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She is bitter against us for shilly-shallying. These girls hate shilly-shally in a man. They are monopolists severe monopolists; shilly-shally is one of their monopolies. Throw yourself at her feet, and press her with ardor; she will clear up directly." The proposed attitude did not tempt the stiff Talboys. His pride took the alarm. "Thank you.
He said you knew the lord and could take me around, forsooth, and sorter interduce me, ye see." With leisurely gravity, Sir Percevall slowly read the note, and then, returning it with a polite gesture: "This letter hath reference to certain monopolies," he said. "My cousin Bacon doth write in high terms of your skill and high merit, Master Master " "Droop, sir. Copernicus Droop's my name."
In some sections of the Republic its influence is deprecated as tending to concentrate wealth into a few hands, and as creating those germs of dependence and vice which in other countries have characterized the existence of monopolies and proved so destructive of liberty and the general good.
In 1896, under the influence of President Cleveland's administration, we find four such statutes, and in 1897, with reviving prosperity, thirteen. Still, we find no new principle, except, indeed, the somewhat startling statement in Kansas that it is unlawful to handle goods made or controlled by monopolies.
But the proving of the anti-trust law as an effective weapon against the flagrantly offending trusts, according to Roosevelt's conviction, was only a part of the battle. As he said, "monopolies can, although in rather cumbrous fashion, be broken up by lawsuits.
Intellectual property rights have been transformed into a myriad pernicious monopolies which threaten to stifle innovation and competition. Intellectual property patents, content libraries, copyrighted material, trademarks, rights of all kinds are sometimes the sole assets and the only hope for survival of cash-strapped and otherwise dysfunctional or bankrupt firms.
What in blazes are we comin' to in this country if we can't git competition? If Flint stops that bill, I'll buy a newspaper and go to the people with the issue and throw his d-d monopoly into bankruptcy." "It's all very well to talk about competition and monopolies and lobbies," said young Tom, "but how about the Gaylord Lumber Company?
The constant recurrence of similar epochs of social agitation since then, and the present enormous development of the monopolies which we resisted in their very infancy, show that our forecast of the future was not wholly visionary.
Anybody who buys any large quantity of manufactured goods knows this, whether it be the government or an individual buyer. We have anti-trust laws, to be sure, but they have not been adequate to check the growth of many monopolies.
Something had to be done and in self-defense industries began to coalesce in enormous "trusts" and "combines" and monopolies.
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