Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-05-05

refusing to let her retain dollars in
terest in the enterprise, and this after
he had personally promised her, with
tears in his eyes, that she should not
be wronged and that she could keep
any amount Of stock she desired.
That on April 20, 1879, Mr.. Rookie
| Teller was indicted by the grand jury
Of Clarion county, Pennsylvania. on
eight counts, including charge of con
spiracy to mopolize the purchase and
sale of crude petroleum, and keep 9th.
ers out of the business, of combina.
tion to oppress and injure the produc.
ers of petroleum, to extort unreason.
able rebates and commissions from
railroads and to acquire unlawful gains
| by fraudulent methods Of controlling
the market prices of crude and refined
petroleum. That Mr.. Rockefeller never
ventured TO face a trial on these
charges, but stayed out of the juris-
diction Of the court for year until
compromise could be arranged by
which the prosecution was dropped.
That, in addition to inducing or
comp. ling the railroads to betray the
secrets of their customers to him, he
maintained complete private detect
i've system by which confidential EN-.
ployees Of Independent refnors were
seduced into acting as spies upon their
employers.
That in 1850, in the suit of the
Standard Oil Company VS.. William c..
Scoheld, Mr.. Rockefeller made affida-
Wit that the Standard Oil Company
had not acquired and did not control
certain properties which IL had ac.
quired and did control, and that IL had
not done other things which II had
done, thereby committing deliberate
perjury That he perjured himself
again in 1883 when he testified before
a committee of the New York Improve
mont Company, that there had never
been any arrangement by which the
trust or it's subsidiary companies had
secured lower rates than those allowed
to the general public, and that the
Standard Oil had never tried to make
the operations Of outsiders unproft.
able. incidentally, official records are
quoted to show that while ON Febru-
AIRY 2s, lssS, Mr.. Rockefeller told the
New York senate committee under
oath that he had not been a member
of the South Improvement Company
he testified before committee of the
National House Of Representatives
just two months later that he had been
such a member.
That the attempt Of the Independent
producers and refners TO free them.
selves from Standard Oil domination
by the construction Of pipe lines Of
their own were resisted not only by
every sort Of chieanery, purchase Of
legislators, and legal obstruction, but
by actual physical warfare, the rail
road allies Of the Standard hitching
locomotives to the pipes at crossings
aud dragging them out Of their beds
and attacking the camps Of the work
men with picks, bars, hot water and
coal
That Mr.. Rockefeller has never been
willing to "live aud let live, - but from
the beginning acted on the principle
that every competitor must he froze
out, choked out, or clubbed out of his
way That he has never observed the
rules of war, but has resorted TO man
traps, explosive bullets, and poisoned !
wells, when open fighting has not
served his turn.
Il is the belief that these things, and |
others like them, are true which has
made some people hesitate to agree
with Rev, Mr.. Hartley that Mr.. Rock
efeller's munidcent gifts are those Of
a Christian man.