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

suit preventing the injury of oppression Furnishing
evil of the decision of the supreme
court in the Coal Trust case.
Ten after the evidence the existence
first furnished to the of the United
attorneys decision finally supreme
the United States confirming contention that the anthracite
railroads had combined srange competition opera
ing a combination in defiance of the Anti Trust
For ten during the progress this
have been able maintain this combination during
period reap the millions dollars profit
made possible by their illegal monopoly.
AT the end of ten years litigation the attorneys people
have failed to injunction against the combination itself
whose existence proved by Temple Company
Coal Purchase contracts and merely from the
particular agents monopoly which were
offered as evidences of the combination
There money robbed from the people
through years extortonate monopoly
There penalty imposed upon any of the railroad
financial magnates who created this illegal monopoly robbed
the people by of it.
Finally there real relief provided for future
IS nothing the decision of the supreme prevent
the railroads and their coal companies continuing operate
under some other form Of monopoc combination They merely
will not be allowed to continue operate under the particular
instrument of combination known the Temple Company
the particular oppression
Purchase contracts
The result of this decision therefore, case of the Coal
Trust will be as Ineffective for the of the people
vantageous the of the the decisions in the
Standard Oil and Tobacco cases
The individual component companies may still
proceed IN harmony and complete maintain prices
monopoe the market Cypress public and to pag the
individual This already evidenced by the rise
in Reading stock by the geeu and congauaory editorials in
the Trust and by the complete by
Mr. Baer, head of the Coal Trust
In the issue of The New which the Coal Trust
decision printed editorial appears says of the de-
cision:
''We think brings legal attack upon the An
tacite Railway Companies that has progress so long
The New York Times "The decision of the supreme
court the of the Coal Combination that the court is
still guided by its fortunate discovery of the light
President aer Il have always been Indifferent as to
As To The
cision. this is matter of Indifference"
OF all the above mentioned authorities is the most
reliable. 1t lies and is seldom deceived
After the decree of the supreme dssovng the Stand
ard OIL Trust the price of the stock from 1914 share
After the decision the Tobacco price the Tobacco
Trust stock rose from 1855 1928 for 800
In the and in similar appraisemen of actual
conditions the ticker has jumped from in Reading
Company shares registering increase of $500OO0
ed stock of that corporation alone
And why not? have said that Temple Iron Companv
which is soemny by the supreme court was merely
one of the instruments by which the Coal effected
of its illegal purposes
But the Temple Iron Company really more than thaor
rather less than that 1t created for the definite purpose
strangng competing railroad line had performed its func
ton That railroad line has long eliminated from all
possible competition with the
The dissolution, therefore Temple Iron Company with
out injunction which affects the general combination of the
coacarrng railroads. simply another practical
jokes which Mr. reactonary supreme court delights in per
petrating upon the patient public
Since t the supreme court decision pretending dissolve
vi rust Che price OF Standard On products has
annually increased and the value of Oil
than doubled
The people know this through their every day experience The
people know that this Standard Oil
IN Standard Oil wealth due playful eghtofhand
performance the of the supreme through
the motions OF dlssolng trust without dsSovng Just Ching
Ling Foo the marvellous Chinese uggler apparently
watch to dissolve into thin air and then your waist
coat pocket ticking just as regularly and faithfully and effectively
The people know that the combination the Stand
ard Oh Company operates and which has their
phorc pocket by the legal uggy supreme court is even
the sanction the awat least the law interpreted by Mr.
Taft reactionaIy supreme
The people know that the supreme into the law
certain words that had put law and had not
intended have in the law and refused to allow in the