The Washington herald., 1906-12-01
OIL TRUST IN APPEAL
Begs Patriots to Help 1t
Fight Dissolution.
BLASTING A PATH IN EUROPE
Standard Company. in n Long Pub
Tic statement, Pleads for Popular
Sympathy, Asserting That by Ef-
heacious Combfs alton II Haz Wen
Supremacy I'm Foreign Markets.

New York. Nov. 3o-The Standard oil
Company to-day made its appeal TO the
public.
In long statement. covering particu-
larly the foreign situation in petroleum,
it was pointed out that its great Euro
| pean competitors 50 far from receiving
the opposition Of foreign governments,
the press, or the community, ARE regard
ed as being in the natural pathway Of
/ legitimate economic and progressive COM
merce, and are especially commended
when the motive is emphasized in eiimi-
/ mating the American product from the
competitive markets It continues:
In the prosecution Of its aggressive in
dustrial policy t Standard Oil Company
believes itself 10 be fairly entitled to the
encouragement that other governments
are giving TO similar business interests.
Appeals to Patriotic Americans.
It was further said that against the ar
ray Of formidable elements and innumer-
able other opposing factors the trust was
fighting in the worlds market for the con-
tinued supremacy Of American petroleum
This commercial battle could not be
successfully waged minus the comprehen-
sive organization and equipment. at home
and abroad, which the Standard Oil Com
pany has created at such enormous ex-
pense and such unremitting efforts.
The successful maintenance of the su-
premacy OF American petroleum in the
competitive markets abroad must carry
the penalty Of a constant commercial
battle, in the outcome Of which not only
the Standard Oil Company itself is con-
cerned. but also the entire producing in
dustry of the United States. the great
labor classes. and a host Of avocations
directly or indirectly dependent upon its
ramified operations.
"The valuation Of its exports consti-
tutes a highly important factor In the
adjustment Of the international trade
balances OF the nation"
The statement concludes by reviewing
the reasons why the organization of
the Standard Oil Company, which en-
ables it to pursue and enlarge the worlds
markets for American products. should
be sustained rather than crippled or de-
stroyed."
Investigate independently Plea.
Examination into the charges that the
Delaware Lackawanna and Western
Railroad Company had refused TO con
tinue shipments of oil for the independent
firm of Preston & Davis to the railroad
company's terminal in Brooklyn was
commenced to-day before Chairman
Knapp Of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. and Commissioners Clements
and Prouty.
Owing TO the failure of the company to
deliver tank cars in Brooklyn, the COM
planning independent dealers had been
greatly incOnvenienced, said Henry A.
Powell their counsel. p. J. Flynn, gen
eral freight agent Of the Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western, was called BY Mr..
Powell. and admitted that there was an
agreement by the trunk lines entering
New York restricting the delivery of oils.
petroleum products. and explosives at
New York terminals. This agreement. he
said, was made in the interest of safety.
W. II. Truesdale, president Of the road,
testified that he knew nothing Of the
agreement referred to. or about the COM
plainants' oil business. John D. Rocke-
feller and W c. Rockefeller were direc-
tors in the Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western.