The Labor World

Mistakes of Untermeyer.

Samuel Untermeyer, a New York corporation lawyer, who happens lately in some suits against the sugar trust, declares that the future is fraught with danger unless they are brought within the clutches of the criminal law and destroyed. Now, if this means anything, it means that some dread thing like a violent revolution or a civil war is going to take place unless those individuals most nearly responsible for the trusts are to be jailed, etc. Imagine Carnegie, Baer, Belmont, Armour and Rockefeller in jail! They certainly are less likely to go to jail than the trusts are to be destroyed. No, Mr. Untermeyer makes several mistakes. First, in even imagining a trust official in jail. Second, in imagining the trusts can be destroyed. Third, in not seeing that we can avoid trouble over the sugar trust, as we avoid it over the postal trust. We need to own the sugar industry and to operate it just as we own and operate the postoffice.--Dallas Laborer.