Excerpt from Control of the Market: A Legal Solution of the Trust Problem I have been advocating for many years the regulation of the trusts by law, rather than the persistence in the attempt to destroy by law these aggregations Of capital. For I have come to believe in the control by the State Of all businesses which have outgrown the regulation Of competition. I do not mean by this that the State should undertake to order the conduct Of all businesses, which it is apparent would be one form Of socialism. Regulation Of this extreme sort will be con fined to those businesses which are affected with a public interest. But it seems certain that other businesses than those now within this classification will eventually be brought within it. And the thesis will be defended in these pages that all businesses which have a virtual monopoly, firmly established in the nature of things, are so affected with a public interest as to be within the class Of callings which are considered public em ployments. What branches Of industry will. 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.