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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1911
Page
4
President Taft sends to Congress an installment style annual message focusing on trusts. He endorses the Sherman law with supplemental federal incorporation and a Federal Corporation Commission. He clashes with Roosevelt over repeal while linking tariffs to trusts and urging clear enforcement.
The article discusses whether breaking up large trusts into separate corporations actually restores competition. It cites Professor Bruce Wyman of Harvard Law School arguing that dissolution, while legal, may not create genuine competition if it does not arise naturally among the successor entities. He warns that competition may not be forced where it does not exist.
The author argues that tobacco plan show competition can be tested in practice, recognizing monopoly as natural in some sectors. He suggests regulation by law can turn large firms to common advantage, but favors a gradual, experimental approach rather than immediate prohibition.
Last week five youths confessed to ten burglaries at Red Bank. Two boys aged twelve and fourteen were arrested for robberies at the same place, a 16 year old stole a bicycle in Freehold, and another boy was held for robbing a school box. Delinquency among girls is also rising, prompting calls for action.
The Ohio Progressive Republicans urge the State Central Committee to call a meeting to consider a direct primary or a binding plan for delegates. They request fair access for Taft and La Follette supporters to shape the delegation, arguing the move tests Taft's candidacy within his own party.
The Newark News notes Sheriff Beecroft favoring expanded petit jury representation by population. It cites Monmouth shore communities like Long Branch as populous centers and hints Roosevelt’s presidential candidacy is not a current concern. It adds Trenton faces smallpox and typhoid fears amid broader troubles.
A compilation of opinion snippets critiquing war, wealth, politics, and industry. Reflections on Behemothic steamship plans, Taft and party politics, Big Business law issues, and a philosophical note on human dust and earthiness.
A poetic meditation on human vanity and illusion. The speaker contrasts fake personas with hard granite toughness and imagines dust as a universal material underlying all people. The verse suggests pride and desire flow from imagined origins and social status.
Bitter lines from Wilbur D Nesbit in the Chicago Post lament social divides. The poem contrasts high and low classes and questions who benefits from authority and power on future generations.
Dr. Leo Gustav Goldberg, once practicing in the Campbell building on Broadway, has resumed his medical work now located on Chelsea avenue. A Heidelberg University graduate from thirty years ago, he previously practiced in several European cities before coming to the United States.
The treasury secretary ordered all cotton seized by armies in captured Confederate areas to be shipped to New York and sold for the government’s account. An agents system was set up to forward the cotton, and Lincoln’s message via the transcontinental telegraph appeared in San Francisco papers a day after eastern presses.
An old fashioned storm swept from the lakes to the gulf bringing freezing sleet and heavy snowfall. South Carolina reports three to six inches of sleet and fifteen inches of snow with North Carolina cumulative totals around twenty six inches.
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