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Show MAC KEY IS WELL PLEASED Dissolution of Huge A. T. & T. Combination End of Bitterly Fought Contest. ENDS WHOLE TROUBLE Trusts Chief Purpose to Control Con-trol and Monopolize and Throttle Competition. New York, N. Y . Dec. 20. Clarence Mackay. president of the Mackay companies, which controls the Postal Telegraph company and the Cpmmer clal Cable company, rivals of the Western Union Telephone and Tele graph company Issued the following statement this afternoon "It has been a bitterly fought con test. The result is a gratifying sofu Hon of the whole trouble We hope and believe It will work out so that no further cause for complaint may exist, either on the part of the public or on our part Anybody with any perspective at all, could have seen during the past few years that there would be au end to a huge combination combina-tion whose chief purpose was to throttle competition in order to con trol and monopolize. "We feel grateful to the admtnls tratlon and particularly to Attorney General McReynolds for the result. The department of justice took the ! matter up on Its own initiative and without any at'empt to shift or evade responsibility, the nttorney general has brought aoout th:s complete dissolution." dis-solution." oo |