Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1906 — APPLAUD TRUST FOE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

APPLAUD TRUST FOE.

Hadley of Missouri Create* Unusual . Scene In New York. Herbert S. Hadley, Attorney General of Missouri, was applauded and cheered by the crowd in the courtroom in New York when he arraigned Henry H. Rogers for the position the magnate has taken in the hearing of the case of the State of Missouri against the Standard and other oil companies. The scene was an unusual bne In the Supreme Court of the State of New York and Justice Gildersleeve, before whom attorneys were arguing on the rule to compel Mr. Rogers to answer certain questions asked him, was compelled to rap loudly before order was restored. In referring to Mr. Rogers’ complaint that the proceedings in the oil Inquiry were sensational and taken for the purpose of advertising the attorney general, Mr. Hadley said: “If there have been any sensational re*

porta of those proceedings they have been due to the witness Rogers—to his flippancy, to bis frivolity and tho attempt he has made to show contempt for the highest court of Missouri.” He said Mr. Rogers had acted In a way to inflame the prejudice and'-passions »f the common people nnd saw flt to sow the wind and reaped Ha- whirlwind of disaster.” Missouri’s legal war upon the corporation which Is generally regarded as the king pin In the vast aggregation of American trusts, is the latest stage In the campaign begun to enforce the anti-trust laws of the State. The aim of the bearing Is to show that certain alleged Independent oil companies are In reality operating for tho trust to overcome comeptitlon and restrain trade. Officers of these companies began at once Jo refuse to answer pertinent questions by advltre of counsel, including Henry H. Rogers.

HENRY H. ROGERS.