Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-05-24
Than the Annual Products Of Ohio
Farmers Are Worth.
(Specia! Correspondence

COlulnDus, May 24-AltnOugn Tor
mer Attorney General Monnett is no
longer in Office, he has by no means
given up his fight against the trusts.
He says things every day or two which
probably make Mark Hanna vince a
bit. Last evening he consented to the
publication of the following inter-
view:
''One of the remedies that would
have fully protected the State from
the humiliating spectacle of being over.
ridden, shaken down and trampled up
on by the Standard OIL trust would
have been the passage of the Russell
bill by the Legislature.
"This bill, IL 1t had become a law,
would expressly have exempted every
witness from eliminating himself for
any testimony he might give against
the offending corporation, but it was
an open secret that the leaders, self
constituted and otherwise, forced this
law into the hands Of a hostile com.
mittee.
"Why were the Republican State
and National officials and the leaders
of the Republican Legislature unit
in defeating the Russell billf' was
asked.
IF you will tell me why tho same
crowd in the Legislature refused to
pass the bin regulating the charges
made by telephone companies, refused
to fix a maximum price for shipping
oil through pipe lines, but left tele-
phone companies, freight line compan-
les and pipe line companies TO exploit
the public at will, you can answer this
question yourself.
take the Buckeye Pipe Line COM
pany; 1t being common CARRIERS
subject to Legislative control fol-
charges it makes. 1t charges 81 pei
ton for shipping oil through its pipe
lines, short or long distances. This Ii
500 times as much per barrel as the
water company in any city In tho
State charges for transporting watel
from five to ten miles, or, compared
with freight rates Of coal, and coal Il
loaded and unlonded as low as roul
mills per ton per mile. Yet with al
this evidence before the Legslatur,
it was hushed up; the pipe line bill
was defeated by Republican vote.
1--WE punish every other law violator
even to a sentence in the penitentiary
II he takes S35 or more. A man tha
takes Il chicken or i pig out of barr
, after dark wears the striped suit an'
pounds sand over here behind the wal
of the pen, from one to five years, u
; vindicate the majesty OF the law
+, This Que trust upiawfully eStort
, from the oil producer and oil consuiu
1 or In the State OF Ohio, over ana abov
: the natural profit, TO help pay an 8
per cent annual dividend on Wal
Street, sum sufficient 10 buy ever
mig and chicken, every bushcl OF corn
wheat and oats realised in Ohio annau
ally. and we, as Republicans, have Z
meet this Issue this fall, for VIC prom
Used IN our platform to give the pee
plo rclief from trusts.
, "Thcy asked for relief, and we CAV
|. them bondage, They asked for contrc
X OIL freight rates, and a unanimous vot
Il % the Republican committee of III
House ignored the thousands OF pet
@ tions sent in from the holesalc grocer
!. throughout the State. They listene
Il to the Standard OIL gaugers' protes
}. against regulating pipe line charge
> These We're State issues, and we wi
be held responsible for our conduct.