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Show STILL AFTER STANDARD OIL. Xot so long ago, the Standard Oil company, through its officers, boasted that the company was more powerful than the government. It proceeded on that assumption and soon got into trouble. The government made a good case, and a fine of .$29,-000,000 .$29,-000,000 was imposed. Tho government hasn't collected col-lected the money yet, but a new and comprehensive suit has been instituted against the high officials of the company, against the holding company and numerous subsidiary concerns. Avhich involves the very existence of the trust. This suit is a sequence of the first and has as its purpose the bringing of Standard Oil to a realization that the government is still supreme in this country. When this realization real-ization soaks into the unctuous one, unless other unlawful combinations mend their ways and get absolutely within the law, they will no doubt be proceeded against with equal vigor. The cry of persecution has been raised by the Standard and by certain politicians whose stock in political life is that uncertain and ignoble one which places them in opposition to anything and everything the administration attempts. The Standard would hardly be expected to hail the administration ad-ministration as its deliverer, and the demagogues who oppose and attempt to obstruct the work of reform are hardly worthy of consideration. Outlawry Out-lawry in trade has furnished the administration a cause, the ending of which will make it extremely popular with the people. And since it was necessary, in order to meet the demand of the people, to proceed against some trust, the selection of Standard Oil, the most flagrant fla-grant violator of the law and the most arrogant of them all, seems fitting. By the time this monopoly is purged of its 'lawlessness, other trusts may be induced to bow before the will of a sovereign people, peo-ple, or be compelled to serve them in capacities which will readily suggest themselves to contemplative contem-plative minds. |
