Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1908 — MILLIONS GONE GLIMMERING. [ARTICLE]

MILLIONS GONE GLIMMERING.

And now we’re not going to get that >29,240,000 fronKthe Standard Oil Company after all, and after the people have been mulcted by that unrighteous trust for the money to pay it, too, in order to be on the safe side if r lt. did have the fine to pay. And poor Kennesaw Mountain Landis. His name had been heralded from Dan to Bershiba as ■the greatest judge ; the courts had ever seen, only to be given a severe spanking and the most scathing reprimand from the higher court to which the trust appealed. And we guess it was deserved, too. The Landis family of political pie-eaters are gallery players, every one of them, and the applause that Kennesaw Mountain drew forth was indeed deafening—while it lasted. The public generally never had any idea that the Standard Oil trust would ever have to pay this fine, and the reversal of the case comes more as the expected than as a surprise. The papers state however, that Roosevelt was really stunned and surprised, when he learned of it. But then, “Teddy” is spch a joker about these trust affairs, you know.