The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-05

liver oil ut the points in New England
that we do by the same process.
The commissioner is peculiarly unlor-
tunate' In the subject OF rebates; The
public may well take his word that ne
made an exhaustive examination. and yet
withal he says that with one or two eX-
coptions the Investigations OF the bureau
nave rs Yet discovered no rebates. In the
technical sense. In Interstate business
These exceptions were on business done
wholly within the State OF California,
over which, OF course. neither Mr. Car
fields bureau nor tho Interstate COM
ncrce commission have any jurisdiction.
But In those cases the alleged rebates
wcrc fully explained to Mr.. Garfield and
involved no turpitude whatever. lt was
a new business on tho Pacific coast, and
before II had been systematlzed there
were overcharges, not to the Standard
Oh company alone, but To every one on
gagged in the enterprise, which over
charges were subsequently, adjusted
Discusses Secret Rates,
'He says the STANDARD OIL company
has habitually received from the rail-
roads and is nov receiving secret re-
bates and other unjust and Illegal dis
Crimlnntions 1t is hardly fair or manly
for him TO add the sentence OF course
there may be other secret rates which the
bureau has not discovered
Cannot Control State Laws,
Again, he has no control whatever over
over State rates which by the law are
put under the jurisdiction OF the State
authorities, and over which the bureau
Of commerce nor the Interstate Com
merce Commission have any control. But,
all OF this aside, there have been no Sc
cret rates or unlawful discrlnlinations in
the interest of the STANDARD OH company.
Take the case Of the rate from Whiting
20 East St. Louis, upon which he lays so
much stress. While discussing IL at great
length as an important find. he quail
ups and eNpl1InA n all Inv The statement
hat Whiting was suburb of Chicago,
within the switching district of That
gty, and that all freight rates from
Whiting had for many years been the
same as those from Chicago
Claim Is Unfortunate.
Mr. Garfield's 6 claim that by the use OF
low interstate rates the Standard on com
pany gained an unfair advantage Is equal
~ unfortunate. At great expense we con-
sJructed pipe lines from the Pennsylvania
and Ohio oil fields and from the Kansas
and Indian Territory fields To Whiting III
our competitors did not do the game
thing, shall II be said that any one is un-
fair who does not give them the ad-
vintage OF this enterprise OF ours? II Is
quite true. tnat having our oil at Whit
ing and desiring TO transport II 10 points
In tho interior of Illinois. VIC used the
State rates, To say that man In Ohio
who had never expended dollar Tor
pipe line 10 Whiting should 6o able to
transport his oil to an inland town IN
rate that We enjoyed by reason OF our
pipe lines must appear absurd to amy one,
As to Secret Rates.
1T Is asserted over and over again In
the report that the Standard OH com,
pany proiited by secret and 'uniawtuI
freight rates Yet in the same connec-
lion IL is admitted that the report that
all OF these rates are covered by TAR
ifs filed with the Interstate commerce
commission precisely as the law pro
la he either
secret or unlawful.
Tariffs Are Posted.
The commissioner uses the curious
phrase al one point i'll his report that
although tarift or rate has been
nled with the Interstate commission, In
compliance with the terms OF the law,
none but the favored shipper may know
of It's existence AS the interstate law
explicitly provides that every tarin OF
rates must be posted at every freight
station and be open to the inspection OF
The shipper, II Is hard TO conceive Of the
commissioner temerity in making such
an utterance.
Competition Growing.
The statement that the Standard OIL
company has largely by unfair and un-
lawful methods crushed out home COM
petitton,' is fully answered BY the fact
That home competition has always eM-
lSted Is steadily growing, and that there
are now at least 12S competitive rehnerles
LAS to the claim that changes in rates
have been made since the commissioner
Efficient work began. all the Standard OH
company has to say is that any such
changes have been made without Its sug-
.sostion or efforts.
1t Is to Laugh.
The grief which the President ex-
presses in his message over the inability
of the railroads 10 combine and protect
themselves from the shippers Will prob
a blV amusement.
THE President says respecting this In
that the facts are not in dis
pute only the infercnceS are disputed
The Standard OIL company furnished the
facts, and a man with a muck rake dug
out such as under his manipulation he
felt would prove damaging.
Will Conform to Law.
THE Standard Oil company has been
Investigated over and over again at the
lnstigation OF it's rivals, and 1t always
welcomes such investigation. when con-
Quoted in good faith and fairly. We are
engaged in large and honorable busi-
ness We are conducting II honorably,
and we sincerely believe in conformity
to law"