The L'Anse sentinel., 1908-02-08

| the race track and gambling In the stock
cious to the body polite as the other in
| kind. and In degree the evil worked Is
| far greater. But II is far more difhcult
| subject with which to deal The great
hulk of the business transacted on the
exchanges is not only legitimate. but Is
necessary to the working of our modern
would have to be taken not to interfere
| with this business In doing away with
the bucket shop" type of operation we
should study both the successes and the
! failures of foreign legislators who, not
| ably In Germany, have worked along this
| line, so as not to do anything harmful
dealing with this matter by the federal
| government in a federal. republic like
ours. But Il i Is possible to devise
| q way to deal with IL the effort should De
| made, even II only in a cautious and
| tentative way. 1t would seem that the
| federal government could at least act
graph and telephone wires for mere
| gambling in stocks and futures, Just as
| II does In lottery transactions.
Santa Fe President Had
Guilty knowledge of Rebating
inclose herewith a statement issued
by the chief of the bureau of corpora
tions (Appendix y, in answer to certain
statements (Which also inclose), made
Standard Oil corporation (Appendix p,
and letter of the encouragement CAP
pendix 3D. containing an answer to GER
the president OF the. Santa Fe Railway
Company (Appendix a.. The Standard
OIL corporation and the railway company
courts OF criminal misconduct; both have
been sentenced to pay heavy fines; and
each has issued and published broadcast
cence and denouncing as improper the
action OF the courts and juries In con-
victing them of guilt. These statements
and and are untruthful in important par,
ticulars. The following letter and in
closure from Mr. Heney sufficiently illus
trate the methods of the high officials of
Of their plea Of ignorance, the similar
plea of the Standard Oil being equally
without foundation:
Department of Justice, Office of the
United States Attorney. District of Ore
gon
Portland January II. 1908.
The President, Washington, d. c,
Dear Mr.. President: / understand that
Mr.. Ripley, Of the Atchison. Topeka &
ed with some severity upon your attitude
toward the payment of rebates by certain
transcontinental railroads and that he
has declared that he personally never
knew anything about any rebates being
Close you herewith copy of a letter from
manager Of the AtcRison, Topeka & San
ta Fe Railway system, to Mr.. G. A.
Davidson, auditor of the same company,
"This letter does M not not deal with inter-
| state shipments. but the constitution of
the state of California makes the pay
and Mr.. Ripley has apparently not been
| above the commission of crime to secure
| business You are at liberty to use
| this inclosure in any way that you think
Sincerely yours.
FRANCIS J. HENEY."
! "San Francisco, February q, 1907.
Dear Sir: ! hand you herewith file
of papers covering the movement of fuel
| pany over our line from January /. 1906,
| up to and including November 15, 1906.
1--WE agreed with the. Associated OIL
Wells and myself. that in consideration
| OF their making US special price on oil
| for company use, which is covered by
| that we would take certain quantity,
| they would in turn ship from Bakersfield
| over our line to San Francisco Bay
| points certain minimum number Of bar
| rels of fuel oil at rate of 25 cents per
barrel from Bakersfield, exclusive of the
| switching charge.
| except that they have included Stockton,
which Is not correct, as II is not bay
point and could not be reached as con-
/ on account of this movement 1929 which
! should be deducted from the total of
movement shown In the attached papers.
| ~ wish you would arrange to make up
n statement. check the same, and refund
to the Associated OIL Company down to
the basis Of 25 cents per bar barrel sl, from Ba-
| gardless of who Is consignee, as all their
| fuel oil Is sold delivered. The reason
1 ii have stated Is that the Associated Oil
oil from fields controlled by, themselves
San Francisco at a much lower cost than
the special rate we have made them and
in competition with the Union OIL Com
pany and the Standard Oil Company, It
was necessary for them to sell at the
San Francisco Bay points on the basis
of the cost of water transportation from
ss c0a drd eSs to pay TheS Is ssy ssSs sop
barrel IL by doing this they sold our
company certain amount of fuel oil.
otherwise the business covered by the
attached papers would have come in by
boat from the coast fields.
81 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 OH Company are very
anxious to have the matter closed up.
The arrangement was Cancelled on No
yember 18th & at conference between Mr..
self.
yours truly,
EDWARD CHAMBERS"
"Shipments- Associated OIL Company,
"Mr. G. A. Davidson.
The attacks by these great corporations
on the ADMINISTRATORS actions have been
| given a wide circulation throughout the
country. In the newspapers and other
wise, by those writers and speakers who,
consciously or unconsciously. act as the
representatives of predatory wealth-of
the wealth accumulated on giant scale
by all forms OF inianity, ranging from