Show AX AN INDECENT T P PROFIT It Il came out in the thc evidence c taken against the tIle Standard Standard Standard Stand Stand- ard Oil on company in New e York on Thursday that thai one ono of the Rockefeller concerns made mado a profit of four million dollars ollars on an Investment of half that sum That is Ig an indecent profit The result could have been en attained only by such 0 a violation and nd ignoring of ot tho the e laws as would give tho those thoc o companies an em advantage antl e over er all competitors The Tho country countr can not prosper unless there are equal rl rights and equal ant advantages for tor all The Tho Standard com com- p anies ies have been beeri revealed as seizing more mere than an equal opportunity with other producers and refiners nn and 1 snipers ship ship- rem ers of ot oil Tho The case of ot the company compan examined Thursay Thursday Thurs Thurs- day clay ay ia lR p paralleled by every subsidiary Standard Oil com com- any that has been made the tho subject of inquiry by the government The business has become a monopoly and he the monopoly has become Indecent All the thc government go wants Is that the tho Standard shall have l precisely the same samo opportunity v that is accorded ded I ethers than t that and nothing less loss It ItIs ItIs Its Is s because th the Standard people have havo not been willing to obey the laws which promise equal rights to all that the government has hns proceeded proceeded with tho the prosecutions And these cases aro are ended the thc Standard Oil people and md c every cone one el else eUe c In the thc nation will understand that so 11 long g a as tho the Republican party is in Lu control thorn there will be he sr special privileges s for tor none 4 |