The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-03-12

4 barrel at the very De the shipments
from the wells were 500 barrels day.
the largest ever made | that time. All
this. as one of the larst producers tes-
tilted, was because So take our com
modify to one buyer a,accept the price
he chooses to give usithout redress.
with no right OF appea
Hundreds and thousls of men have
been ruined by these $ of the Stand
ard and the railroads; hole communi-
ties have been rendert desperate, and
the peace of Pennsylyarimperi!ed more
than once. Tue thousai of men thrown
out of employment in Isburg between
1872 and 1871 were act in the Pitts
burg tragedy of July. II The oil pro-
ducers, in their memorito Gov. Hart
ranft, August u. 1873 help declared
that "the Standard ande railroad COM
panies leave to the pee, whose crea-
lures they are, but tsremedies-an
appeal for protection fito the law of
the land, and next to tHligher law of
nature - The very lntgent and fair
correspondent of the ! York Sun,
whom the Standard coutot seduce, as
it did the representative mother great
New York daily. wrote n Titusville,
Pa. November 4, 1878, Sc fact is the
State of Pennsylvania haad Il narrow
escape from an internal that would
have required all its resoss to control
and check. and the DAMS not over
vet. Had certairn given the
word; there would have ban outbreak
that contemplated the ure Of the
railroads and running thdhe capture
and control of the CnitPipe Lines
1.-THE Standard'sl proper-and in all
probability the burning d the prop
erty of the Standard Oil Gany in the
region. The men who VIC have done
this, and may do it yet, aot laborers
or tramps. They are meho believe
in order and law, and hausiness to
attend to-" Mr.. 3. 3. Obell. who
described himself as unfortunate
owner of nearly a hundproducing
wells, told a story before Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania thasht not to
be uninterestlng to the IN of con-
sumers of kerosene. One. return
ing to his home at Parkear Pitts
burg. the center of . srea district,
he found the citizens in of terri
BILE excitement. The Stant through
its pipe line, had refused t, oil. I'M
less sold to them, and theclared it
could not buy. because the RAIDS could
furnish it no cars in which tive away
the oil. Hundreds of wells stopped,
to their great damage. Thols more.
whose owners were afraid tse them
| for fear of injury by salt u. were
pumping the oil on the srou All the
influence of few leading mes hardly
enough to prevent an outbnnd the
| destruction of railroad ant lines.
Mr. Campbell telegraphed railroad
authorities, THE refusal of Stand
ard to run oil. unless sold ummedi-
ate shipment, and of the railito fur
nish cars. has created suchtement
here that the conservative Us will
not be able to control the and I
fear the scenes of last July he re-
peated in an aggravated ia The
interview that followed coId the
railroad men they had gone II. and
in a few hours afterwards hds of
empty cars suddenly appearedsrker.
and for a week the railroad, had
said it could furnish no cars. away
from Parker fifty thousand bapf oil
a day.
If we turn to the eXperienche re-
tiners we find they Jared as BIS the
producers. The handful of Nork
retiners who survived the macy
against them testify that thd to
, keep their capacity limited anlo as
little as they could. They didare
to build large retineries, bechey
would not be able to get Oil clear
RED to them to keep them goMr.
, Alexander. of Cleveland, tells he
was informed by Rockefeller of ind
! ard, that if he would not sci he
, should be crushed out. The ard
had contract with the railroaich
made them master. He had to heir
terms. and sell for 500, 900 4 refihat
: cost him $50, 200, aud wasing
h money. Retiner after rciiner is
v burg, buying his crude oil linen
G market, manufacturing it at his,
+ shipping it to the seahoard. mt a
: continued succession of losses, las
/, forced into bankruptcy or u sails
r. works to the Standard, who alHd
;, a buyer on the spot at the risc.
= The great majority OF these res,
j. when bought by the Standard, w
4 mantled and the Junk y was hao
l. other relinerics. The Eesta andos
IF refineries. which cost about >.
is were sold at sheri(fS sale to the SH
to for $50. 900. and are now run visv
to By that company. The Germanial
n has run to its full capacity as long
We Pennsylvania Railroad gave its /
d. tor transportation, is now leased :
o. Standard. but stands idle, as tina
Germ can make more money by II
!, the production and maintaining (
fetal price than by giving the
cheap light. The Standard becam'
- t,cally the only retimr of oil i'll W
y" Pennsylvania, and is rule was
ruptcy to all attempting to lead Al
Ith nendert existence. D. =. Reichar
us how the agents o. the Standar'
TO him with the thrat that if he {
20 } come into their combination they
drive him to the 7all. The st:
,aa called upon this fire man to cho
,u tween financial ru!mnd joining tt
,o,, these terms: he waste refine only
IA much as he had ben doing, and
In, nav them Il tribute d one cent
9 y tax of five to twive per cent
c,, selling, storing, transporting, ano
-l,, of his oil he was to cave entirely
If Standard. This testimony with
,oil to the regulation of rices by the
-. ard is confirmed b.the unwillir
sd dence of Mr.. J. j. Nndergrilt, Pr
vo, of the Standards Tilted Pipe Lii
m, 4 stakeholder in tho Standard, W
n, that the Standard ixes for the
mn, reliners in the coDination how
ed id they shall produce each montl
f., Il .:keepinc up the ,rice." 1t /