text: Wf' A 1 .•7fii»Virr ••v-O.-i' fW^ WM m*' SiSvwt §r&!* $&< "&£y» Wis** §il' f/ Ji&L. 9i i, \X If i'tf «v p- I CnS W. I ":v1 iK'Y* W}, 11 "S I t&'H nk^ ife' m, 4 W m&m 11V vu, 5 S4s! S"v i~ c. [tersV P^r-c-v lw^ I p* r*£. I W v* VL,rC fl'll ®lje JDcmacrat. ft I {«*}&" rf !A 1' 1 ferf 5 1 0- a ri Wt&t Official Pwr CwRty iM OUT. ft. M. Carr, H»nry Bronaon. HNfeart Carr CARR. BRONSON CARR. Editor* and Proprietor* Bubicrlptlon prlc*. 1 yr In iMiN 91*10 WEDNESDAY, OCT. 4, 1»11. A GIGANTIC FARCE. The fining of cororations for is or is is 'I- crimes committed in their name r. the most gigantic farce of this any other age. And especially Ws this true when the corporation ^*2fv large- enough to control the. produc tion and fix the price of any neces sary article. Corporations are artificial per sons created by law. They iiave no natural right to do anything, all of '-k}[' their powers feeing derived from the statute law of the states where they are Incorporated. No state ever' gave a corporation the rijjht or power to commit a crime and, strict ly-speaking, no corporation ever did commit a crime, any more than an inanimate object, such .bs an ax or a gun. While that is true, it is' equally true that criminally disposed men frequently use corporations to aid them in the commission of crime, the same as they might use an ax or a gun. But by what reasoning can crimes so committed be considered or treated as the crimes of the cor- m&wqt V-PL poration which was used by the iJP I'M criminal iu their commission? Vr j- tion llj* "f^'U A ifpg-.t--. Vru. (i£r Yt Take the sugar trust for illustra That gigantic corporation has long been managed by as ibold a gang of criminals as ever used a dark i-• lantern or cut a^thwkat. Their .crimes covered a broad field, aiid the gov ernment during the past year or two has had the corporation fined a few million dollars for the misconduct of its criminal managers. And aWta '-J' based upon crimes committed "toy them upon persons who attempted '•'"•to compete with the big trust have been settled at an expense of a few million more. &ut -what did all that signify'' Nothing more nor less than a tax on the consumers of sugar 5' large enough to reimburse tlie trust for all such'extra expenses and much (more. a few weeks ago the sugar truat cafaily announced that It piopoacd' to increase the price-of its product sufficient to take forty millions out of the pockets of the Amerlcaa peo ple during the comiiig year. That sum the criminals doubtless calculated would ,be quite sufficient to reim-' burse them for all tines and ex penses connected with their criminal transactions. Instead of "fining the corporation why*" were not the individuals who committed the crimes fined: and lm prisoned7 What a travesty typon legal pro 'i«ceedings? what a reflection upon the gov ernment o£ the country? What an Injustice upon the Am erican public7 THE TWO TAFTS. The wide-spread uncertainty in ref orence to the renominatlon of- Presi -dent Taft Is due to the fact that the republicans have-. two Tafts with which to deal. -i'-."'- In hi3 public speeches the Presi dent measures up fairly well with the progressive thought cf the pres ent time, but- in his 'work as a pub .lc official he is all that the reac tianarles have ever desired., In briefer words, the President talks with the progressives and works with the reactionaries, and that is what has set them all guess ing. And the guess of the majority is that Taft will be renominated but not re-elected. There Is a sharp difference be tween the recent speeches of Attor ney-General Wickersham and Presi dent Taft In reference to the Sher man anti-trust law. The former de sires amendments which he contends will Improve the statute, while the latter Is opposed to any changes. On this subject we are radically on the side of the President. First, be cause we have no faith lu the At torney-Genferal. As a scare crow for the trusts he Is a failure. They know him just as well as though they had made him. He is oue of the original job lot cabinet officers named by the interests. And, as a second reason, because it has taken twenty years of litigation to make the statute reasonably clear aud'en forclble, and a small amendment might render everything uncertain again. The recent Canadian election was a triumph for money in politics, as W-'U as a victory for reaction and Ignorance. 1 SsSS'MS 11 THE ITALIAN-TURKISH WAR. Since the last issue of this paper Italy has declared war upon Turkey, •by giving only 24 hours' notice, and The Turks are a semi-barberous people, and no matter how unjustifi able the present war there will be little sympathy for them in any Chris tian country. The strained relations between Ger many and France and England gives Italy her opportunity and it looks as though the Sick Man would have to take his medicine. X. Plerpont Morgan, when asked a tew days ago what he thought About the President's Waterloo speech, said that he had not read it. Why should Mr. Morgan bother himself about what the President may be saying to make himself solid with the farm ers of Iowa7 Has not Wall street good reason to believe that all of the battles of the President's cam paign against "the interests" will be sham battles? m- AN EXCEEDINGLY IMPORTANT STATEMENT. Most of President Taft's recent speeches have been good natured, non committal talks, but that can not be said of his Waterloo speech laet Thursday. He said something at Waterloo. The following extracts from what he said are brim full of thought and somewhat out of line with the contentions of some of the big men ot his party: "I have heard the severest criti cism, from some men engaged in business, of the Anti-Trust law. is difficult for me to argue with them, -because 1 don't understand how their position can be supported in the slightest. "They seem to think that there ought to, be some measure making legal the control of competition and limited monopoly, some statute en acted which shall establish! a line between those monojpliet that are reaeojnttble ami those that are not— those that are benevotent and thoae that ape unconscionable. Noi auch line-is -possible, and the Supreme Court "has Expressly so decided. "Mourning^over a condition which is inevitable is useless, and until they realize *hat their views in this regard must be radically changed their complaints mus^ fall upon deaf ears. "I have seen arguments based up on the attitude of foreign govern ments toward-great enterprises in which it is pointed out that they •have encouraged,, fondled and (Pro tected combinations of this character. That is true. There is a tendency among some foreign governments to encourage what they can trusts, to take part themselves in the man agement of the trusts, to fix prices, and to depend upon governmental control to secure thfeir reasonable conduct "but SUCH A SYSTEM WITH IIS "IS AiBSOLUTELY IMPOS SIBIiE, AND IT MIGHT AS WELL BE UNDERSTOOD. The countries to which reference1 is made are veering toward atate ocialism. This, indeed, if ewiiHti tlon Is to disappear, is the' logical escape from the evil of private mon^ opolles, because if private companies «r* to be allowed to manage every thing and fix prices, then there very reason why the control xercised by them should be ferred from them to the WHY thus trims-- Govern­ ment, and THIS IS STATE SOCIAL ISM. UNCERTAINTY PREVAILS From th« Evening Tribune. Mr. Ballinger would have the peo ile believe that the president stands with him as against Mr. Pinchot. He Mtes the president's letter when he .•esigned as proof. It is one of the embarrassments of the situation that nobody knows that Air. Ballinger is not right about it, that the president if he had it to do aver "again would not select Mr. 'Bal linger. And yet everbody knows, who knows anything about the struggle to reserve the great natural resources of Alaska, that' however over zealous Mr. Plnchot may have been at times it is to Mr. Plnchot that we owe it that private monopoly has not long xgo gobbled everything in Alaska. The president in this, as in so many other instances fails to make It entirely clear, that although elected as a progressive and reformer him self, he really has any sympathy with the men who have made the reform movement. There are too many men supporting the president in the -belief that he has no sympathy whatever with the Pinchot class to make it entirely "omfortable for those who favor the advance movement and yet rather have some good excuse for support ing the president. AN OLD GAME. From the Telegraph Herald. The cauldron of democracy is boil ing In all Europe. War and rumors wars follow quickly upon the heels of bread riots and general dis content. As the baron propitiated his serfs with a holiday, diverting thought from the ardousness of their tasks, so the monarch thinks to di ort attention from the enemy with in to -the enemy without. It is a game as old as the doctrine of di vine right. $ W3 Vfw$XI* •vw.?' /AjA'V/ r-!.,'/ W" «jCa bft ifSfP af this writing the two nations ar® street very much at heart ^printed a engaged in active hostilities. Italy's' statement following the recent dls object is to take Tripoli from Turkey, and unless some unforseen disaster the ob overtakes the Italian fleet Ject of the war had ought to be an accomplished fact In a few weeks. *P AUSTSB \ss SPECIAL WASHINGTON $$ft|?ES pondence. y:?0:4 By Clyde H. Taveaner. Oue of the New York financial pa pers whic^ has the interest of Wall turbance in the steel- market to the I effect that the flurry caused decline In steel shares of approximately one hundred million dollars. In the three days of the flurry nearly one third of the trust's $500, 040,000 of common stock was sold' on the stock exchange in such volume that the price was carried to kw low levels, thus showing that one hundred millions in decline represent the amount of -money It is worth the trust to be considered immune from the operation- of the Sherman law. Nothing has happened to indicate that anything Is wrong with the In trinsic value of the steel properties The mills are working as usual, and are In exactly the same state of ef ficiency they were in two years ago when the stock was selling at itB hlgl water mark. The shrinkage came because of rumors that the trust was to be prosecuted, and 'as the busi ness—the real business—of the trust was not injured In any way, the one hundred millions simply represents the excess profits the trust stood to loose In the event of dissolution un der the application of the Sherman law. In other words the shrinkage serves as a- measure of the valiie to the trust of a license to violate the law. When that license was threat ened the trust's shares tell immed lately, and this toll in prices, slm ply as the result of a scare, Is pret ty sure to 'be used toy the democrats as an argument for making secur ities keep down to their real value through an enforcement -of the antl trust'law. Commenting on the fall of steel prices, Chairman Stanley, of the House committee which Just now Investigating the steel trust, said that nothing could better demon strate the necessity of enforcing the anti trust law. "It is obvious," Mr. Stanley said "that the reason steel, stocks fell hundred million dollars is because the trust was operating under an assump tion of immunity from prosecution under the anti-trust act. The instant that immunity was threatened, the stocks fell. The very Insecurity of the basis on which the -trust rests, as thus shown/is sufficient reason for an application of the law that Will compell the steel millionaires to put their business on a more legitimate foundation. Otherwise their stock­ holders will always bei apprehensive, and their methods open to suspicion, That f&was this fear of losing its license- 'to violate the -law which causes the steel trust /to suffer Is indicated that the "break" in stocks applied to no other securities. Nor was their any indication of a lessen ing of the demand for "the trust. Mar ket condition* remained normal the stocks of some of tl», railroads in creasing. The "steel flurry" was proof posi tive that the shrinkage in stocks, un der the conditions named/ reveals that the steel trust's license to ig nore the law Is worth a hundred mil lion dollars to the trust. Representative Sims of Tennessee is going to begin the coming session of Congress, as far aft he -personally is concerned, by introducing a iill to abolish the Court of Commerce. "I propose to start a fight to do away with this court, and restore to the circuit -courts all the jurisdiction now is given to it toy law," said Mr Sims, who is in Washington. His statement signalizes the opening of what is sure to be one of the big fights of the coming s&sign Of Con gress. "You will recall that the Court of Commerce provision remained- in the Mann-E!kir.s bill on, a tie vote in the House," he said.-- "It would have been stricken out. by the lib use committee If they hadn't consented* to pair members who were at sent, with out their consent. Not much of any body was for it and fewer people are for it now than then." There is little doubt that the Sims bill will pass the House if it ets out of the committee. Mr. Mann's attitude will be Important he stands by his convictions,, he will support it, but as leader of the republicans he is the -spokesman of he administration on. the floor, and to support the Sims 'bill would mean a break with President Taft, who is very insistent for its reten tion. He believes In.' the Court of. Commerce, for It Is about all he sav ad out of the railroad bill that Attor ney General Wlckersham drafted for him. Such a measure as Judge Sims -pro poses will be almost certain to em phasize the break between the fac tions of the republican party, where there has always been a sharp divi sion on the question. Despite the fact that the court is not popular at interstate commerce headquarters, it is doubtful whether the interstate commerce commission would like to see it abolished," said Mr. Sims. "Before the commerce court was created the railroads used to take their cases into the courts presided over by Federal Judges San born and Grosscup, where they seem ed to have little difficulty In getting orders, injunctions, and the like. "President Taft, realizing that the Court of Commerce would not have enough work to keep it busy, suggest ed in his speech -before the Bar As sociation at Boston that he might recommend making it also a court of patent appeals. Surprise was ex pressed when the President suggest ed this plan, but the friends of the court haled it gladly, as they saw in the scheme a chance to keep the CKlldr*n Cry FtR FLETCHER* OAsxornA Absolutely court busy. Judge Sims holds that the com merce court is useless, and that it hinders, rather than helps the admin istrations of the railroads. He also urges as a reason for abolishing the court the fact that In Its decisions it has reversed rulings of the commerce commission which apparently were drawn in justice to shippers. Chairman A. O. Stanley," of the Steel Trust Investigating committee, who is in Washington preparing a re sumption on -the committee hearings in advance of the regular session o| Congress, says the very, erroneous impression prevails In some sections of the country that the Democratic investigation of the steel trust is in the nature of an attack on the steel business. He denies that this •is true. 'V'' "Republicans, and especially repub lican newspapers are trying to make the-country believe' the Demo crats are persecuting' the steel cor porations for no other purpose than toward the trust in the future, both in the matter of tariff rates, and In the matter of handling the trust generally. The Democrats in Con gress realize that extreme care must 'je used in -forcing the steel trust to in adjustment' beneficial not only to the steel business, tout to the con sumers of steel. There hasn't leen, nor Is there now any disposition on .he part of the committee or of the Democratic members in Congress to rush in and tear the steel trust sunder, without rhyme or reason The trust does an immense volume af business, and its operations affec he lives of literally millions of peo ple, not only in its own sphere, but allied branches of industry. "For this reason the Democrats'are actuated by a desire to deal fairly with the trust, while at the. same time they are going to insist that it obey the law. Furthermore, if the law is found inadequate it Is the purpose of the Democrats to so amend i* that the steel business can prosper legitimately, and without exacting an unjust tribute from the purchasers of its product. The "Democrats' realize the necer ity for constructive action. They ^ant- the country to feel that no esitlrrate business is going to suffer at their hands, and that no business which is not legitimate is going to prosper 15 -they can help it. "The Democratic party is not -bent upon a ruthless policy of destruc tion, and while the steel trust is go ing to be forced toi obey the law if the Democrats can make it do so, the trust need have no fear that it will be treated unfairly. It will pay any man who has a loose dime in 'his pocket to huy copy of the October number of Suc cess magazine, even If he reads It no further than the opening page On this page is an article by the editor, Orison Sweet Marden, en titled "The Man On The Lid-" Mr. .Marden is not an 'Ufisurgent" by any mens, yet he pWes an analysis of Mr. Taft,, which, while entirely' friendly, is a remarkably good es timate of him. It is rather difficult to write frankly about" Taft," the article be gins. "It is probably his misfortune that he did not tumble and fight his way up through the political strug gle for existence, "but came in-toy the side door after a life time on the bench and in other secure and com fortable appointive jobs. 'Some threads of the judicial aura linger mistily about Taft. He isn't distinct, but he is distinct to show certain indications of the judicial habit o* thought. He unmistakably has a distaste for alj such facts as are "inadmissable In (evidence", and It is easy to "get" him by simply placing the "right" evidence before him, and keeping the "wrong" evi dence carefully In the back ground- Flour, wholesome Unking to "gain campaign material for next and Wiley, are in character. His at-1 year," Mr. Stanley said. "Nothing titude in these matters has been "conservative" and shows that to could be further from the truth. From .the day the hearings opened the investigation has been conducted with the utmost fairness. Times without number the Committee re frained from pressing witnesses when It was apparent that admissions they might make would Injure them with the trade. The committee sought in formation only in a legitimate way, \nd not a single one of the steel men who testified failed to thank the committee' for the fair and generous way in which he had been treated. "The investigating committee be gan tjje investigation of the trust not 30 -much with the idea of ja^certain-. ing what its past offenses were, as with the purpose of learning facts md conditions on which an intelll jent estimate of what sort of an at-1 titude the government should assume! li lit- has any pride left h« wishes, above all things "the established order." "We need steersmen today, he uphold not I resisters. Men who look forward, not Mo •"'.-feet Physical Wan. Is there a perfect physical man?" 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Olflce over Burton Clark's ... .1 Manchester. Iowa. men who, to Taft's mind, mean only disaster. There is nothing strange or local about these reformers. La Follette is mild beside -the British Lloyd George, and the rulers of to morrow are sure to be those very men who so disturb Taft. REGISTER AND LEADER SPECIAL OFFER. Wall Map Free He has a deep sense of order. He dislikes change of any sort. He 3Tfe lilces a disturbance. ,?&'Z "And so, when the La Follette and p. £, HlCn£trClSOn. the Murdocks and the Dol livers be gan to rise and clamor for reform, Taft set out to treat them exactly as he would have treated a bunch of disorderly spectators in his court room. But this method didn't work very well. The power of the Feder al judge to order about and punish was no longer his. These political free hooters turned out to have rights, even to have faculties for striking back. So Taft did the next •best thing under the circumstances. He allied himself instantly and in stinctively with the Tecognlzed and "regular" leaders with the Cannons, the Aldriches, the Murray Cranes and the John Hays Hammonds. "The other important acts of Taft his pliancy in the matter cf the out-| attorneys at law. Special at i„,„ I lenlion given collections. Ileal estate rageous Payne Aldrlch Tariff law, I We have a few o£ our splendid wall maps left and will make every" reader of this paper a special offer while they last. It is a great big map in three colors, size 39x49 Inch es shews every town, city, post of fice, railroad, electric road, town Ship and river in the state. It has the complete 1910 census figures for Ioa on the front of the map, right where they ought to toe: world and U. S. maps oa the back. We will send the Register and Leader until January 1", 1912 and send you the map toy prepaid ex press for $1.00. Can you beat it? 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