THE MORNING AS TOR IAN, ASTORIA. OREGO N,
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1901
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tiont among laboring men and far
men, if the combination has any
tendency to restrict interstate com-
merce.
AH of these combinations, while
existing for and engaged in the
promotion of innocent and proper
purposes should be recognised as
legal, as I have repeatedly pointed
out. This anti-trust law was a most
unwisely drawn statute. It was per
haps inevitable that in feeling after
the right remedy the first attempt
proved so crude; but it was absolute
ly imperative that some legislation
should be passed to control in the
main interest of the public and the
business use, the enormous aggrega
tions of corporate wealth that are so
marked a feature of the modern in
dustrial world. But the present anti
trust law in its construction and
working, has exemplified only too
well the kind of legislation which
under the guise of being thorough
going is drawn up in such sweeping
form as to become either ineffective
or else mischievous.
Jn the modern Industrial world
combinations are absolutely itcces
sary. They are necessary among
business men, they are necessary
among laboring men and they are
very, very necessary among farmers.
some oi tnese combinations are
among the most powerful of all in
struments for wrong-doing, others
offer the only effective way of meet
ing of actual business needs. It Is
michievious and unwholesome to
keep upon the statute books unmodi
fied laws like the Anti-Trust Law,
which, while in practice only is par
tialy efective against the vicious com
binatons, have nevertheless n theory
been construed so sweepingly as to
be prohibitive of every organization
for the transaction of modern busi-
tively the following changes in the
bill
The substantative part of the Antl
Trust Law should remain as at pre
ent; that is, every contract in re
nirami ot trade or commerce
among the several states or
with foreign nations should
continue to be declared illegal
provided, however, that some proper
government authority (such as the
commissioner of corporations acting
under the Secretary of Commerce
and Labor) be allowed to pass on
any such contract; probably the best
method of providing for this would
be to enact that any contract sub
ject to the prohibition contained in
the Anti-trust law Into which it was
desired to enter might be filed with
the Bureau of Corporations or other
appropriate executive body, this
would publicly within say sixty days
of the filing which period could be
extended by order of the department
whenever for any reason it did not
give the department sufficient time
for a thorough examinationthe ex
ecutive department having power
might forbid the contract which then
would become subject to the provi
sions of the Anti-trust law. If the
prohibition was issued the contract
would then only be liable to attack
on the ground that it conmituted an
unreasonable restraint of trade.
Whenever the period of filing had
passed without any such prohibition
the constructing combination could
be disapproved or forbidden only
alter notice and hearing with a rea
inn able provision for summary re
view on appeal to the. courts. Labor
organizations, farmers organisations
and other organizations not organiz
ed for the purpose of profit would be
allowed to register under the law.
by a law, by giving the location of
the head office, charter and by-law
and the names and the addresses of
their principal officers. In the in
terest of alt the organizations busi
ness, labor and farmers like the
lawful purposes was formally recog
nised, tliis right Including combina
tion of mutual protection ami bene
fits, the reflation of wages, hours
and conditions of labor mid the pro
tret Ion of the Individual rights of
the working men lu the prosecution
of their trade or trades; and In the Present Their Greatest Melodrama
net of June I, 1898, strikes were rec
cognlacd as legal In the same pro
vision that forbnde participation In
or instigation of force or violence
against persons or property or the
attempt to prevent others from work
ing by violence, threat or intimida
tion. The business men must be pro
teeled In person and property, and The.r SM.rt, ,..
tlon Hat Been Propoaed to Abolish i0 '" W The Fight to the Death inthe Storm
the "Future Delivery" System. and as regards alike the.'
rigni oi penceiui combination for all wiwt women win uo tor Love ana
lawful purposes should be explicitly "! Revenge
WASinvr.Trtvf m. u..iJrcc,K"ii(ei- The right of employers "he Ship Turned Upside Down
Sam's exports this year of flour and ,0 T m. an,(l Con,fct wi,h one Th L,f""v,n Stat,on
wheat will reach the equivalent of Tf 'nd "V ,l,clr mP'y ,
I91,(X)0,XX) bushels, the largest total ,ho",l b xPlicl'y recognised and MICAWBER AND HIS HAPPY
Flour and Wheat Will Roach
191,000.000 Bushels.
LARGEST TOTAL SINCE 1902
The Only Menacing Fact Affecting
Foodstuff Export! la That Leglala-
Astoria Theater
Sunday, March 29th
IIOLDEN BROS, ft EDWARDS
"What Women
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Don't Fall to See This Great Play.
I A Play For All the People.
Astorto Tlioalro
1 Saturday, March 28th,
' P. M. Haolin Manager.
WM. P. CULLEN PRESENTS
PIXLEY AND LUDERSV
MERRY MUSICAL MASTERPIECE
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ness.' Some real good has resulted
from this law. But the time has present provision permitting recovery
come when it Is imperative to modify of three fold damages should be
it. Such modification is urgently abolished and as a substitute there
needed for the sake of the business j for the right of recovery allowed for
men of the country, for the sake of .should only be the damages sustained
the - wage-worker and for the sake
of the- farmers. The Congress can
not afford to leave it on the statute
books in its present shape. It has
now bc-comc uncertain how far this
law may involve all labor organiza
tions, farmers organizations as well
as business organizations in con
flict or if we secure literal compliance
with the law it may result in the
destruction of the organizations nec
essary for the transaction of modern
business as well as of all labor organ
izations and farmers organizations
and completely check the wise move
ment for securing business co-operation
among farmers and put back
half ' a century the progress of the
movement for the betterment of
labor. A bill has been presented in
by the plaintiff and the cost of suit
in eluding a reasonable attorneys fee.
The law should effect pending suits
a short statute of limitations should
be provided so far as the past is con
cerned, not to exceed a year. More
over and even more in the interest
of labor than of business combina
tions all such suits brought for causes
of action heretofore occurred should
be brought only if the contract error
complained of was unfair or unrea
sonable. It may be well to remem
ber that all the suits hitherto brought
by the government under the anti
trust law have been the cases where
the combination or contract was in
fact unfair, unreasonable and against
the public interest. It is important
that we should encourage trade
since 1902, If nothing happen to nT,u m 'm 01 m 'Pye
check the gait so far reported. In a w con,m 10 contract with one
report just issued by the bureau of w,,hC , "! wilh ' wnptoywi and
statistic of the Department of Com- i"""'"" Puaue oiners to ac-i
merce ml Labor. It I. .), n,.i fCP nir vlewi and to strike for
the exports of wheat flour from the ,he pur,,0M of Pnb,y obtaining
United State for the eight months rom '",,loym t,lltf8c'07 twins
cndiiirr Feb. 20 hut .vrai..l Qtttt. or nir nothing should be I
446 barrel of a value of US. SI2.201 Jone ,0 ' blacklist or boy.
I . . . t a fit .
while of wheat they were 82,914,315 inn wmm m "KB"' "
bushels of a value of S82.818.912. .. ! ! of boycott
during the flour to wheat, and add-,kimt(i nA considered by theanthra
ing it to the wheat, the grand total ciU J?"'" commission.-
of 127,385,322 bushels. The question of financial legisla-
The prospect are that foreign "on ' receiving much attention
market will after this year not be!'" bth Houses and we have a right
glutted with wheat from Argentina, 0 expect action before the close of
becatme of the recent adoption there elon. It is urgently necessary
of the American expedient of selling! "'"I tmre should be such action,
grain on exchanges for later delivery Moreover, action should be taken to
futures" that permit delivery when eUmth postal savings banks. These
requirements call for the grain. This postal saving banks are imperatively
is expected in all market as well a heeded for the benefit of the wage-
Argentine to improve the grain ex- worker and men of small means and
port conditions. The only menacing M valuable adjunct to our
fact affecting foodstuff export I that whole financial system.
t.... I.. , ... ,1 .. .. . . .
,.H, .,.,, ,,H9 ucm propoRcu, anu i uc nine nas come wnen we
seriously advocated even by repre-1 .hould prepare for a revision of the
sentatives of 'producing regions, tariff. This should be. and indeed
which would abolish the "future deli- must be, preferred by careful investi
very" system here In the United gallon. It is peculiarly the nrovince
States, a system which has built up of the House of Representatives to
exports to the present big total. originate a tariff bill and to deter-
The record for the same eight mine upon it terms: and this I fullv
month give promise of a magnifi- realize, yet it seems to me that before
cent grand total of export of farm the close of this ses.ion provision
product of over $451,591,085 for the should be made for collecting full
fiscal year, For the eight months, material which will enable the Con-
the export of corn were 43.059.373 gress elected next Fall to act Imme.
bushels, of a value of $27,427,162: of diately after it come into exuience.
oat 948. 715 bushels, of a value of This could necessitate some action
$511,376; of rye 1,722.880 bushels, of before the Congress at it present
a vame oi ti.Mo.W) and of barley session, pcrhau in the ihaoe of di-
ixm m i t..,. ..i . . .. . .. ..
Huitncis, oi vaiue oi v reeling the proper committee to
638.798. Adding to this the corn gather the necessary information
meal exported, 502,336 barrels of a both through the committee itself
value of $1,556,406, and the oatmeal, and through government agents who
11,357,039 pounds, of a value of $312.- should report to the committee and
v the grand total of grain exported should lay before it the fact, which
tor the eight months is the round would permit it to act with prompt
sum oi iw,.ni.j.u. li the same and intc igent fa rness. These oow.
ratio is maintained the remainder of crnment agents, if it is not deemed
the fiscal year ending June 30, the wise to appoint individuals from out
grand total will be $243,571,996. For side the public service, might with
the last eight months the value of the advantage be members of the execu
exports of meat and diary products hive departments designated by ihc
FAMILY
Price: 25c, SSc, 75c,
With Out Welnburf, Ruth White,
and over half hundred other, in
cluding the famously original Kan
garoo Ob-la. Original production; a
veritable triumph. : ,
Bigger, Brighter, Better Than Ever.
New Song, Ideas, sSurprlat,.
Prices 25c to 0150
the congress to remedy this situation, .agreements between employer and
While' such measures as this bill are employee when they are just and fair,
needed in the case of all engaged in A strike is a clumsy weapon for
the industries which are essential to righting wrongs done to labor and we
the country's well-being, I do not should extend so far as possible the
pretend to say the exact shape the process of conciliation and arbitra-
bill should take, and the suggestions tion as a substitute for strikes. More-
I have to offer are tentative; and my over, violence and disorder and coer-
views would apply equally to any cion, when committed in connection
other" measure which would achieve with strike should be as promptly
the desired end and bearing this In and as sternly repressed as when
mind, I would suggest merely tenta- committed in any other connection
LATEST It! SUITING:
Having returned from San Francisco with a spfendid stock of spring
and ummer suitings of the latest style and having spent several weeks
In studying the fashions prevalent in that city, we are now more than
ever .in a position to give thorough satisfaction to the most fastidious
dresser. NOT IN WORDS, BUT IN DEEDS.
5 HAUTALA & RAITANEN
TailorsCorner Eleventh and Bond Streets
and food animals has been $138,679,
393. '
Strenons objection has been made
by producers, shippers, exporters,
commission merchants and bankers
all over the country to the measures
now pending in Congress, literally
prohibiting the buying and selling of
agricultural products for future deli
very. The memorials and petitions,
declaring such laws would result in
serious injury to our export trade,
because they would radically change
the present system, have reached
formidable proportions. Should the
proposed changes be made, grain
would have to be bought and sold
on a cash basis; future wants could
not be supplied by buying for future
delivery in anticipating those wants.
As there arc other surplus producing
nations besides our own, Uncle Sam
cannot dictate to foreign buyers how
and when they shall make their pur
chases, and it seems to be plain as a
business proposition that we cannot
well discourage that trade by the en
actment of unwise legislation.
but strikes themselves arc and should
be recognized to be entirely legal.
Combinations of working men have
a peculiar reason for their existance.
The very wealthy individual employer
and still more, the very wealthy cor
porations stand at an enormous ad
vantage when compared to the indi
vidual working man; and while there
arc many cases where it may not be
necessary for laborers to form ' a
union, in many other cases it is in
dispensable for otherwise the thou
sands of small units the thousands of
individual workingmen will be left
helpless in their dealings with the
one big unit, the big individual or
corporation employer.
Twenty-two years ago, by the act
of June 26, 1886, trade unions were
recognized by law and the right of
laboring people to combine for all
President on his own motion or on
the request of the committee, to act
with it.
I am of the opinion, however, that
one change in the tariff could with
advantage be met forthwith. Our
forests need every protection and one
method of protecting them would be
to put on the free list plup wood,
corresponding reduction upon
paper made from wood plup when
they come from any country that
does not put an export duty on them.
Ample provisions should be made
for a permanent waterway commis
sion with whatever power it is re-
iinrcu io mime ii ciicciive. ine ex
pectations of the people will
not be realized, unless Con
gress provides at this session
for the beginning and prosecution of
the actual work of waterway im
provement and control. The Con
grcss should realize in fullest fashion
the fact that the subject of the con
servation of our natural resources
with which this commission deals is
literally vital for the future of the
nation.
Numerous bills granting water
power rights on navigable streams
have been introduced. .None of them
gives the government the right to
make a reasonable charge for valu
able privilege granted despite the fact
that these water powers are equiva
lent to many thousands of acres of
the best coal lands for their produc
tion of power. ; Nor is any definite
time limit set, as should always be
done in such cases. I shall . be
obliged hereafter, in accordance with
the policy stated in a recent message,
to veto the right of the President or
of, the secretary concerned to fix and
collect such a charge as Tie may find
to be just and reasonable in each
case. ' V
(Signed)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The White House, March 25, 1908.
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