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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1906
Page
17
The address urges a decisive battle against private monopolies through robust trust regulation. It argues for enforcing the Sherman law against all trusts, proposes federal licensing of corporations, and criticizes duplicative directorates as a path to breaking up illegal interstate commerce control. It links tariff policy to trust power and calls for strong remedies over mere penalties.
A critical examination of the protective tariff argues it fuels political corruption and enables trusts. It links high schedules to dividend gains for manufacturers, wool price aims for sheep growers, and wage aims for laborers, urging tariff reform and warning of entangled politics and rate regulation impacts on railroads.
The railroad rate question is tied to the trust issue with nearly all private monopolies receiving rebates. Equal treatment by railroads would weaken the trusts, and the president is urged for courageous action in pursuing reform.
A speaker argues railroads resemble monopolies and should become public property. He supports federal control of trunk lines with local lines run by states, citing Germany Sweden and Norway as feasible models and noting readiness varies by state. Private ownership could continue where suitable.
In a discussion on federal and state rights to own railways, defenders argue public ownership could lower rates year round, citing Panama Canal and canal projects. Critics claim trusts are political and threaten liberty, with monopoly harm to innovation and quality, suggesting government action as necessary to curb interstate commerce abuses.
The passage notes that people still favor private ownership in the long run and that states vary in preventing stock watering while acquiring roads. It emphasizes that each state can tailor its actions to its unique situation when addressing road acquisition and related concerns.
The text argues that no economic gain justifies industrial despotism or the surrender of national independence by producers. It contends political liberty cannot endure in a system where a few powerful magnates control the livelihood of the majority.
Washington reports the postal service will adopt an open shop policy after a conference between Postmaster Busse and Acting Postmaster General Hitchcock and Second Assistant Postmaster General Shallenberger. Journal notes that employees may affiliate with labor unions if they follow rules and avoid pressuring others, with full protection guaranteed for those who do not join.
A warrant issued by Justice Fraser for Edward Marsh, a prominent ranchman, for assault in the third degree on Guy D. Moore. The incident occurred last night, Moore alleges Marsh struck him, breaking his jaw. Marsh has not yet been arrested.
The lower court denied a mandamus to force the State superintendent of insurance to remove four names from the Mutual Life administration ticket. The appellate division of the New York Supreme Court affirmed today, hearing Colonel Shook of Nashville and his associates on the policy holders' committee on appeal.
Washington reports a dispatch from Havana says Cuban insurgents raided the Constancia estate near Cienfuegos four days ago and took several horses. It is the first protest from Americans about attacks on their interests. American charge Sleeper in Havana was ordered to seek protection for all American property in Cuba.
Aug 20 Dyster Bay Roosevelt Home club of New York to be investigated for possible fraud. Postmaster General Cortelyou instructed at Sagamore Hill to pursue action. Circular by Roderick Beel claims funds to buy the house where Roosevelt was born, with 5 percent for club maintenance. The president believes a fraud order lies.
Ravalli county residents prepare for the November 6 election with primaries for all three parties set in Stevensville next Tuesday afternoon. Eighty three candidates are to be voted for across races. Local news includes J F Borough returning from Missoula with Mrs Borough and son Claude who has shown recent improvement after illness. Earl Smith of Chicago arrives with plans to stay months, while J R Faulds and Miles Romney drop by for brief visits related to duties and candidacies. George H Garnett and daughter Anna visit from Victor for a few hours.
Theodore Thurman man, who fled Tyler Washington after fatally shooting Mark Lipscombe in a saloon quarrel, is believed to have drowned himself in Fish Trap Lake. George Bower Thurman’s son-in-law says a sack with Thurman man’s knife, ring, $61 and a note was given to him by an unknown man. The note to Thurman’s wife reads a farewell confession of suicide and hunger.
Washington announces Frank M. Conser of Ohio, supervisor of Indian Schools, has been appointed chief clerk of the Indian bureau, an office established by Congress at its last session.
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