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VOLUME 12, NUMBER 33
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AN AID TO LAWLESS WEALTH
Congressman Littleton of New
York wants to add another to the
largo number of federal boards al
ready existing, to pas3 upon all or
ganizations and reorganizations of
corporations engaged in interstate
commerce and separate the sheep
from the goats. He says:
"Organized business generally,
while welcoming a short period of
peace, lives in dre.ad of the future.
The real vice in the treat
ment of the wholo problem, hereto
fore has been the attempt to legis
late soieiy against the result or effect
of a series of acts instead of specifi
cally aenning and prohibiting those
acts. In an effort to prevent and
punish confessedly conspicuous evils
we have set all business groping and
feeling about with, uncertain step,
like a man in the dark."
In view of Mr. Littleton's deserved
reputation for keenness of mind and
breadth of information, it is a pity
that ho did not tako time to look
over the transcripts of evidence in
tho Standard Oil and Tobacco trust
cases before issuing this astounding
pronouncement.
Had he done so he would have dis
covered that these trusts did not
fall afoul of the law Blraply because
they, by the operation of natural
business lawn, became bigger than
their competitors. As an authorita
tive summing up of the actual situa
tion we quote a few lines from the
government's brief in the tobacco
case:
"Through offers of large sums of
money they (the American Tobacco
company and Its officers) have com
pelled other concerns to sell out, tak
ing from their directors and stock
holders agreements against competi
tion; and by unlawful contracts
with opponents, they have apportion
ed the trade and commerce in tobac
co throughout the world. They have
concealed their relationship with
controlled comnanlpa nrA nsfl t,.
acting under the guise of indepen
dent, to break down opposition;
, . tnQy have practiced un
fair trade methods, sold their goods
below cost, manipulated the markets
and otherwise exercised their great
power to gain control and destroy
opponents."
There is much more, but this is
sufficient for our purpose. Does
Congressmen Littleton seriously be
lieve that the attempt to punish such
practices as these has "set all busi
ness groping and feeling about with
uncertain stop, like a man in the
dark?" .
The fact is that the business man
who has a good average American
conscience In anything like fair
working order, and has given heed
nnh4dateSv.18 oleePns easily
and thinking nothing at all about the
Sherman law. in view of the evi
dence offeffred In federal courts as
to the means by which the trusts
C C . t""0" wmuuBsion to nasH
on their plans would be that It might
advise Just how far they could with
Tw3f i not belIovo th0 American
people have any desire to see anv
such convenience furnished to would
public GSS wealth St. Louis nl
front of organized greod itui v .
dismay into tho heart? of too aS2
gant mighty. U1 arr-
It matters not what the conven
tion may or may not do, excent fn
its intimate bearing upon the fa
of a great party and tho welfare of a
people there is no eventuation that
Cadim. th0 BPtendid achievement;
of Mr. Bryan, or take away from Si a
admiration that his greYt courag
has won. His personal triumph i
a feature of the convention that mav
not live in history, but it comes now
to hearten the hopes of strugglinc
thousands. fab B
The odds were all against him
For months such bosses as Murphy
Sullivan and Taggart had plotted
singly and together, while the W
hand of Thomas Fortuno Ryan
reaching into every corner of the
country, had dropped its money,
trades and promises for the beguile
ment of delegates. The Chicago vic
tory so encouraged the interests that
Ryan went so far as to force his own
attorney, Alton B. Parker, upon tho
convention as temporary chairman.
Against this phalanx Mr. Bryan
hurled himself, strong not only with
hisH own strength, but filled with the
consciousness that his efforts were
responsive to public sentiment and
public virtue. He knew that he was
right, and the iron of his conviction
tore throunrh tho fluid mia u
ticians. Only Wbodrow Wilson stood
tall enough to escape the shame of
a pitiful contrast between tho great
commoner and the small bore bosses
and candidates.
A fight is never lost when it has
such a leader. Out of his own cour
age, vision and indomitable purpose
he gives hope and heart to thoso
about him, erects standards by which
men may bo measured, and excites
the generous emulation that leads
weaker men to the doing of braver
deeds.
There was a moment when it
seemed that Baltimore would prove
another Chicago, and that the great
party of Jefferson would sink to th
shame that now besmirches the or
ganization that Lincoln honored.
That tho calamity has been averted
is entirely due to William J. Bryan,
and if the danger is completely
escaped, that credit, too, will be du
him.
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