The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-19
IhA N. TARDE:lL|L
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IT has great WY toward making monopoly mpoe
sible
LAS for the Bureau OF Commerce md Labor. that
already proving what q. good thing it is and how much
it needed
1T gives the deargs of the trusts Of Rig Business
business publicity It makes things open. It keep,
eye the government business gives the GOV
eminent the right TO 80 over corporations hooks
make whatever invest cations it thinks proper
The existence of Bureau of Commerce and Labor
bring trade and industry completely Under the eve
Of tho government as the army and navy The
government keep itself entirely informed in detail
of the conditions progress % industry in America
The orders after prosecution unde- the Sheru,a
law for tho dssoluton Of the Standard Oil Company
and the Tobacco Trust and the present suit against
the United Steel Corporation show what is being
dome under tho Sherrlou saw
1T was decided hs a the Standard Oil Company
was operated in restraint = trade and in defiance Of
rnh,ic welfare that it made use of illegal means II
cain control that il dest rcyed competition. The Stand
ard Oil Company 70 ICED 70 dissolve.
What Standard Oil is now sixty seventy
concerns may he tn 1T being found to
GO, around tho law di iobey the order of dissolution
may that the sixty seventy companies that once
made up the STANDARD e arc acting in collpsion now
thot they are working for special privilege
We don't know.
longer easy They have become exceedingly difficult
and exceedingly dangerous They arc practically Ger
tain to be discovered and the who arc operating
them if such schemes, are in operation are prac-
ticay certain to jail
The Tobacco Trust has also been dissolved The
hacco Trust carried series of pirntca operations
scarcely eGuaed hv tho IIcca Of the high
The Tobacco Trust composed Of men who ver'
greater hrgands and pirates than tho who made
UP the Standard Oil Comra ny--and that is saying =
"if the people who for med the Tobacco Trust are
attempting carry theF business in the old way,
tho NAV he said Of thnm as Of the Standard Oil
Comranv. in they make such effort. Ther will
find difficult and dangerous. and they ~ill probably
AS for tho case against tho Steel Trust cannot.
IF mako any predictions 1t to me
that the government has ate know that the Steel
Trust made concession to rpssihc demands from the
days hcfors the suit for dissolution
was filed 1t looked Ettlc ;is if it tryns TO get
in out of the rain 10 ruin Just 70 time.
Many corporations have trkcn advantage of illegal
control transportation i have been protected
ny tariff that made oretgi competition utterly i'm
There is nothing wrorv. WITH corporation as
such. Corporations rot hacked because they are
cornoratons I ncrsonal!y Il iul that corporation
That took unrirhcous advar that perfectly
above hoard that kent cnnplc, IL within the az would
be all rirht.
But few corporations do that. our corporations
acting tho Ia End aninst public good. They
are not above hoard in their lealinG<. rhe7 act in
"Bnt how j, ros>hre t., determine what is in
restraint Of trade Miss Tarren was asked. Don't
y" need explicit dchnftrm of the provisions Of
YES we DO" she ropreJi docsite'y And We
arc getting il lust as fast Nn'an.
~ ron that law made utterly limos
.ihlo fc- tho Supreme Court FOR Congress- for ,ho
President, for ST; .iovn and cook up =
definition Of restraint Of trade Nobody knew
body could know.
'Th'' aadnifion bea 70 hc .ortc1 out by csperi
yiously acting in restraint IF tra u has been there
fore specifically determined thGr. tho things that the
Standard oil Company did. a-ai g which decision was
rendered arc in restraint nf trade " corporation
in tho future is found dol a hat the Standard
OH did will not he necessary - people argue
:" whether that is in restraint ,of trade They will
know that il is
The Tobacco Trust carried On /. different set Of
onorations. The test taade II is the same
With the Sno Trust if decision ii returned agains:
We know that certain filings nrc in restraint
"t trade As time goes M suits brought
and more tests mndc the definition will become enrelr
specific.
The men in tic claim thai the7 cannot
define tho term hocansc they do ec know when thet
arc dsobevng tho law
But they must have pretty tronr suspicious. or
rfr they wouldn't Try - k""r Thea maninulaiions and
operations 'l"gai they would not fool obliged 70
keen them dark
T r is in destroying privilege aud placing control orer
, the big interests in the ban,t Of tho gorcrnmen,
thnt Miss 1arhell confcsscs suv.y
national integrity aud the national eacefncss fair
PLAY.
people always swing back to thr place whore they
was questioned and she smiled as nc shook her head
That ism. true" she said. ",s hey don't There
is decided progress.
"Public affairs Obj aud How. Eu they gain q
little time San francisco, fcs instance, i'm.
menscly better than ii before reform
The reason thst SO many reforms fail, seem