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Show t .0? c;3slvii:g representative cf Standard Cll Company Denies That Ccnipany Is to Go Out cf Existence. NEW : YORK,; Nov. 16. The Journal of Commerce prints an interview today with a representative of the Standard Oil company, who, Uie paper says, spoke with authority.; It concerns, a report re-port that, the company was preparing t voluntarily dissolvi. and is as fol- Icws: v , .. ' "Any reports that 'steps have been taken to have the Standard Oil company com-pany dissolve are entirely - without foundation. Surely- su:h a report carries car-ries its own contradiction. , The Standard Stand-ard Oil company adopted its present form of doing business in obedience to the law when the original organization was condemned by one State. - , "We have done business as the Standard Oil company of New Jersey for more than a dozen years, and until it can be shown that onr organization is illegal, we shall continue to do business. busi-ness. - It . is an expensive ordeal to 'turn over' a corporation of the size of the Standard Oil, with its world-wide ramifications, and one not likely to be undertaken voluntarily. Besides what form does the Cfovernmrnt wish the oil business to take f You cannot legislate a gallon of oil out of existence. ' The business must be conducted. Even if it should be held that we have dene wrong, it would not save us from the consequences to dissolve now. You may, therefore, give a fiat contradiction to any report that we -have arranged to take such a step." |