The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-10-21
.BRECKONS ATTACKS
. BEEF TRUST
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defendants in said Territory as an oh
-ieat and article of trade and commerce
therein
And your orator further alleges and
shows that of the quantity of beef cat
tie so used and consumed annually by
the aforesaid inhabitants and people, as
above alleged, the whole thereof is
raised and produced in said Territory;
and that about ninety per cent of the
same is sold, shipped and delivered by
said defendants, in said Territory; -
dealers and consumers therein.
And your orator further alleges and
shows that the above named defend
ants comprise nearly all of the whole
sale dealers in said Territory, who
raise, produce, handle, deal in, sell,
ship or deliver beef cattle and fresh
beef in said Territory for sale to con-
sumers and dealers therein, and that
by reason thereof, the said defendants,
if combined together, can, ard do, alb
solutely control the prices charged for
fresh beef raised and produced in said
Territory.
And your orator further alleges sad
shows that of the total volume of trade
and commerce in beef cattle and fresh
beef in said Territory, said defendants
own operate and control about ninety
per cent
And your orator further alleges and
shows that as to said trade and COM
merce in beef cattle and fresh beef in
said Territory, the said defendants,
and each of them, should, and but for
the acts hereinafter complained of,
would, be and remain in free and I'M
restrained competition with each other.
And your orator further alleges and
shows that said defendants, and each
of Them in violation of the provisions
of an Act of Congress of the United
States, approved July 2, 1890, entitled:
AN Act to Protect Trade and Com
merce Against Unlawful Restraints
and Monopolies,' and the further Acts
of said Congress amendatory thereof or
supplementary thereto, and in order to
restrain and destroy competition among
tie and fresh beef in sail Territory,
would otherwise exist, as to the rails
ing, producing, handling, dealing in,
sale, shipment and delivery of beef cat
tie and fresh beef in said Territory,
and in order to monopolize, and at
tempt to monopolize, and combine and
Conspire to monopolize, the trade and
commerce in said beef cattle and fresh
beef to dealers and consumers in said
are now engaged in, and intend to con-
tinue to be engaged in, an unlawful
combination, trust and conspiracy
among and between themselves arbi-
trarily from time to time, to raise,
lower, fix and maintain prices, and to
maintain arbitrary, high and oppressive
prices at which they will sell. directly
or through their and each of their, re-
spective agents, beef cattle and fresh
Def to dealers and consumers in said
Territory; and that, i'm pursuance of the
said unlawful combination, trust and
conspiracy the said defendants, and
each of them, have been able, and now
are able and will continue to be able
arbitrarily, to raise, lower, fix aT<F
maintain the prices at which they, anC
each of them, will sell beef cattle anC
- fresh beef, either directly or through
their respective agents, to dealers ant
consumers in said Territory, and, ii
pursuance thereof, have arbitrarily
raised, lowered, fixed and maintained
and will continue arbitrarily to raise
lower, fix and maintain the prices al
which they, and each of them, will sell
beef cattle and fresh beef, either di-
rectly or through their respective
agents, to dealers and consumers in
said Territory.
Your orator further alleges and
shows that it was also part of SAID
agreement so entered into, that the
price so fixed to be paid to each of said
remaining defendants should not be
changed or altered in any manner save
by the consent of said remaining de-
PENDANTS, and should not be changed or
altered in any manner by the demand
for fresh beef in the localities supplied
by the said Metropolitan Meat Com
pany, Limited, said Hawaiian corpora
ton, nor by the supply of beef cattle
available for said localities, that the
time at which said agreement was en-
tered into, your orator is unable to sci
forth at this time, but charges that the
said agreement is still in existence,
and has been in existence for more
than the year last past, and will con-
tinue to be i'm existence, and that the
same was entered into subsequent to
the second day of July, A. d. 1890
And your orator further alleges and
shows that the above named defend
ants did, on or about the dates above
mentioned, entered into the agreements
hereinabove referred to and specified in
paragraphs fourteen and fifteen of this
BIZ of Complaint, with the intent to
form a combination, trust and conspir-
aey, in restraint of the trade and COM
merce in beef cattle and fresh beef IN
said Territory and with the intent to
monopolize and combine and conspire
to monopolize said trade and commerce
in beef cattle and fresh beef in sale
Territory; contrary to the provisions OF
the aforesaid Acts Of Congress of said
United States.
And your orator further alleges and
shows that, in consequence of said un.
lawful agreement, combination, trust
and conspiracy so entered into by sale