The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-29
HAGGARD REVIEWS MEN AND MATTERS Trust Busting" By the Gov
 ernment Officials MIR. BRYAN IN THE SOUTH It Is Claimed That the Democratic Leader Is Weaker in the
 South Than He Was
 Year Ago.
0R. BRYAN IN THE SOUTH
BY SEWElL HAGGARp.

! the public has read ~ay by day the reports of the various bearings in the | governments fight to bring the Standard | oil trust to its knees, It's wonderment in- 1 creasng as each disclosure more startling l than that which had gone before, was l brought to light But few have stopped l to ask whose master brain was behind this relentless probing into d guilty cor l poraton's secrets, who had mastered the subject so thoroughly that he was able 10 cope with and even baffle the foremost financial experts of the day when he got them on the witness stand.
 The public hearings are small part of the goyernnfent's antitrust campaign. Every hearing that lasts only a few days or weeks is preceded by months of labor, delving into books and musty court rec ords and examining this man and that man in private. Before d lawyer brings i his case to trial he must know, first, what to ask his witnesses. and, second, he must be sufficiently conVersant with the facts to corner the witness, should his memory prove defective-an element seemingly abnormally developed in all corporation officers The man who has so ably taken this role in the Standard Oil investigation is Frank B. Kellogg of St. Paul, Minn., who left his private practice to help MT. Roosevelt bust the trusts.
 MT Kellogg came into National promi- hence three years ago. At that time there began to loom up in the middle west what came to be known as the "Western Paper Trust" combination of all the paper manufacturing houses in the west ern section of the country This com bnation was so palpably in violation of the Sherman antitrust law that the President called upon Attorney General Knox to look into it, and if he found it existed in violation of the sherman law. to proceed against 1t.
 Mr. Knox looked a'oout for a man to conduct the Investigation It did not take him a great wnIe to learn of Frank B. Kellogg Kellogg had long been in practice in St. Paul, Mlnn., and had made an enViable reputation in the study and practice of corporation law.
 So Kellogg was consulted, and at great sacrifice to his private practice, consented to take the matter in hand And when he consented to do that it was known by his friends that he would not go into the matter half-heartedly. He was con- scientiously opposed to trusts in restraint of trade.
 He at once got into the harness and was appointed special assistant attorney general and told to go ahead. He started his suit in the United States circuit court in St. Paul and fought 1t all the way to the supreme court of the United states, where he won out, and the West ern Paper Trust was declared illegal and was dissolved.
 MT, Kellogg is 60 years old, although he does not look to be more than 40. Tall and spare and full of nervous energy, he is q striking, even picturesque charac- lA fa t.tp tI,, tongued servants of the corporations with whom he has crossed swords They make light of him sometimes, but they fear him. Although he was born in New York, he has live. in the west so long that he has caught the breezy western manner He is rarely called Mr. Kel- loss but is referred to The Man From West"
 His calmness in examining a witness is provoking at times and not in keeping with the mans general makeup. He is, so full of energy that he cannot sit still yet he will pace up and down in front of shis witness making hlm vince with his quiet irony and sarcasm. You expect him to below. you expect him to rant, you do not expect one spark of humol- from him. In all of which YOU are dis appointed.
 Following his success in the Western Paper Trust case, he was called upon by the interstate commerce commission 10 investigate the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. No proce- dure was brought against the corpora tions. but the information was furnished for the guidance O. the members of the commission in the framing of legisa- ton.
 When the Standard Oil inquiry was determined upon, Kellogg was again ap- pointed special assistant attorney gen eral and given free rein. and that he k taking advantage of it is apparent every day.
 Franklin B. Kellogg was the man who presented his proof in such conclusive fashion that Judge Iandis fined the Indiana subsidiary of the oil trust $2s- sio,000. Now he is engaged in a suit for the dissolution of the trust He has shown how the monopoly was formed. how it intimidated it's competitors by spies around with shot guns and how it harassed them until they were willing 10 enter trust agreement with guaran- tee of stipulated yearly profits.
 He has wrung from the trust officials secret figures that have made the public gasp from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
 According to the trusts own figures, more than $lS0 0o0,000 of undivided profits still remained in the treasury at the close of the year 1906. Dividends amounting 10 more than $SU.UOOOO were paid out Iil 1906. and the average amount of annual dividends for the past eight years has been nearly SiO000,000
 Five men with estates the stock of which is voted as they desire practically own the oil trust, and these five In eight years from 1899 to 1906, dividsd among themselves more than slC0,0000cO in divi- dends. They have the absolute control of the great corporation in their hands. Their names are John b. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, Henry H. Rogers, Henry M Flagler and Charles NJ. Pratt. stapouman- dwmr.S SoltcDJ etaoi etao eta
 Frank B. Kellogg Is not prosecuting the trusts for money or for glory.
 Are you opposed to trusts?' he was asked the other day by a reporter. With all the force that is in me-" Mir. Kellogg replied. "l am doing this work for the government as a matter of conscience, as well as a matter of duty"
 You believe in every one having an opportunity to engage in trade, no mat ther whether with large or small capi- tal?
 Why. of course I do, my boy.' And you think
 ''I do not think I know that it is of the highest importance to the welfare of the American people that the ave nues of trade and commerce be kept open"
 Hesitating for just one moment, MT. Kellogg scratched his head thoughtfully and then set about to pace up and down the floor in the nervous manner that has become characteristic to him.