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TUB SHKKMAN ANTI-TRUST LAW
Tho Shorman anti-trust law upon
which the recent supremo court de
cision was based, was enacted in
1890 and Is as follows:
COMBINATION RESTRAINING
TRADE
' Section 1. Every contract, combi
nation in tho form of trust or other
wise, or conspiracy, in restraint of
trade or commerce among tho
sovoral states, or with foreign na
tions, is horoby declared to be il
legal. Every person who shall make
any such contract or conspiracy, shall
bo deomod guilty of a misdemeanor,
and, on conviction thereof shall bo
punished by fine not excooding five
thousand dollars, or by Imprison
ment not exceeding one year, or by
both said punishments, in tho dis
cretion of the court.
MONOPOLIZATION OP TRADE
ILLEGAL
Sec. 2. Every person who shall
monopolize, or attempt to monopolize
orcomblno or conspire with any per
son or persons, to monopolize any part
of tho trado or commerce among the
sovoral states, or with foreign na
tions, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and, on conviction
thereof, shall be punished by fine not
exceeding five thousand dollars, or
by imprisonment not exceeding one
year, or by both said punishments,
in the discretion of the court.
ANY VIOLATION MADE
CRIMINAL
Sec. 3. Every contract, combina
tion in form of trust or otherwise
or conspiracy, in restraint of trade
or commorce In any torritory of the
United States or tho District of Co
lumbia, or in restraint of trade or
commerce between any such terri
tory and another or between any such
territory or territories and any state
or states, the District of Columbia and
any state or foreign nations, is here
by declarod illegal. Every person
who shall make any such contract
or engage In any such combination
or conspiracy shall be doomed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and, upon convic
tion thereof, shall be punished by
fine not exceeding $5,000, or by im
prisonment not exceeding one year,
or by both said punishments, in the
discretion of the court.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S
DUTY
Sec. 4. The several circuit courts
of tho United States are hereby in
vested with jurisdiction to prevent
and restrain violations of this act;
and it shall be the duty of the
several district attorneys of the
United States in their respective dis
tricts, under the direction of the
attorney general, to institute proceed
ings in equity to prevent and restrain
such violations. Such proceedings
may be by way of petition setting
forth the case and praying that such
violations shall be enjoined or other
wise prohibited. When the parties
complained of shall have been duly
notified of such petition the court
shall proceed as soon as may be, to
the hearing and determination of tho
case; and pending such petition and
ing tho subject thereof) montionod
In section 1 of this act, and being
in tho course of transportation from
one state to another, or to a foreign
country, shall bo forfeit to tho United
States, and may be forfeit and con
demned by like proceedings as those
provided into tho United States con
trary to law.
ACTION FOR TREBLE DAMAGES
Sec. 7. Any person who shall be
injured in his business or property
by any other person or corporation
by reason of anything forbidden or
declared to be unlawful by this act,
may sue therefor in any circuit court
of the United States in the district
in which the defendent resides or is
found, without respect to the amount
in controversy, and shall recover
threefold the damages by him sus
tained, and the costs of suit, includ
ing a reasonable attorney's fee.
CORPORATIONS HELD TO BE
PERSONS
Sec. 8. That the word "person,"
or "persons," wherever used in this
act shall be deemed to include cor
poration and association existing
under or authorized by the laws of
either the United States, the laws of
any of the territories, the laws of any
states, or the laws of any foreign
country.
THE SYSTEM AND ITS OUTPUT
That the follies of the "idle rich,"
as portrayed by Frederick Town
send Martin in a recent series of
magazine articles, were not over
drawn, is made evident by. a recent
cablegram from Nice to the New
York American, telling of the aTrival
in that city of Albert L. Bostwick,
son of a Standard oil millionaire.
Bostwick goes to Nice to play
tennis, and a description of his re
tinue reads like a page from Saint
Simon's memoirs of the court of
Louis, tho "grand monarch." Solo
mon in all his glory might have put
on a bigger show, but it is quite
certain that none of the second-rate
crowned heads of the present time
can rival the Bostwick retinue.
Tho list of Bostwick's personnel
and luggage includes one wife, two
chauffeurs, five children, three banjo
players, one valet, two nurses, five
governesses, one physician, fourteen
servants, two automobiles and
seventy-five trunks.
That is the work, the output of
the system. It is to continue the
social and industrial conditions that
make Buch flunkeys possible that
seats in the United States senate are
bought for men like Lorimer men
who admit that they vote for or
against such measures as may bo ap
proved or disapproved by such pub
lic servants (?) as Aldrich or Can
non of Bailey.
Such exhibitions as was presented
by this American invasion at Nice
are the result of special privilege.
If the result is disgusting and who
will say It is not the cause must
be wrong. Yet we have seen, year
after year, men otherwise well in
formed and intellignt going to tho
polls and voting for men who have
before final decree, the court may been responsible for the maintenance
at any time make such temporary
order or prohibition as shall be
deemed just in the premises.
Sec. 5. When ever it shall appear
to the court before which any pro
ceedings under section 4 of this act
may be pending, that the ends of
justice require that other parties
should be brought before the court,
the court may cause them to be sum
.moned whether they reside in tho
district in which, the court Is held
or not, and subpoenas to that end
may he served in any district by the
marshal thereof.
" FORFEITURE OF PROPERTY
POSSIBLE
Sec. 6. Any property owned, any
contract or by any combination, or
pursuant to any conspiracy (and be-
of a system that yields such product.
How long, O Lord, will the Ameri
can voter remain blind to his duty?
Oklahoma Dally Oklahoman.
Prepare for Victory
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Father, enthroned In heaven above,
Thou only source of light and love,
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And eyes unseal that now are blind
Thy kingdom come.
The scattered sheep are scattered.
still,
In every vale, on every hill,
And night is there so dark and cold,
Bring them within thy peaceful
fold
Thy kingdom come.
Rev. J. S. Scotland.
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