Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1907 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

Facing fines aggregating over iSTQO,COO,OOO from various state and federal indictments in addition to the rec-ord-breaking Obe of $29,24<>,00(5?" imposed by Judge Landis of the United States District Court at Chicago for Alton rebates, and with the possibility’ of prison sentences for its many millionaire officials, the oil trust defiantly prepares to coutitfue the light through a bill of errors, while its rejuvenated founder' and master, John D. Rockefeller, tells the public that he is "harnessed to the cart in which the people ride" and that these attacks on capital must injure all. At the same time Attorney General Bonaparte frankly dec la res the desire of the Department of Justice to see the heads of criminal Trusts behind the bars and the attorney generals of twelve states get togetlief to plan a joint antitrust campaign. It is Inferred that Harriman must stand trial for tAe Alton’s share in the rebate business, and other equally well-known financiers of the railroad and industrial monoi>olies are believed to be "on the list." On top of all this comes lhe broadside of the administration in the form of a second report by Commissioner Corporations Smith, showing that' the oil trust has not tended to decrease the. relative. Price of its products, and that its known total earnings since 1882 —aggregate-$790.<W,000. —1t asserts that the monofioly is maintained by tlie various crooked- methods popularly

charged, such as rebates, price discriminations, bogui . companies, poor pay and short measures. Another Southern state has held its own ground against railroad defiance of rate legislation and Federal Court Comer of Alabama," after three days of conference with officers of the Southern Railway, "persuaded” that corporation that it had better obey the law of tbe'state until it could be tested in the state and higher courts. A way bad been found to deprive the railroad of its state license by reference to the new law against transferring cases to the federal courts. Federal injunctions will be modified to suit the agreement. . • / The senatorial primary in Mississippi had a hot and close finish, witli both sides claiming victory and alleging frauds, but Williams appeared to be in the lead and was declared the choice of the party by the state committee, with a majority of 648, Vardaman acquiescing. Western Union telegraphers at Chicago began a general strike because men were dismissed for refusing to take-messages from the Los Angeles strike-breakers. —— Morocco is in the th rocs -of an a nti-Chrlst ian erusade after the bombardment of Casablanca by French and Spanish warships, which destroyed the Moorish quarter. Great “slaughter - and pillage ensued until 2,000 troops’ were landed and restored order.