(University of Oregon, 1946-06) Bruhn, Dorothy Alice
At the outset it became evident that the roots of the Act are buried deep in ‘the sibylline leaves’ and the agitation which brought it into being in 1890 was but an echo of the distant cry which had been raised, in the crooked little lanes of London’s markets in the fifth century. Colepepper protested against the monopolists in the Long Parliament: “they sit by our fires; we find them in the dye-fat, the wash bowls and the powdering tub. They share with the cutler in his box. They have marked and scaled us from head to foot.” This proclamation of dissatisfaction marched to the same measure of thought which prompted Thurman Arnold to cry out against the “economic toll bridges” which have been familiar features of American life since Ida Tarbell wrote the history of the Rockefeller dynasty.
