A public meeting was held at the Prince of Wales Tavern in Philadelphia in 1793 to protest in round terms against the monopolistic character of the Lancaster Turnpike.
How different would have been the story of the steamboat if Congress had accepted Fitch at his word and created a precedent against monopolistic rights on American rivers!
Every improvement in the means of transportation, every development of natural resources, every new invention was inevitably considered from the standpoint of sectional interests and with a view to itsmonopolistic possibilities.
Meeting only with rebuff, he realized that his only hope of organizing a company that could provide working capital lay in securing monopolistic privileges.
K] Government to Discriminate Between Good and Bad Trusts As to monopolistic corporations, the proposed act placed them entirely under the supervision of the executive branch of the government.
Different, however, was the outcome in industries in which the number of employers had been reduced by monopolistic or semi-monopolistic mergers.
Such a monopolistic state of things, it is true, would not answer to Mr. Clark's ideal.
Intangible assets, such as patent right or monopolistic control, are likewise of no effect except in effectual contact with industrial facts.
The monopolistic control is effected by means of the vendible securities covering the capital engaged.
The patent right becomes effective for the purpose only in the material working of the innovation covered by it; and monopolistic control is a source of gain only in so far as it effectually modifies or divides the supply of goods.
It has been suggested in Congress[423] that an effective punitive method of dealing withmonopolistic corporations would be to deny them postal facilities.
The monopolistic nature of the telegraph business makes it of vital importance to the people that it be conducted by unselfish interests, and this can be accomplished only through government ownership.
All public utilities and enterprises of a monopolistic nature shall be operated by the State; except in case of necessity when the State may specially permit private operation.
In any event, if the trust doesn't want you to manufacture your invention, you will not be allowed to, unless you have money of your own and are willing to risk it fighting the monopolistic trust with its vast resources.
All that we are going to ask the gentlemen who now enjoy monopolistic advantages to do is to match their brains against the brains of those who will then compete with them.
If there is any meaning in the things I have been urging, it is this: that the incubus that lies upon this country is the present monopolistic organization of our industrial life.
When I am fighting monopolistic control, therefore, I am fighting for the liberty of every man in America, and I am fighting for the liberty of American industry.
There is a monopolistic grab the sharing of which makes both parties better off than are men of their class elsewhere.
They are then needed only to aid a monopolistic power within the industry.
Let us see how such a system of arbitration as is here described would work in the case in which, as we have supposed, a strong trade union is dealing with a monopolistic employer.
The preservation of a sound industrial system requires that governments shall forestall injuries which the interests of the monopolistic corporation impels it to inflict.
Complete monopolies, as we have said, they are not; and yet, on the other hand, they are by no means without monopolistic power.
It may own coal mines and either operate them or control the mode of operating them, for the purpose of curbing the exactions of monopolistic owners and securing a continuous supply of fuel.
The Power of Monopolistic Trade Unions under Different Conditions.
To the extent that other forms of union have any monopolistic power the same principles apply also to them; but we shall see why it is that the pools which the law forbids have little of this power and the corporations have much of it.
On the other hand, a great corporation may have, at the outset, but little monopolistic power, and it may then acquire more and more of it within the original field of its operations.
The other twenty per cent of duty enables him to add a monopolistic profit to his prices.
Non-union men working during a strike are left largely in the hands of the local community, which often tolerates enough of violence to give to strikers a measure of monopolistic power.
At least, the antitrust act should be supplemented by specific prohibitions of the methods which experience has shown have been of most service in enabling monopolistic combinations to crush out competition.
This is especially true where the corporation derives a portion of its wealth from the existence of some monopolistic element or tendency in its business.
The rise of great corporations and the necessity of safeguarding the public from monopolistic abuses make necessary a careful examination into the relation of government to business.
Government aids in production by suppressing theft, violence, and fraud; by allowing individuals to engage in helpful businesses; by enforcing contracts entered into legally; and by punishing many kinds of monopolistic abuses.
The ruinous character of competition often led to monopolistic combinations which proceeded to charge the general public exorbitant rates, but which rendered poor service.
Where the open union principle is adopted, Professor Taussig points out, the closed shop is no longer a monopolistic device to shut out competition and raise wages for a small group.
Outline the present laws of your state relative to monopolistic combinations.
But although the laborer creates all wealth, the capitalist is enabled, by virtue of his monopolistic control over the instruments of production, to prevent this wealth from going entirely to the laborer.
Since the holding company and similar devices secure the chief advantages of the original trust, the word "trust" is now used to designate any closely knit combination which has monopolistic advantages.
Complete control of the supply of a commodity is rare, even for short periods, but modern business offers many instances of enterprises which are more or less monopolistic in character.
It seemed to the farmers, therefore, that the only way to avoid monopolistic abuses was for the provincial governments to own and operate a system of internal storage elevators and for the Dominion authorities to own and operate the terminals.
Their business activities have taught them many things while providing the resources for the fight that is shaping unless the whole monopolistic system lets go its stranglehold.
That is what you pray for every day, but you do not believe it possible for God's will to be done on earth as it is done in heaven--that is, you do not if you are like the competitive and monopolistic people we once were.
In the competitive and monopolistic times men spent half their days in racing back and forth across our continent; families were scattered by the chase for fortune, and there was a perpetual paying and repaying of visits.
There is no danger of the decay of patriotism among us; our country is our mother, and we love her as it is impossible to love the step-mother that a competitive or monopolistic nation must be to its citizens.
Their forces were met at the frontier by our entire population in arms, and full of the martial spirit bred of the constant hostilities of the competitive and monopolistic epoch just ended.
The proletariate, in the competitive and monopolistic time, used to make a kind of shoes for the proletariate, or the women of the proletariate, which looked like fine shoes of the best quality.
Almost from the moment of the Evolution the competitive andmonopolistic centres of population began to decline.
Thus the owners of fertile lands near a large city have an advantage over the owners of less fertile lands far removed from markets, which is of a monopolistic nature.
Attempts have also been made to apply this principle to secure an annulment of the charter of corporations which engage in monopolistic combinations.
They should belong to the nation, accessible on the same terms to all who need them, without giving monopolistic advantage to any.
They make light of the alleged economies of combination and view the whole trust movement as the offspring of monopolistic greed and the profit-hunger of the promoter and high financier.
The family is the source of all monopolistic instincts, and your reign of moonshine brotherhood can never be brought to pass until you destroy monogamic marriage.
Greed, commercialism, competition and the monopolistic instincts are the cause of all this crime and misery and confusion.
That Mr. Sousa, or rather the majority of composers, have been sold out by their publishers to this monopolistic octopus, the AEolian Co.
The AEolian Company is a ten-million-dollar concern whose monopolistic game has already been uncovered in several courts, as I will show by proofs, and the music publishers are here to pull its chestnuts out of the fire.
The monopolistic practice of taking more than the usual rate of returns on capital merely because there exists the power to take it, is universally condemned as inequitable.
Inasmuch as overcapitalisation has frequently enabled monopolistic concerns to obtain unjust profits, and always presents a strong temptation in this direction, it should be legally prohibited.
Whenever the charges imposed by monopolistic concerns upon their products are higher than those that would have prevailed under competition, the surplus gains are obviously to that extent not due to superior efficiency.
The attempt will be made to give competition a fair opportunity to prevent both monopolistic control of products and monopolistic fixing of prices.
In so far as any of these conditions is not met, the monopolistic concern has no right to surplus gains of any sort.
Present day moral theologians lay down the same doctrine, and in addition condemn the characteristic monopolistic methods as unjust.
The Question of Monopolistic Efficiency So much for the moral principle.
In substance his view is that, while no corporation should be permitted to control the greater part of any product, monopolistic price-agreements should be sanctioned and regulated by law.
Monopolistic corporations have as good a right, generally speaking, to profit by the "unearned increment" of land as competitive concerns.
To be sure, there are certain kinds of land which are so scarce and so concentrated that they do fall under true monopolistic control.
It all means that our "government" will not be of force or of authoritarianism, but simply public conveniences and needs regularly secured, without being farmed out by franchise laws tomonopolistic corporations for their benefit.
It is in connection with the monopolistic restriction of 1603 that Macaulay says that the state must have reaped a large reward from the prior right of the postmasters to hire horses to travellers.
The advantage so afforded for the control of seditious correspondence led to the monopolistic proclamations of the closing years of the sixteenth and the opening years of the seventeenth century.
At the same time the old monopolisticconditions were virtually reestablished, for rival steamship lines were excluded from the agreement.
Government's monopolistic proclamation the result of an attempt to discover treasonable correspondence.
The change to a revenue-paying basis tended naturally to emphasize the monopolistic character of the government service.
An attempt was made to amend the Telegraph Act so as to confer specifically upon the department monopolistic control over telephonic communication, but the amendment failed to receive the sanction of the House of Commons.
The usual monopolistic powers, hitherto granted by proclamation, were embodied in the first act of Parliament, establishing the postal system for England, Ireland, and Scotland in 1657.
In the largest sense, it was a self-contained property; with its monopolisticcontrol of a huge territory, rich in basic wealth and still in a period of healthy and continued growth.
He did not hesitate to put the screws upon the territory wherein his road was a purely monopolistic carrier.
Instead of being, as it is to-day, largely upon the monopolistic basis.
Worse, aye, worse than the Demon Rum, is the machinations which puts the power of government into the monopolistic hands of capital and bids the workingman earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
Told 'em the same old story, Cumrad—how the monopolistic classes has combined with the hell hounds of the law to grind us pore men down.
It opposed no positive action to the making of monopolistic contracts and to the formation of combinations, but declared them to be illegal and provided for their prosecution and punishment after the mischief had been done.
But the evils of railroad discrimination and of other monopolistic practices continued, and for some cause the common law was not enforced, excepting occasionally, disconnectedly, and without important results.
There are traces of these practices in ancient times, and the history of the Middle Ages is full of evidences both of monopolistic practices and of the efforts to prevent or control them.
Some of the enterprises here included have much and others probably have little or no monopolistic power.
Footnote 3: Not to be confused with a trust in the sense of a monopolistic enterprise, with which it has no connection except by mere verbal accident, through the word trust.
If monopolistic prices were too high, another company was chartered to build a parallel railroad or another horse-car line on the next street, or to lay down another set of gas pipes in the same block.
Several courses are open to the public, acting in its political capacity, to retain those monopolistic advantages for the general welfare.
At least, the anti-trust act should be supplemented by specific prohibitions of the methods which experience has shown have been of most service in enabling monopolistic combinations to crush out competition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monopolistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
