The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-29
OIL TRUST SPIES
THWART The LAW
Standard Oil Secret Service Sys-
tenn Threatens Government
s1@ Agents. 80.
FAKE INDEPENDENTS
BLOCK THE sLEUTHS
Rockefeller Greater than Roose-
welt, Is the Cry Of the Oil
Octopus.
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. Chicago, Dec. 29.-Raymond, in n
Philadef phia special to the Chicago
HWe are bigger than the govern
rrent. Standard Oil Is stronger than
The United States. We own the senate
and the house. IF you pursue your IN
designations beyond the point necessary
to fool the public we will have you re- re-
position of the secretary Of commerce
And labor, Mr.. Metcalf and the commlso.
sioner Of corporations, Mr.. Garfield. II
YOU persecute us in the slightest degree
you will be out Of your job and II you
keep at the business you will ind out
that what we say is absolutely true.
This is the kind of talk which mas ma
been handed out to the agents OF the
government at every stage in the game:
fhe first thing they learned was that
the Standard Oil company, as has been
truly said Of twas great System.
They discovered, rs I have said before,
that the investigation Of the beef
trust was merely child's play, as com
pared with an inquiry into the opera
lions of the Standard Oil company.
Standards Secret Service.
Agents Of the government were CON
Sronted at the outset by evidence Of the
existence Of extraordinary secret ma
chinry Of the Standard OIL company.
They discovered that It covers the
United States and probably extends
into foreign countries. It was organ
lied and operated in the first place TOR
the express purpose OF preventing job
bers and retailers from cutting prices.
Contracts exist between the Standard
Oil company and various subsidiary
companies and private firms for the dis
posal of the product Of the united cor
poration.
Government agents have shown and
have so reported to the secretary Of
commerce and labor that whoever sells
a shade off the market price is invaria-
bly, caught and punished according to
the code of the "System.'
Government Thwarted.
This secret service is said to be more
Sar-reaching than anything which has
ever been known before in this country.
Government agents have BEEN aghast
at it's extent. For a while they were
stupefed and frightened by its threats.
agents of the government have been
. thwarted by the malign influence Of
people who are not supposed to be asso-
ciated with the Standard Oil company,
but who are none the less ready to do
Its bidding.
At the outset it was discovered that
this extraordinary secret service Of the
Standard Oil, which permeated every
city and state, was in the beginning or
= ganized for the sole purpose of pre-
Venting dangerous competition. Later
on it was diverted to other directions
and the agents of the government real
. lied that they were up against a sys
tenn, which, altho organized to prevent
the cutting of rates, could be used tc
rupt, minor officials, to divert public
sentiment and ultimately to prevent
criminal prosecutions!
Organized Spies.
This system Of spies and informers
appears to have been organized on &
definite basis. It is the same in every
j a central head. Furthermore, it has
been developed by the investigation Of
4 government experts that these secret
service oil men are shifted from ont
j. part Of the country to another, so as tt
render them absolutely Independent o:
local influences.
This secret service system was con
trived for the express purpose of en-
abling- the Standard Oil company t.
control and probably to obliterate indie
pendent organizations. Mr.. Garfield >
investigators have been struck from
the outset with the fact that Their
we're here aad there a;e turnout the c1?1
did not seem to have basis Of actual op
position to the Standard Oil company
Now and again, when the government
agent ran up against al Independent
company, he was surprised to find GU
that in every case there was a fear o
H. - H. 10
pany.
Rockefeller Is King.
"Rockefeller is a bigger man tha
the Standard Oil people, not only i
New York, but in Illinois, Missouri an
Kansas
There was a reason for this cry, an
the secret reports Of the United State
agents, which have had the pleasur
Of perusing, establish this fact. I
the first place, it has been shown tina
s the Standard Oil company is the paren
of secret service which is far an
!: away better and bigger than the secre
/ machinery of the United States govern
+ ment.
Il In the second place, I have disco,
q States government have found ID out It'll Il
4 same thing, that the Standard Oil con
: pany has promoted the organizatio
4 and existence of Independent oil con
:; pan1es which are fraudulent on the
face and which are owned absolute]
by the .HSystem''
. That is to say, the government Is no
in. possession Of evidence to show tn,
it "independent" oil companies have bee
organized in . almost every big shi
E# ping center of the United States. The.
I. supposed independent companies a.
in each case creatures of the Standa1
* Oil company. .,D-
" Crushing out competition by meal
81 of a dummy company is not entirely
new device, but it is dangerous, becau
y the Standard Oil company has origi
ated and applied it so as to affect cor
\ mercial conditions all over the countr
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