The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-06
Attorney Rosenthal Predicts
Another Panic Is Govern
ment Wins Case.
DEFENSE TO BEGIN
ARGUMENT TO-DAY
-Four Presiding Judges Read Long
Brief Before the Court
Opens.

ST. LOUIS, April 6-"The full signi-
ncance OF this suit against the Stand
ard oil Company. has not dawned on
the American people. II the Govern
ment succeeds in procuring an order re-
straining the subordinate corporations
from paying dividends TO the Standard.
st will hold in its hands an instrument
with which II can at will destroy the in
tegrity of every big enterprise In the
United States
Attorney Moritz RosenthaI, mouth
piece Of the oil company. thus voices
the opinion of interests he represents.
General Generalization of the big vest
ed interests IN the country is predicted
if final adverse decision is rendered
against the Oil trust.
Could Dissolve Company.
Not only may the Standard oil Com
pany be dissolved, but also the railway
sTpergerS. Steel trust. Fish trust, and all
the great trusts that control the supply
OF the necessaries of life. The dissolv-
ing OF these organizations. in the opin-
ion of the Standard Oil advisers. will de-
noralize capital almost TO a state Of
anarchy Another panic Of greater mag
nitude than the one out OF which the
country Is just emerging would ensue,
and the people De the principal sufferers
they say.
The Government expects to conclude
the presentation of its case this after
Kellogg viii finish Special Counsel
Charles b. Morrison. will present his
argument during the afternoon. At their
hotels before court convened. today, the
four presiding judges glanced over the
brief OF facts of the defense.
Defendants Long Brief.
This was filed in three paper volumes
with the original ownership, and de-
veiopment of the Standard Oil Company,
and gives a history OF the companies
acquired subsequent to the trust agree
ment.
II rebuts all allegation of conspiracy
in restraint Of trade and Of resort to
unfair methods. On the ground that no
proof has been adduced against the
Galena Signal OIL Company, OF Frank
lin, Pa, the Standard s lawyers ask for
dismissal OF the charges against that
company. This concern supplies most
OF the railroads OF the country with
lubricating oil.
The brief OF law" which the de-
fendant will file today. outlines the
argument by which Rosenthal and his
colleague believe they will be able 70
wr1ggle out of the net Of allegations the
Government has made against them.
Rely on TechnicaIities.
The Standard. relying on technicalities
rather than facts. has carefully guarded
this document so that IL will not fall
into the hands Of the Government
To a representative of the press, how
ever, the case has been outlined. The
Standards brief says:
'"The law under which the Govern
ment is proceeding in this case is that
OF the Sherman antitrust act The pro-
visions of the act are that a trust Is
constituted by the uniting of COM
petitive interests under one organiza-
ton for the purpose OF ending eom-
petition and restraining others from en-
gaging in the same trade. The merging
81 many concerns under a common
ownership not changing the identity OF
the owners. but simply the form under
which they hold them. is not trust.