<P> Dilorenzo writes: "Protectionists did not want prices paid by consumers to fall . But they also understood that to gain political support for high tariffs they would have to assure the public that industries would not combine to increase prices to politically prohibitive levels . Support for both an antitrust law and tariff hikes would maintain high prices while avoiding the more obvious bilking of consumers ." </P> <P> The criticism of antitrust law is often associated with conservative politics . For example, conservative legal scholar, judge, and failed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork was well known for his outspoken criticism of the antitrust regime . Another conservative legal scholar and judge, Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit does not condemn the entire regime, but expresses concern with the potential that it could be applied to create inefficiency, rather than to avoid inefficiency . Posner further believes, along with a number of others, including Bork, that genuinely inefficient cartels and coercive monopolies, the target of the act, would be self - corrected by market forces, making the strict penalties of antitrust legislation unnecessary . </P> <P> Conversely, liberal Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas criticized the judiciary for interpreting and enforcing the antitrust law unequally: </P> <P> "From the beginning it (the Sherman Act) has been applied by judges hostile to its purposes, friendly to the empire builders who wanted it emasculated...trusts that were dissolved reintegrated in new forms...It is ironic that the Sherman Act was truly effective in only one respect, and that was when it was applied to labor unions . Then the courts read it with a literalness that never appeared in their other decisions ." </P>

Which of the following is a provision of the sherman act​