Show II I OP Oi J JH S 'S PINE AGAINST G. SJ SI STANDARD OIL Un Under er no circumstances is it conceivable conceivable con con- that the lie fine flue imposed upon the lie Stan Standard Oil com company pan by Ju Judge ge Landis can cami become futile or a abortive It is b believed that lint the decree of or Judge Landis will be on appeal and that the lie Stan ard will ivill be compelled compelled com corn to pay the lie very ver Cl large ar e sum suni as assessed assessed as- as against It it lint But even cven if It tho ho tholine line hue through any IIO possible action of the higher courts should fall fail the re results re- re suits of the Chicago action would not lull fall to the lie ground A judgment from froni froma fronia I a n. magistrate of the lie government as asserting asserting as- as the equality before the law of I tho ho richest corporation on the globe with tile the humblest offender r cannot prove barren of effects thoroughly hl salutary to society ocieh All 4 of or the figures that have been een printed showing the bloated profits of Standard ar Oil may nitty bo be considered 1 lame and Impotent In their influence on oil the thc public mind In Iii comparison with tho the force with which the colossal line fine named b by Ju Judge ge Landis will appeal appeal ap tip- peal to tho the people Never before haslie has nas the lie acquired such stick a n clear conception conception conception con con- of ot the thc real enormity of or the Stan Standards Standard's ard system of ot robber robbery as this ju Judgment against the Rockefeller corporation cor cor- has created It will ivill take I told of oC the lie Intelligence of the lie country with i a a. grip that nothing will be able I to weaken The fearful earful nn and amid un unbelieving are I Ion on 01 hand hamiti with the famIlIal plea that lines fines amount to nothing to a n. corporation corpora corpora- I lion Ion lII like e the lie at eJ d that hat Its Us profits I ren render cr even en a mere bagatelle baga basa- chic telle that hint anything which the lie compan company com corn pany pan ma may be e compelled to pay can cun be bc speedily made SUO good by hy the accustomed ac ac- ac- ac a advance in Iii the lie price pric of or its is products Well c the thc payment of monc money in an any sum with which it is compelled to part is as great a trial to the Standard Standard Stand Stand- I ard artl as It is to an any struggling lIn fIrm firm or 01 In individual l The lust for fot gain aln which stands s confessed In the conscienceless methods metho s of the Standard Standard Stand Stand- ar ard can mean only actual an anguish over Its As to the Standards Standard's tactics for recouping its lo losses cs that game arne has been played to the limit It has reached the lie danger an er erline line If Ie the tile Standard resorts to that lint I policy in iii this his case caso It will be at its own risk V I If Ie the lie fino fine a assessed against the Standard b by Landis means an anything any any- thin thing It certainly and Inevitably foreshadows foreshadows fore fore- I shadows the tue be beginning of tile the end for fOl forthe forthe the Incredibly wicked and anti pre predatory ator institution known mown as Stan Standard ard Oil 1 |