Pettigrew's Amendment

Senator Pettigrew has introduced ar. arnendnient to the Dingley bill which provides for the admission treexif duty of articles controlled by trusts. Should it becorue law and be carried out hou■estly, how much revenue would the bill yield? There are trusts in sugar, coal, -window and plate glass, lumber, pottery, wall paper, rubber, outleiy and in anearly all kinds of hardware. There i? no trust in tea, but that is probably beause there has been no duty to enconrage it. There are also trusts in the ■woolen and cotton industries. Revenue will be scarce if such a law should be nforced. But will those elected by trust fuuds destroy the system which fosters trusts? Theymaypass some such law, as they did the Shermau antitrust iaw in 1890, but it will be only anofcher dummy.