The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-03-09
.FLAYS ROCKEFELLER
IN PUBLIC TALK
Supreme Court Justice Gaynor
Scathingly Denounces the
Hiding Magnate.
HAS NO SUPERIOR GENlu.
Was Railroad crimnality Which Made
Him Rioh-Would Deplore Appeal
to Courts Of Rate
Matters.

New York, March 9.-Supreme Court
Justice William ]. Gaynor of Brooklyn. ,
speaking yesterday on "Corporatei
Abuses" at the Peoples Forum. in New
Rochelle, scathingly denounced the man
iwho hides away rather than go to court
Ito testify.
T, Although the judge mentioned mol
names. there were many in the audi
ence who construed the language as re-
ferring to John d. Rockefeller, for
many process servers have been hunting
witness in the suit Of the State of Mis- I
Isouri to take away the Standard OILY
franchise in that state for alleged vio-i5
|lation Of the antitrust law.
! Judge Gaynor, after speaking of theS
bribery of legislators and government
officials by the exploiters- OF public franz
'chises and of their contempt and disre-,
gard for both the government and thei.
courts, said:
What would decent man here ini
this community do If he heard an officer,
was looking for him to subpoena himi5
to court to testify? Would he hide mi.
his house and have his wife and chill
not know where he was? Would he'll
hurry into some other state. Or gov
abroad in his yacht IL he had one. and
put to sea to escape service?
Come Forward Like a Man.
4 Or would he come forward like de.
cent man and say:
Il am here Y
would he not be condemned by the
community as dishonest, dishonorableI !
and disrespectable? Would any one
offer him his hand on his return !? And
tf man with an overgrown fortune !.
made out of the abuse of public fran
t--f-f AN~I ~ 4.
member OF society? Is he At to Iningle,
with honest people? No, he is all the {.
more contemplate and guilty.
4 mo amount of church or Sunday-t
school teaching can make q characterli
decent or respectable.
These people have been crying out
anarchist and the like against decent |,
people. but say unto you that theyi
are the anarchists and will destroygOurl,
system of government II they are noti
checked in their careers.
There is no prejudice against hon-,
estly acquired wealth in this country.
1t Is against wealth acquired by trick
and device, by the favoritism Of laws.
by the misuse of public franchtses.
which Is under the ban OF honest peo-i
Criminal Chapter Of History.
Judge Gaynor denounced the rebate
and determinations in freight rates by
wrongs. 1.-THE extant," said he. ..tog
which these corporations have violated
their duty and the law Of their being
by carrying the freight OF some at a,
lower rate than is exacted OF their rl-s
walls in the same line of business, and SO,
much lower as to enable them to un-s
lersell and thereby ruin such rivals
and drive them out OF business and
establish monopoly in themselves
forms the most criminal chapter in our
history That the public highways of
country. by law open to the use
terms, should be used to aggrandize
some and destroy others Is SO Infamous
and so heartless that we shall be
looked back upon as a generation lost
to all moral sense for having suffered
It to exist 80 long. 1t has crushed and
and has been the means of creating
and fostering trusts and m0nopolies.
Oil Trust Lives on Rebates.
This freight favoritism is the moth
er OF trusts. The first and greatest
trust. namely, the OIL trust. was
created and is maintained by means of
1t, and that is true. OF all OF our trusts
is carried to market at 81 a barrel.
while his rivals have to pay 81, nothing
is left to them but to quit; that is the
end of rivalry" s.,s5 "a
Judge GaynOr said his own idea was
that the government should appoint the
general freight agent Of every railroad
In the country, and in that way be able
| to see that no discrimination whatever
| was given in freight rates. He depre-
Gated referring disputes over rates to
the courts, on account Of the delay
lone ounce of executive prevention
he said. lis worth a pound OF cure.
The evil needs summary executive
Treatment"