Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-09-29 | Page 3 | John D. is "Squeezed"

0HN D. IS f SQUEEZED" His Carncr on the Unseed 1 ; Oil Market Fails, Big v ; Crop the Cause. v "For once in his business career John yJD-Rockefeller has been cornered and vls now being squeezed," said H. L. Wakefield at ' the Kenyon yesterday. Mr. Wakefield represents the Minnesota - Linseed Oil Paint company, Minneapolis. Minneapo-lis. i "Last year the piety prophet thought he would jump in and squeeze a few millions out of the people by cornering - the linseed oil market. The order was given and all the flax seed of which linseed Is made was cornered. . . v "John D. stood to make a big slaughter, slaugh-ter, and if what he hoped to have done bad been 'did' the people would have mixed their paint with soap or left It in the kegs for a fall In price of oil. But Mr. Rockefeller did not figure on one single contingency. He Is always claiming that God is with him.. This time he figured without his host, for 'the good' Lord has Just given the flax farmers farm-ers the biggest crop ever In their history.-. ' "The over-production this year is something like 10,000,000 bushels, and our firm and all others are buying flax seed at 60 cents the bushel below the price the Standard Oil people paid last year. And the paint and oil people are laughing over the corner that flashed In the pan. But they are laughing under un-der their breath, for old John D. is a foxy old chap and he may get even af-k af-k ter alL" ,