Chapter 524: The First Major Case Since the Founding of the Nation
It is said that procedural justice is a really good thing. Sheffield wondered why the United States eventually became a paradise for the rich. This procedural justice played a very important role, even attracting many wealthy people from other countries to join in building the American dream.
It is well known that the rich people all over the world look up to the United States. It can be said that no country is an exception in this regard. This environment that is most friendly to the rich is the natural advantage of the United States, which can be used to cultivate the party of leaders in various places. As for having no money, we struggled to establish the United States, and we don't support lazy people. Don't you know that?
In a signed article published in the New Orleans Morning Post, Sheffield denounced the DuPont consortium's rumors and slander, and said that this case was a typical collusion between officials and businessmen, with the purpose of diverting the federal government's investigation of the DuPont consortium.
The shameless behavior of destroying the entire industry because of their own bad life, and the possibility of creating greater chaos and holding the federal government hostage, is not non-existent. Sheffield even publicly compared DuPont to British India, "The DuPont family felt surprisingly good about themselves when facing the investigation by the Department of Justice, just like the British Empire's British Indian colony, which was obviously a cesspool soaked in feces and urine, but was ignorant and thought it was important? Sheffield United has been at the forefront of the times for many years, and it is completely different from the DuPont Consortium that sells death for profit on a moral level."
Sheffield thought for a long time before he found a similar example among a group of countries in later generations. Given its current status, the DuPont Consortium is like a Hindustan that cannot figure out its own position for the United Company.
Whenever people think of this country, they will praise it loudly. This country has always been a trouble to the Republic, it's just that it is reliable or unreliable. When it is reliable, it is a reliable trouble, and when it is unreliable, it is an unreliable trouble.
Now that you have the ability to kill the other person, don't let go of this opportunity.
Sheffield has always claimed that the only thing worse than doing bad things is not doing bad things to the extreme. Now when facing the DuPont family, he keeps reminding himself to deal with the opponent without leaving any trouble. He cannot just tear off the opponent's emperor's new clothes, which is meaningless. The key is to break the opponent's legs.
Of course, it is not the slave owner's style not to start a map cannon at the end. Sheffield's last sarcasm was this: "Sheffield United Company will neither recognize nor care about this verdict that is obviously in collusion with the local state government. What is Delaware? It is only one percent of the land of Texas, a state administrative district the size of a booger. Who cares about it?"
The effect of the slave owners' full-scale hatred had a shocking effect in the media field of the United States. The boss of a private enterprise launched an unprecedented attack on the state government of another state, and even publicly fired a map cannon. This had never happened before.
Soon the DuPont family launched a public opinion counterattack, saying that the DuPont family was known as the death dealers, but even so, they were better than the Sheffield family because the DuPont family did not trade slaves.
Sheffield United Company was founded through the slave trade, which is a fact known to many people. It seems that this is an irrefutable black spot, and in fact it is irrefutable. So Sheffield did not respond to this matter.
It was not the New Orleans Morning Post that responded, but the Boston Globe. There is more than one giant in the United States that got its start by selling slaves. Another family that still has a great influence is the Boston First Bank family. The Lowell and Adams families were once members of this family. When the DuPont family and the Sheffield family were engaged in a war of words and began to make great strides towards the slave trade, the Boston Globe began to implicitly remind them that many companies had a dirty early history and that they should know when to stop.
What it means is that the war of words should be stopped in time, but it is ineffective. Sheffield has an absolute advantage in public opinion and has called media departments in various places. The meaning can be summed up in one sentence: news censorship.
In this country of freedom of speech, sometimes we have to make clear our stance. When the United States gained independence, it had a tradition of destroying pro-British newspapers. Sheffield is just learning from its motherland. Moreover, journalists can have conscience, but they also have to understand who pays you. Just as science has no borders, scientists have nationalities. You can chase hot topics at ordinary times, but at critical moments, these dung collectors must make their stance clear to me.
After the big boss personally called to talk about news censorship, the whirlpool of public opinion against the DuPont family became even more turbulent. If Sheffield could make people angry to death just by talking, he should have achieved his goal. Unfortunately, the war of words only has this effect, and we can't expect too much from it.
While the war of words was going on, the transportation network noose in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, through which Delaware's important railway lines must pass, was also beginning to slowly take effect. As time went by, the stockpiled raw materials were being consumed day by day, and Delaware had run out of raw materials. Without raw materials, the factory would be in danger of a shutdown, and its workers also had to work and could not sit idle.
Pierre DuPont had to start calling his friends in the railway system, but the DuPont family's weakness in not exerting its strength on the railway system was exposed. The railway giants who received the call said that they could not help because their railway transportation capacity was fully occupied. Why? The reason was of course because of the German Empire's grain reserve plan, and farmers in the Midwest and the South needed to transport grain from their farms.
The earliest farms in the United States were all located along the railroads, a fact that has existed since the Civil War. As a result, agricultural and livestock products were very conveniently transported by rail, and this convenience is finally coming in handy today.
Countless amounts of grain were loaded from farms onto trains, making the entire railway system busy. Every farmer was very excited about the powerful market of the German Empire with a population of 70 million.
The whistles on the railway line had nothing to do with the DuPont family. This prosperity concealed the increasingly difficult crisis of the DuPont Consortium. At this time, Pierre DuPont could no longer sit still. He called Coleman DuPont and used his political power to quickly investigate the Sheffield United Company in the federal court, asking the Supreme Court to put pressure on this increasingly formidable opponent.
"Has it become so difficult?" Coleman's hand trembled slightly as he held the phone. Hearing Pierre DuPont's words, he also felt the seriousness of the situation. To be honest, Coleman DuPont was able to become a member of the Republican National Committee. The power of his family must have saved him a lot of detours.
If anything happened to the duPont family, Coleman duPont's days as a member of the Republican National Committee would be numbered.
"This is the greatest crisis our family has faced since arriving in the United States. It is far greater than the Civil War. The threat from the Rockefeller family has reached a suffocating point." Pierre du Pont used the word "suffocating" to describe the fact that the noose on the railway was taking effect. It would take time to order raw materials from overseas, and this period was the most dangerous.
"Okay, I'll talk to some friends." Coleman DuPont hung up the phone worriedly, put his hands on his waist and looked out the window. The weather has been bad recently, it has been gloomy, which makes people feel uneasy.
The public opinion tsunami and the secret transportation blockade have made the DuPont family feel unprecedented danger. As a member of the DuPont family, Coleman DuPont feels that he should do something now.
But before he could take action, Attorney General Olney appeared again in the State of the Union address at the end of June and announced the results of an investigation into DuPont's unfair competition that triggered antitrust laws. The investigation found that the DuPont family had long used a variety of means, including violence, to curb the emergence of competitors, including using railroad networks and kickbacks to reduce costs and increase manufacturing costs for competitors, intimidation and threats, and suspected of being the perpetrator of several bombings.
"The most shocking thing is that when investigating the Delaware tax reduction bill nine years ago, the Delaware State House was bought by DuPont. We already have sufficient evidence to prove that the DuPont family's abnormal competition harmed the rights of citizens. Bribing the state legislature, especially the last tax reduction bill, is a shocking corruption case." Olney said worriedly under the gaze of congressmen, "A company can use money to make the local state government pass a bill that is beneficial to itself to get through the crisis. This challenges the perception of citizens."
Attorney General Olney, who appeared in Congress again, gave the congressmen a big surprise. He then proved that efficiency was not only found in the Delaware courts, but the Department of Justice could also be very efficient. He directly announced, "The Assistant Attorney General has reported the results of the investigation to the Supreme Court. We will quickly prosecute the DuPont Consortium for abnormal competition."
Olney spoke as if he was reporting on his work, presenting evidence one by one and then leaving the stage, which surprised many congressmen.
When the news came, many newspapers that had been ordered by slave owners to censor the news finally caught wind of the incident and reported it with shocking headlines: "The Biggest Case in the History of the United States!" This was the headline of many newspapers.
(End of this chapter)
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