Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 10, 1912, Page 8

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It has at different times taken issue with the great Steel Trust because of its monopolistic control of everything that goes to make up the great iron and steel industry of America But we can appreciate a good act, no matter by whom it is perform- ed, and we are in this number of the Labor World prompted to say |a good word for the officials of the Oliver company, a constituent of the great United States Steel cor- poration, who this week made such a neat and humane esettlement with the minor heirs of one of the miners who lost his life in March last on the Mesaba range. Paul Paulson, the father of seven motherless children, the oldest un- der 11 years of age, lost his life in the Norman mine disaster. It was a | sad case, and the heart of the com- munity went ont in pity to this family of orphans. Under Minnesota law at the time o midce thfosttne theacthat the It Cures The do so. Inebriate Law. | 620 So. 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Murray (Cure |NSTITUTE Minneapolis, Minnesota compelled to pay, if the death of Paulson could be proven to be due to the negligence of the mining company, would be the sum of $5,000. Under theterms of settlement, which was made out of court, this company voluntarily agreed to give the heirs $5,000; pay up $700 of the family debts, and give to each child auring his minority the sum of $10 per month to enable him to live comfortably and secure an ed- ucation. Now, was not this a nice thing to do? And should not the officers of | the Oliver company be commended for their magnanimity in this mat- ter? The Labor World appreciates it, and it is morally certain we voice the sentiments of every reas onable person in the community. The example set by this company can well be emulated by other em- ployers of labor. All may not be able to afford to do so well, but they can at least win their way to favor by showing a disposition to be fair, rather than to contest to | the last ditch every claim of injured workmen for reasonable com pensa- tion.—Duluth Labor World ISNOT THE In his annual report Secretary Nagel of the department of commer- ce and labor says: ‘‘The mere breaking up of large combinations into a number of smaller parts by no means meets the trust question.’” It must be pretty plain by now to nearly everybody that that state- ment is true. The Sherman law might have done some good if it had been used to prevent the great combinations that were made under its very nose during the busy years following 1897. It doesn’t seem to be doing a particle of good in remedying the conditions brought about by these combinations. The capital of most of these trusts is grosslyJ inflated. The Sherman Jaw ie doing nothing toward punc-| public spirit fail to curb it. turing the balloon of inflated cap- italism, nor will it do anything. Watering stocks ie not forbidden by| benefit will produce real. results. | the Sherman law or any other law. |‘There will be little progress toward Oliver Mining company could be | REAL REMEDY The cost of living is too high, and here lies the crux of the prob- lem. The Sherman law is doing and will do nothing tuward lower- ing the cost of living. If anything, it will increase it. Ifthere is any effect whatever,so far as the con- sumer isconcerned, in splitting a trust up intothree or thirty-three | separate parts, it will consist of in- creasing the cost of its productto the consumer by increasing the over- head cost of production and distrib- ution. If the Sherman law had any pur- pose in the beginning it was to protect and preserve competition. Competition was slain while the Sherman law looked on, indolent and uninterested. If the enforcement of the Sherman law agains combination made in vio- lation of its provisions has any purpose aside from the punishment | of powerful evildoers. it is to revive | competition; but it is not possible to revive a dead thing. The people want the evildoers punished, but the way to punish evildoing is to punish those who do the evil, not to waste time and money and effort in rebuking the instruments with which they} did evil. But above al!, the people want RESULTS—cheaper living, lower costs for the necessaries of life. They will not and cannot get such results thru the Sherman law. That law ie wholesome in its aims, butimpotent in its effect against violations that have crystalized in permanent form because of the neg- lect to enforce it for many years. But, however wholsome, it can do! nothing toward bringing about ec- onomic justice so long as it fails to cure the evil of watered stock or to lessen the. oppression of a high cost of living. The one proceeding under the Sherman act that is logical or that can result in good is the present criminal prosecution of the men guilty of forming a meat trust and | of using it to squeese unjust profits ‘out of the people. If these men are convicted and punished personally, good will come of the example it will furnish. Fear then may restrain greed where moral precepts and Regulation of the great business interests by the public for the public | eae Concerning the solution of the trust problem until that course is adopted. Salesmen. Sucess is after all a matter of salesmanship. The greatest philosopher may be a failure if he cannot find a market for his theories. If Shakespeare had not been suffi- ciently able as a salesman*to get the managers to purchase his wares, says an exchange, his plays would doubtless have been lost to the world. Napoleon had the ability to mdr- ket his talents as a soldier, other- | wise he would have remained in obscurity. 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