| Show ANOTHER HOT SHOT Sent Int to 10 General getIL CI Soiling Selling ln Oil 01 Now ow that It I in I apparently nUr the pro Iro proper per fer er rapt r 10 to take a fall tal out JC if the tho railroads the various traffic officials tire iro Iro being Inundated with alleged guy ances on the part of or the shippers Job Joh Jobbers jobbers bers and ad merchants merchant Among the lat mt Lit hocer Is IC I a typewritten letter leter re cc received reo from a local general tn agent from the National Petroleum association his morning morning Jut Just why wh It I should hould houll ben been sent ent lt to lo a general agent Igent instead ad adof of to his superior officer at al tho timo head of or affairs Is out not apparent Put Pur just jut why win a I hot arraignment of or the railroad on tho the tariff tut on 01 oil 01 should hould be mailed to 10 Utah Is another However Io cr hero Is II tho the letter Jt It I has hal o to Vie tIle writer that few rew cw of the railroad companies under understand unde understand I stand the tho oil 01 situation U It I would stein seem leem that hat If Ir the matter were wert thoroughly un understood In It could never nerr have hare become what that It U Is The TIme whole holo history of the transportation of petroleum rind Its pro products products ducts duetA howl choirs that the oil oi trust has hoa absolutely oh controlled the thc situation and ond that hat everything has hl been done for Its I own oln Interest nt itt f tho the expense not only of the people generally but of or the rail railroads ral railroads roads rad in particular In Ia the laying of ot line linc from forn oil oilfields 01 oilfields fields to refitting refining points the oil oi has us induced the railway rala t to torl raise alM rl t the thra rate rato 10 on UI oil 01 ro so r as 3 to abro time the pipe line lne and drive I till nil ni tho the crude crud oil 01 produced d In iii any an of or She lif tilt nil 1 VI fiel I I h the I 1110 lines linis to refilling r il l ii pol l IVr In tn stance the rate before the the pipe pilO Jin un Jinas In was as completed to 10 the Itt seaboard for Cor th Ih enna lv field nn wits 11 K I 9 cents a n liar I r I rel after nUrr ll It ra was completed It Il wa tas waal U rr raised al f l to 5 11 n a barrel After Aft r the I Refinery Hennery was war Wl completed ini fd he time pl line Man I laid front from that Ih he field to lo Whiting In UK lit tl r rate te wan rl from 7 j tents pet pel hun him hundred I dred to 0 12 I per r hundred the Territory field was nus i conne connected te J by ly pipe ripe lute line with lh the Fugar Creek refinery nt at Kansas KII thy rily tl th tIt rate tall v wa was tf raised from rem 10 rents pe r hundred hundred The result remit In ID to c 17 J cents per pr earh caw casc was WI jr the same robbing the railroads of or any an shipment n of crude between any points connected making I It impossible for any M Independent corn com companies m j panie to 10 transport any an oil 01 between et such uch points point The railroad companies simply Imp lend themselves to this condi rondi condition lIon Hon to 10 their own on detriment and to the thU th detriment pf of tt the public The arc at guilty gui of ot homicide and suicide They Te Teki kilt kill the Independent companies and cut ut ki their own 01 throats throat This same ame condition or of things extends from refining points to 10 poInts point of distribution and aM ultimate ultimately ly I I to 10 the time distribution of o oIl ell 01 to the con rumer somers The Oil 01 Trust Tat has hu established tank stations throughout the Ih country From refining points point to 10 the these e stations station I they hip In tank carloads al at a lover lomer rale rate than Is I to any In other distributing dl joints 1 at wi an l Average re rr of or tire five n tei to six fix lx mine mills per and the tIme great bulk of f the th oil 0 thus thu transported In 1 to such curl tank lank stations station is t distributed by b over oer th the intervening distance such ch The ar are r protected by b 1 time the railroad their keeping tou J I rates ran at ot such uch a 1 high point as all to prohibit Inde Independent I pendent from distributing their oil except within a vry vr rJ limited I 01 radius from frol their points point o 6 distribution lion tion ton Th tnt have not nt Ll 1 th the capital to 10 locate stations except at al atone alone one cute or two tuo point joints within the state Tho The result of the high local rate of or freight for distribution Prevents prevent independent distribution of ot oil oi and throws throns the en e ira trl distribution upon n the 11 I en of o the Oil 01 tU t which Iko the th pipe line Itt I system in robs roU roll the railroads of ot 1 Permits the fix fixing ing In by b the time Trust of or fr arbitrary and ami prices and amid Is of selvan Ilhan tugo luo age to 10 no 10 one OM except the time Tru t An instance tanto of or this for Illustration would be that the Trust Truit Ins 11 a at the town of or A which Is I 40 1 miles mie from the town lom of B Ii from the towns A anti and D I would cover coe the time Intervening distance all ni of ot the tween dealers In the little l tt towns town lying bins be between b between The Tho ho ordinary mate ite III of nf freight In 11 tho tIme average districts of or distribution be these theto towns lowns would be b about abut W 10 per barrel Tho TI holds about 10 barrels of oil oi the aver average a average Ier age ag freight on aim I the distribution of at which If Ir shipped by II freight would b be U n 5 Tin TIm TI ol man tuna at II 15 1150 SO n a day diY th cost co t of o feeding this the th team at il 75 8 cents celts a aday aca alay lay day would amount to F for extra ca we ui will wi add another dollar dolar per day ell making 1818 I The m ii anti and team has hal Ima earned on oil the time freight i It t alone alon 1 is ison on elm his blat hil of 0 oil nim oi llo what whatever whatever ever eer profit prof the tIme Trust Trust l I Is pleased to add upon the time oil 01 As all al of or these are Rrt sup up upP P pled led from points In lots lets l t there Is no carload movement lt be between tween point consequently the railroad set get g no short hort hauls on ear car carloads er loads and tIme the Ih take oare ore of hems leu than carload ra cc Q that railroads are If actually lelal giving up Ull to 0 smith and 1111 protecting the tho of oC transportation tran to the 01 Ol all ni of ot Ildr revenue upon P petroleum and anal an l Its Is products except a scant leant compensation they get gH on a elx Ix mile mie long hAUl Imul empty return tree free mileage free mileage 1 returned to 10 owner and amid thereby handicap h the tho Inde Independent pendent pendant desires delre d lr to 10 give to them them what naturally natural belongs to them the haul of the tho crude rule from coma the tho producing fields to lo the tho refinery re Ir the Ihl haul of ot the product from the refinery to Jobbers job T throughout the land and to 10 their own on df stations Matlon the most profitable port part of or time the tram trall from these e Jobbers and distributing t ing statIons station to 10 the In all II of the little towns tonne These lh f are the tho facts CArl ns as ni they exist ell Can you ou a al as a good loe railroad man con continue this Ihl system r tm of protection to 10 the Ih Oil Oi Trust Trust as a against the time natural de dp or of the time business through corn com competitive cm p tte chanel The logic of o It th the sit Nt situation and your jour our own Interests Int U demand that a 1 lower rate rte for tar the th distribution of petroleum and nd Its products be made by b the railroads to enable the independent independent dent oil 01 refiners renner and alel their accessories ace 8 orle to Increase the radius of or the distribution through the instrumentality of time the 1 I I rail railroads rai railroads roads increasing the amount of or revenue to the roads rORt breaking kin down doun monopolistic deal tic tc prices and giving In everyone a square quae |
