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Commissioner Smith vs. The Standard Oil Co. .From titf Railway World, January 3. 1908, incut, and should kivt known that ill lx-tetit rat had not been Mod, (2) no answer, (3) iti Chicago nd Eastern Illinois rate u wrt ret becaus ft road, nut from Waning, but from Dol ton, whliili 1 described M "n village of about 1300 population Just, outside of Chlcgao. II only claim to not 1 that II but been for ninny year Ui point of origin for this and similar secret rutoe." The Uoininlloiior admits In da scribing tbla rat that there was a noU attached stating that tba rata could alao ba used from Wblting. , - I'ba press hal quit generally ballad this statement of lha CoiuutUaloner of Corporation aa a conoluaiva refuta- tlon of what la avldently reoognlred a lha tronget rebuttal argument advanc ed by tha Standard. - In faot, 11 ia aa week and Inooncluslv aa tba remainder of bia argument. Th line of lha Chicago and Eastern lilllnola do not run luto Chkago. They trml- nata at Dolton, from whloh point an trance ia mad . ovr th Pelt Lin. Milting, wber tha oil freight origi nate, ia not on tba line of tba Chicago and Eastern Illinois, whlob receives it Whiting freight from tha Bait Una at Dolton. Tba former practice, now dis continued, in filing tariff waa to mak them read from a point on tba lina of tha filing road, tod ft waa alao general to state on tha aama sheet, that tba tariff would apply to other polnta, a. g., Whiting. The Chicago and Eastern Il linois followed tbla practice In filing iU rata from Dolton, and making a not on tha abort that it applied to Whiting. Tbla waa in ISM when Uiia method of filing tariff waa In common uaa. Kow kit u see in what way tba In tending ahipper of olJ could ba mlalod and deceived by tba faot that the Chica go and Eastern Illinois bad not filed a rata reading from Whiting. Commission Smith oonlenda that "concealment ia tha only motive for such a elrouitoua ar rangement," 1. e., that tbla method of of filing tba rate waa intended to nil lead intending competitors of tha Stand ard Oil 'Company. Suppose a in a pro spective oil refiner bad applied to tb Intratt Commerce Commission for tba rata from Cbioago to East St Louii over tha Chicago and Eastern Illinois, ha would have been informed that the only rate filed with the commission by rebuttal arjrument la extremely weak, this company was 6 14 cents from Dolton although aa strong, no doubt, aa the clr- and be would have been further inform cumstanree would warrant. Ha answer el. If indeed ba did not know thla el tha polnta mada by President Moffett ready, that tbla, rata applied tbroujfh substantially aa followai (1) Tha Stand-Jout Chicago territory. So that whether ard Oil Company bad a trafflo depart- ha wished to locate hla plant at Vhlt- Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, wlioaa eal in tha eaus of couomlo reform bal been in no wis abated by the patilo which be and his kind did 0 much to bring on, Is out with an answer to IM aldnnl Mof fat, of tha Ntamlnrd Oil Company of Indlitna. Tha publication of thla answer, H is ollktally glveu out, waa delayed several weeks, "for business reasons," becatiM it waa not di-emed advisable to further xH Oia public mind, "which was profoundly disturbed by the crisis. No (hat tho storm clouds have rolled by, iowever, tha Commissioner ruha again Into th fray. Our readora remember that th chief polnta in tba defnoe of th Standard Oil Company, as presented by president Moffett, were, (1) that the rut of aU wuts on oil from WMtlng to East St. lxuU bad been Issued to tha Standard Oil Company aa the lawful rat by mploye of tba Alton, (8) that th 18 cant rata on file with the Intemtat Commerce CommUalon was a claaa and not a commodity rat, never being In tended to apply to oil, (3) that oil waa shipped In Urge quantities between Vblltng and Eat St. Louie over th Chicago and Kastcrn Illinois at tlx and on fourth cent per hundred pounda, which baa been Died with tha InterslaU Commerce Commission a th lawful rat, and (4) that the 18 cent rate on oil waa entirely out of proportion to law ful rate on other com modi Uee between tbesa polnta of a almllar character, and of greater value, am,, for example, aa Unseed oil, the lawful rate on which waa M,t mnt. President Moffett alao tated that thousands of ton of freight bad been aent by other shippers between the point under subaUntlalty the am condition aa governed toe snip menta of the Standard Oil Company. Thla defence of the Standard Oil Com pany waa widely quoted and baa un doubtedly exerted a powerful influence upon th publlo mind. Naturally tha adlnilnlstratlon, whit baa staked the success of its campaign against the "trusts" upon the result of It atlaok Von thla company, aodcavora to offact thla Influence, and bene the new de liverance of Commissioner Smith. We need nardly to point out that his ing, or anywhere els about Chicago, un der an arrangement of long standing, and whluli applies to all th industrial towns in the nelgbltorbood of Chicago, he oould have hi freight delivered over th Delt Lin to the Chicago and KasUirn Illinois at Dolton and transported to Kiist St, Louis at a rate of 0 1-4 cent. Were then ia the conofalment whlcb. the Commissioner of Corporations make ao muih off Any rate from Dolton on th Kastcrn Illinois of Chupiell on the Alton, or Harvey on tha Illinois Central or lllue Island on the Rock Island, ap plies throughout Chicago tei Jtory to shipments from YVbltlng. as to ship ment from any other point In the dis trict So far from tho Eastern Illinois filing it rat from Dolton in order to deoelv th shipper, It Is th Commission er of Corporations who either betray Me gross ignorance of transportation cue tome in Chicago territory or relies on the publlo Ignorance of these cuntoms to deceive the publlo too apt to accept unjiiet!oii!ng!y every statement made by a Government official a necessarily true, although, a In tha present instance, a careful examination aliow th state ments to be false. The final point made by President Moffott that other commodities of a character similar to oil were carried at much lower rate than 18 eenta, tha Commissioner of Corporation discuasea only with the remark that "the 'reason ableness' of this rat (a not in ques tion. Ilia question is whether this rat constituted a discrimination a against other shipper of oil" and be also make much of tli failure of Preehlent Moffett to produce before the grand jury evi dence of the alleged illegal acta of which the Standard Oil official aaid that other shipper In th territory bad been guilty. Considering the fact that thee shippers Included the packers and elevator men of Chicago th action of the grand jury in calling upon President Moffett to furnish evidence of their wrong-doing may ba Interpreted aa a demand for an elaboration of the obvious j but the fact that a rate-book containing these freight rate for other shippers waa offered in evidence during th trial and ruled out by Judg Land! waa kept out of eight. President Moffett would not, of course, accept the invitation of the grand jury although he might have been pardoned if he had referred them to various official Investigations by the Interstate. Com merce Commission and other depart mcnta of the Government. Vie come back, therefore, to the con clusion of the whole matter, which ia tlittti the Standard Oil Company of In diana was fined an amount equal to seven or eight time the value of ita entire property, because it traffic department did not verly th statement of the Al' ton rate clerk, that the six-cent com modity rata on oil bad been properly Hied iwitb tha , Interstate Commerce Commission. Thero is no evidence, and none was introduced at the trial, that any ahipper of oil from Chicago territory had been Intered with by th 18-cent rate nor that the failure of the Alton to file Its six-cent rate bad resulted in any discrimination against any Inde pendent shipper, we must take this on th word of th Commissioner of Corpo rations and of Judge Landis. Neither U it denied even by Mr. Smith that the "independent" shipper of oil, whom be pictures as being driven out of business by thla discrimination of the Alton, eould have shipped all the oil be devir&d to ship from Whiting via Dolton over the linaa of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois T.. - a, T T- -I . t Moffett' defence la still good, and we predict will be so declared by th blghei. court. . , Th Standard Oil Company has been charged with all manner of crime and misdemeanor. Beginning with th fa mous Eioe of Marietta, passing down to that apostle of popular liberties, Henry DemareHt Lloyd, with hia Wealth Against the Commonwealth, descending by easy stages to Mis TarbeU's offensive per sonalities, Tie finally reach th nether depths of unfair and baseless misrepre sentation in the report of the Commis sioner of Corporations. The Standard ba been charged with every frm of com mercial piracy and with moat of the crimes on the corporation calendar. After long yeans of atrenuou attack, under the lcaderwhip of the President of the United States, the corporation is at last dragged to the bar of justice to answer for it misdoings. The whole strength of the Government is directed against it, andftrt last, we are told, the Standard Oil Company is to pity the penalty of k crime, and it ia finally convicted of having failed to verify the statement of a rate clerk and i forthwith fined a prodigious sum, measured by tie car. Under the old 'criminal law, the theft of property worth more than shilling waa punishable by death. Under the interpretation of the Interstate Com merce law by Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Ken saw Landis. a technical erf or of a traffic official is made the excuse for the confiscation of a vast amount of projerty. , . . , HEMNGTON'S TABLETS ABSOLUTELY CURE f-, A JAPANESE TOILET. Th Demur Brown Maiden In Her Holiday Attire. Tb Japan? collfRo girl entertained th fudiie party with oriental rcmi hlacencea. "On every holiday," she said, "th Japanese maiden must rise and bav ber toilet flutabod before the uu look over Fujiyama, our sacred mountain. ."And wbat toilet! The long, coarse Mack troase are waabed, combed aud greased till tb bead shines like a knob of polished black innrble. The chocks are rouged a fin pink. Tba throat, neck and bosom aro powdered, but at tb nape of the neck tber are left three line of the original brown kin, In accordance with the rule of Japnncso cosmetic art K'Wllb chnrcoal ibe rounda and lengineni her eyebrows. 8b redden aer lips wun cuorrj piiate, whuuk gilt diamond to the center of the pout ing lower Up. Sbo puts on eight fresh garment, and she tics ber obi, or gront sash. In a symbolical knot Uor socks abo doesn't wonr itocklugs are very white and Dure, and ber clow are lucquered till they slilno like a allk hat . "Now she Is ready to sot out She fills her silk tolmcco pouch, thrusts her plpo In ber girdle, puts nix pnpor band: kerchiefs up her wide hhYi and ent iles, forth, turuiug ber toca In aud wav ing her fun with a demure grace." Lo Angeles Times. Special Announcement Regarding th i National Pur Food and Drug Law v nleaaed to announce that Foley'a Honey and Tar for cough, coldi and lung troublea I not' affected by the National Pur Food and Drug law as It contain no opiates or other barnUui renommend it a a safe 1nr MilMran and adult. T. F. Laurln, Owl Drug Store. - : Tl, jmfnrnMnent of th land loWS lost vear restored a million and a quar- , in f.h nubile ramre, The men w - w , whose illegal fences were removed object to the present land policy. Lane' Family Medicine cannot save all doctor bills, but can aav a good ehara of them. On two-hilling pack age bos kept a whole family in good health for a year. ' " , Morning Astorlan, 80 cents per month .delivered by carrier. A ROYAL DENTIST. ' " The Story of a Tooth Pulling by Pstar the Great Petor tbo Great particularly delight ed In drawing teeth, and he strictly enjoined bis aorvnuts to send for him when auythlnjr of that sort was to be done. One day his favorite valot ue chambre socnicd very melancholy. Tbe czar RHkod him what wn tho matter. "Oh, your majesty," snld tha man, "my wife la suffering the greatest ag ony from toothache, and she obstinate ly rcfiiHcs to have tbe tooth taken out" "If (tint la all, anld rotcr, "we win aoou euro It. Take me to her at once." When thuy arrived tho wornnn de clared that alio was not suffering nt all; thero wna nothing the matter with her. "Thut la tho way abe tnlta, your majesty," snld the vnlct "She Is suf fering tortures." "Hold her head aud minds," saiu tne czar. "1 win unvo ic out hi a mmuie. And bo Instantly pulled out tho Indi cated tooth with great dexterity, amid profuso thauks from tho husband. Wbat was Peter's Indignation to dis cover a llttlo later tnni uis vniei nuu used him as an exocutlonor to punish his wife, who hnd never had an un sound tooth In her boad. Argonaut Bridge Whist At least 00 per t or tne RRra ot bridge lies In the mnke. A poor pluyer loses tricks aud often the frame and rubber by bis play, but so many IiiiuiIh occur lu which there la really no pluy that such lexises are comparatively un important compared with the havoc wrought by an Injudicious maker, for constantly his declslou Is Invoked when the safety of the enmo or Its success lies In his judgment of the value or bis hand. To cliooso between hearts or diamonds aud no trumps, to select clubs rather than spades, to kuow whou a live card suit Is safe nnd when one of four cards should Ix chosen, above all to keep no uurelnx lug attention Upon the state of the Score, with Its shifting dumnnds-nll these are tho sterling qualities of a good maker. , Onue sensible that yon are locking In ony such respect you will find your game appreciably strengthened by attention and study. "Good Bridge." How to Avoid Appendicitis. Mloat victlma of appendicitis are those who are habitually constipated. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup cures chronlo con- stitpation by stimulating tb .liver and bowel and restore th natural action of tba bowels. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does not nauseat or grip and la mild and pleasant to take. Refuse substitute. T. R. 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The common fluency of speech In many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words, for whoever is a master of language and bath & mind fu'iyf Ideas will be apt la speaking to hesitate up on the choice of both, whereas com mon speakers have only one set of Ideas and one set of words to clothe them In, and these are always ready at tbe mouth, so people come faster out of church, when It Is almost empty than when a crowd Is at the door. Dean Swift ' 1 If all of the defects exist in our navy! that critics allege, it is remarkable that Admiral Evans reached 'Brazil with bis ships. But be did. ' Read the Morning Astorlan. We ave isfed for TIMBER LANDS, FARMS, CITY LOTS; HOUSES, AND ALL KINDS OF REAL ESTATE ,1W! We 172 TENTH STREET. hm0 ASTORIA, OREGON
