The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-02-13
STANDARD OIL
HAS RECEIVED MILLIONS OF RE-
BATES FROM PENNSYLVANIA
Independents Frozen Out by Discrim-
misunderstanding Evidence
Gathered for President
Roosevelt.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 11-That re-
bates amounting in the aggregate to
millions have been granted to the
Standard Oil Co. by the Pennsylvania
lines, that small feeder lines attempt
ing to convey oil from Independent
properties over the Pennsylvania sys-
tenn have them fozen. out by unjust
discrimination in rates apd unfair dis
tribution of cars-these are the lead
ing facts which it is said have been
gathered from the records and ac-
counts unwillingly opened to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's agents who are at
work here. The information comes
from person who is i'm intimate
touch with the situation.
And the work has only begun. De
spite the absolute lack of cooperation
ON the part of the management of the
Pennsylvania and the Pittsburg &
Lake Erie, Special Agent H. D. Brown
and his mysterious companion are
known to have unearthed evidence
that will make the case of the govern
ment thousandfold stronger than
the suits brought by Attorney General
Hadley, of Missouri.
1t is said that this evidence barely
touches on the elaborate system OF
rebates and freezing out processes
built up by the Pennsylvania and its
controlled lines after long years of
experience in dealing with lax and
easy going government, with actual
conditions in the oil field, and with
the always astute and alert manage
memt of the great oil trust.
1t may take weeks of work before
the end of the System" is reached,
but when it is, it is said,, there will be
nothing left for President Roosevelt
to desire in the way of evidence to
show the relations of the eastern
roads to the Rockefeller Rogers octo-
pus.
Farmer" Creasys resolution in the
Pennsylvania legislature providing for
a thorough probing of the roads in
this state is premeditatedly designed,
it is said, to aid the presidents in
vestigation at the right moment, while
Governor Dawson in West Virginia has
in mind the giving of similar assist
ance.
In the latter field, it is said, partic-
ularly strong evidence has been un-
earthed by the government agents
here to show to what an extent the
Pennsylvania can carry it's tyrannical
course in new territory in which it
has practical monopoly.
Facts disclosed by the examination
of the Cassatt systems accounts and
records, it is reported, prove that the
Standard Oil Co., instead of being
about to build line into West Vir-
ginia to compete with the Pennsyl-
vania, is building for no other purpose
than to weld more firmly together
the gigantic system by which both it
and the Pennsylvania have hugely
profited for over quarter of CEN
tury.
1t was learned also that certain MEM
bers of the assembly who are prime
movers in the effort to have a speedy
legislative investigation of the rail-
road business in this state have col
lected facts bearing on the oil rates
which strikingly corroborate the evil
dence found by the agents of the gov
eTnment, although obtained from other
sources. These, when added to the
facts which are now being disclosed by
the railroad records, 1t is said, will
constitute a chain Of evidence that
will be almost impossible to break.