The t remendous pow e r
vested in the Supreme
Court, in deciding for or
against the corporation-tax
cases, the Standard Oil
Company, the T obacco
THE JEFFERSONIAN
Owing to what it is pleased to term “the
adverse action of the United States Supreme
STANDARD OIL
CO. MAKING
READY TO GET
MORE MONEY.
placed upon it by the Uni
ted States Government. Austria and Hun
gary have crushed the monopoly in their re
spective countries, and the Oil Octopus is now
conserving its strength and efforts for a new
concern, to be known under a new’ name.
Pending the final decision of the Supreme
Court in the dissolution suit, the company has
been quietly perfecting its plans for continued
operations in Europe. A current report said:
“The Standard, it is reported, already controls
the supposed independent oil lands in California
and Oklahoma to be operated, and has even been
considering the construction of the Record-Break
ing Oklahoma Pipe Line Company by the new cor_
poration.
“The belief is general here that if the Standard
Oil is the loser in the dissolution suit, it will be
found ready with a new machinery for its busi
ness, needing only expansion.”
That Judson Harmon is the strongest man
the Democrats have yet found to lead their
HARMON THE
ONLY IMPORTANT
DEMOCRATIC
PRESIDENTIAL
POSSIBILITY.
whelming majority. Taft’s re-nomination
for a second term is also settled beyond argu
ment or doubt; Os the situation in Ohio, the
Birmingham Age-Herald said recently:
“Harmon must be killed off as a presidential
possibility, according to the Republican leaders.
