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q oe Beef Weaketied by U *“Court’s Interpretation. @. * supplemental Aition of the Tovacco Trust, the mt declared that in his opinion bean entered by @ court.’ tfined, NEGATIVE STATUTE. rene MB rroatinued the ) auigener a! ons. even more en that the denunciatio of foreign trade. een in ft wis then te ike the Ar Pplememiad by gitimate national and attempt anf purpos by under unprofitable and otiding APTN WESSAGE ON TRUSTS. ~AGKS BOARD OF CONTRCL: IPHOLDS SHERMAN Wells Congress the Statute| ‘Should Stand, but Favors Bu- Teau to Rule Corporations. LSO NEW FEDERAL ACT. |. | es Anti-Trust Law Has)! AINGTON, Dec. 5.—Sounding| ministratton campaign stégan, ident Taft today presented to rege, his fitw! message devoted te. trusts. Rallying to the thé Supreme Court of the fates vin’ the Standard O11 as interpreted by the Supreme rt, Andicating plainly ‘bis opposi-| ' in to the repeal or amendment of statute, but suggesting that Con- pass a Federal incorporation legislation M@otld describe and denounce of @dmpetition that are un- ) ‘supervise corporations chartered Foderal law President Taft pro- the creation of an executive bu- | oF commission, with powers aXin | these of the Interstate Commerce Speaking of the much-discussed d'ss0- eal not the history of American law has a mors effective for such @ pure Pr ntion of the administration to con- ) prosecution of trusts and demand sentences for big business men ts Mguriea havo felt averse to convict- “aud judges to sentencing men of ble standing in society for an} reyarded as statutory,” says “@till, as the. offense Detter understood and the of it paztakes more of | 14”. led und celibernte defauce ef tho,| we can be confident that juries ; “Portions of his message of January, pw ggpovting Feteral Incorporation ae | 1 to In this meseoge President, | he recommendations of the enactment! law) providing for the volun. | to «i mon the! wi!’ convict Individuals Mt manifest naw than It was} of conspira-| which monopoles and Meg#) combina in restravnt of trade houid not and |tlons might exercise moderate power | ted with |" made more clear now! gata, Ata purely negative; ‘Trust law may well) oad o! aathorify has ever attempt pecitic pravinionts | @he building up and regulation of! forelgn com-!of the offendi supplemental legislation the Presi- 8 (8 explained in a para- PPFEBE | cision of the United States Supreme} im ic to drive 8 of business, or the making of | ed down decisions in the sults In equity Gomtracts with. customers which they are required to give| the further maintenance of the Qsscciations with other manufac- mumerous Kindred methods Boor 4 aged eMecting | and serve to advise the business world hea with | authoritatively of the scope and opera- acouracy im @ criminal stat-| tion of the anti-Trust act of 189, SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SALE $490 Nemo Corsets, $300 For SLENDER and MEDIUM FIGURES Don’t miss this big Christmas Sale of Nemo Corsets! 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In Good Stores Everywhere 7 lec'sione do no tial way f depart tf n the previou straing Me “the we h & useful method of and property of isions suggest additional or easier for the entire basiness mus nity to square with the rule of action | j and legality thas finally est nbliahed anit | @ preserve the benefit, freedom, and! competition without cepted from thi ation of the statute were ini tute on the one hand to enable the Gov- | bien, ernment to shorten its task by prose- single misdemeanors instead of | hand, t jcommanity what mi Mr. Taft did not the detatis of the Fed: act he ri nt to aet forth | , of boing reaso Incorporation 1% 7 without varying , but mugKerted that | Mitre econe ann allowed to be- | gy other 11 the cases und ral corporations should be | the statute which have now bee: cubject to rigid rules ad to organization | ofded would have been decided the and procedure, incl effective pub-|aame way if the court had originally | Heity, and to the * est snpervision’ | commen in its contruction the rule atl 0 stock and bon es by the pro. | Common law, In_ thy, Commeres abe. LSbor. See the statute common-law distinctions, | ment. Federal incorporation, the Presl- | nag emasculated It. This ts obvtou |dent declared, would not exempt any | untrue. Ry its Judgment every con- concern or {ts officers from prosecution | tract and combination in restraint of under the Sherman act for illegal acta. interstate t made with the pur- VEXATIOUS AND UNNECESSARY poge or necessary effect of controlling prices by stifling competition, or of es- cuaytNVASION BY STATES. fabitgbine In. whole oF 1A part ames | Su could be framed 40 a8 tO | nopoly of such trade, is condemned by Prevent “vexatious and unneces: the statute, The most extreme critics | vasion by the States,” control by the States with re purely local business, The cours but yet permit can not instance a wet (0 | z | be empowered, the Pres! said, to Tobacco Trust decisions, the) invoke the ald of the Rureau of Cor- | .°7me sumwennon #8 eine renwe thas sterile “ 5 on @ decision in dent defended the Sherman|porations in determining t table re | a6 test two cases bas comm: organization of corporations dissolved the court the indefmed and jacretion to determine straint of trade of the statute, case might be nmission which ive tribunal, of the dignity and power of the Comptroller of the Currency or the In e Commerce Commission.” ‘The fuct that it dealt with only one ° djoct; that it was comparatively brief at uecomparying it was an appendix showing trust prosecutions instituted by all administrations since the enactment! jof the Sherman act in 18%, made the message unusual. According to this appendix seven suits were brought under this act in the administration of President Harrison; eight in Mr. Cleve- ‘8 second term; three under Pres: ident McKinley; forty-four under Mr. | Roosevelt in about seven and one-half years, aud thirty-seven eo far, in the) ‘Taft administration. i The President frequently expresses} tersely his opinion of the Sherman law! and what might be expected if it were to be repealed. He says: “The anti-trust act is the expression bo the effort of a freedom-loving people | *uphis statute as comstrued by Supreme Conrt must continues to be the Une of distinction for ligitimate bust- ness. It must be enforced we Jere to banish individualism from all business. ‘ “Mere size is no sign against the at common fg clearly dofined. xt a at it shall it be incidental. If it exo needs of that contract, it is void. TEST OF REASONABLENESS IN TRUST CASES. “The test of reasonabl applied by the c ntracts or combinations sin restraint of trade whose purpose essary effect would be petition, to control price: establish monopolies. ‘The courts ssumed power to say that such contracts or combinations or consplr- acies might be lawful if the parties to them were only moderate in the use of the power thus secu and did not exact from the public too great and exorbitant prices. “It is true that many theorists, and others engaged in business violating the statute, have hoped that some such line could be drawn by courts; but no court of, authority has ever attempted it. Cortainly there 4s nothing in the decl- sions of the latest two cases from which such a dangerous theory of judicial dis- jcretion in enforcing this statute can derive the slightest sanction, DISCUSSES STANDARD OIL AND TOBACCO DECISION. The President discussed at some length the dissolution and reorganization of the tandard O!! and Tobacco Trust, and in relation to the latter says: “Objection was mace by certain inde- “As the offense (against the Sherman |pendent tobacco companies that this becomes better understood and settlement was unjust because it left the cémmittin, of It partakes more of Companies with very large capital in ‘studied and dottverate defiance of the aetive business, and that the settlement |law, we can be confident that juries that would be effective to put all on that jail an equality would be a division of the “S| sentences will be imposed. loapital and of the trust into The attempt to find a ae within small tract! in amount more nearly ual to that of each of the indepen- t companies. This contention re- ing of the uch ts sald of the repeal of this statiite and of constructive legislation intended to accomplish the purpose and sell for honest me! submit that the discusslons been brought in recent days by of continued execution of the Anti Trust law have produced nothing but {littering Keneralities. M d be ported by the courts, out, haw failed. thers engaged in the statute,” he- fiat some such line | buat of large capital in “in which sttoh a combination can secure reduced cont f production, sale and distribution. It directed against such ¢ Rremation of capital only when its purpose is that of stifling competition, enhancing or controling prices, and establishing a monopoly. If we shall have by the de- cree defeated these purposes and re- stored competition between the large nits into which the oapital and plant ave been divided, we shall have ac- complished the useful purpose of the statute, j Would ne io not the purpose of the statute! {to confiscate the Pa or tad and capital DEFENDS TR ir DECISIONS OF HIGHEST COURT. President Taft in hix defense of the “unreasonable” clause in the Trust de- At Court, says: In May last the Supreme Court hand- a brought i the United States to enjoin Monet Besia #08 9 Minne, BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Dec. 6.— ard Oll Trust and of the Ameri Thomas Curran, a sixteen-year-old bacco Trust, and to secure their newsboy, Presents @ peculiar case at lution, The decisions are epoch-making | the Emergency Hospital here, His heart, Instead of beating at the normal rate of 72 counts a minute, pumps the rate of 9 Obeats a minute, The NOW SHE’ SORRY not “FROM t to) pearls a to | bro not rent in, With the discretion of the court, It must be | willingness to go with her to @ 10 cent Mmited to accomplish the purpose of @ | store and get a real necklace. lawful main contract to which, in order | ;)\<, she enforceable at wy 48| her pocket and forgot all about them. | lawy adjourned argument until Meantime Henry B. Vaughn made] Dec. 8 Meantime, the child will re- frantic search around the station for|main with hér father and his parents | | peachment THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 65, HEFNOSPEMLS, SSE Shoots Himself at ‘way: Reunion in Brooklyn. Clifton Meigs, a clerk for the © | Metas Company, fish dealers in Fu | Mark to-da fter shooting him- If because of depression following | temporary snow blindness, which came jupon him yesterday afternoon. Mr. Meige with bis wife and elght- “Too Cheap,” Say ys ieee daughter went from their home, | heap,” § Mis.) xr. at Milford atrect, Brooklyn, yester- - ts the ste, jday afternoon, to attend a Stopiello, When Given [atthe nome of his brothe ‘Their mother had sngland to sp j 16 come down from New Atking st $5,000 Necklace. 10-CENT STORE.” a week with them, The little girl tea lher father for a ride on a sled which a cousin had showed her, He staggered [into the house an hour later with his hand over his eyes. “Well,” he said to his wife. over for me. It has come.” Mra Melgs knew he meant blindness He had a morbid fear of blindness for several years because of the failure of his weak eyes to Improve. “It 18 nothing but the snow," in an effort to comfort him, dark room for awhile.” His mother and brother joined in the ansurances. “All right.” sald Mr, Meigs, “but 1 am blind for life, and I know it.” He walked into the parlor, groping his way. A moment later a shot sounded. The family found him on the floor with a revolver in his hand. He had shot himself through the right temple. scmanseteseeclasnan: STORY DEMANDS CHILD. “It's all Day She Learns of $1,000 Reward: She Missed —Jewels Are Returned: she sald “sit in a It Is safe to assume that never again n her life will Mrs, Salvatore Stopteilo of Orange, N. J, grow tired of wear- a %,000 pearl necklace and toss it the pocket of her calleo apron. She admitted as much to-day, when, with tears of regret, she told the story of her one big chance, lost forever. The necklace, composed of seventy broke and fell from the neck of s. H. B. Vaughn of No. 48 Reynolds Terrace, Orange, as she was boarding @ train for New York, last Saturday noon. Salvatore Stoplello picked it up and ight it home to his wife as @ belated nksgiving present. Mra. Stoplello not impressed, In fact, she told spouse, in no uncertain terms, the ng Irasctble, Says Court Answer, Allen Lawrence Story, who {# suing his beautiful young wife, Helen Hilton Story, fer a divorce in the Supremo Court, naming Stanley H. Forde, an tt too cheap,” and the neighbors | actor, as co-respondent, to-day filed an who were called in to judge agreed] amdavit in opposition to Mrs. Story's her. They even declared their | writ of habeas corpus to compel him to give her the custody of thelr three- year-old daughter, Ruth King Story. Justice Giegerich, on consent of the After dropped the pretty beads into at No. 36 Gramercy Park, In the affidavit Story says of his wife: “She 1s inexperienced In the care of children, indifferent to her maternal duties, irascible and uncertain in her temper and extravagant in the use of her money and negligent in the man- agement of her domestic affair: the missing necklace, He inserted ad- vertisements in several newspapers of- fering $1,000 reward for the return of the pearis, Detectives were put on the and last night two sleuths traced he missing necklace to Mrs. Stopiello. “Have you the $5,000 necklace your husband found?" they asked. ‘The woman fished in her pocket and handed over the necklace without ques- re Five pearls were missing. It Swissco A wat only later that she learned of the] §=Miarvelous Hair Producer reward. A reporter for The Evening World found Mrs, Stoplello to-day In the midet of a swarm of chiltren. As the re- porter was turning away, after hearing Stops Baldness, Dandruff and Scalp her story, Mrs. Stopielto had an idea,| Diseaseand Restores Gray or Faded and throwing an old shawl over her Hair to Its Natural Color. apron, announced she would go to see or of the pearls. At the Vaughn mansion a white-haired man came into the hallway, in response to her request for Mr. Vaughn. ell," he snapped. Mra. Stoptello in broken English told him her errand, She said later he told her she might get @ part of the reward if ner husband found the five missing pearls. Down at the station a crowd of eager searchers spent several hours sifting the snow around the tracks in the hope of finding the remaining five pearls. fiddle ao Gail g CLARK IGNORES PETITION TO IMPEACH LITTLETON. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, — Speaker quickly it Phas ‘amazed “thoes who ‘have Clark of the House of Representatives Wwe ft. We will prove It to you tf you announced to-day that he would take no action on the petition for the im- and expulsion from the House of Representative Littleton of There 1g no excuse for baldness. Writs Jo°4ay to Swisico Hour Remedy Co, es P.O.” square, Cincinnati, Ohio New York. The petition was fled by owiesco He on sale ag all arugey Henry B. Martin. of the AntlTrust| bottle, Dement? St Soc, and & League. For, sale ana recor The Speaker's decision was based on| by All Riker and the ground that the petition contained] tre Tain Be nothing of a pertinent matter of bus!-| Crawford Co. Albert, . Heas for the House, Ygnox ave.; ‘Gumbel! Brow: AL Welss, “Ot Wednesday Sale In the Nick 0’ Time nar support made of Li **pulls’® sti- Each corset in a handsome KOPS BROS., Mfrs, N.Y. TTS! 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