If any person, company, partnership, association, corporation, or agent engaged in the manufacture or sale of any article of commerce or consumption produced, manufactured, or mined in this state or elsewhere shall, with the intent and purpose of driving out competition or for the purpose of financially injuring competitors, sell within this state at less than cost of manufacture or production or sell in such a way, or give away, in this state their productions for the purpose of driving out competition or financially injuring competitors engaged in similar business, then the person, or persons, company, partnership, association, corporation, or agent resorting to this method of securing a monopoly within this state in such business shall be deemed guilty of a conspiracy to form or secure a trust or monopoly in restraint of trade and on conviction shall be subjected to the penalties of this subchapter.