"The first essential in determining how to deal with the great industrial combinations is knowledge of the facts -- publicity. In the interest of the public, the government should have the right to inspect and examine the workings of the great
corporations engaged in interstate business. Publicity is the only sure remedy which we can now invoke. What further remedies are needed in the way of
governmental regulation, or
taxation, can only be determined after publicity has been obtained, by process of law, and in the course of administration. The first requisite is knowledge, full and complete -- knowledge which may be made public to the world."
