Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1911 — Even Standard Oil Company Is Able to Prove Innocence. [ARTICLE]

Even Standard Oil Company Is Able to Prove Innocence.

The extent to which muck-raking magazines have gone in their efforts to discredit all successful corporations is shown by the retraction just published by Hampton's Magazine and Cleveland Moffet. Moffet wrote an article accusing the Standard Oil Co. of selling to candy makers impure ingredients for the manufacture of candy and said that when the manufacturers were arrested for making impure goods and selling them the Standard Oil Co. paid the fine. The article seems to have been an intentional libel and the Standard Oil Co. sued th.s magazine for 8250,000 and damages and the writer for 8100,000. Then the muck-rakers pulled in their horns and admitted that the story was a common lie. So much of the stuff now supplied to magazines is written by unreliable men who seek notoriety and revenue without regard to honesty that it is really wholesome to see these sensationalists brought up with a short halter occasionally.