[Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt]@TWC D-Link bookTheodore Roosevelt CHAPTER XV 69/96
Wherever immoral business practices still obtain--as they obtained in the cases of the Standard Oil Trust and Tobacco Trust--the Anti-Trust Law can be invoked; and wherever such a prosecution is successful, and the courts declare a corporation to possess a monopolistic character, then that corporation should be completely dissolved, and the parts ought never to be again assembled save on whatever terms and under whatever conditions may be imposed by the governmental body in which is vested the regulatory power.
Methods can readily be devised by which corporations sincerely desiring to act fairly and honestly can on their own initiative come under this thoroughgoing administrative control by the Government and thereby be free from the working of the Anti-Trust Law.
But the law will remain to be invoked against wrongdoers; and under such conditions it could be invoked far more vigorously and successfully than at present. It is not necessary in an article like this to attempt to work out such a plan in detail.
It can assuredly be worked out.
Moreover, in my opinion, substantially some such plan must be worked out or business chaos will continue.
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