The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-05

say that man in Ohio who had never
expended a dollar for a pipe line to
Whiting should be able to transport his
oil to an inland town in Illinois over an
all-rail line at the same rates that we
enjoyed by reason of our pipe lines
must appear absurd to any one. Are
We to have no advantage because we
constructed these pipe lines? Is the
amount invested and the interest on
that investment to count for nothing?
Take two men going to Boston; one
uses an eight-thousand-doll automo-
bile to go to New London and there
takes the train. Is he to- have no ad-
vantage in rate from the man who
leaves New York and travels all the
way by rail?
The case of shipment from New
York to Vermont of which mention is
made is susceptible of like explanation.
Prospecting the use of private cars,
of which Mr.. Garfield makes much, it is
only necessary to make answer in his
own words. He says that, owing to the
relatively slow movement of tank cars
in the petroleum trade, the mileage al
lowanee or rental does not appear to re-
suit in an excessive profit to the pri-
waite tank-car owners.
1T is asserted over and over again in
the report that the Standard Oil COM
pany profited by secret and unlawful
freight rates. Yet in the same connec-
ton it is admitted in the report that
all of these rates are covered by tariffs
filed with the interstate commerce COM
mission, precisely as the law provides,
and therefore cannot be either secret
or unlawful
"The commissioner uses the curious
phrase at one point in his report that,
although a tariff or rate has been
filed with the Qnterstate) commission
in compliance with the terms Of the
law, none but the favored shipper may
know of it's existence. AS the inter-
state law explicitly provides that every
tariff rate so filed must be posted at
every freight station and open to- in
speetion of every shipper, it is hard to
conceive of the commissioners temerity
in making such an utterance.
1.-THE presidents message complains
of the way in which the law is evaded
by treating as state commerce what Is
in reality merely part Of interstate
commerce, although the forms Of law
may be complide with. Yet this very
method Of making a through rate by a
combination of two separate state rates
has been held to be by the interstate
commerce commission lawful and
proper.
THE statement that the Standard Oil
company has largely by unfair and UNI
lawful methods crushed out home COM
petition is fully answered by the fact
that home competition has always ex-
listed, is steadily growing, and that
there are now at least 125 competitive
refneries in the United States.
'As to the claim that changes in
rates have been made since the commits
sioners efficient work began, all the
Standard Oil company has to say is
that any such changes have been made
without its suggestion or effort.
1.-THE grief which the president ex-
PRESSES III HIS HiSSsd50 ONOl thO AiAetDlA7
| ity Of the railroads TO combine and pro-
tect themselves from the shippers will
probably arouse amusement. The pres
ident says respecting this investigation
that the facts are not in disputes only
the differences are disputed. The Stand
ard Oil company furnished the facts,
and a man with muck rake dug out
such as under his manipulation he felt
would prove damaging.
THE Standard Oil company has been
Investigated over and over again at the
instigation of its rivals, and it always