The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-29
GARFIELD SEES BIG VICTORY
 IN OIL CASE
Special from United Presso

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 Cleveland. Nov. 27.-James R. Gar field. former secretary of the interior. made answer today to the recent state ment of John D. Archbold. the Stand ard Oil magnate. relative to the ae- cision dissolving the Standard OIL Ar>chbold1s statement was as follows.
 T believe that the decision will re- suit in legislation looking toward the ~G~eal of the Sherman Antitrust law, 1OI under that law it is almost trnpos- sible for practically any corporation to transact business for even co-operstive partnership may be attacked De- leve the officials at Washington are coming to the view that the law IS too drastic and that even Mir Roosevelt himself shares in that opinion"
 Here is MT. Garfield's answer:
 s,Since the decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals uphold ing the government in its suit to dis solve the Standard oil Company. the statement has been made that this Is a barren victory and merely proves that the antitrust law is unsatisfac- tory. Such an interpretation of the decision is unjustified- It is true that President Roosevelt pointed out the unsatisfactory condition of the present law and urged it's change but only on condition that before changes were made the government should be given the direct. affirmative control and reg ulation over industrial corporations similar to the regulation of railroads and other common carriers MT Roosevelt showed that to amend the sherman law and not to provide otner legislation would be most unwise.
 Now. SO far as this Standard OH case is concerned. 1t is evident from pup hshed statements of the opinion. that the contest is entirely in the report l made when commissioner of corpora tlons in 1906 which covered all Ques- tfons of railroad discrimination. unfair competition. methods of tcontrot through subsidiary companies and the eral organization of the Standard OH Conpany. All these unfair methods are now prohibited through injunction. their exposure will help to prevent their repetition, and. in addition, the court may now punish any person Who violates its order
 The court sustains our contention that the law seeks to prohibit the re- suits of unfair competition and re stralnt of trade not merely the meth Oda used to obtain such results. The injunction is broad enough to hereafter reach any device. no matter how clever, in trade restraint
 Another feature of this decision irn- portant to the public. is that the Fed erL government has shown that no corporation. no aggregation of capital. fs stronger than the United States and that in the hands of an efficient ad- ed against even the greatest corpora ton The Roosevelt administrat ton made an attack on the Standard OH Company not because it was big but because 1t was disobeyfng the law
 For the first time in the history of the oil business the independent oil men are enjoying fair treatment from fhe railroads and are relieved from many of the unfair methods of com petition practiced by the Standard on Company
 There is no surer way to prevent monopoly than for the government to retain control over the resources of oil. coal. water and mineral phosphates left on the public domain and provide for their development under lease and sub 1ect to such regulation as will insure development when and where needed.