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Show Government After Big Beef Combine Attorney-General Moody Presents Brief in Supreme Court Alleging Al-leging Conspiracy. WASHINGTON', Jan. 4 -The brief of the Government In the case of Swift & Co, vs. the United States, known as the Beef trust case prepared by Attorney-General Attorney-General Moody, was presented to the Supreme court of the United States day The brief is devoted principally to an argument to ahow that the packers pack-ers are engaged In a conspiracy to monopolize interstate commerce In fresh meats. The Attornev -General says: It may he remarked that Judges have differed BS to the alldlty Of r.ggrcgntlons of capital effected by some forms of or- gSnlC union between se.r.il smaller and cempetlnc corporations, and economists are far from agreeing that such agieRa-tlrns. agieRa-tlrns. within limitations, are hurtful. S'. too, associations of manufacturers to resrulate competition within x restricted area hsvfl not nlways been condemned by courts and have sometimes been approved ap-proved by publicists "But has a responsible voice yet l'n heard to Justify, b-gally or economically a conspiracy or naiseuient b tween near-i near-i 'in the producers of s commodity nec- 11' to life by which the confederates acquire absolute control and dominion over the production, sale and distribution of that commodity throughout the entire en-tire territory of ;i nation, with the power it will to raKe prices to the consumer ol the finished product and lower prices t" the producer of the raw material' 'Yet such Is the case now at the bar of this courl Thai there is a conspiracy to control the market of the nation for lr.sh meats, that It docs control It and that lt; 1 ontrol Is merciless anu opprex- l. ar.- facts Known of all men. The bi oud Question here is. Iok the Govern ment's petition with Its statements of fact, standing unchallenged discover that conspiracy to the court? We suoinit thai It Iocs and that the decree of the civil court should In all things be af-lirmf af-lirmf n |