The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-11
KELLOGG ENDS
HIS ARGUMENT
Case of Government Against
Standard Oil Taken Un-
der Amusement.
TRIAL HAS COST MILLIONS
RECORD WHEN MADE UP WILL
CONTAIN 100000 WORDS.

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So. Io2ie. AF.il 10.-After a coHtinu-
uu, argument or five days Special
United States Attorney General Frank
g. Kellogg today mace his closing ad-
dress ia behalf of the government in
the latter's SIT Go dissolve the Standard
oil company of New Jersey as violatOr
OF lie Sherman act.
fnc case has record for uigneSs. The
evidence is larger by half than that ever
before taken in a single case. the rec
ord containing in all II 600 900 words.
II is estimated that 10y the time the
court of last resort mas passed upon the
points at issue the trial will represent
an expenditure of $1,000, OO0 in lawyers
fees and court costs.
Mr.. Kellogg argued that the twenty
companies signing the original stand
ard trust agreement were just as COM
patitive, if anything, more so, than the
railways subscribing To the agreement
ia the Northern Securities case.
Review of Facts and Law.
The government attorney reviewed
the facts as well as the law. and as
serted that the two cases were identical,
and that by no stretch of the agina-
ton or sophistry could NJ. Watson
argument be legally or technically log
icaI
Mr.. Kellogg took sharp issue with the
defendants maps. showing that the
price of crude and refined oil had fol-
lowed the general increases and declines
of prices of household commodities,
even to being lower as a rule He in
sisted that the price of both crude and
refined oil had been higher than the
pToportionate increase Of general sup
plies, offering a new set of tables. pre-
pared by DR.. a. Dana Durand of the
United States bUreausof corporations
in support of his contention.
Not an Easy Job.
Mr.. kellogg asserted that the task OF
the prosecutor is seldom easy.
1t was no summer vacation stunt t
prepare and try this case" he added.
The government" he said, did not
base its case upon the title tattle OF
meddlers, but upon facts. Much has
been said about magazine writer's and
political demagOgues, but the govern
ment knew when il gathered this evil
dence that ii would be reviewed by this
honorable court.
You will not find in the record the
murmurs of the disconnected. but {
record of a monopoly that never ha.
been and, / hope, never again will bt
equalled in this country"
The Truth Evaded.
Coming TO the so, 900 900 Trainer
lOan," which he said he could never
trace, Mr.. Kellogg claimed that wher
John ID. ArChbold testified that he IN
derstood that the transaction was Z
mere matter Of bookkeeping, the answer
was an evasion.
Mr.. Rockefeller frankly read thi
record. Obviously Mr.. Archbold coulC
not answer" exclaimed the lawyer.
Mr.. Kellogg spoke semi-humorousIy
OF the alleged secrecy maintained at .
Broadway, New York
There you will find a lawyer benin,
every keyhole,' he said.
That the Standard oil company ha
been successful I do not deny" he con
tinued. That It was ruled BY geniuses
] do not deny. But this genius has heel
more of combination and monopol,
that can pile up millions, if unchecked