The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-18
STANDARD TOLL NOT
ONLY TRUST INDICTED
Herbert Knox Smiths Accusa-
ton Applies to Other
Trusts.
GOOD CARD OR DEMOCRATS,
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GOOD CARDIFF Or DEMOCRATS,
Smiths Expose Of Trust Methods
Will Inform Country as to
Effects Of High Tariff.
ny WAITER EDWARD HARRIS.

ny WAITER EDWARD HARRIS.
WASHINGTON, ~. e.. August -
In nrraigning the Standard OIL Com
tpany for selling itsiprodncts to. foreign
consumers at a much lower price than
to American buyers, Herbert Knox
Smith. Commissioner OF Corporations,
In his last report to the President, IN
absolute necessity, draws an equally
effective Indictment against large
number of other trusts. whose foreign
trade Is probably quite as extensive
Ok that OF the much beratcd Standard.
In this last or supplemental report
Commissioner Smith says:
I'm the business Of selling petroleum
products in foreign countries the price
apparently been to sacrifice the inter
eEts of the American consumer for the
purpose OF securing the Standards for
eign business. High monopoly
competing territory. in order to make
good the losses where there was COM
petition
Mr.. Smith goes somewhat into detail
In establishing his charges. He says:
American consumers of oil paid two
cents a gallon more for oil than the
Standard sold 1t for in Germany ~
cents more than in Great Britain; i9
more than in the Netherlands, and 2.s
cents more than in the Orient.
.Whatever view may be taken as to
the advantage OF great combination
entirely clear that the advantage de-
rived by the American people from
that trade is very small, as compared
with the disadvantages imposed upon
them by the Standards monopoly at
home"
Whether or not Mr.. Smith. one of
the administrations official mouth
pieces. hastens the day of final reck-
-t,t. ~ t., n lie ".
haustive expose and highly enlighten-
ing deductions from data concerning
the operations OF the Standard Oil mo-
nopoly. or has in any way furthered the
tingly or otherwise. played good card
into the hands Of the Democratic party.
No matter how culpable the Standard
may be, it Will find JUNCTION in the In.
The administration cap. which IT has
placed on the head of the oil monopoly,
would Mt equally well the head of q
dozen trusts which make practice OF
selling to the foreign consumer at
less price than Is paid by the domestic
buyer. Investigation into the opera.
tions OF any OF the more powerful
trusts fostered by the Republican high
tariff system would be productive 81
results equally as condemning as those
Mr. Smith and the President now fiannt
before the public as proof OF the enor-
mites of which the Standard Is guilty
Democratic legislators meets grateful
yindication.
In every Congress SINCE. the first
trust thrust its head from under the
high tariff blanket Democrats In the
House and the Senate have inyeighed
against the great industrial crimes per-
.petrated against the home consumers
of American products. But certain
adroit Republicans. notably MIR. Roose-
Welt himself have comparatively re
Gently raised the cry OF good trusts
and bad trusts. Yet. down 10 this day
OF our LORD. the gooa ana tne Daa a re-,
both prey remorselessly upon depend
ent consumers.
There Is abundant evidence to show
that the Standard. rapacious as 1t Is
portrayed by Commissioner Smith. is
not the only trust against which may
be drawn an Indictment for eXtortion
from home consumers, and the favofing
or European buyers in comparison.
In August. 1900, the Bureau of sta
tistics devoted report to the injustice
of charging Americans more for certain
articles than was charged foreigners
for the same goods. The report con-
tanned this statement:
"The progress of work on ship
building In the United States has like
wise been retarded. because makers OF
steel materials required higher price
they did from foreign consumers LOT
substantially the same products
In speech delivered in the .seh-se
on April 25,. 1905. Senator Bacon. OIL
to support the charge of gross dis
against American buyers
of steel rails. barbed wire. steel plates
and other products of the powerful
steel trust.
It was charged-and the charge was
established beyond question, through
the testimony Of. many sh1pbuiiders
who testified before the Consressi t,nal
Marine Commission 81 on, , f,ase
we're purchasing steel plates. angles
and other forms of steel manufactures
much more cheapiy. than they We're
being sold to American shippulloers.
Here is the situation.
The Standard is berated Tor seiiins
oil in Germany for two cents gallon
less than it charges the American con-
sumner.
steel to the shipbuilding ccncefns OF
Belfast, Ireland. for SEA a ton. deiiY-
cred, while exactly the same steel az
sold to an American at tPittsnurS,I
where manufaeturel. costs sss g ton s,1.,,s
turn maniacal at even the suggestion
II removing a single brick from the
covering tariff wall Behind which thet
steel trust. like the oil trust. is en-
renched.
The sincere advocates of tariff re.
yision and reform make much meat or
Smiths report on the
standard Oil. using it as u club with
which to belabor the advocates of high
,rotection. whose Legitimate offspring
ire the trusts which sacrifice the IN
terests or the home consumer in order
o capture the trade Of tAe foreign
buyer. fh J,
are saying that there must
,ei no tariff revision until 1909. after
{ President shall have been elected,
which means undlsputed sway of the
rusts for that much longer. But no nc,
,ody ever expects a Republican reNl-a
ion of the tariff laws of the country
q hurt a singlef trust
i NATIVE or DANyILI.E
DIES IN BOSTON, MASS.
Especial to TheT'rimes Dispatch.
MEDFORD. MASS, August 17.--
George W. Hall, swhole potato deal I
n of CharlestoWn residing In thisaeity,
S dead here after a few DAYS illness
.he9 the Maids, Hospital He was
trlcken with typhoid fever at Win I
hrop, where he was spending the sum-
ler lie was a native of Danville, Va,
nd was twenty-siX years old.
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