The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-14
Kellogg Pa ints 1t as
Threatening Cloud
Over Country.
1T HAS THRIVED
BY OPPRESSION
Milburn Says Standard Has Been
Damned for Everything, but
Praised for Nothing" and
That AHirmance Of DISCO
luton Decree Would
Be Monstrous.

Washington. January l3.-painting
the Standard OIL organization as bred
by expressing competitors and hang
ing as Il threatening cloud over the
country. Frank B.. Kellogg. special as
sistant to the Acknowledgement Of
the United States. to-day pleaded with
the supreme Court of the United States
to dissolve the Standard oil Company,
of New Jersey. as violative OF the sher-
court the beginning OF the govern
ment's side Of the controversy.
MI. Kellogg followed the opening re-
marks In the case by John q. Mllburn.
for the standard oil. Mr.. Kellogg went
over the early years of the %andar d's
business leading up TO the central
reorgamization oil the Standard oil
Company. of New Jersey. in 1893. lie
characterized this reorganization as
amounting merely to the substitution
OF one illegal form of holding together
the oil companies for another Illegal
form. The first was the trust" of
1852. whereby the stock OF the owners
of various oil companies was put into
the hands of trustees. and the second
the STANDARD of New Jersey"
Held Together illegally.
Touching on a point of the defense.
Mr.. Kellogg said that If the companies
whose stock was procured by the
STANDARD in 1898 were not competing.
it was because they were held together
III illegal trusts. that Of 1879 and that
OF 1852.
Take away the fear OF prosecution
by the government and the Standard
Oil would put every independent In
I 1i - go -. . 49, as,, - 49, - - IT,
years Mr.. Kellogg continued. Tho
independents can exist only under the
protection OF the law
In connection with this point, Chief
Justice White ask ed If the complaints
against the STANDARD companies were
based upon their methods, and II OBJ
lection was made TO the methods be-
cause illegal
That. and size" responded Mr.. Nel-
logg.
Great wealth enables them to use
methods. some unfair, which would
not be illegal or reprehensible in the
hands OF the corner g~roceryman."
suppose they are a giant. but do
not use a giants strength" suggested
Justice Nick emma.
They'd use that power were 1t not
for the law" came the reply.
Mr.. Kellogg dwelt upon the 'enor-
nous profits of the companies as
iuitHel cNiOeNCe OF monopoly. The
record did not show where all the
profits went. he said. For instance.
there was nothing TO show what hap
pened TO s23.0o0.O00 ont of the earn
ings of one small pipe line" Mr.. Kel-
losg said that 1t was paid to p. S.
Trainer.
Who is this man Trainer?" inquired
Justice Lurton.
oh. he's a purchasing agent in New
Jersey. said Mr., Kellogg. Il tried in
every way to learn where that little
sum went. The officials OF. the Stand
ard. when questioned. told me that
they could not lind out. Mr.. Mtlbnrn
once said that he would not crafty
my curiosity by telling me-"
The closing words OF Mr.. Afilburn
were impressive.
Dnmne for Everything.
Damned for everything, but praised
for nothing. is the way the Standard
Oh has been treated by the govern
ment.' said he. I'm his record cover
ing forty years OF business everything
The Standard has ever done is related.
II has done some things in strenuous
times that IL should not have done.
That was human. 1t has done nothing
that goes to the issue here.
The evil of the affirmance of this
would be monstrous. 1t is fortunate
that the case is left in the hands OF
a court that listens to reason and
never nears the voice of passion and
prejudice"