Why did the committee of public safety consider monopoly to be such a serious crime?

"Having competitionmeans the prices will be competitive. The MORE competitionthe harder it is to keep prices artifically high. They wanted fair business, a level playing field. 
If one single group/person controlled a website portion of business, the profits drastically tilted in their favor"

Delaware, pennsylvania, new jersey, georgia, connecticut, massachusetts bay, maryland, south carolina, new hampshire, virginia, new york, north carolina, and rhode island and providence plantations where the 13 original colonies

Where’s the map ? ? post it