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COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
ASHINGTON LETTER
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
Such a sensational as ha3 stirred
pficial circles as the result
bmmissioner Garfield’s report on
|e Standard Oil Company, has
pt been known in Washington
>ra long time. There was little
mmendation for the report of
o Bureau of Corporations in the
bef Trust cases, and what little
ere was negative by the now
lous immunity decisslon of Judge
lumplirey. But the Standard
il report is only a little less
je than the message with which
(e president sends it to congress,
The report in itself is an ar
mgement of the oil company
[at is perhaps not as entertaining
ading as Miss Tarbell’s History
the Standard Oil Company, but
[contains much the same facts,
Id in a more official way and it
the most severe arraignment of
corporation that lias ever been
powu from such a high official
lurce. It charges specifically
fat the Standard Oil Company
M the practical monopoly of the
p business of the United States,
refines and handles 28,000,000
t of 20,000,000 barrells of oil
oduced in this country each year,
he few refiners that are out side
fe ho control of the trust are those
are in closo touch with an oil
reducing territory and who can
pply a limited area around their
fineries. This supremacy of the
faudard, ived the report says, lias re¬
rebates in direct defiance of
2 ' aw till it was found out when
quicklv discontinued the prac
K It has juggled the railroad
kiffs and while in some cases kept
|side [has taken the strict letter of the law,
all sorts of advantages
at the law never contemplated.
| * ,as stuck to the State tnrriffs
f °h carrying and pieced them
pther ^tate so that the oil seemingly
F consumption only
P ne s really carried over the inter¬
routes. In various ways it
[ pear 9 ma out de a of direct this profit of $750,000 and in
unjust
P n y ases absolutely illegal rail
py descrimination. But the to
r °f the case in which tlm sort
a P r °fit was made, the report
r 9 llo t profes to have discovered,
r ^' e same time the profit out of
r f!e railway rates was a mere baga
to the amount that the com-
11 v waa able to make out of
-
uking oft competition and mule¬
's the public of outrageous prices
r "'1. 1 he report states that
1 a cent a gallon is accepted by
!r ade as a fair profit to make
fefined oil. Instead of this it
s found that (he price charged
th e Standard was from three to
Cents higher than in the terri
"■iere it had to compete with
I-w independent companies.
‘ idl ii:g 23,000,000 barrels of oil
ar ’ as 't Wa s shown to do this
( e a tidy profit f^r the hard
tKiug corporation.
officers ot the company
* that they had merely
taken advantages of natural con **
ditions and that it was the hard
work and foresight of thecompany
to which it owed its supremacy m
j the oil field. The pipeline mode
of transportation was cited as one
, instance of this. But the report
shows that the pipeline idea, aside
j from not being the invention of
the Standard, was bought np and
and controlled by the enormous
j power of money behind the com
pany and that instead of being a
natural advantage, it like many
other of the so called natural ad
vantages, was 9imply the result of
cruel and killing competition on
the part of the great company,
The report cites particular in
stance where the law has been
openly or secretly violated, giving
names, dates and places that bring
the grand total of the railioad dis¬
criminations alone up to J of a
million dollars a year. Mr. Gar¬
field says in this connection, »t rH
have called attention to these
specific instances merely to show
the methods by which discrina
tions was attained and the devices
which if legal are still merely de¬
vices to obtain -'xactly the same
results as would be obtained by re¬
bates on interstate business. If
the existing law merely prohibits
tho particular device for obtaining
discrimination and permits the
same result to be accomplished in
a different way, then the legisla¬
tion is to that extent a sham. » >
The President’s message with
which the report was sent to Con¬
gress was us biting as the report
itself. He says the report shows
that not only the Rate Bill but
the Alcohol Bill ought to be passed
the first to give the Interstate
Commerce Commission powpr to
deal summarily with the evils of
the present monopolistic situation
and the latter to open an avenue
of competition that even the Stand¬
ard Oil Company could not close
to the farmer and the others of the
country who are entitled to relief
from the intolerable burdens that
this great monopoly has fastened
on the people. The President says
very clearly that the argument so
often urged against governmental
control or corporations was that it
tended to stifle the spirit of person
initiative on which the prosperity
of the country depended. But he
says it has been abundantly proved
that the tyranical corporations
which can force even the railroads
to truckle to them and do ‘heir
bidding, do more to stifle personal
initative than any other force and
that we must pass laws putting it
out of the power of the railroads
to comply with the monopolistic
demands of the great trusts, He
calls attention too, to the feature
of the report that says not only
the Standard Oil Company but the
Sugar Trust and other great inter¬
ests have consistently defied the
law and that it has been the ex
ception rather than the rule for
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| the American Sugar Refining Co.
j ! its to ever goods pay the of full New legal tariff on
out York.
I In conclusion the President
1 ! makes the radical
that the time is ripe for the United
States to absolutely refuse to re¬
linquish control over the coal and
oil lands that are still a part of
the public domain.
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merchantile life have recoganized
that advertising is essential to the
proper transaction of their busi¬
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ample to the hundreds of mer¬
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effiacy of this wonderful agent in
connection with their own business.
Widespread as advertising be¬
come within the last ten years of
wonderful progress, there are many
merchants who cannot convence
themselves that it is a factor that
must be reckoned with as an ac¬
tual necessity of modern business,
the same as rent, clerkship and
taxes. A retrospective glance
prove9 indisputably that the mer¬
chants who have succeeded have
invariably believed in the value of
newspaper advertising and made
use of it.
That advertising is on the in¬
crease every day is not denied.
There is a cause for this, let us
look for the cause. There is not
a thing under the sun that cannot
be sold through a newspaper; and
bought too. as for that matter.
The advertising that carries the
most force is without doubt the ad
carried in the county newspaper.
Everybody reads everything in the
county paper. Everybody in the
county is interested in what each
and every merchant has in stock.
They know the merchants person¬
ally; they read what he has to say
to the public with as much inter¬
est as they would a news article
that came from away off. Some
of our country merchants could
certainly profit by trying an ad in
their county paper, When we say
country merchants, we mean no
disrespect, rather an honor. Our
reference is to the merchant in the
smaller cities and towns, lhere
is not a business in Covington to¬
day that would not profit by an ad
in The Enterprise. It matters not
whether you sell on a credit or for
cash ; stable goods or.fancy ; a pa¬
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method of watching for a customer
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you invite them through an ad in
The Enterprise. People generally
go where they are wanted any stay
from the places that they are not
wanted.
CORNISH MOUNTAIN.
Miss Etta Wiley was the guest
Miss Pauline Wood Saturday.
Mesdames J. W. Beam and W.
J. Wileo are visiting their relatives
at Buckliead.
Mr. Garden Reynolds has been
on the sick list this last week.
Mrs. A. W. Wood was the guest
of her daughter Mrs. Mattie Harris
at Jersey Friday last.
Mrs. J. S. McCord, of Covington
has been visiting her mother, Mrs.
G. \V. Wood this lust week.
Mrs. J. B. Knight, of High
Shoals, was the guest of her daugh
ter, Mrs. Ethie Dinglar at Jersey
last week.
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Hon. John S. Williams, the
Democratic leader of tho House of
RMpr^ntat ives, is very properly
compelling the Republicans to
^ep a quorum, as a club to force
them to agree on the statehood
bdl to admit Oaklshoma and In
dian Territary and allow Arizona
and New’ Mexico to vote on the
buestion of joint statehood.
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