The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-22
WIPE OUT TRUSTS
Victor Murdoch Of Kansas Gives
Bristling Views.
Timid Attack win Not Destroy
Monopoly, He Says.
THAT PROGRESSIVE PLAN
Kansan Has Great Faith in
Trade Commission.
ssMOney Overlords Have GOrged
and Grown Fat"
THAT PROGRESSIVE PLAN

| Washington, hay 22.-Debate on the
| administrations antitrust bills have
opened In the house. Representative
| Victor Murdoch Of Kansas, the Progress
sive leader. in a bristling speech de-
clared the paramount national necessity
| is trust legislation that will at once re-
| assure honest business and wipe out
monopoly.
mo blind. cropping. random. timfd at
tack upon the legal forms used by big
! business can either reassure honess
business or destroy monopoly. he as
| serted.
THE pending bills, containing, it is
| true, many cOmmeEdable features, are.
! taken in their entirety, blind and ran
| dom and timid. With our twenty-four
years Of trust law experimentation to
| Judge by. there is a strong and harrow
| ing prospect that they will merely
| thicken the legal FOG in which monopoly
hides while it fattens.
The Progressive party trust bills.
which are direct and constructive.
monopoly and which do attack. not the
form but the substance of monopoly.
which boldly recognize that there are
monopolies that have grown from nat
ural causes as well as monOpolies that
have grown from unnatural and illegal
DIdCtlCeS anu WHICH cllullHdtc UOtu
| kinds of mOnopolies, would give honest
business full information as to just
what it can and what it cannot legally
and properly do. And they would de-
stroy monopoly.
Leave Work to Courts.
THE pending Democratic measures.
save for a mere rudimentary and purely
Iinvestigativc trade commission. which is
to go hunting in the trust jungles-with
a camera-leave all the work to the
lingering, laborious inexpert adjust
ment of the OvercrOwded courts.
THE Progressive plan creates a pow
erful trade commission with the right
to develop whether a monopoly exists.
upon what basis it exists. and to break
its power.
The milestone around the neck of
the honest business of the Nation, wait
ing for solution and offered now in
these random Democratic measures, is
delay.
THE crying necessity Of the hour,
the need of decent trade, the demand
Of honest competition. the rights of
labor. the exigency of the people is,
in this matter of remedial legislation,
For delay is the daring device Of
our money overlords They have
gorgedr upon it for forty years and
grown fat. Upon this meat each day
they nave added to their InsOlence,
their brutality, their Unsuitable hum
ger for more aid irresponsible power.
They have bribed, stolen, perjured,
debauched. for delay. They have. in
cynical contempt for the law. in scorn
of the public veal, plundered the
public estate, fed upon the substance
Of labor, taxed the people, polluted
the public service, by means Of delay.
They have frightened their control Of
various corporation practices, they
have perverted the benefactions Of
the principle of cooperation: they
have distorted the advantages Of
steam, electricity and of invention;
they have preyed upon human life
itself-all by the simple Instrument
atty of delay. They have played the
rights of the states against the ma
ton, the nation against the state, the
decree of the court against the edict
of the legislature. the legislature
against the court, for delay"