Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-30
OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900
LOCKWOOD's ROAST
Of the Standard Oil Company ana
Railways Before the Indus
trial Commission.
NO CHANCE FOR lNDEPEND-
ENTS.

ENTS.
Combine of the Big Trusts and the Com
mon Carriers Smashes All Opposition,
Lockwood Says-He Also Declares the
Courts Under the Control of the Combine
Managers aud Specifies Case THAT De-
Demands Contradiction.
Washington, June 19.-The feature
of Saturday IS session of the industrial
commission was the testimony of L.
M. Lockwood, an independent oil pro-
Queer of Pennsylvania. He denounced
the Standard Oil company and rail-
road officials as highwaymen. ''If you
have got to be robbed" he declared,
sit does not matter much whe ether you
are held up by Dick Turpin with a
pistol or by John Rockefeller with
railroad; it is robbery all the same. )"
He declared that the Standard Oil had
driven the independent retineries into
bankruptcy and seryitude, and he de-
nounced the course pursued in severe
terms. He held the railroads especi-
ally responsible for this condition of
affairs. They had carried Standard
Oil products at less than half the price
charged to the Independent retineries.
He quoted A. A. Cassatt, the new
president of the Pennsylvania railroad
as testifying before the interstate rail-
way commission to the effect that.
while the open rate to the public was
$1.90 per barrel, the rate to the STAN
dard company was so cents.
MAKES AN ATTACK ON THE COURTS.
Further Investigation, he said, had
shown that the Standard actually
paid but IS cents, thus giving that
company profit of 400 per cent. and
driving into bankruptcy the independ-
ent companies. He said that men who
had carefully analysed the testimony
taken by the Hepburn committee esti-
mated that in 1856 months time the
five trunk lines of Pennsylvania had
paid the Standard company s11,OOo,-
600 in rebates. Speaking of the rene
dy for the evil Lockwood said it was
in public ownership of the railroads
and it was not to be found in the
courts-the courts were too slow and
expensive. He added: "The combines
elevate their instruments to higher
places politically. Thus it was that
the thought of the common people was
gradually becoming fixed to the effect
that the great railway combines were
gradually packing the supreme courts
with men in sympathy with their mo-
nopolistic tendencies and who would
do their bidding"
COMPANIES CARE NOT FOR THE LAW.
eff the railroad companies can con-
troll the appointment of the attorney
general and of justices of the supreme
court, what do they care for the law"
the witness asked. He considered all
the railroads of the country as prac-
tically one gigantic trust and asserted
that they were in control of our poll
tics, contributing millions to elect
legislators, senators and judges and to
punish those not willing to do their
bidding. If the government did not
control the railways, the railways
would control the government. He
advocated the taking of the roads I'M
der the right of eminent domain, pay
ing the owners the actual value of
their property.
MAKES A SPECIFIC ACCUSATION,
In the course of his statement, Lock
wood alleged that Judge Albert Haight
of the New York court of appeals, had
been elevated to his position by the
corporations, through the use of cor.
ruption fund. THIS statement elected
strong protest from Farquhar, of the
commission, who as nearneighbor OF
Judge Haight declared him to be one
OF the purest men he had ever known.
Major Farquhar appealed to the com
mite to eXpunge the testimony from
the record, declaring that twas not
testimony, but pure libel. Commits
sioner Bell demanded that evidence
given by witnesses should stand as
they had given it. He declared if a
witness believed public official had
been elevated to his position through
fraud, he ought not to be barred from
saying so before the commission, as he
did not regard a man as sacred be-
cause of the office he might hold. Phil
lips, who was presiding at the session,
held that the evidence was competent
if Lockwood desired it to stand.
Summary OF DOVES FIGURES.
In his statement before the com
mission Friday, President C. e. Dove,
of the Commercial Travellers associ-
alton, submitted figures to show that
the organization of the trusts had re-
suited in throwing 81, 900 statesmen out
of employment and in reducing the
salaries of $4,000 more. He estimated
that the annual loss to the statesmen