9. High fees have been maintained for inspection,[693] and the inspectors have been brought into equivocal relations with the monopoly.[694]
10. The general use of tank-cars and tank-steamers has been prevented.[695]
11. The people have been excluded from the free and equal use of the docks, storehouses, and other terminal facilities of the railroads in the great harbors of export.[696]
12. Inventors and their better processes have been smothered.[697]
13. Men have been paid more for spying than they could earn by working.[698]
14. "Killing delay" has been created in the administration of justice.[699]
All are poorer—oil-producers, land-owners, all labor, all the railroads, all the refiners, merchants, all the consumers of oil—the whole people. Less oil has flowed, less light shone, and there has been less happiness and virtue. In every one of the few intervals, says Hudson, during which oil could flow freely to Pittsburg, all the businesses connected with it were active and expanding.[700]
When the trust's secretary was asked for the proper name of the combination, his reply was: "The Lord only knows; I don't." "An indescribable thing," he said again.[701]
"Do you understand the practical work of refining as a refiner?" he was asked.