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ytcvQ illegal from the beginning under
elate lawH and constitutions a fact
that Mr. Dodd himself impressed up
on the Pennsylvania constitutional
," convention In 1873.
"That when the oil regions, by a
united uprising for fair play, had com
pelled the railroad presidents to prom
ise in writing to treat all their patrons
alike, Mr. Rockefeller alone balked
that just purpose, undermined the
general agreement, Induced the rail
roads secretly to break their word al
most as soon as given and to give him
in the dark the rebates they were
pledged to refuse.
"That as shown in the recorded
cases of Rice, Matthews, and others,
Rockefeller persecuted his competitors
with Indian persistence and ingenuity
following them into every market,
closing every transportation route by
devices of which discriminating rates
were perhaps the least exasperating,
and intimidating their customers by
threats of perpetual boycott.
"That in 1878 he forced a widow
who"had inherited from her husband
and was successfully carrying on a
refining business paying her a clear
profit of $25,000 a year, to sell out
for $60,000, refusing to let her retain a
dollar's interest in the enterprise, and
this after he had personally promised
her, with tears in his eyes, that she
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"That on April 9, 1879, Mr. Rocke
feller was indicted by the grand jury
of Clarion county, Pennsylvania, on
eight counts, including a charge of
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court for a year until a compromise
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"That, in addition to inducing or
compelling the railroads to betray the
secrets of their customers to him, he
maintained a complete private detec
tive system by which confidential em
ployees of independent refiners were
seduced into acting as spies upon
their employers.
"That in 1880, in the suit of the
Standard Oil company vs. William C.
Scofield, Mr. Rockefeller made affi
davit that the Standard Oil company
had not acquired and did not control
certain properties which it had ac
quired and did control, and that it
had not done other things'whicli it
had done, thereby committing deliber
ate perjury. That he perjured himself
again in 1888 when he testified before
a committee of the New York state
senate that he had not been in the
South Improvement company, that
there had never been any arrange
ment by which the trust or its sub
sidiary companies had secured lower
rates than those allowed to the gen
eral public, and that the Standard Oil
had never tried to make the opera
tions of outsiders unprofitable. Inci
dentially, official records are quoted
to show that while on February 28,
1888, Mr. Rockefeller told the New
York senate committee under oath
that he had not been a member of the
South Improvement company, he testi-
neu ueiore a committee of t.ho no.
tional house of representatives just
two months later that he had been
such a member.
"That the attempts or the independ
ent producers and refiners to free
themselves from Standard Oil domi
nation by the construction of pipe
lines of their own were resisted not
only by every sort of chicanery, pur
chase of legislators, and legal ob
structions, but by actual physical war
fare, the railroad allies of the Stand
ard hitching locomotives to the pipes
at crossings and dragging them out
of their beds, and attacking the camps
of the workmen with picks, bars, hot
water, and coal.
. "That Mr. Rockefeller has never
been willing to 'live and lot live,' but
from the beginning has acted on the
principle that every competitor must
be frozen out, choked, out, or clubbed
out of his way. That he has never
observed the rules of war, but has
resorted to man-traps, explosive bul
lets, and poisoned wells when open
fighting has not served his turn.
"It is the belief that these things,
and others like them, "are true which
has made some people hesitate to
agree with the Rev. Mr. Hartley that
Mr. Rockefeller's munificent gifts are
those of 'a Christian man whose pri
vate life and business methods alike
would bear scrutiny,' and that his
spoils of war are the 'fruits of vic
tory' in 'a legitimate contest.' If
they are not true, the public has done
and is doing Mr. Rockefeller a grave
injustice, and it is highly desirable
that some advocate more competent
than any that has made himself heard
thus far should come fnrwnr.i nwi
'dispel the popular misconceptions."
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