The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-04-11
CLOSING ADDRESS IS MADE
IN SUIT AGAINST THE
STANDARD OIL
Case Has Record for Bgness the Evidence Containing All COZ
Word-Frank B. Kellogg Reviews Facts Well as Law Action
Brought Against Trust by Government, Taking Sharp
Issue With Arguments of Defense

ST Louis, April 10.-After q cor.
tnuous argument OF five days, special
United States Attorney General Frank
3 Kellogg today made his closing
address In behalf of the government
in the latters suit to dissolve the
Standard Oil company OF New York,
Us violator of the Sherman act.
The case has record for bigncss.
The evidence is larger by half than
that ever before taken In a single
ease the record containing in all H.
600 900 words 1t is estimated that
by the time the court Of last resorts
has passed upon the points at Issue
the trial will represent an eXpendi-
ture of $4,000. 900 in lawyers fees and
court costs
Mr.. Kellogg argued that the twenty
companies signing the original
STANDARD Trust agreement" were
just az competitive. If anything more
SO. than the railways subscribing TO
the agreement in the Northern Secur.
iiies company.
The government attorney reviewed
the facts. as well as the law, and as
serted that the two cases were iden-
tical, and that by no stretch of the
imagination or sophlstry could Mr.
Watson's argument be legally or tech
nically logical.
Mr.. Kellogg took sharp Issue with
the defendants maps. showing that
the price of crude and refined oil had
followed the general increase and dc.
clines of prices of household com
modities, even TO being lower as a
nile. He insisted that the price Of
both crude and refined oil had been
higher than the proportionate in
crease of general supplies offering a
new set of tables, prepared by DR..
A. Dana Durand OF the United States
bureau of corporations, In support of
his contention.
Mr.. Kellogg asserted that the task
OF the prosecutor is seldom easy.
1T was no summer vacation stunt
to prepare and try this case" he add
cd
The government" he said, did not
base Its case upon the title tattle Of
meddlcrs but upon facts. Much has
been said about magazine writer's and
political demagogueS but the govern
ment knew. when 1t gathered this
evidence. that it would be reviewed by
this honorable court
You will not find IN the record the
murmurs of the dlscontented, but a
record of a monopoly that never has
been. and / hope never again will be
equalled in this country"
Coming to the S22 100000 Train
or loan" which he said he could new
Ell trace. Mr., kellogg claimed that
when John D. Arohbold testified that
he understood that the transaction
was mere matter of book keeping.
that the answer was an evasion.
"Mr. Rockefeller frank? Mr.. Arch
bold frank? Read this record. OBJ
viCusly, Mr, Archbold could not an
swer" exclaimed the lawyer.
Mr.. Kellogg spoke semi-humorous-
y Of the alleged secrecy maintain at
&c Broadway, New York.
There you will find lawyer behind
every keyhole," he said.
THAT the Standard OIL has been
successful, ] do not deny" he con.
tlnued. That II was ruled by gen
ius. / do not deny. But this genius
has been more of combination and
monopoly that can pile up millions, If
unchecked"