The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-08-13
NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITAL ON VITAL QUESTIONS
Press Correspondent Tells About the
Campaign Now Being Carried IN
Against Government Ownership
(BY J. E. JONES'
Checking Up the Packers

Shtthhe y y s''- aNhtfS
In order to cure the drastic pro
cesses of prosecutions under the
Sherman law the Federal Trade
Commission was created, and In it.
equipment were soft pedals. It
purpose was defined to prevent per
sons, partnerships or corporations
except banks. and common carrier.
subject to the acts to regulate com
merce, from using unfair methods in
competition, etc.
Bankers. and common carrier
have recognized the value to them
and their affairs of form of semi
public control-and they want more
of 1t.
Big business. and little business
which behaves itself, has learned
that it has nothing to fear from Gov
ernment; and progressive minds
welcome the new. relations being es
tablished between commerce, finance
and industry and ths federal govern
ment. One by one the problems OF
commerce are being Strengthened out
Just now one of the most perplexine
phases of economic conditions con-
Germs the regulating of methods Of
unfair competition The Fedora
Trade points to the packing trust a.
the chief offender against this prin-
ciple.
Mr.. Louis F. Swift, the Chicago
packer, talks about the policy of the
Government, in the fashion of the
antique politicians who adorn their
titles with the prefix "ex-" THE
manner in which the Federal Trade
Commission juggies figures and re-
sorts TO sensationa'ism betrays the
insincerity of the commission" de-
clares Mr.. Swift.
The complaint of Mr. Swift doubt
less refers to the discovery by the
Commission that the big five packers
Jointly or separately WELD controll-
ing interest in 574 companies, minor
ity interest in 95 others and unde-
termined interests IN ga total of
762 companies and that they pro-
duce or deal in some 775 commodi-
ties. largely food products.
Packers Are d Trust
The packers propaganda assails
government ownership Of the indus
try as threatening ruin" Protests
are piling up in Congress asking fo'
the defeat of the Kenyon and Ken
drick bills. Senator Kenyon autho
of one of the bills elong the lines o
Federal Trade Commission program
says: 1.-THE bills are not for The
Government ownership of the pack
.ers, they are bills for Governmen
control and regulation" 1t seem
almost tragic that the Americar
people are so gullfble that the
Should food the Senate with peti
tions and protests against govern
ment ownership" when the BIZ
plainly do not contemplate anythinf
of the kind. But Government own
ership' is easy to assail, since 1t l.
as unpopular as Burleson. How
ever Congress is so weaned from the
very idea that 1t would be a waste
of effort to petition the law-makinP
bodies of the Government againsf
it. Evidently the petitioners have
been camouflaged, but it is easy te
believe the statement made by Sena-
tor Kenyon that that kind of 2
smoke screen will not obscure the
issue" a.. d,
Answering directly the question Of
the President, "as to whether or not
there exist monopolies, controls
trusts, combinations, conspiracies
or restraints of trade out of harmony
with the law and the public inter-
ests,' we have found conclusive evil
dence that warrants an unqualified