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Show ,i -. Kansas and Standard Oil. ; ; Kansas is rapping the Oilt trust and Missouri lias taken , up the good work and helped it along until the Federal grand; jury of Kansas .has , gone after John D. and his cohorts, and: will give (them doses of the same medicine that the beef trust is getting-in Chicago. . i . ; The action of the Standard Oil in cutting off the supply of oil from the wells in Kansas, and throwing throw-ing hundreds of men out of "employment because I - of "oyer production," was one that roused eVen the Kansans and they hare", started out to make it warm for the trust. Oil and sunflowers' are th' pride of the State, and to strike at either is to strike at the foundation of the State's business or beauty. - When the . announcement : was made that the Standard was to shut down Jthe big part of the oil wells in the State "there Was a'iong wail from em- ployees and other Kansans, but no one imagined that Kansas would take up the fight. Then the trust was asked how Jong, the -wells ' were to be shut down and the word came that they ' were to be plugged until the Standard's supply of oil at other places gare out. " - ' That was the time the Jayhawkers got busy . and with the aid of the independent ; oil -operators. Standard Oil was brought to a realization of the i fact that there were' others on earth besides them-' . selves. It was high time, for the trust has monopoly monopo-ly lized things for so long that it had come to believe . , that it was the whole thing, and ! the knowledge that any one would have the audacity to oppose it wa& something of a shock. Kansas has started 'outo expose. the working of this octopus, and it is to be hoped that it will be thoroughly.; done, and that,; at least, some few j of its many tentacles with' which it has fastened on the people, be--severed". ' |
