Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1890-12-05

he told me the secret Of his remarkable
success. The Standards oil market
juggler had girl and he regularly came
to the Frenchman's restaurant for his
meals. He gave the Frenchman tips
what to buy or sell and the latter, like a
smart fellow, followed the advice thus
given and soon became rich. was not
slow to follow up his pointers and al
though often did SO against my own
Judgment always came out a winner.
'"The Standard reminds me of the
Great East India Company. That con-
cern, you will remember, was the mander
of its time. It absorbed everything in
reach, and fianally became so everlasting
ly big that it fell to pieces of it's own
weight. It's collapse created one of the
greatest sensations Of the age. The
Standard Oil Company is a modern East
India affair. 1t wants the earth, and it
has nearly got it. Some may, say within
ten years from now, it will collapse, like
a soap bubble, Of its own weight. It
carries the transportation companies that
run out of New York in the palm Of its
hand. It owns outright the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad 1t has
absorbed the great Richmond Terminal
system. It lis on the best Of terms with
the Vanderbilts and twists that great
corporation around its little finger. It
owns a line of steamers plying from New
York to points on the Atlantic coast. 1t
owns score or two Of iron tank vessels,
in which petroleum is exported in bulk
to European ports, thus saving enormous
freight charges II owns one of the most
complete private telegraph systems in the
world, with wires extending from New
York to Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, Pittsburg. Cleveland, Chi
cago and all the great points in the
country. It owns and operates great pipe
lines, which transport oil from the oil
districts to New York, Baltimore, Bay
onne, N. j., Pittsburg, Cleveland, Lima,
Findlay and Chicago. It has swallowed
up the Tidewater Pipe Company, which
has lines running from the Bradford oil
field to New York and Philadelphia. 1T
owns all the the great oil reineries in the
country and has by underhanded and dis
reputable means undermined, ruined and
bought in at a sacrifice scores of its
rivals. Itrules the oil producing fields
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rupted hundreds Of honest producers. It
EoWns, or cont the great bulk Of all the
| iron oil tank cars in the country and
dictates to the railroads the number of
cars outside retiners shall receive. Until
the inter- state law went into effect it
made puppets of railroads, and ever since
itsprang into being has drawn enormous
rebates from them. 1t has robbed and
lpillaged right and left, and has laid bare
and made desolate the once beautiful
and prosperous oil country. 1t controls
city and village councils, state legisla-
lures and executives of states.
Take up the railroads right here in
Chicago as an Illustration of the Stand
ards ever spreading influence. Did you
know that the Standard virtually owns
and operates the Union Pacific, and that
the close and friendly relations that exist
between the Union Pacific and the Chica-
go & Northwestern We're brought about
by Standard gold? Well, it is so. The
Standard, through Rockefeller, is the
heaviest holder Of Northwestern stock.
and the Standard frames the policy for
the two roads to operate under. There is
the Rock Island, too. The Standard
holds very large block of it's bond fives
and likewise knows all about the inner
movements of the road. Asld there is the
great Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul.
The Standard has it, LOO, and controlling
blocks of its stock are locked up in the
Standards roomy vaults at 26 Broadway
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, you
remember, has just purchased the colora-
do Midland and is preparing to gobble
up another road, see the Standards
hand in the deal. 1t is virtually interest
ed because it will secure two routes into
California and thus promote its trade on
the Pacific coast. It is going into other
railroads too, and soon will become as
powerful in manipulating railroad stocks
as it has been in controlling land
wheat. Within few years the Stand
ard has grown amazingly. Ten years
ago its great speciality was oil alone. Now
it is in the sim on wheat, owns thousands
of miles of railroad and is the father and
principal owner Of the great lead trust,
the linseed oil trust the cotton oil trust
and other great trusts that the public
knows little or nothing about. It was
small stream once, but now it is mighty
river and is fed by numerous tributaries
Millions now roll in where thousands
came in before, and the mighty river is
nearing its flood tide and soon will over
flow its bank and go tearing on to dis
truction. When it's well fortified levees
break, as break they will, the event will
be the marvel of the century.