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Potential Competition and the American Antitrust Legislation of 1914

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Benjamin J. Klebaner
Benjamin J. Klebaner
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Associate Professor of Economics, The City College of the City University of New York
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Abstract

The concepts of actual and potential competition as natural checks on trusts are examined through the literature which accompanied the framing and passage of the Chyton and Federal Trade Commission acts. The contributions of professional economists to these discussions are especially significant in the evolution of the public policies ultimately adopted.

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Business History Review , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , Summer 1964 , pp. 163 - 185
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1964

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19 Bullock, “Trusts and Public Policy,” pp. 741–42; Walter E. Clark, “Control of Industrial Monopoly,” Rollins Magazine, vol. II (July, 1912), p, 7; Jenks, in Amendment of the Sherman Antitrust Law, p. 108.

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33 U.S. Industrial Commission, Report, vol. XIX, p. 650.

34 Jenks, Trust Problem, presents a hypothetical example of how a small firm might be harmed (pp. 325–26); Montague, Gilbert H., “The Ethics of Trust Competition,” Atlantic Monthly, vol. XCV (March, 1905), p. 421.Google Scholar Montague had recently left Harvard's Department of Economics to embark on a distinguished career as an antitrust lawyer.

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43 Coleman, “Trusts from an Economic Standpoint,” p. 33; Wyman, Control of the Market, pp. 263, 276; See also Raymond, Robert L., “The Federal Antitrust Act,” Harvard Law Review, vol. XXIII (March, 1910), p. 378Google Scholar, and Stevens, Ernest G., “Civilized Commercialism,” American Law Review, vol. XLVIII (May-June, 1914), pp. 433, 438Google Scholar; Independent, vol. LXXVII (1914), p. 80.

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47 National Civic Federation, Proceedings, pp. 492–93.

48 Stanley Bill, H.R. 26130 (1912), in U.S. Congress, Bills and Debates in Congress Relating to Trusts (3 vols., Washington, 1914), vol. III, p. 2542Google Scholar; La Follette Bill, S. 2552 (1913), ibid., vol. III, pp. 3118–19. Cummins' bill would have had the trade commission judge whether the capital of a firm was so extensive as to “destroy or prevent substantially competitive conditions in the general field of industry in which such corporation is engaged,” ibid., vol. III, pp. 2430–31; elsewhere he argued for a 25 per cent limit, Congressional Record, 63 Cong., 1 Sess., 4283 (August 29, 1913). See also: Sterling, in House Reports, 62 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 1127, p. 345, and Congressional Record, 62 Cong., 2 Sess., 10529–30 (August 8, 1912); Gardner, in ibid., 10627 (August 9, 1912); Morgan, in Interstate Trade Commission, p. 170.

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55 Sherman, in Congressional Record, 51 Cong., 1 Sess., 2457, 2459, 2569 (March 21, 24, 1890); Reagan, in ibid., 51 Cong., 1 Sess., 2469 (March 21, 1890); Culberson, in ibid., 51 Cong., 1 Sess., 5951 (June 11, 1890); Young, “The Sherman Act and the New Antitrust Legislation,” p. 213. Justice Holmes went so far as to argue that “there is no combination in restraint of trade, until something is done with the intent to exclude strangers to the combination from competing with it in some part of the business which it carries on.” Northern Securities Co. u. U.S., 193 U.S. 197, p. 409 (1905) (dissent).

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58 Montague, Gilbert H., “Defects of the Sherman Antitrust Law,” Yale Law Journal, vol. XIX (December, 1909), pp. 88, 107, 109CrossRefGoogle Scholar, reprinted almost verbatim as “Trust Regulation Today,” Atlantic Monthly, vol. CV (January, 1910), pp. 1–8. The President of the National Association of Clothiers, Marks, Marcus M., also urged that reasonable agreements be made lawful in “Effects of Anti-Trust Legislation on Business,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. XXXII (July-December, 1908), p. 48.Google Scholar

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73 James R. Garfield (ex-Secretary of the Interior), Annals, XLII, pp. 144–45; Henry R. Towne (of Yale and Towne), in Trust Legislation, p. 524.

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76 Link, Wilson and the Progressive Era, pp. 72–73. In his Special Message on Trusts, January 20, 1914 (loc. cit., note 66), pp. 85–86, Wilson advocated a trade commission. Durand, “The Trust Legislation of 1914,” pp. 78, 90, 97; Porter (comp.), Platforms, p. 341 (Progressive plank).

77 Wilson, Special Message on Trusts, January 20, 1914, pp. 81–88 (loc. cit., note 66).

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80 Clark and Clark, Control, p. 191; Untermyer, in Trust Legislation, p. 858.

81 House Reports, 63 Cong., 2 Sess., No. 627, p. 17. John Bates Clark also used the term “abomination” in “After the Trusts, What?” World To-day, vol. XXI (November, 1911, p. 1296. E. Dana Durand commented that Section 7 of the Clayton Act added “nothing of real value to the Sherman Act.” “The Trust Legislation of 1914,” p. 83. For the legislative history of Section 7, see Martin, David D., Mergers and the Clayton Act (Berkeley, 1959), chap. 2Google Scholar.

82 Burton, Corporations, p. 174; Frederick H. Allen (corporation attorney), in Trust Legislation, p. 1168; Benjamin, R. M., “The Evolution and Prevention of Trusts and Monopolies,” Albany Law Journal, vol. LXVIII (August, 1906), p. 246.Google Scholar A comprehensive discussion of remedies for corporate abuses is found in Haney, Business Organization, pp. 383–402.

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