Show The decision of tho U S Supreme Court Invalidating the antitrust statute stat-ute of Illinois becaiso of an exception In it which allows trusts or combines by dealers in or producers of agricultural agricul-tural products or live stock while forbidding for-bidding thla to others Is about 1 what might have been expected It Is not possible that such laws couldKtand the tests of the courts An antitrust law must bo an antitrust law it cannot can-not say that there must not be trustfi In certain lines of business and that there may be trusts in other lines That Is an elementary proposition that legislators seem slpw to lenrn But the trouble Is In the passage of such laws that the legislators fear to include in-clude all cIasseS and imcrents In the prohibition lest they lose l votes they pander to the granger vote or the labor vote or the railroad vole or the mining vote or some other vote all the time having more of an eyo to how they Will stand personally before be-fore the people at the next election than to the constitutional principles involved Tho Illinois law Is generally conceded to have been a good law with the exception of this one fatal defect |