallelujah! Thine the glory. |
Dissolve us again.
The Progressive Plan.
1.-THE Progressives say let not the
people be dismayed. We have the
man who can make the trusts COM |
UP and eat out of his hand. And they |
surely have. If his record is any inoex
of results, we may be assured hat the |
provender Will be not only good but |
nutritious. He will suspend tne opera |
ton of the criminal laws at any time |
rather than endanger the liberty oil |
campaign contributor VINO wants TO |
make money unlawfully. He did this |
for the Harvester and Steel trusts.
How reach the question? Forfeit |
the charter of any corporation which |
marries another, or by gentlemen
agreement lives in open and notorious
adultery with another Can this he
done2 Why not? A corporation is
only a creature of the state organized
to DO definite things. It is not a nat
ural person with inalienable nights. 1t /
is only artificial, with conferred pow
ers. Construe- the powers strictly |
With limited liability, corp 0ratfons
powers are also limited to those ex-
pressly conferred by its charter. The
states can revoke these charters. A
few revocations and a few shave
heads will take the swelling out of
some fortunes and warn otherS not to
swell.
."There is another solution. Make
the lawyer who counsels, aids, abets /
or advises the formation IF a trust
criminally liable. What right has he
because he is lawyer to iraw Vi
cious contracts which will enable his
client to loot the public? He should
be held responsible. He would not
buy a Jimmy for a prospective burglar.
Yet he knows, If he will stop to
think that many a contract which he
draws is more burglarious than a /
Jimmy If he will not quit, make him
particeps criminis.