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Show sary for our' company to get in order to carry out the work wehave contemplated in talcing care of the oil produced by building tank and pipe lines, and we A?ill have to atop all of the work. Please give instructions accordingly, and atop all work in the field that can be stopped without liability on contracts, and have it done immediately." The idea of the credit of the Standard being injured in-jured to such an extent that it cannot borrow money mon-ey is the most excruciatingly ludicrous thing that has appeared since the palmy days of Mark Twain and Bill Nye. It should be dramatized. It is a true index of the estimation in which the Standard holds the law of any State. It says in effect, ef-fect, "repeal your inimical legislation or we will de: stroy your industry." And this is supposed to be a Republic. The State alone cannot cope with so tremendous and so unscrupulous a power as the Standard. There must be rigid Federal control before the Standard can be made to see that it is not greater than the United States. . . Tht SUnitrd cs an Educator. Notwithstanding the expostulations of Lawson, Ma M. Tarbell and the public generally, the Standard Stand-ard Oil company has not departed from its established estab-lished custom of doing as it. pleases. It is now engaged en-gaged in giving the State of Kansas an object lesson les-son calculated to cure that commonwealth of its folly. .The Kansas Legislature recently had the temerity temer-ity to pass some measures regulating the practices ! of the Standard in that State. It was something the Legislature thought it had a right to do be cause it had a vague idea that Kansas was the property of its citizens. But the Standard thought otherwise. It had consented to enter Kansas, pay the owners of wells in the new oil territory in that State what it pleased for their product and freeze them out of as much of their holdings as it wanted. It had no wish to be interfered with in the prosecution prosecu-tion of its business and it was surprised and hurt when the Legislature presumed to enact a few laws for its guidance. . To allow such a precedent to be established would never do, so the Standard suspended oil operations ope-rations and entered the educational field. Its method meth-od was simple. It curtailed production and with-, drew 900 men from work in the field. The compla-esnt compla-esnt explanation issued in an order by a Standard official is one of the richest bits of humor it has been our good fortune to read in many a blue moon. It rays: "On account of the present agitation in regard to our business In Kansas our credit is being injured uxd we are unable to secure loans which are neces- |