| Show the STANDARD COMPANY san francisco chronicle ahat the course of mhd standard oil company from alia day when it was organized by john D to the time has been in titter defiance of law and decency cannot be disputed that it has from tha day when it becaro strong enough to do so used the profits gathered from tho country at large to pay the cost of driving competitors in particular sections out of business haa been judicially established over and over again prices being promptly raised of coarse as soon as the was IE it were fined to the limit of the law for every of which it could probably be proved guilty not a cent of ilg accumulations ions would remain tho question la what course shall society take with reference to such financial monsters that in certain respects they are economically valuable cannot be denied they render services which for certainty and efficiency fici ency could not possibly be equaled by organizations less powerful but ll 11 aleo seems certain that no buca power can be acquired except by the ruthless trampling down and extermination of the weak and probably such defiance of law and decency as has been exhibited by gt andar oil the financial world wll not discuss the social committed by these corporations only the economic slap and the economic alda as seen by the possessors and controllers tr of great wealth they declare and no one can say untruthfully that standard oil has grown up as a result of conditions that finance and commerce have adjusted themselves to the existence exl stence of such monopolistic combinations in all countries and in all departments of human economic activity that mhd interests of these great organizations are inextricably intertwined with all the great economic interest s of the world and that their destruction would cause a financial cataclysm |
