We are told that the way to govern trusts is to untrammel competition.
But the way to untrammel competition is not to try to untrammel it in its details with lists of things men shall not do.
This is cumbersome.
We would probably find it very much more convenient in specifying 979 detailed things trusts cannot do, if we could think of certain sum-totals of details.
Then we could deal with the details in a lump.
The best sum totals of details in this world that have ever been invented yet, are men.
We will pick out a man who has a definite, marked character, who is a fine, convenient sum-total that any one can see, of things not to do.
We will pick out another man in the same line of business who is a fine, convenient sum-total of things that people ought to do.
The government will find ways, as the Coach of Business as the Referee of the Game for the people, to stand by this man until he whips the other, drives him out of business or makes him play as good a game as he does.