Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-08-31
COL, INGERSOLL FLAYs HUGHES
FOR MONoPOLISTIC ATTITUDE
IF PEOPLE FAVOR "MONO-
POLY ROBBERY" VOTE FOR
HUGHES HE SAYS.

HUGHES HE SAYS.
Colonel James M. Ingersoll of Poca-
tello, progressive national committee
man for Idaho, has returned to the
state from numerous committee meet
ings at which the future of the party
and the attitude to be taken in the
present campaign were discussed.
Colonel Ingersoll refused to follow
Roosevelt into the Hughes camp and
expains his attitude toward the re-
publican nominee in the following
statement in the Boise Capital News:
81 am home from the conventions
and the numerous committee meetings
and desire to say to my friends and
political associates that | stood by
Colonel Roosevelt while he claimed to
be for square deal in our economic
affairs.
Quit the Colonel
Il quit the colonel after he deserted
our party and requested me to support
Candidate Hughes, who believes in
giving the Standard Oil and all other
monopolistic combines free hand.
Candidate Hughes supreme court
decision in the Standard Oil and to.
bacco trust cases laid down a rule of
law that gives all monopolistic COM
bines a free hand, with the soft pedal
suggestion by the court "that the mon
opolies be reasonable in their meth
ods.
"The above decisions practically
nulify the criminal end of the Sher-
man antitrust law.
Everyone should read Justice Har-
lan's dissenting opinion in the above
cases.
"Now it is simply impossible to pun
ish the trust magnates, because what
one court and jury might hold to be
unreasonable, another court and jury
might hold the same to be reasonable.
"Hence, since Candidate Hughes and
his associates in the supreme court
handed down the above decision, the
monopolies have had and are now hav,
ing a free hand to extort money from
our people.
"The most stupid of us who are in
business know that telling the monop
olies they must be reasonable and then
letting the monopolies do the reason
ing that the public will be wronged
while this rule of reason doctrine pre-
walls.
"Perhaps if Mr.. Hughes and Mr.
Taft and the honorable supreme eour
judges knew as much about business
F., affairs and the business methods o1
the greedy monopolies as they 10 abou
law, they would have less faith in tn,
fairness and reasonable of the greed,
monopolistic combines who are main
taind to extort money by unfair am
| arbitrary methods from one hundre,
million Americans
Hughes the Taft Appointee.
Candidate Hughes and the thre
other judges appointed by Taft con
Cured in the above decisions. Prob
ably Taft appointed them for this yer.
purpose, as the above cases had bee
pending for several years in this court
| "You know to perpetuate certain
kind of court-made law it is necessar
to appoint certain lawyers to the 81
preme court, whose views are we
known to the big special interests tina
are to be protected.
"a few years ago President Pierc
desired to protect the interests of th
|
appointed lawyers to the supreme couI
whom he knew belived in slavery, an
of course he got the kind of decisio
he wanted.
elf Candidate Hughes is ever pres
dent, we will probably place Taft an
Others who believe with him in his rul
of reason doctrine in the supreme coul
to perpetuate said doctrine and I'll
monopolies for all time.
Hughes for Monopoly.
$50, if the American people wal
from four to eight and many MOI
years of extortion by the monopolist
combines, they should hasten to plat
Hughes in the White House, so he ca
appoint his friend Taft and others wi
agree with him to the supreme court
Probably ex-President Taft and
republican senate promoted Justi,
White to be chief justice, because
decided against the government ar
in favor of Jim Hill in the Northel
Security merger case.
"You know that since this court hi
acquired the habit of multiplying ar
law that is not in accord with its view
it is necessary to appoint certain me
to this court to perpetuate certai
} rule of law to sustain certain kir
of public policy.
"Now the simple truth about Il
) monopolies and the Sherman anti-tru
law is in these words. In 1890, WHIT
congress and the president adopted Il
Sherman anti trust law they fully b
ieved that all monopolistic combin
were absolutely wrong. And we 6
know if thing is fundamentally al
morally wrong, no amount of unpr
) JUDGED, fair and honest reasoning cs
ever make il right.
Hence, all wrong doing in o.
) economic affairs should be absolute
forbidden in plain terms by both o.
law and our court decisions.
cit seems absolutely outrageous
say to the distribution and trade mo
opolistic combines that their monop
listic schemes are permissible, II the
are only reasonable in their method
. and then allow these same greedy m