Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1908 — FEDERAL USURPATION SHAW. [ARTICLE]

FEDERAL USURPATION SHAW.

Republican Financier-Cabinet Member Denounces Deal With Steel Trust Lost October. When the Trust Company of America, New Vork. was in trouble last October, a 'representative of tbe steel trust went to Washington and obtained consent of the administration for the trust to take over its chief competitor, the Tennessee Iron and Coal company, as the price of aiding the Trust Company or America. It was a combination in restraint of trade, a violation of the Sherman antitrust law. Peculiar Proceeding. Mr. Shaw thought this a peculiar proceeding, as shown by his speech before the National Electric Light association, May 23, 1908, when Le said: “I have no hesitancy in saying that this is the only first-class country in tbe world where permission could have been obtained from the executive department of the government Anywhere else such a request would have been answered, *Go consult your lawyer.’ ”