Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-11
TAfrs TRUST RECORD

President Taft's administration has broker
all records in the matter Of "trust-busting" in
spite of the yoluble assertions of Col. Roosevelt
and his press-agents
Under President Taft more suits have beer
instituted against trusts than the total amount
Of such suits during the four previous admins
trations
The Taft administration has brought sixty-siS
legal actions under the provisions of the Sher
man antitrust law in three years and a half
This is four more prosecutions than were
brought under the same law by the combined
administrations of Presidents Harrison, Cleye
land, Mckinley and Roosevelt A document is
sued by Congress giving information as to the
Sherman law gives these facts.
The prosecutions brought by direction Of
President Taft include twenty-seyen bills in
equity asking the, dissolution of trusts and com
bnations in restraint of trade or seeking injunc:
tons for alleged violations of the law to the
same end, and thirty-nine indictments This is
nine more bills in equity than were brought un.
der President Roosevelt and only two less than
the sum total of all such actions brought since
the passage Of thesSherman antitrust law under
the Harrison administration 1t is fourteen
more indictments than was brought by Mr..
Roosevelt in the seven years and a half he was
in the white house and nine more than was
brought by the four presidents combined who
Immediately preceded President Taft. Mr.. Taft
has been in the white house less than half as
long as Mr. Roosevelt occupied it in an official
capacity, so that the mathematical calculation
shows that the prosecutions brought under the
sherman law by President Taft actually exceed
those brought under President Roosevelt not as
three il two hut as three is to one.
by a peculiar coincidence the suit brought
under the Taft administration which broke the
Roosevelt record of actions under this law was
the petition in equity filed in October last
against the United States steel corporation. The
suit which broke the record for the Taft admin
stration as against the grand total of cases, In
stituted under the Sherman law prior to Mr..
Tafts administration was the petition in equity
filed in April last against the international Har
vester company Both Of these suits Mr. Roose
Felt was asked to bring and did not bring. They
are regarded as the two actions brought by
President Taft which most nearly correspond to
the STANDARD Oil and Tobacco trust suits
brought by President Roosevelt
The following is a summary OF cases under
antitrust laws which have been brought under
various administrations:
PRESIDENT HARRIsoNs ADMINISTRATIONS
Bills in equity
Indictments ~.
Total $780,. ...... ;. Z.
PRESIDENT cLEvEIAND's ADMINISTRATION.
Bills In equity
Infornations for contempt -.
- Total 81
PRESIDENT MK1NLEY's ADMINISTRATION.
Bills in equity -.
Total 8
PRESIDENT RoosEyELTs ADMINISTRATION
Bills in equity 10
Indictments .....-.....'. %
Forfeiture proceeding L 4
Total ................. ..........:.-''''..-. ~ 4
Grand total of cases instituted prior to
President Taft's administration. 62
PRESIDENT TAFTs ADMINISTRATION UP TO
JULY l. 1912
Bills in equity .
Indictments -..:..,...............:. 81
Total 80
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