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Show ARGUING- CASE kl 18 GREAT TOBACCO TRUST Throttles Competition, Says the Prosecution; Aid to Industry, Is Plea of Defense. WASHINGTON. Jan. I. After addressing address-ing tho court for almost three hours and a half In the tobacco trust case, which Is under orgument before the supreme court of the United Slates, Special Assistant Attorney General Mc Reynolds concluded his argument today and was followed by Attorney Delancey Nleol of Now York, who spoke in behalf of the company. Mr. McRcynolds contended that the wholo tobacco Industry, from tho purchase pur-chase of the leaf to the completion of the manufacture, was In tho control of tho trust because of Its Interference with Interstate In-terstate commerce. "If." he said, "there Is no power here to prevent such a course, there Is no control con-trol anywhere." Mr. NIcol pointed out what he charged was misrepresentations on the part of tho prosecution. For Instance, he said, the government had proceeded on the theory that the existence of tho American Tobacco To-bacco company was injurious alike to producers, pro-ducers, consumers and dcalero, whoreas, he asserted, there had been no Increase ln the price of tobacco to consumers, nor damage to any class. Ho quoted statements from the Judges ln the court below that not only had there been no enhancement of the prices of tobacco, but that new enterprises had boon begun and had thriven since tho organization of the tobacco company. He also undertook to show that 150,000 additional addi-tional acres of land had boon devoted to the growth or" tobacco In that period. |