The evening world., 1911-06-15
Pomerene Lashes Oil Magnate
in Senate and Calls for
His Punishment.
NOT IMMUNE, HE HOLDS
Out of Active Business but Still
a Factor and Should Stand
With Others.

WASHINGTON. June 15.-Makins a
direct demand for the criminal prosecu-
ton of John ID. Rockefeller. Senator
Pomerenc. Democrat. OF Ohio. delivered
a powerful arraignment Of Standard OIL
and Tobacco Trust magnates in tho
feller:
His pathway is marked by a greater
number OF victims whose business ca
reers he has ruined by his unlawful
methods than that OF any other man In
the Industrial history OF this country,
and yet he has gone unwhipped Of jus
tice!'
speaking for myself" he continued.
IT think it high time that the Ameri-
can people should understand whether
the Stars and Stripes are to be the
emblems Of their power and authority
or the emblems of tho oil barrel and
the tobacco tag"
Pomerene spoke on his resolution in.
structing Attorney-General wickersham
to institute criminal proceedings imme-
diately against the men behind the big
trusts recently found guilty by the
United States Supreme Court.
Pomerene gave a history of the Stand
ard and the Tobacco Trusts and their
fragrant violations OF the antitrust
law.
What excuse" asked the Senator,
can any sworn court official or law
maker or any executive official give to
the people of this country for a failure
to enforce this law. when they are
every day exerting themselves to punish
other transgressors with less money ana
less influence at tkeir command? A de.
cent sense OF self-respect requires the
Government either to enforce this iaw
or repeal 1t.
What respect have these oil and to-
bacco men shown for law? The vast
corporations and their learned counsel
do not attempt to square tkeir conduct
with the law. but to warp the law to
conform It to their businesses"
ROCKEFELLER NOT IMMUNE, HE
HOLDS.
The history Of the Standard Oil Com.
pany and its allied interests In Ohio
and Western Pennsylvania a been a
continuous record on their behalf and
on behalf OF their officers. including
John d. Rockefeller. to monopolize the
oil business and to destroy. by means
fair or foul. where he could not buy out
his competitors at his own price. But
1t is said that he 10 not responsible:
that he retired from active business
more than ten years
do you mean TO tell me that . man
can organize a band of law violators,
furnish them with tho sinews of war,
serve as their captain. mark out and
guide their course for a generation, and
after a time, when he has Grown tired
Of The personal strife In business, can
still continue in It the same way through
other agents. receive the greater portion
Of the earnings and yet not be RESPONSE
BILE for his acts either civiily or Grim
inally?
Il deny that such u the law. I sub
init he ought not to be above the law.
He 10 made of the same clay as other
men. with more brains. much more
money less business morals than
tho average man.
In my judgment the recent victories
in the United States Supreme Court will
be Of little avail unless moro vigorous
methods are adopted on the part OF the
Government than heretofore against
this class Of law ~violators.
CALLS FOR PROSECUTIONS ~
WickERsHAM.
Prosecutions against them should bt
brought in every district in which
tbere has heen "A violation of the law