Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-26 | Page 13 | Speech by Bryan is Quoted in Brief

SPEECH BY 11 ;: I IS QUOTED 1 BRIEF I Answer of International Har-vester Har-vester Company in Missouri Ouster Suit. By Associated Press. H JEFFERSON CITY, -Mo., March 25. In its brief filed in the supreme court H today in the cubc brought by the gov- H ernment to oust it from the stato of J Missouri, the International (Harvester , J company complained that while Special 1 , H Commissioner Brace's reports showed . H the company had. done no injurious H acts in the state, he had nevertheless fl held it an illegal combination, Thco- 'lore Brace is special commissioner, ap- I pointed to investigate the affairs of the company. The brief stated that Brace . reported the company had not charged unfair prices, nor restricted dealers, j H vet he decided the company's form of ,i H organization is illegal. ' IH Tn the brief the company presented ' H ciidcnce from seventy-three Missouri I retailers to prove that competition in ' IH its line of business has not boon re- strained. The company further de- jH manded credit for having invited the fullest investigation. William J, Bryan's speech aa deliv- 1 cred to a phonograph for use in the nrcsidential campaign of 1908 was : 1 made the basis of an argument. "In . this speech," the brief said. "Mr. H Bryan stated that the irresistible ten- ' ' IH dericy of trusts is to raise selling prices, ! IH 1'wer the prices of raw materials, re- !r .luce the quality of manufactured prod- jH nets and lease-a wages. None 'of these results. Mr. Brn?c finds, followed the organization of tho International Har- ' vester company."