Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-28
LOCAL OIL. E"
Fron, he Gr.ns.r W,hs.seon.

Coal oil exempiGes very fully the school
boys poem, in which he recited with very
yigoruos emphasis the line:
Tall cAks from little acorns grow,
Large streams nom little fountains hOw.'
Some elderly people amongst US may
recollect when all the knowledge we had OF
coal OIL was when it was sold in small
square yials, about six inches long, at a very
high price for its day. Itwas called seneca
oil, and was sovereign remedy for bruises,
burns, sprsins, rheumatism and ether ills
which human flesh was heir to. 1t came
principally from Guernsey or Noble county
n Ohio II was gathered mainly in blank
cts saturated with the oil as it hosted on the
streams and pools, and was then wrung ont,
and peddled 10 these long square walls for
the suffering humanity. 1t may be sup
posed that the old man Hslstesd had made
quite a nice thing Of it, and that after he
had schooled his promising boy, Muraf, out
fits proceeds some ambitious and enter
prising monopolist had destroyed the old
mans trade in the seneca By boring q
we'll and selling the oil in bottles for the
same price that the frugal Hslstead got for
his visls Ever since that time the dissp
pointed ard revengeful Hslsteads
have had profound hostility TO
the monopohes 10 coal oil, which
have lighted the world, and reduced
the price Of the crude Seneca from three
"6ppenny bits (lO{ cents for gill to two
cents q gallon. And so in like proportions
for all the grades and ten thousand uses Of
the good old Seneca Of the radical Hal
steads. The sprightiy Murst learned the
arts of printing and putting as editor OF the
Seneca Oil Advertiser and Batesvllle Ga
zette. Ii was the Commercial factor Of
the old man Hslstesd's success. Ii was
quite nice little monopoly" while 1t last
ed. The Cincinnati Gazette has coal oil on
the brain ye'y badly, whether the
foregoing is the true geueal-
ogy of the disease or not. But it is like
all Authorizations II deals in bombast, by
perbole, hopes and falsehoods and misrep,
RESERVATIONS. 1t speaks of the Standard Oil
Company as piece of political machinery
welded express y in the interests of the Dem
ocratic party. 1t So it has violated the prin-
eiple upon which all corporations, instituted
10 make money, act. They all stand in with
the party in power and divide the spolls
with them. Yet the gentlemen whom the
Gazette singles out for its assaults are Dem
ocrats, have been Democrats all their lives;
have always by birth, education and princi'
pIes been Democrats, resisting the power
and the Capitalization of the general gov
ernment The first falsehood which the Ga
zette persistently gives to its readers and
which il knows to be untrue is that Senator
Payne is q member of the Standard Oil
Company, when the fact is that he is no. aud
never has been q member; never had any
stock IN the concern. The important truth
that it coueesls, or does not Din in its false
and scsndalous attacks on that company, Is
that its President, J. W. Rocksfellow,
is member Of the Bsp-
tist Church, 8 Prohibitionist, and
one of the most determined and unhinching
Republicans of the whole country. He is
one of the largest stockholders in the con-
Germ. and one of the last men to aid in Sc
curing a Democratic victory. The Gazette
knows this, or can readily know 1t. Bat
the truth will not answer its purpose, and a
magnificent Galsehood will give spice to its
columns and sell well to its readers for
capital in politics, and will supply Foraker
with political bach instead OF brains. The
Gazette, which 80 falsely and for political
purposes only, abuses Col. o. Il. Payne
aud Col, W. P Thompson, knows well that
Mr.. Rockatelow and his other Republican
compeer in that company, would not permit
the means or the influence of that company
10 be used against the Republican party,
|, knows that such use would have brought
the whole power Of the government unde
HAYES. Grant, Arthur and Garfield, with all
their means for destruction, upon the con-
pany. The Gazette knows that the Stand
ard Oil Company is q mixed association oil
gentlemen-Repubhcsns and Democrats
and they are neither fools nor suicides sc
10 destroy their own business. COL Payne
is a Democrat, as his father was before him
Col. Thompson is q Democrat, as his father
was before him, and these gentlemen, q:
Mr.. Rockafellow does for himself, but
maintain their personal principles and theii
fidelity to their culture and education, wher
they stand BY the people aud the States
against Capitalization and against the pow
er of great corporations, which they use Sc
uniustly, and in the face Of al the facts
! charged with using. Ask Mr. RocksfelloN
or any other intelligent Republican of CleVe
land if this is not so.
1t is 8 long step from the Hslsteat
Seneca Oil Company, and the coarse snc
murky light of the iron lamp fed BY th'
crude oil to the refined oil which gives sc
much light and comfort to the civilized
world. Its low prices, and Its universal
diffusion and Its contributions in so many
kinds to the wants and comforts OF life ii
the work of magnificent and beni6een
agency, and this loWness Of price aud dit
fusion Of benefits is concurrent with the his