The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-01-29
Interstate Commerce Com
mission Submits Report
to Congress.
HOT ROAST FOR
BIG COMBINE
Methods of Rockefeller'S
Giant Monopoly Are
Made Public.
RUIN OF COMPETITORS HAS BEEN
A DISTINCT PART OF ITS poll
ICY, SYSTEMATICALLY AND
PERSISTENTLY PUR SUE ID
COM PETITION WITH THE
STANDARD IMPOSSIBLE.
By Associates Press.

Washington, Jan 2S.-The inter-
state commerce commission to-day
/ sent to congress q report of the in
Ivestigations made by it under the Till
man-Gillespie resolution, approved
March last, concerning the relations
of common carriers by rail 10 the
production and distribution of oil. The
report covers the distribution of pc
troleum and its products east of the
Mississippi river, and incidentally,
the Kansas and Texas fields.
The report points out generally the
methods by which the Standard Oil
Company has built up and perpetu-
ated its monopoly and the relations
of transportation agencies to that mo-
nopoly." 1t is asserted that the ruin
of its competitors has been a distinct
part of the policy of the Standard Oil
Company in the past, systematically
and persistently pursued
Considerable of the ground cover
ed has been gone into fully in the
report on oil and it's distribution,
made public by the bureau of corpora
tons.
The report severely arraigns the
Standards methods of competition.
On this point it says in part:
Severely Arraigned.
1.-The Standard has repeatedly, after
becoming the owner of competing
company, continued to operate IL I'M
der the old name carrying the idea to
the public. that the company was still
7 panies 10 n ftrra pd competing with the
companies reducing prices. The OPP
Grafton of such fake independent con-
Germs has been one of it's most eff
Elective means of destroying competi-
ton The Standard has habitually re-
duced the price against its competi-
tor in particular locality while main
tanning it's prices at other places
When competition was destroyed it
advanced or restored former prices.
The Standard has sold different
grades of oil at different prices from
the same barrel 1t has paid en-
lployes of Independent oil companies
for information rs to the business
of the competitors and has paid en-
ployes of industrial companies 10 Sc
cure the adoption of its oil in prefer
ence to that of its competitors. IL
has followed every barrel of indie
!pendent OIL TO its destination. its
agents are instructed TO secure Gus
ltomers at any sacrifice 1t has tam
pered with the oil inspectors in diff
ferent states. The laws of several
. states concerning the inspection OF
oil are singularly defective and this
has been turned to profit bv the
Standard"
The commissions only knowledge
of the competitive methods Of the
Standard OIL Co, is obtained from
evidence taken under oaths I'm this
Investigation The Standard WAS Civ
en- permission TO explain or rebuilt the
facts This evidence II true demon
strates that the competitive methods
Of the company in the past have been
unfair and even disreputable lis
motto has been the destruction 81
competition at any cost and this pol
lev has been pursued without much
: reference TO decency or conscience
and it is significant that the larger
> independent refners sell the greater
: part of their product in foreign coun
d tries One independent testified tha
:, 10 per cent Of his product wen
J, abroad and said that he could com
! pete with the Standard in Germany
Z where its methods. as followed in thi'
u country. would not be tolerated, bu
;, that he could not compete with I
: here