The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-10-25
MORE CROOKED METHODS.

The illicit relations long existing between the Standard Oil
pany the railroads have again been testified and this time
by official company subsidiary the Standard and in
form infinitely repugnan to all rghthnng people than
relating The bears enough resemblance the general
ce of making lower prices wholesale than retail trade to be
capable of defense But the employment of spies watch
the business of rivals thing which honorable business
would 1t is however the settled practice OF the
Standard OIL says the Philadelphia Record
The official of subsidiary company operating in Kentucky has
admitted that from he supplied with transcripts OF
the books of the railroad companies showing the amounts OF oil
shipped by the independent and the OF the shippers
and the consgnees The railroads had right to supply this IN
formation regarding of the shippers another shipper hey
did not do this for other concerns and II charged WIN the
they would have stouy denied that they doing Tor anybody
But companies did betay the confidence OF their
shippers to help the Standard to get their customers away from
Them the Standard keeping hired spies the railroad OF
fees bring information which they had no right to dge
Is likely been continued any considerable time
without the knowledge of the railroad officials? 1t very doubtful
The probability that the railroads aided the Standard with
and obstruced the pipe lines of the independents they also
supplied the Standard Oil with information regarding the business
OF its competitors.
Even if this conduct were in the supposed of the business
of the railroad corporations ndefensbe II It put money
into the pockets of railroad officials themselves then was
The Statesman is shocked because Mayor Rebun OF Philadelphia
city commissioner the request OF the Standard U
Company Don't the Statesman know that Philadelphia has re
to its waow the old boodlng gang IS in complete
control that the city the OF the corporations
whose appettes whed by the two years they were out
control To get the gang back it necessary Tor PRESIDENT
Roosevelt to send two cabinet ministers to the support OF
Reyburns candidacy little think like that did not phase the
presidential He trying to overthrow the Johnson
administration in Cleveland Ohio and successful the Statesman
expect to be shocked again. for the corporations Will surely
the saddle there That is what ne IS running Tor
The Capital News and one or two correspondents have rendered
the people lasting The Statesman opened its batteries OF
vuperaon and prejudice the approaching trial OF George a.
Pettibone endeavorng the same class
it engendered during the Haywood case = lew wen @
from the Capital enced the contemplate organ OF the
ring The Statesman felt the coming through its own glass
house experience the prisoners dock changes ones view
point and the old gang not arrogant before the timber
fraud trials opened
The full page article on the Japanese Peril presented IN the last
issue of THE CITIZEN caused much comment japanese @
grafton presents the important issue before the American
people and Asc Exclusion Leagues should be organized at once
in all the states affected by immigration Those interested
should fake immediate steps such organization in Boise
Pone bbed their ewes and second look when they found
the ad old Statesman playing for the picking out the
winners and telling sporty inclined where to place th money
Il was new role for the great and only Cobb but since he has be
e bosom cnv of Goodng and Brady myap the sporting