The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-11-03
SOME MORE LETTERS
FROM THE STANDARD OIL FILES
READ.
The Manufacturers Record and The

Southern Farm Magazine Got Slic.
es of Standard Oil Money.
W. R. Hearst read some more OF
the Archbold letters at a meeting
in New York Saturday night. He
said: II have shown heretofore the
peculiar interest in newspapers and
magazines and lecturers and other
institutions and individuals that III
fuence public sentiment" Hearst
then read the following letter:
26 Broadway, Oct. 10, 1902.
Mr.. H. H. Edmonds, Baltimore, Md.
Dear Sir: Responding to your Ia
vor of the 9th, it gives me pleasure
to enclose you herewith certificate OF
deposit to your favor for $4,000, COW
ering a years subscription to The
Manufacturers Record.
Truly yours,
John D. Archbold.
II have looked up the subscription
price Of The Manufacturers Record y
Hearst continued, and l find that
1T is 81 a year. Consequently Mr
Archbold was either subsidizing The
! Manufacturers Record or he was
subscribing for $50 years.
".The Standard Oil Company is a
liberal subscriber of this sort, and
the object of the subscriptions Is to
induct these, publications to inlu-
ence sentiment in favor of the Stand
ard Oil, as the following letter will
show:
"26 Broadway, Dec. IS, 1907.
"Mr. Thomas P. Grasty, Care of
Buck & Pratt, Room 1903, No. 27
William Street, City.
"'Dear Mr.. Grasty: I have your
favor O. yesterday and beg to re-
turn herewith the telegram from Mr..
Edmonds to you. We are willing t,
continue the subscription Of $5,O09
to The Southern Farm Magazine for
another year, payments to be made
the same as they have been this yea.
We do not doubt but that the. influ-
ence of your publication throughout
the South is of the most helpful char
acter.
"'Witl good wishes, am
et Very truly yours,
"John D. Archbold.'
"The standard OIL Company not
only enGavors to influence publlc
sentiment through magazines and
newspapers, but it subsidies teach
ers and lecturers to educate the
public IL the interest of Standard
OIL"
Hearst then read letters to Prof.
George Iunton of New York city.
indicating that he had been paid
$4,000, and to Hon. w. A. Magee
of the Httsburg Times, In which an
enclosun of check for S1,25O Is
mentiond.
Hears also read letter from
Joseph !. sibley, addressed to Mr..
Archbols in which he says:
"An Efficient literary bureau Ia
needed pt for day or crisis, but
permanent and healthy control Of
The Associated Press and kindred
avenues. 1t will cost money, but
can be made self-supporting. The
next -four years is, more than any
previous epoch, to determine the fu-
ture of tie country. No man values
public Onion or fears it, so much
as Rooseelt. No man seeks popu-
larity somuch as he. Mild reproof
or criticim of his policy would near
ly paralze him. Today he hears
! only the !horus Of rabble, and he
thinks itiublic sentiment. 1 do no.
know wheher the industrial corpora
tions andthe transportation compa-
MES haveanough at stake to justify
union forces for concerted &C
ton. 1t Gems to me necessary"
1.-The ilportant part Of this let
ter" say: Mr.. Hearst, "is not the
part thatreveals Senator Bailey, a
Democrat friend Of the STANDARD
Oil, or r. Sibley, Republican
friend of le Standard Oil Company.
1t is the lrt which reveals the plan
| to controlthe great news organiZa-
tions Of lie country, the Associat-
ed Press md kindred avenues to
influence public opinion. In that
way Mr.. S,ley thinks the public can
he deceive and public men like MIR.
Roosevelt,Sho value public opinion.
can be cricised and controlled.
1T is uioubtedly possible for the
industrial corporations and the
transportaon companies with the
Standard ii at the head, to bring
about a lion of forces for con-
certed actin That union of forces
would enae them to control many
of the gre; avenues of publicity.
Think the JOY of the Stand
ard Oil in 'self-supporting organl
Zation whit would daily deceive all
the citiZeI Of the United States.
No more slsidies to newspapers and
magazines nd lecturers. No more
subscriptio, for 10000 years, and
season ticlts for 10000 perform
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