The Mena weekly star., 1906-11-22
|RINNAL ACTION |S NEXI
r,ouis Proceedings Only One Branch of Prosecution Against
 Standard Oil.
Il uAexA1Es THREATENED WITH PRIsoH
\. Government ie Determined to
 Make an Example of Members of the Greatest Trust or ai '"
 .ct Through the Conspiracy laws af the Land.

wash,ngton. Nov. 1.-The action
 rted in St Louis by the govern
 art directed against the Standard
 6il company is but one brancn ol .he
 Prosecution of the big trust. ITO
 eedings now in course are designed
 leach the individuals who compose
 great corporation, while 1t IS sd
 rttad that the most satisfactory out
 kome of the suit filed in St. Louis
 ,av he only to force the standard
 6,l company to alter it's method oi 1oing business. l Roth Thursdays proceedings and the
 ~,ninal nrosecutions are the direct <asult of the orders of President
 so,seyelt. The president has made
 clear that it Is his desire and m <sntion to make an example or the
 Rtandard oil company and the of f,cials who run it, as the one great Erust-breaking enterprise of his ad
 ,;nistration. and one which by itf <esult will demonstrate for all time So come the earnestness of his CT Sorts in the direction of improving Industrial conditions in the country & One who talked with the president N length shortly before he left foi kis trip to the itshmus of Panama [a,d Friday: "The president is sin kle in his purpose. He realizes fully Ehat the resources of the great cor norations are second only to those bf the government of the United states. So far as being versed in the {echnicalities and possibilities of the law if is doubtful if the government tn what it is able to command, car Excel the facilities of the Standard |Dil company itself The president +ealizes. too, that there is a popular Remand that the country be given ar Example of the men in high placea being made to bow before and re Spect the law. In the past the ef <orts of states to bring the company bround to the right view and te Change it's methods have proved in Effective. because the findings of the courts have simply been in the shape |of fines. These the company hat bald without protest and it Is strong 5y suspected that it has made back 4he money by manipulation of the products which 1t sells.
 Now the government, under the al rection of President Roosevelt, pro |poses to see that the big concern ii Subject to a joint attack. The com |pany is to be forced to reorganize 1T earnest through process of law di fected against it. Through the con spiracy laws, the officers of the com |pany will be made to realize the Strength and impartiality of the law |if the efforts in the direction of crim |3nal prosecution are as successful al <he administration hopes they will be 1t is also admitted. and the presiden Appreciates the fact better than an. |one else. that the officers of the com |pany care little or nothing for tho |pecuniary losses caused by the actior |of courts, but that when faced witt the public disgrace and stigma of con siction under criminal statutes thing |fake on a different aspect.
 If the government is successful II the St Louis case. as it was in the prosecution of the Northern Securitie. ease, it will be content with that enc |of the case. If the advice of soms of the best lawyers in the United States. in and out of the service O the department of justice. can be talk. en for anything. there is every reason Tor the president to believe that the criminal prosecutions will be equall, as successful. The president hopes ts establish through the Standard Oi case respect for the interstate com merce and antitrust laws such as thu great corporations of the countr, have not felt before.
 He hopes to show the people O the country that no man or combina tion of men can long defy not onl, public sentiment, but the laws of the land. He hopes for the success of the suits. not only for the immediate re suits obtained. but because of the re straining effect he believed 1t will have on other corporations