Standard Oil and the Rule of Reason

In 19 o six, ida tarbell left mc clure's. Tarbell kept investigating issues that were related to business in the us. She published the tariff in our times which chronicled 50 years of a practice that she described as a defeat of the popular will. In 19 16, president woodrow wilson offered tarbell a position on the federal tariff commission. But by that point, she had ved on from tariffs, and she wasn't really interested, so she turned the offer down.