The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-03-25
Great Trials Of History
MASSACHUSETTS oJAKERs.

rTilE |ColoniHts 81 Massachusetts,
bay had no Idea of religious toll
= Grafton and they were especially
severe against the Quakers Whl cai
settled In hat section. Thcy even
went 81 Ear a. TO make a law which
provided that any master OF a ship
bringing n known quaker within
the Jurisdiction should forfeit tt00
ard should give security to carry such
Quakers back To- the place from
whence he Drought them.
In October. 1855, o law was intro
duced into the general court provid-
ing that every person Of the cursed
sect of Qunkcrs,' who should be
found within the jurisdiction. should
be Immediately imprisoned until the
next court OF assistants. at which they
should have q legal trial, and. being
convicted o. be- Of the sect OF Quak-
ers. should be banished on pain 81
death
There WAS ma lack of vlctims. Three
persons we're found within the juris-
diction. and they were Immediately
Imprisoned They we're Mary Dyer
Marmu-Uuko. Stephenson and Will
sion has u large measure u actual
control over the railroads. The
proposed Interstate trade commission
win have uu control Whatever o,cr
amy of the activities al any corpor-
alton saving snd excepting the right
to prescribe methods OF accounting
and io require reports. The inter
! state IN commission has en-
trusted tu d the supervision of Ger
ltain public service corporations They
are natural monopolies and, there
fore. the commission a. given control
over rates. That is, u controls the
prices OF tho products the railways
sell The proposed Interstate trade
commission viii have 10 do with
private corporations - not quasi
public. like railroads. They are not
monupolistir 10y nature. but compel
llusc. The regulation OF the prices
lat which they sell their product win
Therefore. be- no part OF the new
Icommissious duties.
The question VIII also arise as a.
the relation 81 the proposed com
mission tu Theodore ltoosevclts
lCommisslun nf federal control of bil
business. That was TO have been q
sort Of tribunal 10 do 10 business be-
irorehand what the courts do after
ward pass un plans aud methods.
and pronounce them legal OF Illegal.
II was to constitute d Kind Of con
fessiouul where the corporation
manager would reveal. not what Ia
had done. but what he proposed "a
do. and hc Told 60 SO ahead or To
chanrc bis plans.
The NcD measure under discussion
proposes s.methlng very much more
lmodest han That, IT. functions are
Ito Doe three.
To conduct Investigations Of bus
mess ana corporate activities for
either the president, the attorney
general. or either house Of congress
IN iis report upon these inyestiga'
lions it may include recommenda.
tons Tor embellishments necessary 10
order that the business or corpora
uon Investigated may comply with
the law.
To report Co the president con
ndentially unfair practices moi
constituting Violations of laws thai
be may recommend legislation look
Ing 10 their suppression or %discontin'
uance.
10 act prartically-as master IL
c%hancery. investigating aud report
ing Go the courts upon eases In equits
brought under the statutes relating
20 restraint OF trade.
The great difference between thes'
functions either OF the interstats
commerce commission or Of tbs
f,ooosevelt big business commission
h that the proposed commission vii
render no authoritative decisions
and put nothing ia effect. n viii
report to the president, or 20 the al
torney general OF To one ~ III,
houses of congress. or 10 the iudg,
OF a federal court. II viii have "a,
direct relation whatever 10 the cor
porations engaged In Interstate trade
saving and e~xceptinE an i~nquisnorla'
one lee whole ransc OF powers
comprehend but two things. The
nscertainment ~ matters of fact
land the formulation 81 suggestions
las "a needed business reforms.