Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-12
MEASUREFOR
BET TTERMENI
Of FWARTRADE
IS At 7 Tackled
Senator Reed of Missouri De-
clares Proposed Bill Would
Tear Down All of Nations
Antitrust Laws.
lBy Review Leased Wire.l

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-Warning
that the United States must prepare
to assume further burdens to win the
war was given today in the senate by
Senator Reed in vigorously opposing
as a trust scheme, the Webb export
combination bill, which President VIII
son in mis- recent address urged con-
gress to enact.
Declaring that congress should con
Centrate upon great war problems and
defer consideration of such legisla-
tim as the export trade measure, the
Missouri senator said that with RUS
sia out of the war and Rumania also
gone" the enemy, numerically, now
IL superior in manpower/
Although an opponent of army con-
scription, Senator Reed predicted that
new draft levies probably would be
necessary and urged military training
for youths between Is and p for
coast defense work. Invasion or
America, he asserted was not beyond
the realms of possibilities should
other allied powers fall beside Rus
sia, Rumania and Serbia.
Reed Denounces Bill.
Senator Reed as destructive of the
Sherman antitrust law at behest of
trusts and monopolies and proposed
legalizing of illegal combinations
which would encroach on consumers
abroad and increase domestic prices.
1T -epeals," he said, every vestige
of that system Of antitrust statutes
bull. up during 2s years by the feder-
al government so far as the sane ap-
plies to commerce with foreign pow
ers. II is intended to legalize the ere
alton OF combination s and trusts to
control every foreign market in which
the American citizen may seek to sell
his goods Indirectly it will enable
these same combinations to control
the domestic markets, because of the
price of the surplus that goes abroad
10 finG a mark,f controls the price
OF the home product
Trusts Assailed.
This legislation has the enthus'
iastic support of the allied trusts of
the United States. together with their
servants, agents, employees and SYM
pati,izers. II will be supported by
every newspaper that believes in the
control of big business. which re-
CARDS every effort to limit or cir
cumschibe the powers of capital as
undesirable and dangerous.
"The second outstanding fact is
that this system of laws which had
for their purpose the preservation of
free and open markets for the Ameri-
can people and which were common
iy known as the trust statutes, which
were originally passed by the repu-
blican party on the secon day Of
july, 1889. and during intervening
years have been frequently amended
and laboriously construed until they
have become great code of verile
laws behind which honest business
can take refuge are now sought to be
disemtoweied during a democratic
administration and at time when the
clouds and anxieties of war have dis
tracted the attention of the country
from any legislation except that per-
tanning to the pending conflict"
Senator Cummins of Iowa, also op-
posed the bill as virtual repeal of
foreign trade combination provisions
of the Sherman law.
Defending the measure were Sena-
tor Pomerene of Ohio, who has it in
charge. and Senator Townsend of
Michigan. Debate was not concIud-
ed and opposition threatened to in
terfere with the leaders plans to pass
1t before the holiday recess.