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Excerpt from From the Directors of the Standard Oil Company to Its Employees and Stockholders If the judgment in question be allowed to stand the Com pany will be forced to pay (that is, fifty times the value of the oil) for every carload carried over the Alton Road during two years at an open 6 cent rate - a rate used over three com peting railroads for from ten to fourteen years! The trial judge refused to allow proof that the 6 cent rate had been filed by the Chicago Eastern Illinois, and was, therefore, a legal rate. He refused to allow proof that linseed oil, for instance, was carried at 8 cents, and other bulk commodities as low as 5 cents. He insisted that 18 cents was the only legal rate for oil when no one had ever paid it, and when it was authoritatively sworn that it (lid not apply to oil. The case has been taken on appeal to the higher courts to which we must look for that calm judgment which will rescue the rights of the citizen from the field of public clamor and from the domain of vindictive politics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.