Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-06-17
THE PRICE TIE PUBLIC MUST PAY

Anyone who thinks for minute that big business is
being bounced around by the new dea should read the
Industrial Recovery" bill
At the close Of the Hoover administration it was q
fact that Big Business was in bad One thing which was
dead for sure the to nulfy repeal the
Sherman antitrust law The public rising up against
trusts which were rObbng and sandbaggng at every bust
Shades of haunted Wall Street Everyone
conceded that there daring enough to propose
repeal of the antitrust laws for many years to come
Then His Hghness Mister Morgan jOstied around
in a rough-and-tumbIe affair prOdded by reporters,
vctmized by agents and otherwise manhandied Inc
public laughed with gee Big business was on the run Fur
thermore the administration turned to the forgotten man
and bill introduced providing billions OF dollars FOR
public works. set the wheels of business moving
Everyone, press and public favOrs the industrial recov
cry bill Some and few others rritated
by seeming stand in its way. Who could be opposed to
providing billions of dollars of public to end the de-
Read the bill and see 1t is known as the Wagner bill
The first and principal purpose Of the bill occupies the rs
For NuilEdcaaon Of the Sherman Antitrust Laws.
Just as the small boy who is fond Of orange Juice is
allowed have great big glass of orange uieewith cas-
oil in sO the American people are allowed to have
billions end the depression with the REIMBURSEMENT
of antitrust law safeguards
The "Pubc works and Construction Project bill does
the one thing every American thought Big Business
dared not undertake the notification of the antitrust laws
provides that business may build its codes which
be approved by the president and anyone VINO SUB
scribes to these codes SHALL BE E4EMPr FROM IE
PROVISIONS OF THE ANTITRUST LAWS OF THE UN-
TIED STATES The words direct quotation from Sec
ton 5
projects for which the public laudng Senator Wagneri
Nothing whatever 1t is merely the PRICE the public
must pay % Big Business before it arrive at the real
purpose pubczed purpOse-Of the measure Title Is
found on the TENTH page of the b afterthought
Title provides Public Works and Construction Projects
The first 10 pages provides ruasc work for the burial
of the antitrust laws
Perhaps the fair competition idea is all right. That
is not the This merely commentary the fact
that the Wagner thing to the public and
another the president he wanted to head off the cod
idea which fosters system of trusts he could not veto
it without vetOing the three billion dollar reconstruction
program for which the nation has been waiting
THAT is why the President brought forth the lckes
amendment 1t a fight for the LITTLE FELLOW that
the president making The public didn't know The wires
are busy telling the of the public works program
impossible divorce the two ideas from the bill
Big Business the In times like thee, the
bg fellow off than in times of thinking Big
Business steps up and levs its toll for bit OF bene
fetal legislation provided for ongufferng public
This time Of for Big Business 1t time OF
opportunity perpetrate the most daring and vilanou
schemes in history.
Some senator rises up and President Roosevelt
of being agent of Big Business If the American public
could get the simple facts it would know that President
Roosevelt is the VICTIM of Big Business.