The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-01
WOULD SHAPE PUBLIC OPINION Charge of Hearst Against
 Standard Oil MORE LETTERS ARE READ Manufacturers Record Now in the
 Limelight. A Letter From Archboid To Editor Ed- ! monds Is Read-Paic Three Thou-
 sand Dollars for Year. subscription.

New York, Oct. Sl-wnllam R, Hearst brought the campaign of the Independence Party to close in Car negie Hall tonight. by reading letters which revealed an attempt of the Standard oil Company to shape public opinion.
 The. reading of the letters and MT. Hearst's comments thereon were heard by a large audience, which cheered the telling points brought out by the speaker. Thomas L. Hisgen and John Temple Graves. the Leagues candidates for President and Vice President, and Clarence J.. Shearn. the nominee for Governor, also delivered addresses.
 T have shown heretofore," Mir. Hearst said, "the peculiar interest in. newspapers and magazines and lec- lures and other institutions and indi- vtduals that influence public senti-
 MT. hearst then read the following 'etss "25 Broadway, Oct. 10. 1902 l 'Mr. H. H. Edmonds, Baltimore, Md. .'Dear Sir--Responding to your fa- | yor of the nii tn. it gives me pleasure | to tnclose you here certificate of depos- if to your favor for s3,oo0 covering X years subscription to The Manufact- urer's Record.
 (siEned) John D. Archbold." | "I have looked up the subscription l price of The Manufacturers' Record, ! Mir. Hearst continued, and ind that it is s4 a year. Consequently MT. Arcn- l bold was either subsidizing The Manu- l facturers' Record or he was subscribing | for 75O years. The Standard oil Com | pany is a liberal subscriber Of this sort l and the object of these subscriptions 1 is to induce these publications to m | fuence public sentiment in favor of the | Standard oil Company as the follow | ing letter will show:
 "2s Broadway, Dec. IS. lsOI' ''Mr Thomas P. Grasty
 Care of Buck & Pratt. "Roorn 1908. No s7 William st. l 'scity:
 f-Dear sfr, crasty: tz st
 IT. have your favor of yesterday and I har to return herewith the telegram l from Mr.. Edgnonds to you We are willing 10 continue the subscription. Of I s .000 to The Southern Farm Magazine l for another year. payments to be made l fhas same as they have been this year.. We do not doubt but that the infu- eneA of your publications throughout the south is of the most heiprul char I
 with good wishes. I am,
 | ''Verly truly yours, | John D. Archbold."
 .oTbe Standard oil Company not only andeayors to Influence public sentiment through magazines and newspapers but 1t subsldizes teachers ana tec'ul- ers to educate the public in the in- terest of the Standard Oil.
 MT. Hearst then read letters to Pro- lessor GeorEe Gunton of New York city. indicating that he had been paid s10.OO0. and to Hon. W. A MaSee Of The Pittsburg Times, in which an en- closure of check for $l,2bO IS men
 A latter was read from Joseph c. Sib- Iley addressed to Mir. Archbold, In
 "An eficient literary bureau is need ed. not for a day or a crisis, but nermanent and healthy control of the Associated Press and kindred ave nues. IL will cost money but will De inc eneapest in the end. and can be seIf .supporting The next four years lis more than any previous epoch. to detarmIna the future of the country No man values public opinion or fears if so much as Roosevelt, No man seeks popularity so much as he. Mild re- proof or criticism or ms poHey wouIa @ nearly paralyze him. Today he hears onlv the chorus of a rabble. and ne thinks 1t is public sentiment.
 aThe important part of this letter.
 savs MT. Hearst. lis the part which re- vesls the plan to control the great news organizations of the country
 The Associated Press and kindred av'
 enues to influence public opinion m
 that way MT. Slbley thinks the public
 can be deceived. and public men like
 MT. Roosevelt, who value public opin-
 ion can be criticized and controlled
 "It Is undoubtedly the industrial
 corporations and the transportation
 connpanIes with the Standard oil al
 their head to bring about a union oi forces for concerted action That unior of forces would enable them to con
 trol many of the great avenues of pub licity.
 oil In a self supportiRH organization
 wh4oh would daily dece e all the cit
 Izens of the United States. No more
 subsidies in newspapers and magazinei and lectures. No more supscripuon:
 for ten thousand years and seasor
 tickets for twenty thousand perform
 ances." ~--