Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — Standard Oil Methods. [ARTICLE]

Standard Oil Methods.

In the Trust i uvesfigation John Swartz and Frank L. Woods, of Pennsylvania, testified, Saturday, to having heard that the Pennsylvania railroad had allowed lower rates to other shippers than to themselves. They thereupon presented cl a 1 ms for rebate to tbe railread company, and 13 cento per barrel on'their shipmen’s of oil was returned to them. State Senator Lewis Emery, of Bradford, Pa., corroborated the statament made by Campbell to the effect that practically all the dependent refiners had been wiped out between 1872 and 1878 by reason of the rebates given the Standard and ito predecessor, the South Improvement Company, by the railroads and by other meant; they were simply “deviled to death.!’ A computation made by witness showed that the Standard had received over $10,000,000 in rebates in seventeen and a half months from the four principal railroads leading from tne oil fields. The amount of rebates given the Standard het hosght amounted in the aggregate to over $100,000,000 and had the railroads treated all shippers alike, it was his belief that they would now be in receipt cl an annual income of from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 greater than they received at present.