Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-02-17

Is we'll exempli6ed In the following
account OF the telegram from john
ID. Archbold, of the Standard On
company to Senator Quay. This Is
one OF the men who lash the oil
producers into line to drill at 81
ne, barrel when conditions justify
higher prices. Sometime some OF
these audacious millionaires will go
a step too far In their usurpation OF
the peoples rights and then
Telegram From Standard Oil Co. to Senator
Quay.
New York. Feb. E, 1903
Hon. M. S Quay, Senate Chamber,
Washington, DC.
Yesterdays letter received. We
are unalterably opposed to all pro
| posed so called Trust bills, except
the Elkins bill already passed by
the Senate, preventing railroad dis
elimination; everything else is ut
terly futile and will result only In
vexation interference with the In
dustrial interests of the country.
The Nelson bill, as all others OF Ike
character, will be only an engine
for vexatious attacks against a few
large corporations. 1t gives the
right of Federal interference with
business of State corporations,
without giving any Federal protec
ton whatever. There Is no popu
! lar demand for such measure. Ii
any bill Is passed 1t should apply to
all individual partnerships and cor
poratious engaged In interstate bus
mess and 1t should be made man
datory on all as to making reports
of their business to the Commerce
Department.
Am going to Washington this at
ternoon. Please send word to he
Arlington where I can see you this
evening JOHN D. ARcBALD
When asked yesterday concern
Ing the telegram which. he had
sent to Senator Quay, John D.
Archbold's only reply was:
II have nothing to say"
The Americans" Exposure Of the Standard
Oil TrustN
The Standard Oh Trust, through
John D. Archbold. and with the
concurrence and approval of Johr
D. Rockefeller, DID telegraph Its
instructions to the United States
Senate respecting legislation affect
ing the trusts.
The "AMERICAN" has proved
that the Standard Oil Trust did
this thing by giving to the public
yesterday tine exact text of the dis
patch sent to Senator Quay, O
Pennsylvania.
But, 1t may be asked, what does
1t matter If Mr.. John D. Rookie
Teller and his Standard Oh associ
stes did wire to senators expressing
their will as to the passage or de
feat of pending bills? 1t Is moi
known to everybody that powerful
private interests habitually take q
very active part In pushing or pre-
venting the enactment of bills. &C.
cording as the measures hurt OF
help their privileges? Does no,
Washington become a rallying
point for representatives of wealthy
firms and corporations with axes to
grind whenever the tariff Is touched
for example,.
So customary has this become
that when 1t Is proved that Mr..
Rockefeller, through Mr.. Archbold,
telegraphed his orders direct, 1t Is
not the action but only the method
! that excites surprise.
When the report was first pub
lished that Standard OH kilograms
had been received In Washington,
the indignation expresses by most
senators was provoked apparently
by the openness with which the
OH King had laid down his com
mands. Their sense of decorum
was outraged. Respect for the
dignity and Difference to the sensi
bilities OF statesmen, they hold, re-
quire the keeping up of a solerun
pretense, however thin, that the
legislator Is far above being swayed
In his public action by any pres
sure applied In private. No senator
could be induced to admit that a
Standard Oil telegram came to him.
Mr.. Quay was careful to keep the
secret which the AMERICAN"