Show MR GARFIELD GARFI IN N KANSAS TAMES R GARFIELD commissioner JAMES J of or corporations is in Kansas to be begin begin gin his investigation of or the Standard Oil monopoly It will wiil not do to build any great hopes on Mr in inquiry inquiry The public has not yat forgot forgotten ten that Mr 11 investigation of the meat trust was wa entirely barren o oi of i real eal results In the face of or known Know n facts his report made ma e the meat trust trusta a paragon of virtue tue and the same re results suits Ih i not unlikely in the Standard Oil matter mattel It is most moat unfortunate that the ni ii quit is ir to be a secret one iu HS as was the I ease care in the meat trust fiasco In de defense defense of this plan Mr lr Garfield says m rs it would woul 1 never do to have an open in inquiry inquiry oulie if formal 0 I open hear hearings ings inga jn were w held h W and prosecutions pr fol to followed 01 lowed lo nd the Ute person perron r el ut d would be in m possession po of r all alt all the th nui tion of or the government so it fo it necessary sary sar to keep the investigation inv stig lion secret rel Much as se a we dislike to with the commissioner ion r we are nevertheless compelled to do M NO MIf NOH sO If H there were the slightest danger that the oil trust official would run runaway runaway runaway away from flom the country m in fn older to keep out of jail there might be some sense pense sen in m a secret ecret inquiry But BItt the theare they are not going to run mu away aH They may maybe mn be depended upon to make the hardest haidet hard t kind of a It fight This being the case the publicity of the hearings could not make the t he slightest al st difference di rence Evidence for the prosecution does not become ev evidence for fol the defense baus it is made public Publications of the pro proceedings proceedings proceedings will reach an anyway way wa only the people who would otherwise have no means of ot knowing what Is going on ond and d the Standard Stan ard Oil company is not I included in this list Surely Mr Garfield is not trustful enough to believe that he lie can keep from lom the oil trust people any an part of any alt testimony that may be adduced against them They they with their mil millions lions and their tremendous influence may m be depended upon to find plenty pent of leaks They The will know alto testifies tet and they thay tho will know the nature of the testimony mo before the stenographers have ho finished transcribing their notes The advantage of a public hearing would be that the public would be kept fully conversant with the proceedings A public hearing would i remove any Rny suspicion that efforts were being made malc 1 to protect instead of to prosecute th Standard Oil on The rite money mone of the is i being used in the invest Investigation i gation and tho the public has a right to toki ki kr OWE oN how it is being used However P ever Mi h Garfield says that un mm under I der lr tills law the proceedings must mu t be belul I lul Wl L they will w be toe ber beof r of I |