The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-23
WILSON WILL WANT TO STRIKE
SOME BIG SLOWS WHEN HE
IS IN WHITE HOUSE.
so BELIEVE PARTY LEADERS
New Attorney General viii Do Much
for Democracy If He Succeeds In
Putting Sherman Law violators IN
Jail.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

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of the speeches of the president-elect,
| that Mr.. Wilson when he gets into
Office wants to strike some blows. The
idea of the Democrats Is that Mr..
! Wilson will be as strenuous in his in
sistence on proper legislation as he
sees 1t as was Theodore Roosevelt.
and that in fighting temperament the
two men are not so far apart as
seems to be the general belief.
In his speech in Staunton Mr.. Will
son said that he had his war paint
on" 1t is not necessary, perhaps, to
put on the trappings of war in order
to attack the tariff schedules, but
there are other matters which will
come before congress which will so
divide the sentiment of the members
of the Democratic party, especially
in the senate, that Mr.. Wilson will
need all the weapons which his high
Office will give him to enable him to
overcome the opposition, unless of
| course, in advance there is general
laying down of arms in the presence
of the presidents determination to
carry on the war.
Will Try to Put Some in Jail.
All through the last national cam
paign, and the state campaigns into
which national matters frequently en-
tered, the complaint of the Demo
cratic speakers was that no trust mag
mates who had worked evil to the
people and had produced conditions
which bulwarked their wrong doing
had been sent to prison. They talked
about fines easily paid by the corpora
ton heads and about dissolution
which did nothing but increase the
value of the stock Of the concerns in
vofved. Put some Of these fellows
to JAIL" was the demand of the Demo
cratic speakers. and soon the at
tempt will be made to put somebody
In jail"
1t is not yet known who Is to be
Mr.. Wilson's attorney general, but
whoever he is to be he will find work
ahead. Upon the next attorney gen.
eral will depend largely the future of
the Democratic party. If he shall sue
coed In sending to Leavenworth or to
Atlanta, or to some other federal
prison some Of the men who have
violated the federal laws and have
gained millions thereby, the Demo-
Gratis say he will do more perhaps to
bring the people to a mind that the
Democracy Is the right party in the
right place than any other cabinet
officer can do, no matter how energet-
tcally he performs the duties of his
Office.
The incoming attorney general will
find pending several trust prosecu-
lions of major nature. Naturally it
Is to be supposed that he will take
them up and push them under the
laws as they exist. The United States
Steel Corporation case hardly can be
completed before Mr.. Wilson takes Of
flee. Then there are the International
Harvester company's suit and the
New Haven railroad case. It can be
taken for granted that other trust
prosecution cases will be before the
public eye not long after Mr.. Wilson's
attorney general takes Office No one
pretends to believe that all of the
combinations Of big business which
are open to attack on legal grounds
have been attacked.
State Rights Once More.
1t is possible that Mr. Wilson will
hold his attorney general in check
In the matter Of new suits until it is
definitely decided just how congress
is to approach the trust question
through the avenues of legislation.
The Democratic party is confronted
with the state rights DOGGY in this
matter as 1t is in pretty nearly every
other matter except the tariff. Fed
eral incorporation or federal license
of the big companies is not looked
upon kindly by the Democrats. who
talk about the governments paternal-
ism. The fact that such incorporation
or license would affect only compa-
MES engaged in interstate commerce
does not seem to weaken the opposi-
t1tion, although the state rights Dem
ocrats seem occasionally to be nut tn
1t to find basis for their state line"
objections.
1t seems probable that the new
administration will take I'D the trust
prosecutions where the outgoing ad-
m1n1stration leaves them and will
push them hard, paying special atten-
ton, however, to the criminal prose-
cutlons. On this subject a Demo
cratic senator said today: What we
need Is few convictions for criminal
liability, and it looks to me as If we
are In fair way to get them"
The Progressives and the progress.
s1ve Republicans in the senate and
house do not believe that the Demo-
Gratis will get anywhere with their
prosecutions Of big business. Thew
say that the Sherman law as It stands
has been tested and that It works
well as far as it goes but that the
only plan which will solve the trust
problem for all time Is federal reeu.
lation.
The hare runs sixty feet a second
the tortoise covers half an inch q
second