The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-03-05

.el factory in ! 10 erect the largest bar
IS CHECK f,. country. 1t has drawn
,iyal. II bpvs 81 po'ooo to suppress a
rude oil year. al ',''' oarreis OF
md makes sneci,1 price fixed by itself. /
Dads for the ~, sacts with the rail
100 to 1900, 900 ba,' ''"h OF l''ooo.-
he four quarters of ), VII " year.
Toned amonp tbe mor,yiobe are parti-
I'd combinations n.. OF the Stand
# the China trade: anoth '"e eohtro!
ountry of Europe; anothe, VI some
,nited States. In New Y"' vi the :
OF buy oil for East Indian you can c
he house that has been givef = from I
can trade; reciprocally, the !. i'"io- c
o,so e ,o. .,,o, Indian Il
Europe. The Standard produt I" u
he fiftieth or sixtieth of our pet9i "iy c'
ut dictates the price of all, and H. II
Circullrs are issued; VI
rivals by which the price of oil is I'll
II all the cities Of the country, exc "
ew York, where a little competiti Al
lrvives. Such is the Indifference of tx
tandard Oil Company to railroad charges
rat the price is made the same for points
far apart as Terre Haute, Chicago.
nd keokuk. There is not to-day mer-
lant in Chicago, or in any other city in
he New England, Western, or Southern
5ates, dealing in kerosene, whose prices
e not fixed for him by the Standard
all cases these prices are graded so
at a merchant in one city cannot ex
'rt to another. Chicago, Cincinnati, or
'fveland is not allowed to supply the
d ,utary towns. That is done by the
hdard itself, which runs oil in its own
cars to all the pricipal points of dis
ltion. This corporation has driven
bankruptcy, or out of business, or
hnion with itself, all the petroleum
FRIES OF the country except five in
~ ork, and a few of little conse
~ IN Western Pennsylvania. No
oSnows how many millions Rookie
; 'els worth. Current gossip among
hlsiness acquaintance in Cleveland
pu income last year at a figure sec
: ons: if second at all, to that of Van
DER His partner. Samuel Andrews.
ther English day laborer, retired
veafu with millions. Just who the
otai Oil Company are. exactly what
theliital is. and what are their rela.
nonshe railroads, nobody knows ex-
ceptpart. Their officers refused to
testl'ore the Supreme Court of Penn
SylvAhe late New York Railroad
lh'esng Committee, and commit
tee otgress. The New York COM
hltte.nd there was nothing to be
leafhem them. and was compelled
" COZ its inability to ascertain as
m"ch desired to know "of this mys-
ter!ouAnization, whose business and |
trahS;s are of such a character that |
us mel declined giving q history or
"escrlplest their testimony be used |
TO conNem Of crime"
iheiht business capacity would |
nave III the managers of the Stand
ara s"c5ut the means by which they
achieVe'poly was by consp racy with
the rail- Mr.. Simon Sterno com,
sci 1or merchants of New York in
'he NeNrk investigation. declared
that theions of the railroads to the
'''i'oaroblted 1.-THE most shameless
per'erslo the duties of common
carrier tfate ends that has taken
place III STORY of the world" The
Standardd its rivals in brief II,
getting ttat trunk lines 70 refuse 70
give Transportation, Commodore
Fanderbihported to have said that
thefe was one man-Rockefeller-
VINO couioh tie to him. Whether or
not Eandt said if. Roclefel,er did
it. The Srd has done every tb;,,r
Will Inc 'ylvania Legislature, ex-
cep' fehhe n 1876 its organization
was brougfore Congress- and re
'erteo 10 amittee. 4 prominent
h'e'ioer vi standard, not a member
of Congressducted the farce of in
curry from ID the seat of the chair
lhah' Ahot ember of the company,
VINO was alber of Congress, came Z
WITH the iih' officer of the company +
oe'ofe the cetce, and sustained him.s.
III MS refusal tify about the orgr.
zatloli, Its ms. or its relations -. A..
the railroads committee ueyes. :. :.
poiteo. inc they suppressed i ~ +
he hunted GU ouph newspaper n,
cies, memoria, m the oil produs : +;
ana reilners, Is of law suits. repi,.,:...-
OF chambers omerce and of legiF,, -.
tive investigatjmmittees, and ot% ~.
miscellaneous IS of information. ~.
The contract print by which IT,.
Pennsylvania Rad agreed with tE
Standard, under name of the South
Improvement Cany. to double thet
freishts on oil tcrybody. but to re-
pay the Standa,ne dollar for everyf
barrel of oil it sed. and one dollars
for every barrely of its competitors
shipped. This cact was produced inN
Congress, and warmatized by r. ,re-
sentative Conger" the most damna-
bic and startling 'euce yet produced
Of the possibility aiIroad monopoly"
Ostensibly this corct was given up, in
Difference to the irlwind of indigna-
ton it excited. BUR. Rockefeller. the
manager of the Sta,rd, was man who
could learn from eat He made no
more telltale contts that could be
printed. He etfectetcret arrangements
with the PennSylva, the New YORK
Central. the Erie. the Atlantic and
Great Western. Wiiinfluences he used
to make the railroa managers pliable
may probably be gused from the fact
that one quarter of th,tock of the Acme
Oil Company, partl, in the Standard
combination, on whit heavy monthly
dividends are paid, iswned by persons
whose names Rockefeller would neve,
reveal, which Mr.. Anbold, the Presi
dent of the company. sid under oath h
had not been told, an which the
preme Court of Pennsy ania has vs.
been able to find out. he Stand
ceeded in getting iron Mr.. Va
free transportation for is crude.
the wells in Pennsylvania, one