Punish the real offenders.

AuthorLa Follette, Robert M.
Position1911 - Standard Oil Co.'s violation of antitrust law - Brief article

May 27, 1911

The Standard Oil Company is guilty of violating the antitrust law. It is ordered by the United States Supreme Court to dissolve its present organization within six months. But is it punishment merely to compel the Standard Oil Company to change its form of organization? What about the men under whose direction these illegal practices were carried on? Are they not to be called to account?

Offenses such as these with which the Standard Oil Company stands convicted...

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