Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-29

has been one of it's most effective
 means of destroying competition. The
 Standard has habitualiy reduced the price against it's competitor In a pan | ticular locality. while maintaining las
 prices at otherplaces. When eompe-
 tion was destroyed 1t advanced or TO- l stored former prices, The Standard has sold different grades of oil at different prices from the same barrel
 It has paid employees of independent
 oil companies for Information as to the business of these competitors and has paid employees of industrial com Panies to secure the adoption of It's oil in preference Of that of its com petitors. It has followed every bar Its agents are instructed to secure GUS toners at any sacrifice. It has tam pered with the oil inspectors In differ ent states. The laws of several stat es concerning the inspection of oil are singularly defective. and this has been turned to profit by the Standard.
 "The commissions only knowledge of the competitive method of the Standard oil compahy 1t has obtained from evidence taken under oath in this investigation. The Standard wAI given permission to explain or rebut the facts.
 This if true. demonstrates that the competitive methods in the company in the past have been unfair and dis- reputable. It's motto has been destruc- ton of competitions at any cost and this policy has been pursued without much reference to decency or con science and it Is significant that the larger independent refiners sell the greater part of tHefr product in for-1 eign countries. one independent tes- tiled that T5 per sent of his product went abroad and Said that he could compete with the' Standard in Ger many, where it's methods as followed in this country would not be tolerated, but that he could not compete with 1t here 3 2o
 "on the question Of remedies the report says: p
 More than anything else the pipe line has contributed to the Standard and its supremacy must continue until its rival enjoys the same transporta- ton facilities. The amended act ts regulate commerce makes the pipe lines common carriers subject to that act. and the power ito prescribe just and reasonable rates, regulations ana practices, after complaint and hear mi But the pipe line tariffs filed with the commission are alleged to be of no actual advantage to the independent operators. The commission can act upon these schedules only after com plaint has been made challenging spe- cifc rates regulations or practices Some complaints are now pending. How far the amended act will prove adequate to such injustice as now ex- lsts in respect to this traffic remains ! to be seen. .4
 Since in the past petroleum rates have not always been established to promote. but often to check traffic and the tariffs are more or less permeated with determinations in Ia yor of the Standard oil company hay ing built up during a series of yearF in that view. 1t may be that this dis elimination will never be eliminated by any process of complaint against
 specific rate or practice. Judging by
 the past. dlscriminations as to this traffic may arise more frequently than those now existing can be routed out by that method. As to no other im-
 portant traffic is there an approach
 to the monopoly Of the Standard OH in that of oil. Under these conditions 1t may become necessary to uprooting
 Of established wrongs and the preven- ton of others that the government
 shall fix in the first instance of rates and regulations for the transportation of this traffic. This method has been adopted by the legislature of one state. It probably will be found nee essary to disassociate 1t in the case of oil. as in that of other commodities. the function of transportation from that of production and distribution.
 What other remedies in additIoa to those already provided it may be net- sasary to prescribe can be better de- Itsrmined in the near future by the re-
 suits of experience in administerins the present law.
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