The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06
PERKINS CALLS
WILSON INSINCERE
Asserts Reason Given for steel
Appeal Plainly Show
Incompetence.
FINDS RETURN TO BRYAN

George W. Perkins issued a state
c,nt Yesterday. Of which the following
vas a part:
"rhe reason given by the Government
a.. appealing the steel suit hranda tho
~lis,n.pryan Administration so plainly
az insinccre. Inconsistent and incom-
,e,en, that he who run may read.
"The case is OF extreme Importance
s,e Z the Wilson Adj rinistratlon had
given his as its reas-n for believing
tina, the case should be carried to the
supreme Court. where "A fnal opinion
eould he had. a great many people would
have approved but no right minded per-
son can approve the reason given by
Mr. Gregory. which is as follows While
the case against the United states steel
Corpo.ation was instituted by the las:
Administration ! am IN complete accord
with In. views on the law upon which
1, IL based. OF course II will he taken
10 the United states supreme Court
This places the Neutrality-suspicious.
o. administration squarely on record
q, inicrsiug the course taken by Messrs.
=. & and Wickersham when they brought
,uit 10 dis solve the steel Corporation.
crercfure. in arguing the appeal before
80 supreme Cou,: TIE Wilson Admin
igirl;i. n will ask for the dissolution OF
N. steel Corporation precisely as the
r,f, administration did. and for the
,,r. reasons. bu;tressed II possible
with reasons that to the Wilson Ad-
n nistration seem stronger han those
advanced by the Taft administration
e Grcgory must. II possible, succeed
xlere Wickersham failed.
Quotes a,ings Of President.
This ,cason for appealing is given
n @ face of the un MIN us decision
G-t,r., the Government by next 10
10 highest court in the land. "A do
{ ion that In effect avs that the con-
,rtirns OF Mes.rs. Taft and Wicker
,ham AZ regards the sherman law II
~rract,ces of the Steel Corpor .tiOn were
IN wrong, u decision that ex%onerates
g., steel corporation under bDth the
k,ernan law and the moral law. Never
'ielcss Messrs. wills n and Gregory pre-
.er 10 accept the personal opinion of
Nes.rs. TAFT and Wickersham In place
~ the unanimous opinion OF next 10 the
iighes; court in the land.
IAN this is done. Notwithstanding the
far' that President Wilson has told the
country repeatedly that the mists and
niaomic airs OF suspicion that have filled
the business world have now been blown
away that, nobody has been suspicious
a. any business merely because II was
biz. bu, only when Il, was thought that
h.gness was being used 10 take an UNI
fair advantage. that the Dad lies clear
and Arm before business that 1t is
a road which It can travel without fear
Of Embarrassment IA there IL moth
Ing more fatal to business than to keep
guessing from month to month and from
year to year whether something serious
10 going to happen TO II or not. and
wha. In particular is going to happen
to II II anything does that 1T Is inn
pcss.bl. to forecast the prospects OF
any line of busin, 81 unless you know
What the year is going to bring FORTH.
and that "A new day has dawnei for
The beloved country whose lasting pros
perity and happiness we so earnestly
desire
President Wilson has also told the
business world that IL could expect a
great deal from the Federal Trade Com
mission The law creating this com
mission explicitly says that the Attorney
General may use the Federal Trade Com
mission for the readjustment Of ths
business of any corporation alleged "a
Be violating the antitrust acts, IN
order that the corporation may there
after maintain its organization, manage
ncnt and conduct of business in accord
sngc with law Indeed. the Circuit
Cour, itself. in handing down the SteeI
decision, plainly intimated that the
Federal Government might possibly use
tn. Federal Trade Commission for such
purposes.