The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-26
ROCKEFELLER ISSUES
 ANOTHER STATEMENT
REFUTEs THE CHARGES OF DIR. < WASHINGTON GLADDEN.
EaIsehood Frequently Published During Last Ten Years Answered for First Time-oiI King Did Not Perjure Himself During Investigation Into the south Improvement Company G.Iadden,s Error.
Gladden's Error.

me Soutn improvement Sompan3-'
 Gladden's Error.
 New York, April 25.-starr J. Mur- phy. of John D. Rockefeller's private counsel, to-day issued the following statement by MT. Rockefeller's author ity: E5
 Tn his latest attack upon MT. Rocke- feller, Dr. Washington Gladden. seeks to make out case of perjury, and in doing so assumes paternity for a false hood which has been frequently pub lished during the past ten years, and until now never answered. t..
 "Dr. Gladden. says: The South Inn provement Go. was one of the schemes invented by the Standard Oil magnates to plunder their competitors and enrich themselves. The organization and the methods of this company were abun- dantly proved in court, and the com pany was driven out of business. A few years afterward, before commit tee of the New York legislature, Mir. Rockefeller under oath took part in the following colloquy:
 There was such a company?',
 "."I have heard of such a compa- ny"
 ]" "ts..You were not in it?"
 "st.I was not
 !" MT. Lloyd appropriately adds: So help me God.
 On the same day another of the trustees and one of the closest asso- ciates of MT. Rockefeller, being asked by a congressional committee who made up the South Improvement Co.,, named as among them the principal members of the Standard Oil Co. and at the head of these all stood the name of John D. Rockefeller.
 'Dr. Gladden. makes much of his po- sition as an original investigator, and says that it is within the power of ev- cry intelligent man to find out from the original document whether the state nent is true or not. But unfortunately his statement is untrue, and his whole charge of perjury rests upon a garbled report. The testimony is taken from A report of an investigation relative to trusts New York senate, 1888. pages 419-20. Anyone turning to that report will find that MT. Rockefeller's testi-4 mony to the effect that he was not in such a company, did not refer to the South Improvement Co. at all, but to another and entirely different corpora ton called the Southern Improvement 5 Co. There were two corpora tions the South Improvement Co. and the South ern Improvement Co. The Southern Improvement company was incorporat- ed in Pennsylvania. April 6, 1870, and MT. Rockefeller was not connected with it. The South Improvement Co. was Incorporated over a year later, May 6, 1871, and MT. Rockefeller was connected with 1t. The charters of both these cor porations are printed in full in the statutes of Pennsylvania and are ac- cessible to all. If Dr. Gladden. has men daciously garbled the testimony in or der to make out a case, there is noth- ing more to say. If he has done it ignorantly and has confused the names of these two corporations, he is scarce ly less culpable, since before making a charge of so serious character it was . obviously his duty to possess himself of the facts.'