Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-16
STANDARD OIL IS
 ORDERED DISSOLVED
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(Continued From Page One) in requesting that..the rule of req son. be applied as with restraints of trade before they were held to be violations of the Sherman Antitrust law. The court found this iustifica, ton in the common law of the fore fathers and in the general law of the country at the time the sherman anti trust law was passed.
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 In short, the court held that that the technical words of the statute were to be given the meaning which those words had in the common law and in the law of the country at the time of the enactment. This mean ing of the words, according to the court, called for the exercise of req son in determining what restraints of trade were prohibited.
 The suit which called forth today's decision was instituted in 1906 fin the United States Circuit court for the eastern district of Missouri. 1t was brought in the name Of the United States. The immediate ob- feet was to dissolve the Standard oil company of New Jersey.
 Sherman Law Upheld
 From the very beginning, the busi- mess and the legal worlds recog- nized that the suit put the sherman anti trust law to the most severe test to which it had been subjected. The law had been on the statute book since 1890 and had been the basis of some eighteen suits finally passed upon by the Supreme court of the United States. That the law was constitutional was accepted as settled by these decisions, but sim ple as the words of the statute seemed, there was an absence oi unanimity in regard to its interpre- tation. With that situation con fronting the government and the de fendants, the suit was begun with the general belief that the entire business world would feel the ef- feet of the outcome of the gigantic struggle.
 Two Sections Violated
 The government claimed that two sections of the Sherman anti trust law had been violated. The first section reads as follows:
 Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states. or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal"
 The second section reads:
 Monopoly Forbidden
 Every person (which subsequent ly was explained h the statute to include corporations) who shall mo nopolize, or attempt to monopcllze O. combine or conspire with any oth CT person or persons, to Eanopolize any part of trade or commerce. among the several states, or wl;h foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
 The Standard Oil company of New Jersey, some seventy subsidiary cor porations. John D. Rockefeller, Will liam Rockefeller, Henry NJ. Flag Ter. Henry. H. Rogers, John D Archbold. Oliver H. Payne and Charles NJ. Pratt, all defendants in the suit, denied the charges.
 Tie Conspiracy
 Months were spent in gathering evidence. The general line of at tack as shown by evidence presented by the governmen: was this: It is claimed that about 1870 the Rocke- fellers and FlagIer conceived the idea of controlling the petroleum trade of the country and little later entered into a conspiracy with Rog: CTS, ArchOald, Payne and Pratt 0 gain a control of the oil business To carry out this alleged conspiracy '' was claimed they first pooled their ,-terests. then put them int the hands of trustees e trusts" and finally when the trust of 1882 was declared void" in a decision by the Ohio Supreme court in a pToceedins against the Standard oil company fof Ohio, recognized the Standard Oil company of New Jersey to take over their interests and 70 secure mono poly.
 Relating and Price Cutting
 Evidence Of relating, of price cut ting. and of the organization of secret concerns to pose as inde pendents was elicited to show that the Standard was seeking by unfah means to restrain trade and to pro cure a monopoly.
 Standard Oil" introduced evidence 1 to show that there had never beeL such a conspiracy It sought tol prove that the ohio supreme court did not hold the trust agreement of 1882 void, but merely required the Standard Oil comDany of Ohio tol withdraw from the trust" Evil dence was produced to show that re- batting had been the order of thel day among all commercial concerns, thas price cutting and secret con cerns were the rule and were used as legitimate instruments Of com competition.
 Two Laws Violated
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