The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-02-07

graph and telephone wires for mere
| gambling in stocks and futures, just as
It does In lottery transactions.
Santa Fs President Had
Guilty knowledge Of Rebating
7 inclose herewith q statement Issued
by the chief OF the buTsaI 81, CORPORA.
tons tAppehdix y, in answer W certain
statements (Which ! also inclose), made
standard OIL corporation Appendix p.
and a letter of the encouragement Gap
bendix - containing an answer to GER
Company (A~ppendix D.. The Standard
Oil corporation and the .railw.y Company
Courts court e Of eriR nfeal %m nSaeo sS,'.y both GS have awe
been sentenced to pay heavy. fines. and
each has issued. and published, broadcast
cence H%denouncfng as Improper the
action of the courts andi,juries In con-
victing them Of guilt. These statements
and are untruthful in important par
ticulars. The folseWing letter and in
closure from Mr.: Heney sufficiently illus.
the Santa Fe and show the utter falsity
of their plea of ignorance. the similar
plea of the Standard Oil being equally
Department or Justice. Office of the
United4states Attorney, District of Ore
Portland. January II. 1908.
The President. Washington. d. G.
Dear Mr.. PRESIDENT understand that
Mr.. Ripley. OF the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway system, has
ed with some severity upon your attitude
toward the payment of rebates by certain
ranscontinentai railroads and that he
IS dsslarsa IasS Is - ppsEeg
sneM Sng BY Rs road ROAD. aa'a fS& b
close you, bsrewith. copy Of a letter from
Edward Chambers general freight traffic
ma ~ - 90 tha ia ~NA o. CAz
ia Fe Railway system. to Mr.. G. A.
dateS Pebr suait2T Fl Ppd ahe sane company
This letter does not deal with inter-
state shipments, but the constitution of
the state OF California makes the pay
ment of rebates by railroads a felony.
and Mr.. Ripley has apparently not been
business. You are at liberty to use
it can be of service to yourself or the
FRANCIS J. HENEY."
-, Sf--!g ~ a.
San Francisco, February q, 1907.
Dear Sir: l hand you herewith a file
Of papers covering the movement of fuel
oil shipped by the Associated OH Com
pany over our line from January l, 1906,
up to and including November 10. 1906.
I'VE agreed with cit, the MA Asseeiased Oil
Wells and myself that in consideration
Of their making US a special price on oil
for company use, which is covered by a
contract, and the further consideration
that we would take a certain quantity,
they would In, turn ship from Bakersfield
over our line to San Francisco Bay
points a certain minimum number of bar
rels of fuel oil at rate of % cents per
barrel from Bakersfield. exclusive of the
switching charge. q.
These statements cover the movement
except that they have included Stockton,
which is not correct. as 1t is not a bay
yQnipntlv nv water We have maid them
on account of this movement 81, 2S9 which
should be deducted from the total of
movement shown in the attached papers.
II wish you would arrange to make up
a statement. check the same, and refund
to the Associated Oil Company down to
the basis of 25 cents per barrel from Ba-
k~ersfleld where they are the shippers, re-
sardless OF who is consignee, as all their
fuel oil is sold delivered. The reason
| have stated Is that the Associated Oil
Company have their own boats and carry
oil from fields controlled by. themselves
along the coast near San Luis Obispo to
San Francisco at a much lower cost than
the special rate we have made them and
In competition With the DU q, on Com,
was necessary for them to sell at the
San Francisco Bay points on the basis
the coast fields. They figured they could
only afford to pay us the 20 cents per
barrel il by doing this they sold our
company n certain amount of fuel oil,
otherwise the business covered by the
attached papers would have come in by
boat from the coast fields.
II am writing this up completely so
that there may be in the papers a history
of the reasons why this arrangement was
made. ! wish you would go ahead and
make the adjustment as soon as possible.
as the Associated Oil Company are very
anxious to have the matter closed up
The Arrangement was cancelled on No
vember 18th at a conference between Mr..
s sslfl Mr. Wells MT, Porter and my
yours truly,
EDWARD CHAMBERS"
s-Associated Oil Company,
"Mr, g. A. Davidson,
The attacks by these great corporations
on the administrations actions nave been
given a wide circulation throughout the
country. in the newspapers and other
wise. by those writer's and speakers who,
consciously, or unconsciously act as the
representatives OF predatory wealth-of
the wealth accumulated on II giant scale
by all forms OF iniquity, ranging from
the oppression of wageworkers to unfair
and unwholesome methods of crushing
out competition, and to defrauding the
public by stock tobbing and the manipu-
lation OF securities, Certain wealthy men
of this stamp, whose conduct. should be
abhorrent to every man of ordinarily de-
cent conscience, and who commit the
hideous wrong of teaching Dur young
men that phenomenal business success
must ordinarily be based on dishonesty,
have during the last few months made
1t apparent that they have banded to-
gether to work for a reaction. Their en-
deavor is to overthrow and discredit all
who honestly administer the law, to pre-
vent any additional legislation which
w sssuss s & passi sae 4 re freedom sh rom a nS TO TO-
straint which viii permit every unscru-
pulous wrcngdoer to. do what he wishes
UNCHECKED provided he has snoush mon
movement in which these men are en-
gagged IL to make clear 70 the public just