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The Commoner.
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PERSONAL TO
SUBSCRIBERS
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THE COMMONER
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THEO. NOEL COMPANY, B. C. Dept., Vitze-Org Bldg., Chicago, 111.
Mr. Knox on Trusts.
The following abstract of the attor
ney general's recommendation regard
ing trusts and combinations was made
public, at length today and was given
out at the WhJ.ts house tonight. It
represents the general attitude of the
administration on this subject and was
authorized by the president
Preliminary.
The people do not desire the bus'
ress of the country to be interfered
with beyond the regulation necessary
to control combinations where they
act ii properly and to correct, any
tendency toward monopoly. In this
country, where money is cheap and
abimdant and within the reach of
keen and capable men, a monopoly will
bo impossible if competition is kept
free.
Small enterprises have certain ad
vantages over large combinations anc
will live and thrive if assured of an
open and fair field. Rebates and dis
criminatory rates constitute one or
the chief restrictions on competition
They unjustly swell the earnings or
favored. concerns and support a vasr
volume of capital stock which repre
sents nothing but unfair advantage
over rivals, and contribute largely to
the upbiulding of monopoly.
The situation respecting transporta
tion discriminations and the entry 01
independent capital into new Indus
tries has lately beeiJmproved. It W
now known that the mototm
embarked in independent enterprises
in the last two years at least equals
the capital of the great combinations
formed within the previous twelve
years. With assurance against preda
tory competition, this improvement
will continue. Individual industrial
experience with the certainty of secure
employment of capital may be trusted
to compete effectively with such selflsn
combinations as are not formed for
sound economi2 reasons, but merely 'n
order to capitalize the country's pros
perity for the benefit of their pro
moters. The existence of most of
these combinations has not increased
the productive capacity of the coun
try; they have merely acquired tho
ownership of pre-existing industries.
Recommendations for immediate
lfiErislation:
Tiat all discriminatory practices af- J
fecting interstate trade bo mado of
fenses to be enjoined and punished.
Such legislation to bo directed alike
against those who give nnd those who
receive illegal advantages, and to
cover discrimination, in prices us
against competitors in particular lo
calities resorted to for tho purpose of
destroying competition.
In ordfer to reach producers guilty
of these offenses who aro, as producers,
morely beyond national control, a pen
alty should be imposed upon the in
terstate and foreign transportation of
goods produced by them, and federal
courts should bo given power to re
strain such transportation at tho gov
ernment's suit
Such legislation is necessary bocauso
tho existing interstate commcrco law
does not give an effective remedy on
this class of cases against either ship
per or carrier.
The casus omissus:
Tho interstate commerce act should
now bo supplied by imposing a pen
alty upon carrier and beneficiary' aliko
and by giving to the courts the right
to restrain all such infractions of tho
law.
Tho prohibition against carriers
should bo limited to those subject to
tho act to rogulatc commerce. Only
carriers operating a lino of railroad or
a rail and water lino an ono lino arc
required to publish tholr rates and ad
here to them. It Is Impracticablo to
control lines operating wholly by wa
ter. Rates of water transportation are
necessarily open to the freest compe
tition, aro Invariably low by tho com
parison, and thus naturally furnish
tho standard of reasonableness with
out express regulation.
It should be made unlawful to trans
port traffic by carriers subject to tho
interstate commerce act at less rato
than tho published rate, and all who
participate in violating tho law should
t3 punished. The provision should
also bo made ta reach corporations and
combinations which produce wholly
within a fltato, but whoso products
enter interstate commerce. This pro
vision should relate, first, to concerns
which fatten on rebates; second, to
concerns which sell commodities below
tho general prico in particular locali
ties, or in any ono 'particular locality
seek to destroy competition.
There should bo a comprehensive
plan to enable tho government to got
all tho facts bearing upon tho organi
zation and practices of concerns en
gaged in Interstate commerce, not
with u view to hampering any legiti
mate business of such combinations,"
but in order to be In a position to
tako action if necessary.
To this end a commission or a spe
cial bureau in the proposed depart
ment of commerce should bo created,
wnose duty it should be to investigate
tho corporations of concerns engaged,
in interstate or foreign commerce, to
gather information and data enabling
it to make recommendations for ad
ditional legislation to report to the
president This would be a first step
In securing proper publicity. This
commission should have authority tc
inquire Into the management of any
concern doing an interstate business
whenever it becomes necessary or de
sirable; it should havo the authority
to call for reports for some timo to
compel testimony from any witnesses
by tho production of bocks, papers,
etc.
These recommendations are based on
the central thought that the first step
should be taken by a law aimed at
what are certainly known to bo un
reasonable practices directly restric
tive of freedom of commerce, and by
a law securing some governmental su
pervision as outlined above. A spe
cial act should be passed at once to
upeed the final decision of cases pend-
ing or to be raised under the present .
anti-trust law, providing for the hear
ing of such cases by a full bench of
circuit judges and a direct appeal from
the circuit courts to the supreme court
of the United States.
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