Brief for the United States (1914)

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318 PAET XVI. that in view of the general language of the statute and the public policy which it manifested, there was no possibility of frustrating that policy by resorting to any disguise or subterfuge of form, since resort to reason rendered it impossible to escape by any indirection the prohibitions of the statute. Finally he answered all the questions of law in issue, and which we have quoted above, in favor of the statute, upholding the contentions of the United States in respect to each. He stated : ^ ^ ^ (184:.) the assailed combination in all its aspects — that is to say, whether it be looked at from the point of view of stock ownership or from the standpoint of the principal corporation and the accessory or subsidiary corporations viewed independently, including the foreign corporations in so far as by the contracts made by them they became cooperators in the combination — comes within the prohibitions of the first and second sections of the Antitrust Act. * * * The court decreed: (187) That the combination in and of itself, as well as each and all of the elements composing it, whether corporate or individual, whether considered collectively or separately, be decreed to be in restraint of trade and an attempt to monopolize and a monopolization within the first and second sections of the Antitrust Act.