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Show Just Engaged in Petroleum Trade Standard Oil Company Through Its Counsel Hakes Statement to the Public. NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-C. T. Dodd, of counsel for tho Standard Oil company, today authorized tho following statement; state-ment; "In view of the many fals and misleading mis-leading statements from various sources, thc dlrcctorH of the Standard Oil company com-pany doem It advisable, to state to tho company's shareholders" and to tho public pub-lic that neither now nor at any time has the Standnrd Oil company or any of Its constituent . companies beon Interested In-terested In any business not directly related re-lated with and neccusary to tho petroleum petro-leum trade. "It would bo almost impossible to designate des-ignate in this denial the different classes of business with which Irresponsible parties par-ties have coupled tho Standard Oil company's com-pany's name, but It may not be amiss to specify copper, steel, banks, railroad and gH.s (other than "natural gas) uu being be-ing most prominently mentioned, "Urlth none of theso affairs has the Standard Oil company been at any time i-'onnccted. Individual members of the Standard Oil company have beon and are Interested as individuals In various enterprises, en-terprises, but this is entirely outelde of the business of tho Standard Oil company, com-pany, which Is oil alone, unaffected by other Interests In which its stockholders may invest. "Neither Is it truo that the Standard Oil company, John D. Rockefeller or any oftlcer of tho Standard Oil company haH taken part In securing tho nomination of anv of the candidates for office, as Is so positively stated. Furthermore. It is outlrely untrue that thero Is .any 'Standard 'Stand-ard Oil party' banded together for speculation spec-ulation In stocks, as is ao commonly charged. The name of tho Standard Oil company Is frequently used by designing persons In the manipulation of tho stock market, but Its uso la unwarranted. "The Standard Oil company departs from its usual custom in making thla denial, de-nial, for thc reason that the statements being made at thla timo by newspaper?, magazines and sensational public sptak crs appear to be unusually mendacious, and may to a great extent mlnlead tho public " |