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things that was wrong, would go a long distance 

 toward curing that wrong; and, even where it did 

 not cure it, would make the path evident by which 

 to cure it. We would not be leaping in the dark; 

 we would not be striving blindly to see what was 

 good and what bad. We would know what the 

 facts were and be able to shape our course accord 

 ingly. 



A good deal can be done now, a good deal is be 

 ing done now. As far as the anti-trust laws go 

 they will be enforced. No suit will be undertaken 

 for the sake of seeming to undertake it. Every 

 suit that is undertaken will be begun because the 

 great lawyer and upright man whom we are for 

 tunate enough to have as Attorney-General, Mr. 

 Knox, believes that there is a violation of the law 

 which we can get at; and when the suit is under 

 taken it will not be compromised except upon the 

 basis that the government wins. Of course, gen 

 tleman, no laws amount to anything unless they are 

 administered honestly and fearlessly. We must 

 have such administration or the law will amount to 

 nothing. I believe that it is possible to frame na 

 tional legislation which shall give us far more power 

 than we now have, at any rate over corporations 

 doing an interstate business. I can not guaran 

 tee that, because in the past it has more than once 

 happened that we have put laws on the statute books 

 which those who made them intended to mean one 

 thing, and when they came up for decision by the 

 courts, it was found that the intention had not been 



