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Show DILTRUST DEFEATED GIANT MONOPOLY IS GIVEN SIX MONTHS IN WHICH TO CON-FORM CON-FORM TO COURT'S ORDER. Government Wins In Long Fight to .Put Down Combination Which It Was Claimed Was a Menace to the Entire Country. i Washington. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and Its nineteen nine-teen subsidiary corporations were on Monday declared by the supreme court of the I'nited States to be a conspiracy and combination In re strain' of trade. It also was held to be monopolizing interstate commerce In violation of thu Sherman uutltniBt law. The dissolution or the combination combina-tion was ordered to take place wllhln six months. Thus ended the tremendous struggle strug-gle on the part of the government to put down, by authority of law, u com-blnat'ou, com-blnat'ou, which, It claimed, was a inenute to the Industrial and econo iiiic advancement of the entire conn try. At the same time the court Interpreted Inter-preted the Slietmau anti-trust law so as to limit Us application to nets of "undue" restraint of trade and not "every" restraint, of trade. It was tin this Klnt that the ouly discordant note was heard In the court. Justice Harlan dissented, claiming that cases Hlre.i ly decided by the court bad determinedonce de-terminedonce for all that the word ''undue" and "uurc.tsonuble" or slm liar words, were not In the statute. He declared that the leasonlng of the court hi arriving at Its finding was in effect legislation which belonged In every Instance to congress and not to the ourts. Kver since the degree In the case In the lower court, the I'nited States circuit court for the eastern district of Missouri, was announced, hope has been expressed by the "business world" that the law would be modified so as not to Interfere with what was designated honest bulsness. Now that section of the opinion calling for the use of the rule of reason In applying apply-ing the law Is regarded In many quarters quar-ters as an answer to the prayers of the "business world." The opinion of the court was announced an-nounced by Chief Justice White. In printed form It contained more than twenty thousand words. Kor nearly an hour the chief Justice discussed the case from the bench, going over most of the points in the printed opinion, opin-ion, but not once referring to It' In order to refresh his memory. |