Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-17
FROM THE PULPIT.
Yet the Company Attended to Its
Business and Said Nothing.
TO RELOCATE DEMAG0GUES
Time Has Come, Said the Speaker,
when the slanderers and Fault
Finders to Be Put Down.

In an address which lasted for
two hours today Attorney Kline
made defense for the Standard
OH Company in the conspiracy
against trade case. Among other
things the counsel stated that the
company had not troubled itself to
reply to its enemies. The SANDER
ers from the pulpit and the press
and other sources had been permit
ted to pass unnoticed. The COM
pany might have answered, but
at the time it was attending to BUSH
ness faithfully and diligently"
Some pertinent references were
made to Rockefeller and the be-
loved Dan O'Day."
FINDLAY, Ohio, October 1.-THE con.
Guiding argument to the jury in the trial
of the Standard OIL Company of Ohio for
alleged /. conspiracy against trade was be-
gun today.
Ahi' hiiiie' LOT the defense, began at
o'clock an address expected to occupy two
hours. Attorney General Ellis will follow
and conclude for the prosecution. Judge
Banker will then deliver his charge ana
the case will then go to the jury.
II am glad to have the opportuHftv n
face jury in Hancock county" Mr.. Kline
began, land discuss before you the facts
and fancies of this case
The Standard Oil Company stands here
charged with offense against the laws
Of the state of Ohio. 1t has not replied to
Its enemies. Its sanderers, it's foes, have
been allowed to pass unanswered those
ISLANDERS from the pulpit, perhaps; at times
from the press and from the streets.
1t would have been well for it, perhaps.
to have answered. But at the time II has
attended to its business faithfully and dill.
gently. have no apology to make for the
Standard Oil Company.
With prosperity there comes envy. with
envy there comes hatred, and with hatred
misrepresentation and all manner of pretu-
dice, which is to be found in the pathway
of every man who succeeds and every cor.
poration that succeeds"
Contempt for Faultfinders.
Expressing his contempt for the FAULT
finders in the midst of the greatest pros-
perity the country ever knew, Mr. Kline re.
marked:
Il have no faith in the man who stands
In the gutter and throws filth and dirt on
the men who have brought this prosperity I
about. 1t is time we relegated the dema-
gogue, the carper, the slanderer to the
rear
The beginning of the oil industry was de.
scribed. its founders being poor young
men. starting in life as poor az anybody
who ever worked HIS way from poverty to
affluence."
In this connection he mentioned Mr.. Rock
efeler and the beloved Dan O'Day. who
began his career rolling oil barrels"
Wherever the company had begun business
it had built up that place. 1t always paid
100 cents on the dollar, it had always paid
the best wages>to its employees and in no
section of the country was the beneficial
evidence OF the presence of the company
more apparent than in Hancock county,
Mr.. Kline made the point that the five
men owning all the stock in a dozen cor
porations have right to manage that
property to the benefit of the general in
terest.
IF they have acquired 1t properly it
is their right to manage it they see ht
provided. of course they respect the rights
of others. There is nothing in the Valen-
tine law that prohibits such management
by owners. Its object was to prevent
people who we're competing from combining
not to compete.
Belongs to Old School.
I'VE are having too much meddl- ng with
individual rights and the rights of the pri-
waite citizens under the form of legislation.
Il belong said Mr.. Kline Ito the old
school which believes that government the
best which interferes the leact with the In
terests of the citizens.
1t Is time, Mr.. Kline said, that all the
ISLANDERS and charges should be placed be-
fore jury of sworn men. There had been
no effort to conceal anything which was
pertinent to the issue raised in the case.
Mr.. Kline described the manner OF COM
plying with the order of the court COM
handing the termination of the original
trust. Certificates of ownership in the as
OOO shares of trust stock were issued. These
certificates were given to the owners of the
trust stock In exchange for that stock.
These certificates represented a proper
tional ownership in all of the companies in
the trust.