Show 7 OCTOPUS MAKES J i PUBLIC APPEAL Standard Oil i is Entitled En En- titled to Receive En En- IN MARKETS OF WORLD Battle BaUlo to 10 Maintain Supremacy Sn- Sn of or American A it Pet Abroad Now New York Nov No 30 ln In In a long statement statement state state- ment mont signed 11 h by William lIlIam II LIbby of the foreign i n department of oC the Standard Standard Stan Stan- dard lard Oil company the latter made modo Its appeal to the public In lit the tile statement It was pointed out that its great European European European Euro Euro- competitors so o far from receiving the opposition from the foreign n gov gov- the press or the community are arc r regarded abroad n as being In the natural pathway of legitimate economic economic mic and progressive commerce and are especially commended when the the motive Is emphasized In eliminating the American product from the tho competitive com corn markets Of The rhe statement continued In the pro prosecution of II Its aggressive e Industrial Indus Indus- trial policy the Standard Oil company believes Il Itself elf to be fairly entitled to the encouragement that other governments govern govern- ments are ale ln gi giving to similar h business ln Interests It was further aid ald that against the thc array army of formidable elements and In Innumerable In- In numerable other opposing factors the S Standard Oil company was fighting in tho the worlds world's marl markets for the continued supremacy of oC the he A American petroleum This commercial battle could not be successfully all waged minus the compre hem i e organization and equipment at home homo mind and abroad which the Standard OH oil company compan has created at such en en- en n- n expense and ami through such uch un un- remitting efforts Maintaining Ia Supremacy Supremacy- Teh successful maintenance of the supremacy of American petroleum In the tho competitive markets abroad must carry tho penalty of a con constant commercial com corn mercial battle In the tho of which not only the Standard Oil corn com pan pany itself elf Is con concerned hut but also the entire producing Industry of the tho Unit Unit- ed States the great labor classes and a l ho host t of or avocations a directly lIr dent nt upon H Its ramified operations The valuation of or its exports con cod a high highly important factor in the adjustment of tho the international trade balances of the nation The he statement concludes b by review review- ing hog the rea reasons ons wh why the organization ors of the Standard Oil on company which enables it Jt to pursue and enlarge the worlds world's markets for tOl American products products pro pro- ducts should be bo sustained rather rathel than crippled d or destroyed It was as Jl stated that lint the tho volume vo of American petroleum eum distributed In the oll Worlds World's markets would have havo boon been Immeasurably Im mi- measurably le less a a. IO lass H compre- compre eq equipment anti and policy than that of nf the Standard |