The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-01

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~ prohibited. Now. when
i enterprise is carried on
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shall exist at all--pretend-
aw what plainly exists in
of enterprise and plainly
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~ nts of law and fact respetN-
E<8&8opoly and combination. instead
ing side by side as they should
s. k to running in opposite direc-
When so to my tailor for
sS&8 clothes / expect him to Mt me-
pat he cut me down or fill me out
{72 who cuts into growth. The law
garment and should be made to
nterprise wherever enterprise Is
3&# hurtful-enterprise not hurtful
- I'D not he trimmed to At the law
was inevitable, | repeat, that this
Iuld be stopped some time by some
lily. Economic evolution. the product
4 millions of contributing causes is
growth as certain and irrepressiblc
a ~ Ia To-,
he law can no more artificially change
his growth than II can paint the lily
r give another fragrance to the rose"
The practical result OF the sherman
Act. as previously interpreted. was
hat r.p% only the carriers of the coun-
ry and the so-called big trusts OF the
country. but nearly every business OF
very character was put literally 'un-
Ter the condemnation of the law
Nearly every business movement with
spirit in ii became national sim"
even as II has now been Interpreted.
he sherman Act is still not definite.
tut ii Mt least opens the way to
more intelligent and reasonable and
Necessary settlement Of the conditions
ihueT Wnlcn large business enterprises
AN be conducted with safety to those
Who invest their capital in them and
With advantage to the State.
THE paramount benefit of this latest
decision, to my mind" SAYS Judge
irosscup, SIS that 1t will bring the
public mind to discern that we are
n new age in which combina tons
md monopolies even are economic
necessities, and that being here. az
lie necessary economic equipment OF
h" times. the thing to do with them
$ not TO train guns on them as II
hey ought not to he here ct all. but
o safeguard them as forms OF invest
nent aud so limit them in dividends
Flowed 10 be paid uhcir rights are
state given only. not the rights of nat
iral persons) that they will have no
motive to deal otherwise than fairly
with the people. ana Will become also.
IS property Investments. representa-
i've OF the people"