Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-20
THE REAL DANGER.


 There was a time not far removed when the charge was made and fairly well sustained that the socalled trusts were exploiting the people The situation is re- versed today The pendulum has swung back The dan ger now lays in the threatened exploitation of the trusts by the people What almost of the spirit of re- venge is abroad fin the land.
 Now that the prospect of further antitrust legislation is definitely before the country it is worth considering how greatly the need action diminished even from the populistc point of view Perhaps never before in the history of country have the common people made rapid gains than during the past year or two The gain has been such in fact that the dom inant question is how guard against innovations that might be conhscatory.
 First came the parcel post which made. not alone rem ediable alarming inroads on the earning power Of the express companies The weight limit for parcels sent by mail is making succession of increases and there is no knowing it will The railroads have been attacked in this unjustly.
 Then came the new arbitration act which. by supple mentng the virtually amounts to government regulation of wages If this regulation absolutely i'm partial and unpreudced these enactments would of course not be so gratifying public but all these ment boards and commissions are popular bodies and 
 Consequently when a labor union makes wholly un. just demand for advance it is almost certain to win a portion of that advance; if railroad corpor- ation were to make entirely just demand for re- duction of wages. such petition would certainly be denied.
 In the income tax the commoners made further gan and their contention that the larger mans rev enue the more taxes he should pay per dollar of income
 tl,ig rking classes are not taxed at all since recipient of income ssoOo free while the wellodo pay dis criminating taxes varying from one six per cent Congress deliberately placed this burden upon the re- cipents of substantial incomes lifted proporton ate burden from the shoulders of the common people
 New tariff legislation added more to the list of victories the so-caled trusts. In consequence the cost of living has been reduced-or it Is al egedin several important quarters including sugar cotton and woolen goods. meats and other articles
 In the new currency tbe common people have again scored in that the act gives them indirect con trol banking system and all banking mat ters degree control Is greater than they ever exercised any previous legislation of the United States greater than they would have exercised under any previous legislation of the United States and far greater they would have exercised under the Aldrich plan.
 Trust dIssolutons under the sherman act, which un der the Roosevelt and Taft regimes les' nominal. made perfectly genuine by thu new device used in the Union Pacific of prevent ing interlockng ownership Heretofore the stand ard method of securing unity of action among dis solved parts of trust was parts controlled by small set of stockholders. In the Union Pacific case this prevented, and the sherman law ha thereby been made effective that corporations ae cused falsely otherwise of being trusts, now dis solving voluntarily Is it not fair to ask if the labo trust in it's restraint of trade activities should not hav the searchigh of government investigation turned il its direction?