The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-01-30

large shippers in the territory had been guiftK
Considering the fact that these shEpSexs n
cluded the packers and elevator men ~ Chk-
cago the action of the grand jury IN czllInx
upon President Moffett to furnish evidence u
their wrong-doing may be interpreted - -
mand for an elaboration of the Obvicuss II
the fact that ratebook containing thess
freight fates for other shippers was Offered u
evidence during the trial and ruled eut ~
Judge Lands, was kept out OF sight Pres
dent Moffett would not, of course, acceTf tAe
invitation of the grand jury although he might
have been pardoned If he had Referred Ghem
to various official Investigations BY the ktkE
state Commerce Commission and OtAeS -
partments Of the Government.
We come back therefore, to the conelwiss
of the whole matter, which is that the STAND
ard Oil Company Of Indiana was fined ~
amount equal to seven or eight times the val
ue of its entire property, because it's trx1aE
department did not verify the statement q
the Alton rate clerk, that the six cent coUmo3-
ity rate on oil had been properly filed wffh Tie
Interstate Commerce Commission There b NJ
evidence, and none was introduced at the trial.
that any shipper of oil from Chicago teFrifsEy
had been interfered with by the 1Soent raAs
nor that the failure Of the Alton to file its sir
cent rate had resulted in any discrimiBafiua
against any independent shipper.--we mnst
take this on the word of the Commissions
of Corporations and of Judge Landis- Neix1er
is 1t denied even by Mr.. Smith that the -SnteS
pendent shipper of OIL whom he pictures ~
being driven out of business by this discrirs-
ination of the Alton, could have shippc6 an
the oil he desired to ship from Whiting viG
BOLTON over the lines of the Chicago q Esst-
ern Illinois to East st. Louis. In short. Prem
dent Moffett's defence is still good, zna vs
predict will be SO declared by the higher ccwt
The Standard Oil Company has been charged
with all manner of crimes and misdemez.sz
Beginning with the famous Rice OF Nasief1z.
passing down to that apostle Of popular kheF-
ties, Henry Demarest Lloyd. with hiS weastb
Against the Commonwealth, descendng ~
easy stages to Miss Tarbell's offensive peEsuz-
alities, we finally reach the neither depthE IL
unfair and baseless misrepresentation IN On
report of the Commissioner OF Corporations
The Standard has been charged with evuy
form of commercial piracy and with nsst III
the crimes On the corporation calendar. As.er
long years of strenuous attack, under I'm
leadership of the President Of the Unife&
States, the corporation is at last drzgsna TO
the bar of justice to answer for lis mistcisgx-
The whole strength Of the Governmezt In d.
rected against it, and at last, We are told. ne
Standard Oil Company is to pay the penalty az
its crimes, and it is finally convicted Of haS-
ing failed to verify the statement of a Yate
clerk and is forthwith fined prodigious sum>
measured by the car. Under the old eyiminak
law, the theft of property worth more Than .
shilling was punishable by death Under fhe
Interpretation of the Interstate CamDereeIlzF
by Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Kensssw
Lands, technical error of trafic sfsrkzs ID
made the excuse for the confscation Of a vzsf
amount of property,