Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-29
Governmen, i8rief 81 AatIs
Trust Slt Sent .
Su me Court
COMBATS ANSWER
OF CORPORATION
Side Presented In Aps
peal Of international Harvsstse csass
pany From oseisien 81 Minnsseea
Court - censsnd That Dseisien Psr
Appellants Would Lee Bars ps~n q
Consultations in All industries,

Washington. March 2s.-The goveenA
ment's brief In the antitrust suit -
dissolve the International Harvsstse
Company was filed today In the su.
preme court. II Is largely directed toe
ward combating the arguments OF the
company's brief filed In support Of 1ts
appeal after the district court OF Min>
nesota had declared It q combination IL
restraint OF trade.
If defendants argument prevails,S
says tho governments brief. "if the
corporate contentious, however com.
prehensive, do not come within the
perview of the act, unless and only 90
far as they demonstrahly abuse their
power-the inevitable result will b the
renewal OF that great rush toward con.
centration, which proceeded with even
accelerating rapidity. until checked by
the decision OF this court In the North>
ern Securities case.
Establishes Unvsise Precedent.
IT the makers Of harvesting mAchln-
cry may unite m hero. why may noe
makers Of every species OF machinery
these lesser combinations be integrAted
these lesses combinations be integrAted
into one super-combination OF Ill the
meetai worrying industries?
What would prevent, indeed, tho
creating of combinations with powsr
to control the market for every nsces-
sary OF life-food. coal. oil. metal. tex
tile fabrics, etc-or alliances betWeeu
all these combinations under the con>
troll OF a few great masters Of 1n>
dustry? 80 4
'.Ths desire for promotsrs' prooes,
the desire to escape from tho pseoouSo
Of competition, and the dastro 1or aeto,
power which great bowR eagen1ess-
these motives would stll - adequate
to produce such concentration, even
assuming that prices. ETC.. cot11 ~
rigidly controlled.
Act Would Protect ljbsety.
THE anti trust actS-the works %
perhaps the ablest Judiciary commit
tee that ever sat In either branch Of
congress. Is the deliberate effort Of
conservative men to place some fea-
sonable check Of that liberty Of com.
bination, which would In tho end isna
peril liberty itself.
THE controversy In this case. thereA
fore, Is fundamental. The question II,
snail the competitive system ces:s!.nen
Shall competition. not combination. oo
the law OF trade?"
The brief says that the defendants
claim that while one-time competitors.
controlling from so to IS per cent OF
the trade in the United States in har-
vesting machines, were combined in
such a manner. which the government
contends was not in restraint Of trade
but to promote foreign trade. Upon
this statement the government says.
and upon its good conduct. "the whole
defense rests
Contention Of Defense Fails.
The last contention that the case
must fail because the combination has
not limited prices or degraded tho
quality OF product, or oppressed COM
petitors, the government declares is
based upon construction of the anti
trust act which loses sight Of its
broader purposes and which would be
utterly impractical In executing"
1T has already been shown" contin-
ues the brief. that where. as here, the
necessary effect of the combination Is
only to restrict competitive conditions,
the purpose OF the parties is imma-
terial Therefore, were the good in
tentions claimed in this case conceded.
1t would make no difference"
Statistics are given to demonstrate
that the harvester company has re
tarded rather than accelerated tho
trade in foreign harvesters and ma
Chimes