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The Case Against the Standard.

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Gilbert Holland Montague, the author
of history Of the rise and progress of
the Standard Oil company, has written
review Of the indictments brought
against the Standard by the United
States government, which indicates that
the Standard Oil company in defense
will be obliged to plead that it has
done nothing but follow established
shipping customs against which here
tofore there has been no criticism.
On the other hand the government
will endeavor to show that the Stand
ard Oil company has done much more
than that; that it has violated the laws
in number Of ways. It will follow
the Garfield report in showing that the
Standard has received secret and ille-
gal concessions, that it has formed lille
gal combinations to fix prices and that
it has defied the interstate commerce
commission in, conniving with railroads
to take the benefit of rates which as
sumed to be state, but which were in
reality interstate rates and therefore
subject to the commission. 49,:
In all fifteen indictments have been
brought against the Standard involving
5000 counts. On Aug. 7, 1905, an indict-
ment Of nineteen counts was brought at
Chicago charging that the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern RENTED to the
Standard Oil company all of the s.
cent storage charges on oil delayed in
delivery and stored in the railroad
yards. The storage charges were col
lected from other customers, thus bene-
fitting the Standard thus much in the
competitive sale Of oil. p.
On Aug. 10, at Jamestown, N Y, three
indictments Of forty-fve counts were re-
turned, charging the Standard and
Pennsylvania railroad mutually with re.
ceiving and granting discriminating Sc
cret and illegal rates from Olean, N. Y,
to points in Vermont, and in treating
these shipments as state when as a mat;
ter Of fact they were interstate com.
merce. The rate to the Standard By
( way Of Rochester and Norwood wass1 e
cents whereas the Published rate eby an.
other route was 8 cents higher. 4
On Aug. 90 at Chicago ten indict.
ments aggregating 1920 counts, were
brought against the Standard as sole
defendant. These indictments Involve
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

the shipment Of oil from the big rein
cry at Whiting, Ind, which in railroad
parlance is within the switching region
OF Chicago, tho it is in another state.
The government will contend that the,
Standard enjoyed q very low local rate
while other refneTies paid the Inter
state, published rate. As this is the
region from which the Standard dis
tributes one third Of its entire product
and which controls the markets Of the
south and west, the litigation here Is
most important. At Jacksonville, Tenn,
"a single indictment of 1924 counts has
been returned against the Standard Of
the same character as the Chicago in
dictment. $ss
The contention Of the government
will, of course, be that these special
rates give the Standard an enormous
and unearned advantage over competi-
tors and create conditions favorable
to monopoly. That monopoly has re-
suited Is clearly shown by the testi-
mony drawn out by the attorney gen-
oral Of Missouri in his custer suit
against the Waters-Pierce Oil company.
1t has been admitted that the Waters
Pierce Oil company was once indepen-,
dent, but that it has come under the
control Of the Standard, thru reor-
ganization, and that since the reorgan-
ization it has accepted division Of ter
ritory dictated from the Standard Oil
office in Broadway, New York, and that
the prices Of oil are made not by the
Waters-Pierce Oil company, but from
the same office on Broadway. ...
The litigation is the most important
ever undertaken by the government
against corporation doing an inter
state business. It is recognized that if
the government wins its contentious in
these principal indictments, the Stan
dard Oil company, the most Aagrantly
rebellious corporation doing business
in America, can and will be whipped
into submission to the laws Of the land.
If the Standard can be cewed, the lesser
trusts will have most of the fight taken
out of them. Hence, the transcendant
Importance Of the suits against the
Standard and especially Of those
brought at Chicago, which involve the
whole complicated traffic question in
larger degree than any others.
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
Nov.f5

17e7-Andrew jackson, seventh
president of the United States, born.
Died June 8, 1S45.
1s02-George Romney, celebrated
English artist, died. Born Dec. is,
1884.
1soe-DIscovery Of Pixies Peak,
Colorado.
1s46-AmerIcan force under Gem
eral Worth took possession OF SAL
i tIIIo, Mexico.
1s61-UnIted States frIgate San
Jaetnto arrived at Fortress Monroe
with Messrs. Mason and SIIdeII, the
confederate commissioners to Eu-
rope. 8
1ss1-MemorIaI meeting In honor
Of ParneIl In New York. .tsT $50
tse5-czarlna Of Russia gave birth
to daughter.
fs9a-court Of cessation ordered
Dreyfus to prepare his defense.
st9o1-RuhlIn defeated by JeffrIsss
. II fight for heavyweight champion
ship at San Francisco.
1so2-Attempted assassination 9of
King Leopold Of Belgium.
1so4-Germany and tho United
States signed arbitration treaty.
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MEET 500 RATES
Opposition Lines Combine with Grand
Trunk to Make Cheap Travel,

/ The Chicago lines have met the 500 q
new holiday rates from the northwest
to eastern points, thru arrangement
with the Grand Trunk The rates are
on general basis Of one and one-third
fare. The round-trip rate to Albany,
Boston end Utica will be $45; 500 to
) Halifax, N. s., $55 to st. John, N. s.,
and $35 to Montreal, Que, and Ottawa,
Ont. New York city does not comedin
under the special rate. The heneftsof
the low rate to New York city Gamble
Albany, Which is $s.15 each wav.
West Of the twin cities the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific will
make round-trip rate of fare and a
third as far as the Montana lire, at
tachable to the special rates to the east.
s Tickets will he on sale Dec. IL to 90,
with final return limit of Feb. 25.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15
MISSOURI TO BE BRIDGED
Senator Gamble Talks of Possibilities
of Yankton 8 Gulf Road.

Yankton, IS D., Nov 15.-Senator
Robert j. Gamble, one of the incarpora-
tors of the Yankton & Southern rail-
rohd, says that the prol.et contemplates
the construction Of a road-from here to
the Gulf of Mexico. The company
which includes several Cincinnati men
ter.to cross tile Missouri river. SECURED,
by Senator Gamble in Congress. I. aIesiss
reticent as to what charter, but admits
It e: may be thezeaes granted TIC thasWin-s
nipeg & Gulf Railroad company, Somsi
years ago Company, saids to- Be 'tiel
Great Northerhga secured charter for
a bridge at Yankton, and went Sc far,
as to construct piers. :
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HOME SOCIETY SEEKS
NEW FIELD In ALASKA
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. EE 49, .s5
Sioux Falls, s. D., Nov. 15.-It was
announced today by W. B. Sherrard Of
this city, who holds the position Of
general superintendent Of the National
Children's Home society, that the So
ciety he represents will at the an
preaching session. Of congress ask the
PEahi;s5aag sn Of laws laws which will give the
secure possession Of and care for the
children in Alaska, who either are sur
rounded by evil influences or are waits,
and who will become criminals unless
something is speedily done to rescue
them from their present really deplora-
BILE condition. >r-Ht''. =. ,.-.. -.
Alaska is absolutely without any
laws giving children IS home societies
authority to take possession of children
who are fit subjects for the care Of
such societies, and it is hoped that con n.
gross will see the necessity for legis-
lation which will remedy this. :. ;:
Among the waits are hordes of half
breed Indian children, who are exist
ing in immoral, vicious environment. + !
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15
Black Hills Sees Relief

Deadwood, Nov. 15.-On Sunday.
Nov. 18, the. North Western road viii
put on an extra train between Chadron
and Long Pine, Neb. This, it is thought,
willsrelieve local traffic, so the Black
Hills mail train may be counted on to
come in on time. Owing to increased
business between here and Omaha, it
has been found impossible to get the
thru train in on time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15
81. RAILROADS SEE LIGHT
8 E:.G e3%trg -@ziur----- t.sssS ;Eaff
Normal Freight Service Expected BY
Z; l. End of November. -

:, Two weeks time is expected to put
the railroads on their feet, SO far as
car supply is concerned. The managers
are beginning to see light and without
an undue demand for equipment the
situation will be normal by Dec. /.
: The regular train schedules viii be
resumed at least by the first of the
year. The cattle train procession from
the west is about over and other COM
modities will have-a chance, where thew
have been set out for some time TO
let the live freight trains thru. Final
cattle figures may show an increase
over last year movement. General
traffic is figured to have been 20 peH
cent; more than last year.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15
HOME

Sometimes. in dreams, Il see a room, :
With massive walls and fair;
Rose shaded lights shut out the gloom,
The air is sweet with flowers in bloom,
And you are there.
Sometimes, the room see in dreams
Is homely, small and bare; @a e.
The table waits, the kettle steams,
Ger all the CHEEKY freight streams,
And you are there. 49,. -
What matter, dear, which dream come true:
The mansion rich and rare, *t+
The little cottage hid from view
In Gods own sunshine, wind and dew,
II you are there7
Alice E. Allen in Good Housekeeping.
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RAILROAD NOTES.

Howard Morris. former vice president tof the
Wisconsin Central, and c. NJ. Morris, secretary
OF the company, have resumed the practice Of
law IN Milwaukee following the change in the
BEEN with the road twenty-six years. He was
receiver for the road and instrumental in put
had been with the company ten years and had
BEEN assistant attorney and secretary since 1890.
Official announcement was made at Milwaukee,
today of the appointment, of Fred Signers as
general freight agent of the Wisconsin Central
to succeed Burton Johnson. who resigned segeral
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15
A Uniform Divorce Law.

The divorce congress now sitting IN
Philadelphia has the right Idea. What
this country needs is a uniform divorce
law, and the present gathering is TAX
ing the needful steps to bring this
about. When it shall have formulated
divorce code which fits the conditions
of American life, and which, without
being too drastic, corrects the growing
evils Of divorce, there ought not to be
great difficulty in securing its adop
ton by the legislatures of the states.
Such work is not to be accomplished
in a week or a year, but once well
started, its progress is bound to be
would be, the simplest solution of the.
problem, there are constitutional diff
culties that are deemed insuperable by
the best authorities. Similar difficult
ties beset the path of national insur-
ance legislation.
Wisely as the fathers of the republic
builded, one cannot restrain the regret
that they did not provide some ma
chinery by which the congress might
submit questions Of this sort directly
to state legislatures, with the power to
enforce vote in each on some definite
proposal. Suppose. for instance, that
the next congress could adopt uni
form divorce law and submit it for
approval directly to the state legisla-
lures, leaving the minor matters Of
forms Of practice to be worked out by
each according to the customs Of its
owns.state: The whole difficult problem
might thus be settled wisely, well and
quickly. Until some such plan is
adopted. unanimity Of action among
the states will be most difficult to
attain: <s5
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

Nobody wants TO thrust the. future
too Immediately upon you, but it is true,
that Christmas Is coming and also that
you have not thought what you would
do about it. .>-~ .+s;..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

Pat McOarren, boss Of Brooklyn,
whom some democrats are trying to
read out Of the party, proudly stands
pat. Speaking Of Hearst, Mr.. McCarron
did it with his little Ratchet. o..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

After the prominent citizen recovered
his senses from the automobile Jolt, he
asked feebly whether he had fallen off
the building or had been standing pat
on the tariff. ~,.rsa-,,.:a ..r,,..s,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

King Edward is reported to have said
that the German game Of skat is bet
ter game than bridge. We do not care
what Edward says. so long as it is
something which discourages bridge.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

Findlay, Ohio, proposes to keep in the
limelight. It has returned an indict-
ment against John D. Rockefeller, and
the railroads win sell excursion tickets
to Findlay for the trial. -" .'' 4
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

The Cleveland Plain Dealer figures 1t
all out that General Shafter was mis-.
take. Neither the general nor Mrs
shafter would have conceded in this
opinion without argument.
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7 Monday Of this week was terrific
day on the rail-
At Woodville, Ind, in the Baltimore
& Ohio wreck, fifty-two were killed and
more than forty hurt.
A wild engine at Detroit, Mich, killed
one and injured three. n
In an accident on the Missouri Pacific
at Eureka, Mo-, eleven passengers were
injured. .,s -
Near San Jose, Cal, a railroad engine
blew up, killing three. y
In collision between a freight and
q work train on the Rome, Watertown
8 Ogdensburg road, four workmen were
injured.
II At Ravenna, Ohio, on the identical
spot where nineteen were killed in 1889,
a passenger engine was overturned by
the engineer to prevent disastrous
collision. The engineer was fatally hurt.
The roads could hardly beat this rec
ord under government ownership. {
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

A magazine issued by the inmates Of
lunatic asylum In Vienna is attract
ing much attention in Europe, where
they are denied access to slure's and
Nobody 3. - - y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

Governor Magoon g move to have the
Cuban treasury Investigated. has been
followed by a demand on the part. Of
several Cubans for his removal.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

A good many New Workers are said
to be curious to see how Mr.. Hughes
would look without whiskers. Then
let them look at Hearst. q
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

Football has been rendered a degree
more safe, but the game Of thawing out
frozen dynamite still seems to >have it's
devotees, tho many of them are dead.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

The president is walking along the
banks of the big canal today and spit
ting into it in places as any loyal
American would, were he there. ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

Winter Visitors Week End Excursions
On Saturdays and Sundays during
Che winter the Chicago Great Western
Railway will sell tickets to- points in
Minnesota at half tariff IA les. at The
rates also apply in opposite direction,
enabling your friends to- return Your
visit. Address for inf on, ii. H.
Heard, General Agent, corner Nieollet
avenue and Fifth street 81 Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

The New York Sun, with that ex-
traordinary political insight that no
other paper enjoys, declares that
Bryan is effaced by Hearst 5 defeat"
Mr.. Bryan can stand more effacement
than any character in our politics-and
then come up smiling. #-z
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

The fact that several Of Peary's dogs
were poisoned by whale meat opens up
a large field for J. Wilson g Inspector
ship,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

Attorney General Moody seems to
be insisting on a more complete cure
for enterprise such as, II. II. Rogers
declared he had already been cured of.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

Extensive personal experience with
defeats enables Mr.. Bryan to view q
partial eclipse Of his party as a full
shining sun.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

/ { Not in Minnesota and North Dakota
iialone,s but every here, the pure food
laws approve Hunt Is Perfect Baking
Powder, because it is pure, efficient and
;of high quality.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

Four Through Tourist Cars co California
The Chicago Great Western Railway
sleeping cars to California every week
via different routes. one car goes via
Kansas City and Santa Fe route; one.
via Kansas City and Rock Island-El
Paso .routes one via Omaha and Rock,
Island Scenic route. and one via st. Jo-
saeph and Santa Fe. No other line Of
fery such q. choice Of routes. For full
/ inf drmation apply to r. III. Heard, gen.
[ eral agent, corner Nicollet avenue and
Fifth street. Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

Minnesota either plays good football
or is happy in it's accidents.-Ch Chicago
News. :.
That's something Of concession,
anyway. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

Marian lodge, No. 81. D. of H., will serve
a New England supper Saturday evening in A..
O. U w. hall, Camden Place -.
Miss Mamie Swanberg left last evening for
the Pacific coast with Nine Hellstrom. the
Swedish singer. Miss Swanberg will act as
cert trip 49, ~ ~ IS - 81
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15
TURNED IN. A-HuRRY

somerville tMass. Journal.
q; Jack ou say you feel perfectly sure
that she Is only flirting with me?
Tom-Perfectly.
4 Jack7rIIang; the slucka Why, when
began was only flirting with her.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

The Russian elections are to be held
as soon as the czar has passed laws
eliminating all the voters.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

And Count Boni did not carry a sin
gle precinct.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

Good old-fashioned honesty and new
fashioned styles in. Foot-Schulze
Glove rubbers.s All dealers. Is. .s5
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

The Hardware Manufacturers assoc.
citation, in. convention at Atlantic City,
demanded that congress take action to,
remedy evils in connection with the
shipment Of goods: by the railroads.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

One OF the members explains their de-
nand inrthis way: s3 a2 Ie.'1
If we hold a car OF freight over
two days the railroads charge us de-
murrage. We feel that when they
take an unreasonable length ofastime
'1n hauling they should pay d penalty.
Us they would arrange TO have the cars
hauled thru promptly there would he
no complaint about a shortage Of
leaving freight on SWITCHES along the
route, and If the railroad companies
We're obliged to pay for their delays
they would find some means Of pushing
the cars along and not keep them two
or three weeks in the switchyards. 81
That looks very much like q demand
for what they call reciprocal demurrage.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

PARIs-Journal on file at American Express,
211 Rue Scribe. and Eagle Bureau Oh nus
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

LoNDoN-Journal on file at American Express
office, 8 Waterloo place, and q. s. Express
office 90 Strand. ~ -. II ID.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

Lovers of melodrama are having their
inning at the Bijou this week. where
Charles T. Aldrtch the clever actor
magician, is appearing in the interesting
play OF that type, Secret Service Sam. .
Mr. Aldrich adds not a little to the en-
sjoyment of the entertainme by his sur
prising feats of magic and illusions.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

+ The Unique theater: audiences are
showing much interest in Rose Golden
this week. She is the little girl with
the big voice" and the great volume
OF sound which she produces with so
little to warrant it is a constant sur
prise:
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NEW YORK OFFICE, CHICAGO OFFICE,
World building Tribune Building.
o'MARA & oRMSBEE, REPRESENTATIVES.
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-15

BY massing its, efforts. on John A.
Johnson, James g: Haynes and Fred ".
Brown the democracy might Keep them
IN onice for life.. Every. time a rear pre-
clnct Is heard from one or. the other OF
these gentlemen has to let out d gusset
In his majority. I%E =.
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sWEDEN-Journal on Ale at American Legation
Stockholm. -.
La Junta tribune., 1906-02-24
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY.
Odd Disputs 0st~ssa . hindes ~ .
Christian OrahuaN.

was once in the market place Of
= city in the Deccan, listening to .
Christian Brahman preach the gos-
pei. A student from a college in
Ceylon translated his words for me
in excellent English. The preacher
spoke of the nature of God, Infinite.
all good, all wise, all loving, when .
Hindoo in the congregation began
yehemently 10 contradict. The dis
pute became 50 hot that ii WAS pro-
posed to leave the street and. enter
ing II garden near at hand, to sit
down under the trees and have the
discussion To an end. The substance
of it was this: The HindOO asks the
Christian as follows: "You declare
God to be iniinite:" 'Yes." What
is the meaning of infinite:" 1T
means limitless." And what part
of speech is good:" Good is an
adjective" "And what is the gram
matical function of an adjective :"
"To limit a noun" "How. then. do
you apply an adjective to God. call
ing him good and thus limiting the
limitless:"
BY this philosophy. therefore.
God cannot be described. no adjec-
tive applies to him. and We can nei-
ther preach about him nor urge any
to worship him. How, then, can we
have anything to do with him? In
the conversation described above the
Christian Brahman took his turn in
asking questions: "You believe in
God as intinite;" "Ies, | so be-
lieve." And YOU say that no ad-
iective can be applied to him. Il
so affirm" How, then, can you
distinguish him from nothingT'
That becomes the question, how can
you distinguish him from nothing?
You cannot by logic or discourse.
but YOU may by long process Of con-
temptation or of asceticism bring
yourself To place where YOU will
understand. Then it will appear to
you that God is the only reality and
that everything which men regard
"a real Is an illusion-esrth and
man and sky and devils and gods
and life and death and my own soul
all are such stuffs rs dreams, hav-
ing no real existence. for that which
is is the infinite. My own existence
is illusion. like all the rest. except
ing as come to identify myself with
the changeless, timeless. limitless,
indescribable ultimate and absolute.
-Chautauguan.