, 1912-01-04
Congressman Mondell on Trusts
Honest Business in no Danger From the Enforcement Of tbs sbsr-
man Antitrust Law,

In his speech on the trust question in ths hons,
P inspiration caused Representative Moudel to draw a parallel he
tween present-day trust conditions and those existing no urir,. H. ~.
ter days of the life of Joshua. Recounting the we'll tnar. %e "e
Holy Writ, how Joshua brought the people together and sndad ha
remarks WIN .e FAMOUS question: Choose you this day whom
ye 7n'i se''e' WI Ni"haeh called upon the members in the same
fashion IN tue trust question. The tritepess of tbe oraIIoI m,
brought out s plainly, and its application made in sunn y fanaatI
manner, that the remarks of the member from Wvominy haa ha"
maze 'e OASIS or of IN subsequent trust and antitrust con.
troversy in congress. The Mondell speech is r-garded os oa 81
the most CHARMED outlines of the situation today, while his direct
cbaNa"ge boldly demands that these PROGRESSED enemies Of the trnstu
WHO now fear that business" is going to be "upset" come mt sonare
" aud show their hands
Reciting the continued effort Of the administration to BRING the
trusts under the provisions of the Sherman law, and the siynaI suc-
cesses re- ulhng a a culmination of the twenty-one year f,bt Mr.
Mondell said:
sour former champions of eat'emaive trust busting first sang
doieful dirge over the alleged emasculation of the Sherman law in
the Standard III DECISIONS, but now that the law, cleared from ambig-
uy and freed from uncertainty, hangs like a sword of Damocl4s over
thu steel trust, they aen no longer the roaring lions seekin, trusts to
drvour, but. like Bottom the Weaver, they are but the sinIitnda Of
hons and can roar a 8 mildly as any sucking dove of the d.sirabilitv
o sane administration of the law and of the property, now we have
conquered the rust Amorites, of giving them their freedom to plund.
e is again. Let n @ man deceive himself into believing he can fool
ne people when he aids and abttst the criminal trusts on the pretense
that he desires only to protect honest business. Honest business is
in 10 danger whatever from the enforcement of the Sherman anti
trust law, and that is true no matter how big honest business may be.
81 am no trust batter, and have never believed that ANYTHING is
gained by calling people hard names, but I have always been, and am
still, of the opinion that the organization of every one of the great
combinations which have been, are now, and are likely to be, prosecu-
ted by the government under the Sherman law was with the intent
aud for the purpose of gaining advantages and reaping profits not
possible thru any organization, no matter how large, which dealt
quariy by it's competitors and by the people. In other words, they,
were organized to Cypress and in wilful violation of the moral law. as
we'll as of all laws intended to prevent the despoiing of The people.
The supreme question now is. are WE going to uphold the men
who have fought and won the antitrust battle, or are " t willing to
permit thru direction and indirecton by open attack aud ambush, the
malice, riot u r rancor, steadily fought the battles of the people against
entrenched privilege and oppression, and thru one excuse or another
desert them and the peoples cause in the supreme hour when the re-
suits Of twenty-one years of struggle are seen in the triumph of The
People tlru the law.