Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1910 — Supreme Court Deals Hard Blow to Violators of -Trust Law. [ARTICLE]

Supreme Court Deals Hard Blow to Violators of -Trust Law.

The 1 supreme court of the United States has decided that a conspiracy under the Sherman anti-trust law is a continuing offense. The trust attorneys had contended that the offehse was limited simply to. the formation of the conspiracy and that after the conspiracy was formed it was not an offense to operate under it. Had the opinion of- the trust lawyers been maintained it would have meant that there was a violation of the law when a conspiracy was formed, but that would be the offense, and after the organization was effected there was no further violation and the companies could continiie in business and maintain the trust which was in the first place illegally formed. Thf action of the supreme court will go a long way toward dispelling any doubt as to the success'of the Sherman anti-trust law in breaking up illegal trusts. The case decided charged Gustave E. Kissell, of New York, and Thos. E. Harned, of Philadelphia, with having conspired with the American Sugar Refining company to put the Pennsylvania sugar refining company out of business. It is thought the government will have clean sailing in the future in its prosecution of trusts. President Taft’s statement in his message that we do not need more trust laws, seems to be right. What we need is greater haste in the courts in the matter of punishing violators. And the government is after many of the big trusts with a sharp stick.