Excerpt from Pure Oil Trust Vs. Standard Oil Company: Being the Report of an Investigation by the United States Industrial Commission; Compiled From Private and Official Sources by the Oil City Derrick, 1899-1900 If it is shown that one company has secured even 100 per cent. Of a business because it supplies the consumers more satisfactorily than any one else, no one has been injured except the unsuccessful competitors who are left behind in the race for trade. Mr. G. Waldo Smith, president of the Wholesale Grocers' Association of New York and vicinity, testified on June 12, 1899, that there was a practical monopoly of the trade in baking powders because one company had advertised so extensively that practically everybody used its product. Mr. Smith said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.