Tillamook Meadlight, April 11, 1912. »•J* ... TAFT’S RECOUD AGAINST TRUSTS Sherman Law Enforced Withoiî Fear or Favor. EXCELS HIS PREDECESSORS. Both In Civil and Criminal P iiim tion Taft Administration Breaks AN Records—Legal Accompli oh meets «f Five Presidents Compared. TAFT’8 ANTI-TRU8T RECORD. Under th. laat fiv« administra­ tion. prosecution, und.r th« Sherman anti-trust law have been brought as follows: Crim­ Civil inal suits. suits. Total. Under Harrison (three years).... 4 3 r Under Cleveland i (four years)........ 6 t Under McKinley (four and one- yoars).......... Three bills in equity. Under Roosavelt (seven and one- haif years)........... 18 25 44» Under Taft (two years and •lavan months).. 22 40 62 •On» property asizure. Th« ratio of prosecutions, Bi­ lowing for l«ngth of time in ef _. - 8 c«, of th« Taft administration as compared with tho records of its four immédiat« prodocossors is approximately as follows: Taft over Harrison.......... 9toi .'eft over Cleveland........ 12 to 1 Taft over McKinley......... 30to1 Taft over Roosevelt............ 4 to 1 I - LIFE !N ANÇgNT ROM. It« Problems Were Pretty Much th« Same as Thea« of Today. In reviewing the book “The Common • People of Ancient Home'* a critic says: Odd Schemes That Were Worked “It should be something of a corrective ( by Wily Operators. to modern conceit to note how little we have advanced since paternalism first became dominant in Rome and sine« the Roman government prided itself on CLEVER RUSE OF A NEW BANK opening public bat ba and washhouse« for the people. Diocletian denounced ft Won th« Good Will of th« Town by the rich and their luxuries, attributed “Obliging" Its Citizens After Corner­ to then: the high prices of necessaries. ing AH Its Metal Mon«y—A Russian in language almost identical with a radical newspaper of today. Plautus ; “Prophet" Who Mad« • Rich Haul. tells us of the trusts that were founded There have occurred from tin* to to control prices, and the “trust prob­ time in various countries all manner lem" was os much a reality In* ancient of "corners" In coins, traceable to all Rome ns it is today. | manner of queer origins. “Capital and labor were highly or- ■ Some years ago an individual named ganized. and labor was indefatigable lb »Is efforts to secure special privileges Peterson established In a "boom" tqwn for its guilds. There were benefit soci­ of a uew auto a bank that was a eties, burial societies and Insurance so­ branch of a larger institution else­ cieties. The man in the street talked where. As, for special reasous. the then Just as he talks now. He discuss­ people of tbe new town would have ed the claims of rival political candi­ nothing to do with tbe uew bank tbe dates, he studied the political plat­ outlook for Peterson was a gloomy one. forms. be read the advertisements in After reflection be bit upon a happy public places, and be protested against expedient. He sent out men commis­ their defacement of the scenery. It is sioned to go to all tbe stores of the Indeed hard to find a single feature of place to get change for greenbacks and modern life, a single reform, a single banknote«. In a little while he bud problem, without its counterpart in an­ all the coined money in the town, the cient Rome. result being, of course, that the good "We have even borrowed the Roman people of the coming metropolis were slang. A slave In a play of Plautus flush of greenbacks, but bad no says: ‘Do you catch on?’ (tenes). ‘I’ll “change.” touch the old man for a loan' (tangam Some one suggested that Peterson’s senetn, etc.», or ‘I put It over him’ (el bank might possess some of the coined os sublevl). The illiterate Roman used pieces, and accordingly a rush was the double negative. Just as it is used made there, where every one was today. ‘You ought not to do a obliged with silver. The ruse of tbe turn to nobody’ (neminem nihil wily Peterson had the desired effect, facere oportet».’’ as the next morning his bank was filled with depositors. Superstitition has frequently been GIANT SWORDFISH the basis of a corner in coins of a par­ A remarkable Monsters Fifteen Feet Long Armed ticular denomination. case of this kind occurred In southern With Three Foot Weapons. I A queer fish is the swordfish. It is Russia in 1903. There appeared at found in the tropical and subtropical Berdiansk. on the sea of Azov, a per­ tones of both the eastern and western son proclaiming himself a prophet, and hemispheres. Some of the tropical spe­ as such be announced bis intention of Among the cies are of enormous size and measure redeeming the world. from twelve to fifteen feet in length, queer doctrines advanced by this indi­ was Included the decree that all with swords at least three feet long. I vidual his followers must retain all five ko­ The sword la much the shape of a cone somewhat flattened, the end peck ple es Issued In tbe year 1861. the sharply pointed. It Is smooth on the year of the emancipation of tbe serfs top and sides, but the under part is i They were by reason of that event rough. It U really an elongation of i held to be holy. It was not long before the ignorant the bones of the upper Jaw and is pos­ sessed of very great strength, for with peasants in the vicinity became con­ these weapons they have been known vinced that all pieces of that denomi­ to pierce the copper sheathing of ves­ nation should be taken to the prophet sels and heavy plates and timbers, but. for preservation. The heaven sent one although they can drive the sword far further announced that .should the Into these substances, they cannot fatherland get Into difficulty every one draw them out. so break them off and of tbe coins In question would "turn to gold" and thus save the empire. swim away without them. And so it happened that over an A large fin extends nearly the length of the back of the creature, which is area of 300 miles Russian peasants folded back when the fish is swim­ were feverishly collecting the "holy" ming in order that its progress may pieces uud turning them over to the prophet. When he had gathered a not be Impeded If speed Is desired, but goodly number of the coins he de­ when quietly swimming it is often erected and nets as a sail to carry It camped. In a way the Russian government through the water. The swordfish is may be said to corner Its own coins very aggressive In its disposition and will often assail fish much larger than of one denomination. Each year It mints a limited number of bronze itself. Even the whale is not exempt pieces of the i nominal value cf one- from Its attacks. The food of the fourth of i a kopeck, about one-el-hth swordfish consists of smaller fish, of a cent, As these coins are practl- which it kills by stabbing them with cally not In circulation, only a few its sword. There is quite a large busi­ ness done in swordfishing, as the flesh are Issued. It Is really an easy tnnlter In small Is used for food. The larger species towns to corner a particular coin, At are caught by harpooning, the smaller a Welsh holiday resort memliera In nets. the local band became so In.l'gnnnt at tbe laree proportion of halfpennies In Jenny Lind In the Pork House. their “silver collections" that the- When Jenny Lind made her tour of locked up every halfpenny received. America in the early fifties under the The consequence was that In a few management of I*. T. Barnum. Madi­ week 4 there was hardly a halfpenny son was the only Indiana city in which In the town. Then tbe band reaneil she would sing. The city still boasts of a harvest of mlns of blither value. bow the diva stopi>ed there on her way Cornering gold mlns ilemscdi a down the Ohio river from Cincinnati to capllnl that few men posses < Fome i Iamlsvllle. The city had no auditorium rears rgo. however, at Dieppe there large enough, so one of the largest pork occurred a sodden scarcity of ten warehouses was emptied and scoured franc and twenty franc pieces, due to and fi'led with flowers to remove any the operations of an eccentric British I lingering odor. Men and women trav­ eled from all parts of the state to hear er. who far some cryptic reason had tbe day before changed aevc-al hun­ Jenny l.ind sing in the pork house, some dred banknotes of high value I of them spending from three to ■ix gold. Leden with the mlns, he le't days on the Journey.—Argonaut. for Paris, mid a —eek elapsed liefore I the town regained Its normal amou it Relieved. of gold. A young north side father on arriv­ An attempt to comer the M.«*'s ing borne tbe other evening iound bls Theresa dollars, n«ed in parts of nor h- wife la a atat« of great exettemaat em Africa, collapsed by reason of a “Harold." she exclaimed, "baby pot queer circumstance. An Abyssinian. bold of the Ink bottle this morning." Ras Makoppo. conceived the rnirpie “And what has he done?” scheme of collecting all «-ecfmen« of “■pilled Ink all over the new dining these mlns extant In hl« district Ax mom rog " they were old coins he reasoned thev ’•That can t>e easily remedied. I would rise in value. When be had thought yon were going to tell me possessed himself of about 3.000 of thr.t the misguided child had written them be found that the country was ■ uoveL"—Pittsburgh Post. ss well supplied with them before. While he had been busy collecting At Six«« and 8«v«n«. ■ tbe old colas modern Maria Theresa Rha A pretty time of night for you dollars, mad« In Germany were being to come borne' He A pretty time of Imported by tbe thousand The result night for you to be awake! She— was that th« cola fell tn value, and Pre stayed awake for the last four the too astute chief lost half hours waiting for you to come borne wealth.- -New York Herald He-And I have been keeping myself awake for the last four boors at the etab waiting for yon to go to »ieep — 1 I London Tit Bit« President Taft’s administration has broken all records tor prosecution* brougbt aud wuu under the Sherman anti trust law Witbout fear or favor it Uax brought to tbe bar of Justice cor­ porations aud persons engaging In ille gal combinations in restraint of trade, the ultimate purpose of eiu-b combina lion Lteiug to create a monopoly aud to raise tbe prices on Its products In two years and eleven mouths of bis administration Presldeul Taft i-atised to l>e brought four more civil suns aud fifteen more criminal prose cutions than Mr. Roosevelt brought In tile seven and one-half years of his ad nilBlxt ratlou. Until Mr Taft txs-ame tbe president the administration of Mr Roosevelt held the record In tsitli particulars Thus has President Taft, who was Mr Roosevelt's right arm dunug bis last administration, kept his pledge to tbe Americau |H*ople to uphold utid main tain the policies of his predecessor In punishing the criminals and uudesira hie element In the big business of the country. In tbe Republican national platform of lKW reference was made to I lie prosecution of evil trusts and mono|K> lies as one of the great accomplish ment.i of I tie Roosevelt administration, and tbe platform declared that the Sherman anti-trust I:.w bad Is-cn a wholesome Instrument for good In the hands of u wise and fe-rless executive In Ills s|>ce<-h of acceptance Mr Taft pledged himself to tbe enforcement of this law and has kept his promise Protlem« Confronting Taft. Stripped of controversy a» to tSe exact meaning of certain language of tbe Sherman anti-trust am. the ques tlono that had to tie determined by those I d administrative authority and those who Judicially determine their acta were, first, bow effective the law wax to reach tbe great a tgrraatlona of formerly comjietltlve producers and rieah rs. Individual and cort»»rate. who through Intercorporate «tockholdlnx merger«, c.nxolldatlons and otherwise had acquired so great a cont-o| over a |i«~tlciil«r line of Industry a« to en able them to dominate It and to ex elude»or admit competition ns thev mlgbt cboooe upon their own term- Secondly, to determine whether th«’ const ruction of tbe lew w»« com*«“ which had l-een given to It by some ol tbe Judges of tbe clnnlt court In Ne« York In the tobacco case and In tbe opinion« of nome of tbe Justices of lb« supreme court In other «-axes to the eff“ct that any combination which In any respect operated to restrain to any degree a pre-existing competition tn luter.itnfe commerce was necessarily condemned by law. In tbe three years of tbe Tift ad ministration all of tbe sixteen cases left pending by tbe prertons sdmlnli trit ion have been disposed of except two. wklcb have been armed and rob mlttad to tbe supreme court of tbe rr.ft«d States end are now awaiting »leciatab Of the remaining case« th« i Standard Oil cn«e wa« armed early ■nritvr tbe present admlniwrstion and. I after an appeal, decided entirely In i f;iv» of tbe govemtnent Tbe aame wax alan true of tbe tobacco cease, remit o< tbe dl«ls looMm ik^UNIt bhr trust Into four- tmn se«arste and distinct corpora ttoM-LtW*« »a believe«, will e»ar tlreiy qsevvr n t a eon tin nance nd tba Premised Tee Much. moaopoltatie eondlttona rompiatmd ad. Mxrwtrztr - If I let you off th»« tin»« Taft Ant»-trwt Ree«r< wTT! you premise ter to take tbe riedr*1 Is Delfatbted Prisoner «excitedly >-04 wilt, ver boonr. an' drink yer broltb!—Mo­ F-lrary 1812. rweoty two mm doc Tit Bit« In all stxty-two preraaD remit there were 8>tHa and «term ef «as» » I CORNERS IN COINS! Are WVc C>*a*jing, Pressing and Repair­ Special Atteution paid to Tourist». ing a Specialty. A First Class Table. Comfortable Beds and Accommodation b> »vr in Heins Photographie Gallery. J. CLAUSSEN, LAWYER, ÇeutNchcr £bvofcat 113 Tillamook Block, 1 T illamook . Ww O reoon wir ■ r* J2JR. J. J. MURRAY, V.s , VETERINARY SURGEON AND DENTIST. Registered and Gradnate Veterinary Surgeon. Office : Commercial Stables, Tillamook, Ore. Both phono«. ISAACSON, Jones & Knudson TILLAMOOK, ORE. Direct Factory Distributors for Tilla mook County. I VETERINARY SURGEON AND DENTIST, i Todd Hotel, Tillamook« Formerly with the anuy transport Ma. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary L o H RP. «U m ’»