The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-05-30

rate. The ore carrying business, which
in ordinary seasons for,,this vicinity alone,
amounts to S40,000,000, with 5000, 600
| profit to the carriers is now absolutely
absorbed by the great Standard oil mag
nate. The owner of n fleet of sixteen
| vessels. centering at this port, declared
Monday that he does not consider his
boats worth ham sandwich. He be.
lieves that all vessel owners who have
nothing but their vessel interests are al
ready ruined
| But this is rot by any means all that
is comprehended in the vasv Rockefeller.
Carnegie deal. 1t is, in fact, the applica-
ton of the Outrageous schemes of the
Standard oil monopoly to the great iron
and coal industry of the United States as
we'll as the carrying business of the lakes.
The contract which has been made be-
tween Rockefeller and Carnegie for carry
ing ore is not for a single season. It con.
templates by it's long continuance the alb
solute destruction of all who would com
pete. Mr.. Carnegie controls the Conneaut
&: Pittsburg railroad, which runs through
the rich fields of the New York and Chi
cago Gas Coal Company. BY the rates
for hauling coal and ore which Mr. Rookie.
Teller has made, taken together with the
enormous size of the Carnegie plant, it
Is possible to manufacture iron at a much
less rate than anyone else. All the small
furnaces, foundres and steel plants in
the country are as surely to be crushed
out as have been already the small oil re-
liners. Coal miners and carriers will
not be permitted to compete with this
gigantic combination in the coal trade
any more than steam Loaf lines and rail-
roads Will be permitted to do the hauling
The far reaching nature of this gigantic
combination can be seen when it is stated
that it is as much larger than the Stand
ard oil trust as Il barrel of oil is larger
than grease spot. The plan of the
Standard Oil Company has always been
t" make prices SO low as to destroy COM
petition and to maintain them at this low
rate until everybody is thoroughly dis
couraged. If competition again starts
up, the same tactics are again pursued
and crushing out process again takes
place.
The excitement here among vessel
men is very intense. This excitement is
lnst.beginning to spread to the coal. and
iron trades, where men are just begin.
ming to see the import of the tremendous
movement that is on foot. Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter was Monday denounced by large
vessel owner as a human gorilla. Said
this gentleman, who feels that he IL on
the verge of ruin through the Rockefeller
movement: "Tns is not business. 1t is
no competition in any hore humane
fashion. 1t is simply conquest. 1t
ought not to be tolerated any more than
the movements of Napoleon in Europe,
which practically came to the same thing
Mr.. Rockefeller should he banished to
st. Helena, the same as the first Napoleon
was"
The import of this movement on the
part of John ID. Rockefeller and Andrew
Carnegie can scarcely he estimated at the
present time. 1t certainly means an alb
solute revolution in the three great in
dustres. the carrying trade, the iron and
coal business.
The effect upon the city of Cleveland
AMI upon the smaller towns upon Lake
Erie is sure to be disastrous. -Cleveland
Ohio Recorder.