| Show U S SIfT IfT Of 1 of Standard Oil II Co Coakes CoakS bIer ef Solicitor soiled akS akes Statement abatement II ha In 10 Reference To Discussion DIscussIonS MADE JIS HS MONEY HONESTLY Assertion It II I VIe Paine and aad Vile u Pretended In lu dt by br A d Made Ide Il J of CI Morality Doubly Vile I York April B C T Dodd DoddI I tet p iw eW of ot the Oil com come I I e 1 gae out a l statement today with nc nce to 10 the recent discussions as ut I r acceptance of Pt n ft gin gift of ot the to for tor mil milto by b j 1 D Rockefeller Or work Ok tr fr D to declares es that the tho I that Mr r made his moneY S la In false li is vile vilen inch T belne made nde by ministers In the tho thol th p pretended n l t of ot t morality Is U dou doup bit lIeo r Dodd then saYS ay that tho the Stand Standrd i rd Oil company does Ices not own a n share sharo I railroad of t f loci cf vt any I rot Control any railroad company una that iw lol e th enactment of ot tho this Inter it late t commas o law In has not d dI I lower r Ha than other r by byJ devices or vans planK J The Tho testimony ol ot ct cC allY I h r Ler Howard 1 l B ge C freight Slit ot Of the Standard III company the tho In InI I Is 1 quoted In this 1215 lOll WIth l reference to gnu gall ga copper olor Mr Ir Dodd No doubt hWI baye b born been n prejudiced against Mr B by sensational writers hoe by por flor Hath iraI and ancl a cull are Intended to crate crele the impression that Mr tacks Kocke tiler as 95 principal In tho the re reo nib to the tho of at tho gas KUS mi ird copper r i ampoule although no not noI I hit t f I 1 FilCh nich connection Is IR stated Mil DODDS STATEMENT Then n a iy Y well bo be a n difference ot oC n fl th question v p the board of cf missions should hould re Ie relf cle celle il lf It unless Rationed that the th tUT it II 1 honest but bitt nil all flu will agree that 1 If It t be e who his hili gift gilt to 10 tho the altar nita nut nuit mo imo m with clean hands stilt still more mure hn h b who ho hn at nt tho the altar Altara a WI rl 1 i the gift be tree free fr c traIn from stain bl bre ls 13 3 in I exCUse for lur those thone who make maket t y r I and still ex CX cut cOSt lt Ilir r UK tb is O who in III the mime of ot ro To In Im fairly their thell The Ti h lion to Mr Jr Ih n II ks b sd d upon tho the allegation that thit thitU ii U h nde d his hl money dishonestly Thill r I is false Is IN vile undo sOd being rs r IV hO ministers In tho the pretended of Ct 1001 Is III doubly false CIt Ii r p 1 uld not be bl made unless It ItI CI I t T r 1112 establIshed by hy i mud proof root I 1 have hn ve neon lice II no 00 proof jr IrO even nt at specification ox oxIl Il ft B the tl Irot I st of or Dr Jr Ho Ito lell 1011 1 n a hl aHO the investigation hIts has He th Ill iry r hiv made and the nt Ilk ar l r flIP legislative Inquiries 11 tx rs ras of II the courts have given tho the theP P lr g pc i IC of if thin this country the mn i t I i f fl 11 Judgment upon the tho moth meth J II I It nl rl Oil Uron a It 1 t t I th Ih ir T minds were vere ns as clear cle lr 01 rn II t TB s they the tiIe arc now Then fol tot Iho rp fl Mr tr Rockefeller c W v deny d ny Hut lb it lire UIs now given tl Ir the Eta Sta rj but the now iM I ils I nt a lit iut of ot the rail tf of this thiH country und itt Its It in lit r of ot in n It 2 that U it cnn lull t tire lire no longer in Uary tYS pYs 18 IB orba assertion Is la not true No such uch Put lUU tat of arts has haa over ocr been heen disclosed bf b wy 11 nor liar supported by f Wen In nn court of law lay No such auch f fl t fIlst to 10 be proved The Tho Standard oil DB o l company does dOCH not hot own n ti share of of any railroad company nor dOSS docs t say an railroad company Stock of the th StatIOned Standard undoubtedly In rut nit m as na In other short shores but bu t of tho the Standard company ii 11 I nt 0 t a S on the board of dl t bet Un of mv aw ri so SC o far as an n I 1 um umi i ILbe art a 4 d 1 therefore cannot control of ot railway rebates and andI ft I e trot of at railways Wilt was W 8 In ln n lt h il 1 U h I th lilA thA In ion In lit 1900 1000 they re reno reI I no mi 11 h hi fact Members of ot the tho theil i il u the tho railways were ques quos d 11 t r itin ll to these subjects It U Ith Io tho thoI sh h that prior to the enact r rl I f tl th t commerce law I f stem was aK tall I i their ir nominal rates rotell higher wh Iu I th tod to obtain front from f tutor t rr p r and tho the amount of ot ac ne I M I t be bl b was A it matter of ot j h 11 shipper insole mado th thin tho ho peat Jest km h r md in n t rd did not hot tills this i it fouM It n existing slut lot A h J I business U ln s without II n 5 to it 3 IIo loll 1111 Ol oilIer 1 It Itt ItI t M 11 1 thA b u t terms It was to tot t I MM II lh tho Its II l t lo 0 at WI i at ut points where It could k Id 1 v t 1 e of ot i lito h i cv overt competition to give equivalents for fori rt Uilo i 1 freight It shipped not notI dY art an h but hut It I dA II pro prot tOrt ernIl nl ill 1 other othor facilities unit und t m wa d ho ot of loss Public Ihl ta 0 Or r I In III dilys th his Nn n 1 in tho lay have havo discovered that ul lIS 41 I rang hut but ut at that time ho business I man who did tild not accept that method would ouId butter toWs Mo I Ills his ohop ABOUT The Tho stories told of at the immense ng OB of ot tho tile rebates paid to tho the Stand Standard ard shown by that lIst Investigation to be bo untrue A i large lurge portion of ot the tile rebates paid wore were not discriminatory They were paid to all ull shippers who shipped exclusively by hy rail It was wan Impossible for tor any ony shipper to know I with what rules rates his competitors tars tors oro pitying paying Tho rho Standard often orten found that its itA competitors liat bosh been paying less than It U paid bid Furthermore the public obtained tho advantage ot of the low rates received A reduced price for or relined refined oil kept paco pace with tho reductions re In ill rates rotes whether heth this reduction was by WilY way of or rebates or otherwise And AmI tho tilO price at which the lie public for tor many years yearn han baa been obtaining oil would simply ply have been Impossible had not flot shippers forced tho tue railways to reduce their rates which they the did elid first by and later by open ChI rlue system of rebate lias happily received tho thee condemnation of ot law Tho The welcomed tho the change nn as it rL ono one Jut Hut to say ear now that It 1 should not have obtained tho tilO best beat rates under tinder tho tile old ohl system which Its position enabled It to obtain Is an nn Im lIlt I possible counsel f perfection The evidence before tho ties Industrial I lon dhows Nho very ery clearly to any I unprejudiced mind that since tho the en enactment enactment of at tho lie Interstate commerce law low the this Standard has huts obeyed obed It In every particular The evidence of ot the Stand Standart art manage man und freight agents was vim corroborated by iy tho the certificates of ot managers und and freight agents of or nil alt the tho leading railway of ot tho the United States to the effect that by no rebates arrangements devices or plans of ot tiny character had tho the Standard received lIPS ics rates than other oilier shippers It III Is true lIuo that thiet allegations to the contrary were cre mado before tho the com coin commission mission but thre theoe sore founded upon and were tiers not hot sustained by bl proof hoof Neither did dill the commission find them to 10 o be true tItle Any AllY candid man roan who uvito will r reid ad the tue evidence must bo be Mils liB Us lied fled of it he the of ot tho the facts sworn to by ho tile Standard Oil company cor corroborated as nil they tile are oro by b the tho officers cad and agents of at tho the roads themselves lUMLY HEILl TO ro DU nit On Oil the tho subject specifically alleged by hy Dr Howard Page the freight of the tho Standard Oil loin puny testified as IB follows Q In Ill It a 11 fact tact as all tins nas been fre tro frequently fm stated that over lines of nt roil rail load holed where thero tile the OH Oil has very ory largo tho thi rates on OIl oil tire uro frequently tl made murle relatively speaking s lower than over other roads whom whole the tho i business rivals of at the Standard OH on H ore relatively i mall that this difference In iii rates rateR to the advantage of ot the tho Standard Oil OilIn In Is brought brough t about bout II by the tho Influence of ot the tM Standard Oil Oh company Om pliny A That Is absolutely not true sir In the tho first place I do not know any uny railroad on which competitors of ot the tile Standard Oil company shIp that we wo do donot donot donot not ship chip on ourselves the oil rates of the United States Slates from Crone the lie various oll ln points are on a 11 b els in other the th rates rotell apply from nil ill ot of the Pennsylvania oil fields lIelda both betit east cost and anti west vest and the tho name sanie Is i true of ot the th Lima II ma Held anti and while we nIfty may not be 10 b located loco to nl itt the tho very nry point some com In Is hu hI has hns the same rate rata front from fro hl his hla shipping point in I 11 that tied ried that thai we wo heave have from nor mir shipping point In tho same seme Hold Q Are the tile Standard Oil company or 01 ever In a 1 post pOll ton tion an as railroad where they the can give Io favors to the tM Standard Oil company In iii Its III shipments NO FAVORS JA OIB OIBA OLVI I A I inn Kind glad you OU that sir I do ito not Ilot think It but I know It Mr 1011 nice wishes to 10 give gho that Impression imd I 1 CUll can say Ray Rn In reply that tha t I have had any knowledge of ot rail malt railroad road rond rates on the lie Standard Oil com coin mays business no of ot tho the Stand Standard I ard Oil company who Is connected with railroads has hall ever made a 11 rate or ar nr arrangement arrangement ement for foe the Oil all corn com company t Ian any nor have havo any of those gentlemen who are aro connected und have Interests with railroads over ever asked me mo to 10 give Iyo undue or e or In tact fact any share of the tho Standard Oil business over ovee such n a railroad In other words the tile Standard Oil bus bios Incus stands on Oil Its to own merits antI anil Im lIa I before said none of ot these thell gentle gentlemen I mon men who may muy or 01 may not have Inter Interests sIts oats In III these thele various railroads have havo ever made n II rate mitts or made an nn arrange arrangement merit ment for tor Standard Oil company bust busi business bustness ness That Is IB done by me mo or by the tile proper party In whose territory or district the this question may arise Irl Q Should you be bo sure sur to know whether I that was wag 18 so BO or not notA notI notA A I should know If It tony any of the lie gentlemen who rho have havo largo large railroad In Interests interests tre ts ns na alleged made a I tariff or arrangement with a II railroad for tor our business I know lenow of ot It ItI ItI itI I should be advised of ot It ns as I tun tho the proper department that line has a 1 record of ot those rates and should have to know knoll necessarily II I Q Do you understand that thit ship mo monte nt i of ot the tho Standard Oil company havo not been beon Influenced toward rev cera certain tain linen lines by icy the tho fact that thus the of ot tho tile Standard Oil vero reputed to be belarge belarge large owners owner of the tM stock of ot these thc e lines A In no tia WIlY wn sir and tind you can cnn readily tea see that If It tho the Standard Oil was run on Oil tho the basis of ot favoring the Individual Inter cuts of ot the tile different stockholders of ot the tho lie Standard Oil company comically com puny the tue com corn compan pan business Itself would necessarily suffer Q Is Js It truo true that list officers of or the tha Standard Oil company have In different railroads A It In iii tru trul rIle that thai Mr Mm William Rockefeller for In e III IH a 11 director In some lomo of ot the railroads railroad lie He probably also alio Is a bondholder in the lie United States but there Is no connection such inch interests and the Iho Interests of ot the Stand Standrd ard rd Oil company or this tha bu lne of ot tho thu Standard Oil company STATEMENT STATE INCOn lU CT Such h evidence should satisfy ry any 1111 candid minI mind or ot the Incorrect incorrectness liens ot of Mr Gladdens assertion It will probably not satisfy fy ft ct mind like Dr Gladdens who subsequently made tho the statement thou the denial that hIlt rebates rebate have beon been extorted since the tho Interstate tnt commerce law liI was WIl passed IM Is not hot credible 1 I know from froni statements made mude to royal myself my ol by hy parties implicated that such rebates rebate have been ier extorted by other oIlier corpora corporations corporations I 1 doubt If It th Ih Standard Is la more virtuous than tho the rest I III In a II mind HO ItO prejudiced evidence Is lost Dr Gladden rooms to Know tome some somethIng thIng of ot cases In tho the courts court on tho the sub subject subject subject of at rebates fInd should know of ot soy sev several oral eral Important cases cas e tried II In the courts or of Pennsylvania a It t prominent railroad to recover re ool penalties for lor grant granting lag ing rebates In which every effort was to provo rebates paid to tho the Standard Oil company No Huh proof could cOull bo ho produced but It was vete proved that rebates were iere allowed anti and paid l to tl two twe of tho Standards principal competitors tory tars This may Inn servo to remove Dr Gladdens doubt whether tim the Standard Is more moro virtuous than tho the rest dolt STUDENT OI OF t Those who contend that thiat the Stand Standard curd ard hits been boon built buill by means of ot railway discrimination wilfully shut their eyes even evento to the real causes of ot the tho Standards success succeed and the lie poor leer students of at tho the problem of at modern Industrial combination tion tort ff rt this tWe tho the only onty specific l made John Jolla D I Rockefeller Is proven to be bo false also It should I make tho tim public and particularly tho ties religious public more careful and charitable In Ints Its ts allegations No doubt many have hava been prejudiced against t Mr Rockefeller by b I sensatIonal writers rs whose whoM articles accompanied by portraits and caricatures lures tures tires are Intended to create creale the Blon that Mr Mv Ir was principal In the tho affairs relating to the organization Ian tion of ot tho the gas gila and copper capper c companies although no tact showing such conuco connection tion is stated The Standard Oil company has al nl already ready denied dented that it had any connection tion or at Interest t directly or Indirectly In Inthe the organization organisation of these corpora Ions on tim the bet best authority the tho fame samo denial Is III now made for tor John D Rockefeller He lie tied had no with nor Interest In directly or Indirectly tho tim organization of at the corporations K S C 0 T DODD CHAIRMAN IAN EVANS ANSWER ANVER Cambridge Mess Mass April fl Rev Daniel Evans l lInB chairman of ot the tho com coat of Congregational clergymen who have entered a 1 protest against the tho acceptance by the this American board of ot com for missions of ot ofa a 11 Rift gift of ot from morn John Jolla D n I Horko Barke feller fellAr Willi shown tonight the tho statement n out alit In New York by b So Dodd of ot the thee Oil all com coin company om party pany Mr Evans declared that It wAs w s to know that tho the Standard Oil company wa to Dr DI Di Gladden who halt had the tho question of ot rebates wan tas we wel able ho ha said s lei to answer the company nn on that matter We Ve did d not nut originate te thess thesa charges salti Al Mr I we 0 pay nv that Mr Rockefeller |
