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DECEMBER 7, 1905
CXj. Nebraska. Indopcnacxvz
ACTS THE OUTLAW
STANDARD OIL IN KANSAS USES
DETESTABLE TRICKS
Agents Invent New meannesses to De
stroy Business of Independents
People Rely on President to Banish
Trust Tactics
Cherry vale, Kans., Dec. 2.- The
tricks of the Standard Oil company
are many and" always up to date. No
matter how apparently stringent the
laws there Is always a way to evade
them. The motto of the Standard al-j
ways has been, "There are more ways
to kill a cat than by choking him to
"death with hot butter.'
The last session of the legislature
passed two laws. One was a maxi
mum freight rate law prohibiting the
railroads from charging more than a
specified amount for a certain dis
tance. This tariff is" now in force on j
all the railroads in the state. Then
it passed another law, the anti-discrimination
law, which forbade the
charging of more at one place than
another for the same commodity,
freight rates being equal.
' Instance of Discrimination
The people thought they had the
Standard harnessedup at least in a
measure. But there are other ways
than getting rebates and selling -oil
cheaper than your competitors. There
are ways . of harassment, especially
when, you control the railroads and
their policy. .
For instance, there was a car stand
ing on the side tracks at Kansas City
the other day. It was from the Web
ster refinery, a little independent
concern at Humboldt. The car was
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Tub Nr.iiHAKA Inpki-knokkt
all right. Next to It was a Stand
ard car. Somebody during the night
smeared crude oil all over the top
of the Webster car, and then some
body else reported to the transporta
tion department of the road that the
car was leaking, and so it was set on
a sidetrack, and left there for days
and days, when as a matter of fact,
and subsequent developments proved,
there was no leakage to the car at
all. But the Webster refinery lost
the use of the car for a sufficient
length of time to cripple it, because
it has no more cars than it can use
at any time. .
Another Trick of Trade
Then there is the old trick of put
ting cheap oil in barrels with the best
brands on them. The oil business is
not like the whiskey business a bar
rel can be used again. So they
sometimes put a cheap grade of oil
in a Perfection barrel and sell it to
the dealer as Perfection. The dealers
of Kansas are not educated to the
oil business or the tricks of it and
they take the cheap oil unquestion
ably, and, when their customer" kick,
charge, it up to some err ' refin
ing that particular bunch of crude
and explain it that way.
Then ; there is the otner old trick
of shipping oil in other barrels than
those made by the Standard or for
the Standard. A great portion of the
barrels used in the trade in this part
of the world at the present day are
barrels made for . the Republic Oil
company by the Great Western Manu-j
f acturing company at Cleveland, O., '
and yet the Republic Oil company in
the courts of Missouri, at this minute
is denying that it : is an connection
directly or indirectly with the Stand
ard Oil company.
Another trick the independent re
fineries are none of them able to
supply enough gasoline to take care
of their trade. When the dealer ap
plies to the agent of the Standard
Oil company for gasoline the Stand
ard Oil agent is always "just out."
When the dealer presses him for an
answer as to when he will be "in,"
the agent of the Standard answers
that he does not know. One candid
agent of the Standard when pressed
to the nail for an' answer as to when
he would supply gasoline or why he
would not , supply it, frankly said :
"Why don't you get your gasoline
where you get your oil?"
Theft is One Trick
; Trick. No. 3 The independent re
fineries all have their own barrels
and their own cans and their own
cars. When the empty barrels are
returned they are set on the platform.
The Standard driver comes along and
grabs them and carries them to the
Standard warehouse. This applies to
the barrels and the cans. When asked
why he did it, he says that he sup
posed they belonged to the Standard.
But it is noticeable that the Standard
never returns these things till it is
forced to do so, and in one case in
Kansas City it required the threat of
a replevin suit to make the Standard
return some cans belonging to the
Fidelity Oil company. The same
thing has happened all along the line
wherever there is an independent con
cern. Independents Still Hope
Still the Independent refineries have
not lost heart. They are looking with
hopeful eyes to the president to help
free them from the thraldom of un
just freight rates and they are look
ing to the people of the west to buy
their oil and the people of the west
are doing it. A case la point there
came up at Iola a few days ago a
question of experimenting with crude
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oil on the streets. The area was a
block. The Standard Oil company
offered to donate the oil. The coun
cil declined it and paid for the oil
from an independent producer. And
all of the grovers in this town signed
a pledge that they would not patronize
the Standard Oil company as long
as they could get independent oil. It
is the sentiment of the people. They
are determined that the independent
refineries are to have a fair show and
they are giving it. In some of the
towns none or the people will buy
their groceries of a man who patron
izes the Standard.
And the people are backing up the
Independent refineries In their fight
for just freight rates. As it is now
the refineries are limited to the
boundaries of the state of Kansas for
their business because of an unjust
freight tariff. They have appealed for
relief and the people are behind that
appeal and are supporting II.
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