Show p IS RIX IN I 1 TION the rol following loning la is copied from tho the N lw less than twenty yeam ago k laborer drained andrew discor ere ft a 11 cash or of missing and in con can natt nastiest nattiest iest with wilh ft a dork clerk named rockefeller 1 tot tho the standard oil today every consumer of potro petroleum loure lo in this country from the iha millionaire to she la borer or rom role the student to go the abo asset rot pedlar to la forced to par from fro 50 to TO po pw per CC benl CL above the moms nornel price for hit his oil and od all tola this extra amount KOV goes into the iho tull full conors of abo blancard blan dard company of the Wi gallons or of petro alcum which TH are annually produced idour cou country all 11 II but A willing through the standard company on a norma of the pay pass over la in annual dividends meet of which I 1 a extorted extor td from the cam ani ing of uio the poor of the hundreds of oil renn erles which walh existed la in out our country la in IVA fall 11 lul but il a thoun have been dl dis am or oro are DOIT ruuby abc lomp a 0 T the question naturally albom how bow could such inch it a ported perfect monopoly prow grew la in xo be bhart ft fmc Theano abo ak by tho the of railway corporations abo now york central carried the oil of the standard company lata for 75 C cecil at per tam while it charged other rea tient 45 per barrel alloo time the now noir york clinical central curled carried low abo 0 sund ud 4 oil mora mom tit ihlo 13 ita malca at tho the should a to of ton cent per barrel and returned the ibe empty barrels free of charge the railroad contracted with the standard Com company to double its ll 11 catch for or oil and od to 0 o pay to the stand standard ft 1 for every atory barrel which won vu curled over its either for the standard or cr for other re floe r how were the melrod companies I 1 old for ilia iba special presumably by gifts or of standard gLam larJ block certain it to t that so DO outsider eldor ilaa boco been able to discover who are alio in the company COMPACT 1 and od so 10 lin Imp orlano wu wall it 11 to keep this fact a secret that ft a committee corom lUce of the ren rants unable to dl scorer whom where the stock w wu held As A a of the special ad addao given to the ilia standard company the oller ware obliged to cio cloo O their works or sell ron them to tho the at st ft no nominal initial price of the abo fifty eight debt reflect tam ica which existed in la in iwa 1 of at present dismantled anil and jhb other oilier twenty nine are re now rise ran by the standard filon dard that tbt company at t prescot tho the rest oil all tacks at the well the the oil can and nd the abo factly ties tie for loading and dd unloading both at albo principal oil cities I 1 it no only on one twelfth of the oil wells but it controls the ibo other owners owner these owners wait in ID long lines line at t the tb edco of the company camp ny and meekly mccur accept whatever price the company coin pRoy chooses choose to pay those them for their oil the company finds it ta cooler carlor to control central tho the owners than to 0 o fit run the wen one can ool cot without indignation tion read iad ilia lc foregoing it will be seca MCD by it that thai tho the yew new york central and pennsylvania sylvan in central roads havo have been used by their managers not oty only to 0 o do stroy btroy the iho business or of private citizens but bul also to rob the smaller era cn or of the iho roads road son and this they havo done v hilo bile pretending to be common carriers carrl cre limit demand mg log extraordinary privileges because they bro are common carriers carri erB ought to be done right now fit f for the government to 10 seize aiu the books of those companies and boding flo clial out the iho name dames or the ibo parties to these contra contracts cit cone consign ga every one 10 lo the Pen leonY the ry petty larceny thief goes goc to jail the ilia arand raad larceny thief to the iho prison but when OHO men con COD spite and rob their fallow nun of millions up dp poor into iso ho uro are struggling sirag filing to 10 get gel long along sell nad rob and rob until they lic bo come cornea a greater puller power than the ibo gov crin ment then they are great men they can purchase trotting horses horse build fine houses and nil fill them with work of ofaf at and theira pin tons ioni on all subjects aro are treacil ns its oracular the first law coo gram ought to pau pan should tersely beato that the memo mana gets ECH of tny ray railroad being convicted or of so 0 o much aa ono one penny la in favor of ono one mao man or company lad against amy other man or company should bo be guilty of felony and add should be lent cent to tho the penitentiary t hero to be confined at hard labor for a term of hot less ks thao than thirty 3 cara cam |