Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-07-16
TRUSTS AND HORSE THIEVES
 SHOULD BE TREATED ALIKE

Civilization has developed very
 practical method Of protecting society
 against horse thieves. We do not
 bring all the people before a county
 inqusition once a year and ask them
 to confess whether they steal horses
 nor subject them to any psychological
 tests for a purpose of admonishing
 citizens who show any tendency to
 covet a neighbor's horse.
 The practical way, universally fol
 lowed, is to start promtply at the place
 where a horse has been stolen and
 follow the trail until we find the
 horse and the guilty men. Incidentally
 we do not worry about horse thieves nor look suspiciously at our neighbors until a horse has been stolen some where. This is the democratic, Anglo
 Saxon method of dealing with all Of lenses against society, and is the op- posite of the imperial idea of keeping everybody under suspicion.
 Strange to say, when we attempt to regulate the trusts, we forget our ef- ficient Anglo-Saxon system, and take up unconsciously the imperial idea of putting everybody under psychological regulation and inquisition. The House bill to regulate the trusts, which pass ed recently and is now pending in the Senate, is a strictly imperial measure: and the Senate has made but little progress in bringing it back to democratic basis.
 It provides that all our 100000 cor porations shall go up to Jerusalem once a year and submit to an inqulsl- tion. and the publication of reports or It does not specify what burnt offerings or peace or thank they shall take with them, but it is very explicit in requiring them to confess everything. It is the most important step we have ever taken towards establishing imperial, government.
 The Interstate Commerce Commls- sion has proved one of the most sue cessful tribunals ever established by| legislation. It has always followed the old, practical system of starting at the time and place where a wrong hasl been done Whenever some one con- plains that he has been injured by the rates or practices of the railroads. orI that some injury has been done to the public, the commission proceeds in a very thorough manner to investigate the complaint, hear all the parties in terested, and after careful considera- ton it issues an order to restore jus ed under the antitrust laws.
 The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion has been established nearly twenty years before congress gave it any inquesitorial powers to examine he books of railroads; a measure hat was only justified because rail- 'oads are public service corporations. This power has only been used by the to further it's original pur- pose of hearing and Investigating con- )laints
 Canada handles the trust" question very successfully and with no fuss or trouble, by starting at the time and place where wrong has been done. | This is the same method that has been proven by our Interstate Commerce Commission; but in Canada a special commission is appointed by the court n each case where a complaint is fill | ed underline antitrust laws.
 Our friends at Washington seem to De more interested in the study of | psychological horse stealing than iD | actual offences against society. They | seem to feel that the farmer may not znow it when his, horse is stolen. They must have a grand imperial scheme for an annual inquisition, with 'eports to be published two or three 5ears after any wrong has been done, ike other government reports. It would be "too much like work if the primary purpose of trade commission vas to investigate complaints and give prompt relief, as Canada does.
 The business men of the county are justified in protecting against govern nent by inquisition. The human race las struggled and battled for thou sands of years for the right to work md carry legitimate enterprises with ,ut having the man with the sword standing over them with a perpetual