The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-16
OPINIONS OF NOTED MEN.

JUDGE E. HI. GARY, Chairman of the Board of the Steel Trust-The language employed hy the court should have good effect. In the conn parative near future business condi- tions will show surprising improve ment. Some Companies may have to reorganize> but those that have not been going contrary to public opinion will not be affected. The decision seems to me eminently fair.
 ALFRED H. WALKER, Lawyer and Noted Expert on Antitrust Law Enough grounds are established by the decision to compel the immediate reorganization of 1000 different con- binations. Decree ~will not affect Rockefellers ownership of shares in more than 100 oil companies but 1t will prevent him manag ging them in com bination.
 ATTORNEY GENERAL WICKER SHAM-Substantially every proposi- ment in this case is affirmed by the Supreme Court In the reasoning by which the Chief Justice reached his conclusion in which the whole court concurs, he expresses the view that only contracts. combinations, etc., which in any way unreasonably or unruly restrain interstate trade and commerce, or which are unreason- ably restrictive of competition condi- tions, are within the prohibition of the first section of the Sherman Act
 SENATOR LA TOILETTE. fRen.. Wis.)-I look at it as a most danger ous decision; for if it be true, as Jus tice Harlan indicates, that combina- tions to be unlawful must be in .sun- reasonable" restraint of trade. the court has written into the statute a rof1 to for which the trust fought and were defeated.
 SENATOR KENYON. Iowa-It, is not sufficient to limit the penalty to a fine and dissolution of the obnox- found guilty of violating the law favor amending the law so that those guilty will be imprisoned.
 SENATOR CULBERsoN. Texa-I agree with Justice Harlan that the court has no right to indict outside matter into the law by defining req sonable and unreasonable combina- tiOnS.
 JOHN s. MILLER, Chicago Attor- ney for Standard Oil-I cannot see how this decision affects the beef trust cases. It is an individual de- cision dealing, with specific com plaints.
 HENRY WOMAN. Counsel for Missouri in its Custer Suit Against Standard Oil-Socailed combinations if they have led "a clean life, have gained a most specific victory in that the Supreme Court has held that the test under the Sherman Law is whether or not the purpose and in tent of the successful combina tion is to blot out competition regardless of the means employed.
 FRANK B. KELLOGG, Special Counsel for the Government in the Standard Oil Suit-The dissolution of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey is inevitable. The government won a complete victory, every point being decided in our favor.
 Sel for the Standard Oil Company in Chicago-The business of the Stand ard Oil Company will go on as usual although, of course. there will be changes to meet the interpretation of the law.
 FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL BONAPARTE-I am naturally much gratified as I started this suit It is a great victory for the government
 CONGRESSMAN VICTOR BER- GER. Socialist, Wis.)-Dissolve the Standard Oil Company. You might as we'll try to dissolve the Atlantic Ocean The decision amounts to nothing. It simply can't be done You can't change the ownership of the oil trust. You can simply change the form of the ownership and the result will be exactly the same.