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. , . . ,
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Th Demur Brown Maiden In Her
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Tb Japan? collfRo girl entertained
th fudiie party with oriental rcmi
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Japanese maiden must rise and bav
ber toilet flutabod before the uu look
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."And wbat toilet! The long, coarse
Mack troase are waabed, combed aud
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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
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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. ' " ,
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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
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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
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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
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Score, with Its shifting dumnnds-nll
these are tho sterling qualities of a
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"Good Bridge."
How to Avoid Appendicitis.
Mloat victlma of appendicitis are those
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stitpation by stimulating tb .liver and
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Stow. - r'V 'y-'J ;;,": y'
There isn't much doubt that the visit
of Admiral Evans in South America
will produce an impression fully aa deep
as that mads by Secretary Root. "
Disturbed th Congregation.
Th person who disturbed tb con.
gregation last Sunday by continually
oouchlnff 1 requested to bur a bottle
of Foley's Honey and Tar. T. F. Laurln,
Owl Drug Store. : ;
S I" y-'M -! ' I ' ' 'i
' In land-fraud cases, aa In other mat
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Th Victorian English.
Tb Euglnnd which spoke the lan
guage which was already dying In the
elghteen-slxtes was before all things
a world of the country. The sights and
sounds of nature played a tar greater
part In the lives of tbe mass of the
people than they do today. This is re
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which birds and animals were spoken
of nnd tho names given them. I have
myself once or twice heard old people
In tbe country speak of tho hen as
"Dame rartlot" One Is familiar with
the phrase from books, of course It Is
Chaucer 'Tortolette' but once or
twice a a child I actually beard it 1
suppose It would be Impossible to bear
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Ms. E. E. Chamberlain, of Clinton.
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Applied it to an old sore and it healed
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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. '
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