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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-21
Jersey, and have ever since con
tinued it.

STANDARD A HOLDING COMPANY.
THAT the purpose and effect of
the use of the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey as a holding company
was precisely the same as the pus-
pose and effect of the appointment
of trustees hereinbefore referred TO,
namely, to suppress the competi
tion between the corporations and
limited partnerships whose stock
was first held by the trustees and
then by the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey.
That by the foregoing methods,
aided by the establishment of rail
road rates for transportation which
Disseminated in favor OF tho corpor-
otions whose stock was held by the
holding company, that company has
been enabled to obtain, in large sec
tions of the country, a monopoly Of
the sale of refined oil, with the re-
suit that prices to the consumer
within the territory where the mo-
nopoly prevails are very much high
er than within the territory where
competition to some extent still ex,
lists.
INJUNCTION ASKED.
"It is believed these facts, togeth-
er with others contained in the re-
port of the special counsel, Justify
and require action by the United
States in the courts. Accordingly
q petition in equity under the pre-
visions of the Sherman act, has this
day been filed against the Standard
Oil company Of New Jersey and sew
enty other corporations and limited
partnerships, and the seven individ-
ual defendants hereinbefore named
in the Eighth judicial circuit at St.
Louis, to have the said combination
adjudged and decreed to be unlaw-
full, that tho holding and control by
the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey of stocks of the seventy cor
porations be declared unlawful, and
and that said corporations be pro.
hibited from declaring or paying
any dividends to the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey, and be en-
joined from entering into or per-
forming any contract or comblna-
ton to restrain trade and commerce,
or to monopolize the trade in the
future.
"The question of whether any ac-
ton Of a different nature should be
taken is reserved for future consid-
Grafton. The controversy is now pend
ing in the courts and fuJther COM
ment by this department'or by any
one connected whit would obvious
ly be improper and unfair"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-21
SUPPRESS COMPETITION.

"Ihat the design throughout of the
corporations having control of their
enterprise has been to suppress the
production. transportation and sale
Of refined oil and to obtain, as far
as possible, a monopoly therein.
THAT between 1870 and 1882
that design was effected through
agreements made between many
persons and corporations engaged
in this business.
"That in 1882 the result aimed at
was made more certain by the vest
ing in nine trustees, Gncluding FIVE
of the above named persons,) suffi-
cient stock in thirty-nine corpora
tions concerned to enable the trus-
tees to control their operation in
such way that competition be-
tween them was suppressed.
"That this plan was acted upon
until it was declared unlawful by
the supreme court of Ohio in an
action against the Standard Oil COM
pany Of Ohio, one Of the said cor
porations in 1892.
THAT during the seven years fol-
lowing the same individual defen-
dants, as majority Of the liquidat-
ing trustees, were pretending to
Iliquidate their trust, but as matter
Of fact were managing all the cor
porations in the same way and exer-
cising the same control over them.
"That the individual defendants
in 1899 increased the stock Of the
Standard Oil company Of New Jer-
sey from $lO,O0O,000 to $ll0,O0O,-
1000.
"That said company was then q
producing and selling corporation
and they added to its corporate
powers the power Of purchasing
stock in other companies, and prac-
tically all powers exercised by the
trustees under the unlawful trust
agreements Of 1882.
Chat the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey, then taking the place
of the trustees. acquired all the
stock of the corporations Heretofore
held and controlled by the trustees,
paying therefor by issue of its own
shares in exchange.
"That the president Of the board
trustees became the president of the
Standard Oil company Of New Jer-
sey, and the same persons (individ-
ual defendants,) who had directed
the business of the trust then as
sumed direction of the business of
the Standard Oil company of New
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-21
Rather caustic.

Did you tell your father was hu-
morist:' asked the tall young man
with long hair.
II DID," replied the pretty girl, "and
he laughed
Laughed? Why, thought he used
to say writing jokes was hard OH the
BRAIN"
$50 he did; but he says he never
heard of your writing any jokes."-
Chicago News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-21
The Government VS. Standard Oil Co.
Attorney General Moody. actine

Attorney General Moody, acting
through the resident United States
district attorney, has instituted pro-
ceedings against the Standard Oil
company Of New Jersey under the
Sherman antitrust act, by fling in
the United States circuit court at
st. Louis petition in equity against
it and its seven individual defend
ants asking that the combination be
declared unlawful and in the future
enjoined from entering into any con-
tract or combination in restraint of
trade, etc.,
The law authorizing the prosecu-
ton is old and the offences older
and it is remarkable that some one
Of the several republican attorneys
general of recent years has not be-
fore this evoked the law and brought
the offenders to bar. If the case
should finally dissolve the the oil
trust and again throw the field open
to legitimate competition, the own
ers Of the Standard Oil Company
will doubtless have an apprectative
feeling towards former republican
administrations that have allowed
them to reap their enormous profits
for SO many years. If Attorney
General Moody smashes the Stand
ard Oil Co. to splinters, the owners
will probably be able to worry out
the rest of their lives without going
to the poor house. The following is
the statement given out by Moody
in regard to his plan Of action in
the matter:
"In June last, by direction of the
president, Messrs. Kellogg and Nor
rison were appointed by me as spec
ial assistant attorneys general to act
with Assistant Attorney General
Purdy to make an investigation of
the relations of the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey to the bust
ness of refining, transporting, dis
tributing and selling of oil through
out the United States to ascertain
all facts, and report whether or not
in their opinion there has been a
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law by the Standard Oil company Of
New Jersey, or persons OR corpor-
ations associated with or managing
it. Counsel have completed that
duty, and report their investigation
has received careful consideration
by the president and his cabinet:
CONTROLS 80 PER CENT OF OUTPUT.
"The information available to the
department tends to show that var.
ious corporations and limited part
nerships under their control in the
manner hereinafter stated, of the
lStanda1d Oil COMPANY. of ;New-Jer-
sey, produce, transport and sell
about 80 per cent of the refined oil
produced, transported and sold in
the United States for domestic use,
and about the same proportion of re-
ilned OIL exported from the United
States.
THAT this share of the business
has been procured by course of
action which, beginning in 1870,
has continued under the direction of
the same persops,ih the main, down
to the present time.
"That these persons now surviy-
ing are:
'John D. Rockefeller.
William Rockefeller,
Henry II. Rogers,
Henry M. Flagler,
John D. Archibold,
'Oliver H. Payne,
Charles M. Pratt.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26
BALFOUR WAS NOT THERE.

The opening of the British parlia-
ment with a liberal majority, the
largest in the history of the party, was
signalized by the enforced absence OF
the leader of the opposition Mr.. Bal
four, who had a hard fall in Man
chester. and has not yet been returned
from the London district where a. va
cancy has been provided for him. In
fact, while the new parliament was
four was perambulating about the mar
kets shaking hands with fish sorters
and taking an occasional douche of
dirty water from the baskets they car
ry on their heads. 1t was an instruc-
tive spectacle and one we'll calculated
to teach politicians the vanity of pride
of place
In the house of commons Mr.. Cham
berlain took the lead in criticising the
kings speech. He especially objected
to those clauses which dealt with home
rule for Ireland and constitutional
government for the Transvaal. 1t was
to be expected that Mr. Chamberlain
would have fault to find with anything
the liberals might propose for the
Transvaal. He knows that it was he
who was responsible for the Boer war
and that the people have not forgiven
him for it. He knows that the new
premier is the man who staked his
whole political future on a conscien-
tious effort to prevent that war. Con-
sequently he looks upon any legislation
Campbell-Bannerman may propose for
South Africa as a slap at himself
The propositions in the kings speech
with regard to Ireland are not clear
but they do not necessarily imply
home rul. on the Gladstone plan. They
do indicate an enlargement of the local
control of Irish affairs The devolution
scheme of Lord Dunraven appears to
fit in logically with the new liberal
plan of home rule by installments.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26
What Happened to Jones.

Whats the matter, old man." he
said, as they met the next morning
after you look blue"
Il feel blue"
But last night you were the jolliest
member of our party"
Il felt jolly"
you acted just like a boy just let
out of school,"
Il felt like one"
You said that your wife had gone
away for the first time in three years,
and there wasn't anyone to say a word
If you went home and kicked over the
mantel clock"
Il remember it,
you said that # you staid out until
4 o'clock there was no one to look at
you reproachfully, and sigh, and make
you feel mean"
Yes, and 1 stayed out until O'Clock,
didn't I?''
You certainly did,
"And 1 gave a warwhoop on The front
doorstep"
Yes, and you sang a verse from a
comic opera song, and tried to dance a
clog"
Yes, and my wife missed that train.
Now, please go away and let me alone
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26
MAKING PROGRESS, ANYWAY.

Friends of railroad-rate regulation
ought not to be discouraged, although
the railroad senators are interposing so
many obstacles in the way of con-
gressional action as to cause apprehen-
sion lest there be no action worth
while at this session. A defeat of a
practical law at this time would be a
disappointment, unquestionably, but
there is more ground for encourage
ment. AS matter of fact, a good deal
of progress has been made. There has
been a lot of educating of the public
and educating of the railroad managers
themselves which is worth what it has
cost, 1t has been made so clear that
the government has the power and
ought to exercise the right to regu-
late these great public carriers that
that question has been practically
taken out of the range of discussion.
OF course, there are a few railroad
men still disputing the right and the
power of the government to exercise
supervision over the creature it has
made. But nobody is listening to them
nowadays, and their Examinations
against the administration policy are
having no effect. The only question
left is how it shall be done, and the
wise ones among the opponents of reg.
ulation are cognizant of the situation
and are devoting themselves entirely
to defeat of practical methods of reg
ulation
They may succeed in multiplying the
effectiveness of proposed legislation to
some extent at this time, but such sue
cess can only be temporary. The broad,
basic principle that the railroads exist
primarily for the benefit of the public:
that they are created for the benefit of
the public rather than for the benefit
of individuals, and that they must be
operated in the public interest without
Discrimination between individuals is
SO Wen settled that there is little heard
nowadays about the higher authority
of natural law and commercial princi.
pies, and all that sort of thing. which
has done SO much service in favor of
privileged shippers. Until somebody is
aple TO maintain the proposition that
the United States government mail
service ought to carry the same class
of mail for the man or the institution
which sends out a large quantity each
day cheaper than it carries it for the
lnolV1dual or the institutions which
send out very much less. it will be i'm
possible to maintain that the railroads.
IN their capacity of public carriers, ex-
erclsing as they do a public function
under governmental authority. NAV
properly discriminate between shippers
of small or large amounts. Natural
laws are all right when applied to natur
al conditions, but when artificial condi.
lions are created and artificial persons
are constituted to do things in the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26
A BOYS Idea of AItruism.

Alfred H. Love, of Philadelphia,
Union. was talking on the topic, pc
culiarly congenial to him, of kindness.
Said he:
Il once knew a remarkably kind
boy. He was a great angler. There
was trout stream in his neighbor-
hood, that ran through a rich mans
estate. Permits to fish the stream
could now and then be obtained, and
the boy was lucky enough to have a
permit
Zone day he was fishing beside an
other boy when a gamekeeper suddenly
darted forth from a thicket The lad
with the permit uttered a criy of fright,
dropped his kit, and ran off at top
speed The gamekeeper pursued.
For about a half-mile the game
keeper was led a swift and difficult
chase. Then, worn out, the boy
halted:
Have you a permit to fish On this
estate?'
Ives, to be sure said the boy,
calmly.
You have? Then show it to me-
THE boy drew the permit from his
pocket. The man examined it and
frowned in perplexity and anger.
why did you run when you had
this permits? he asked
Ito let the other fellow get away,
was the reply. He had none!'"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26
Mirrors and Grace.

A New York man has the walls OF
of pictures. In every room he can see
himself in profile, from the rear, from
the left, from right-in twenty different
ways. He claims that these mirrors
are kept there on his children's &C.
count.
Mirrors, according to this mans
view, do not promote vanity. They
promote self-study and, by conse-
quence, self-improvement.
If a young girl is round-shouldered,
she is hardly aware of her defect in the
ordinary course of life, but if she lived
in house lined with mirrors she would
see all the time the ugly, slovenly
curve of her back, and, mortified and
grieved, she would at once set to
work with suitable exercises to be-
come straight.
All sorts of ugly habits-ugly ways
of sitting, of standing, Of smiling, of
gesturing-are pictured in a true and
unf1attering way by mirrors. The av-
erage man Or woman. perceiving these
uglinesses in himself, sets to work to
remove them. The trouble is, that the
average person does not perceive mis-
several uglinesses, and no one is frank
enough to point them out to him.
This fnnovator, opposing holly the
contention that mirrors foster vanity,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26
THE HEATING RAIN.

This winter weather. said the
chemist, lis a good time for you to-
learn the real truth about rain. Rain
doesn't cool, it warns, the air. When
you speak of a rain that made the day
cooler, you are talking as absurdly az
though you should speak of a fire that
made the house cooler.
when a solid turns to a LIQUID, or
when liquid turns to a vapor, it takes
heat from the air. leaving the air
colder. When it changes back again.,
it gives heat to the air, leaving the
air warmer. Rain, being a vapor-
changed back to liquid, gives the air
enough heat to warm it appreciably
THE winter is a good time to mark
the heating, effe,t of rain. Watch rain
falling on ice. Notice how quickly the
ice is melted. One inch of rain, in fact,
will melt eight inches of ice.
DO not, therefore, in future. talk of
the cooling rain. On a summer day,
when rain seems to cool the air, it is
really the clouds, keeping off the heat
Of the, sun. that do the COOLING
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26

General Grosvenor. one of the lead
ing Statesmen" of the house, Voteu
for the railroad rate bill, but criticised
the claim that there was any popular
demand for the legislation. He de-
clared that public sentiment had been
manufactured by politicians and news
papers who misunderstood President
Roosevelts attitude and had gone on
on the wrong tangent. He character
lied the agitation as the greatest
fake issue that had ever been launched
to fool the people" Last week General
Grosvenor's constituents refused him
a denomination
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26

tears in that famous silver voice of his:
How we'll l remember this place.
This is where l was born over there
is the chestnut grove where l nave
gathered many bushel of chestnuts.
gathered fully fifty bushels of chest
nuts here"
Yes" shouted a full-chested man in
the rear, land you have been peddling
them out ever since"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26
The Ant LANGUAGE.

The ant nests We're covered with
glass, each piece ten inches square
and over all black cloths We're spread
for ants detest the light
But now the investigator removed
the cloths, and in each nest nearly a
million ants were seen at work.
These ants are all of the same spe
cies," said the investigator. They all
look exactly alike. Yet, if 1 put a
stranger in among them, he is instant.
ly bundled out. How do they know he
is a stranger? Is there some password
he is ignorant of? am going to make
a lot of stranger and home ants drunk,
and then see if in the nests they will
still be told apart
He took from a nest six native ants.
and he put on each of them a dab of
white paint. Then he took six strange
ants, and these ne dabbed with red
spirits and water, and then he placed
them among a dozen sober ants from
the nest whence the six white dabbed
drunkards had come
What would happen now?
The sober ants regarded with disgust
and surprise the drunken antics of
their white-dabbed and red-dabbed fell
lows. They stood aloof They seemed
to take counsel together. Then they
did a strange thing.
They carrieG back home their six
friends, leaving the six strangers to
fare as they pleased.
Thus we see,' said the investigator.
signing, that l was wrong. However
1t is, 1t is not by password that ants
tell friends from strangers"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26

municates itself to the cigars, and is=
so delicate and subtle that it actually
improves their flavor.
IF We put up our goods in chestnut
or walnut or pine boxes. the flavor OF
the wood, impregnating the tobacco.
would ruin the cigars entirely. He>ce
moderately good cigars are put u; in
box that is quite odorless, and the besC
cigars are put up in this aromatic and
costly box Of Spanish CEDAR
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26
ENCOURAGED Spendthriftness,

Senator Frye and Chaplain Hale
senators for the Sawyer Impeachment
trial. There was reference to Senator
Scott of West Virginia, who affirmed
according to the way of Quakers
whereupon Senator Frye remarked:
Il had a Quaker grandfather once,
who nearly spoiled me-
Well how was that?' asked the
senate chaplain.
LAS a boy, 1 was going on a trip to
Boston, said the senator. Just be-
fore 1 started, my Quaker grandfather
called me to him.
Thou art going to Boston, said he.
Here is IS for thee to spend when in
the city,
Il accepted the money, feeling very
grateful to my grandparent, but 1 did
not know any of the Boston boys, and
consequently saw nothing to spend the
money for. On my return my grand
parent called me to him.
William said he, 'didst thou
spend the money 1 gave thee?'
Il had, of course, to confess that l
hadn't whereupon he said: William,
give it back to me- And 1 did as re-
quested.
That sad experience taught me a
bad habit, for ever since when 1 have
had any money I have spent it to pre-
vent it's falling into other hands,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26
An Unreliable Echo.


A certain rich man had a fine estate
in New Hampshire. There was a lake
on this estate, and behind the lake
wooded hill. In boat, little off the
hill, it was possible with a loud shout
to evoke a slight echo.
The rich man was proud of his echo
he was proud of everything he pos
sessed He liked to think that all he
owned was of the best. 1t distressed
him to hear that belonging of his
was surpassed in any way by the be-
longing of some other person.
Hence, when a lady from New York
came to visit his family in New Hamp-
shire, he was grieved to hear this lady
say:
Your place may be very nice, but
there is one thing my place beats you
in, and that is in the echo. 1 have an
echo on my Vermont farm that repeats
every call nine times"
The rich man was not to be put
down.
Tomorrow he said, you shall
hear our echo. Our echo repeats every
call twelve times.''
"Oh, dear! how lovely!" said the
lady. There is a treat in store for me
tomorrow, isn't Thereof
There isl said the rich man. '"To-
morrow afternoon at o'clock I'll take
you over to the echo in the launch
The next morning the rich man led
a young gardener to the hill whence
his feeble echo came.
The next morning the rich man led a
young gardener to the hill whence his
feeble echo came.
Il want you to pretend you're an
echo" he said, "and when 1 come here
with my friends this afternoon 1 want
you to yell back twel-- times, every
thing l shout. Understand? And lower
your voice, lower and lower, till the
twelfth repetition is just audible
Sure said the gardener. Il under
stand that I'll hide behind this tree
here. I'll echo grand for you, SIR
In the afternoon the rich man
brought the lady before the hill in
his launch.
Here is the place. he said. Here is
where my echo is. I guess it is the
most wonderful echo in America. 1t
repeats everything you shout at it
twelve times. Nine-times echoes are
fairly common. Nine 1 understand, is
the only twelve-time echo known"
Then the rich man inflated his chest
gave the woman a pompous look, and
shouted:
Are you there?"
The echo answered.:
Sure 1 am. I've been waitin' here a
couple Of hOurs!"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26

Mrs. Anne Weightman Walker, who
was left $50,O00,O0 worth of paints
oils and chemicals by her father. has
sold her home and will live over the
store. Taxes are very high in Phila
deiphia and she fears the worst
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26

ed j. .London's books from its library
because he is an anarchist was need
lessly alarmed. London only dreamed
he was an anarchist and when he
awoke the pipe was quite cold.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26
The Best Cigarbox.

"The best cigarbox is made of Span
ish CEDAR" said tobacconist. "All i'm
ported cigars come in Spanish cedar
boxes. Look here"
He opened a box of beautiful, costly
cigars, and the odor diffused through
the shop was indescriably pleasant, ar
odor half tobacco, half, as it seemed
of spices.
That spicy smell-do you notice it p
said the dealer. well, that is the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26

1t is reported that Mr.. Balfour will
write a book on the first battle" for
protection in Great Britain. AS man
who was licked by both sides he should
be able to give us a fair account of it.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-26
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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must be delivered to the business Of
flee by the nour of TEN O'CLOCK a.
m. 60 insure insertion in the issue of
.ven date.