The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-05-26
TO CONTROL THE WORLD
Combine Bctwoon tho Two Grcnt-
cst Monopolies In Chrlstondom,
STANDARD OIL AND RUSSIAN OIL
Tho Two Great Trusts To Divide tho
World Between Thom-NcEotlations
Conducted with tho Approval o;ftho
Russian Minister OF Flnunco-rho
Effect of tho Troaty VIII 10 to Raisc
the Price OF the Product.
NaO York World May o..

Neg York World May a.
Tho two greatest monopolios In Chris.
tendon, tho Standard Oil Trust OF
America, aud tho Russian OIL Trust Of
Russia, arc about to effect, regardless
alike Of klngs and constitutions and of
right and Justice, q now division Of tho
world. Commercial geography Is being
transformed aud now homispheros
mapped out under tho supervision Of a
committee OF o Russian ByndIca,e and
mn agent Of the Standard OIL magnates.
These negotiations aro being conducted
by tho order and with tho approval OF
the Russian minister OF Gnuncc, but In
entire independence OF governmental
powor US to all tho other nations OF the
earth.
The struggle OF the Standard Oil Com.
pany to protect It's foreign market
against Russian competition has been
long and bittor Its history will be q
romance OF modern cvuiporco. But
with petroleum gushing from 10000
wells and deluging whole districts in
Russia, whilo American fields require
constantly moro and moro pumping,
tho end was inevitable. The Standard,
driven slowly from one port after an.
other in eastern Europe, has been
forced to recognize that il must either
divide the foreign market or lose it
altogether. 1t is trying 10 divide It.
The Standard Oil Company Is nego.
tiating with the Russian government
through O committee OF Russian TO-
finers q formal treaty involving
vast commercial interests, not only
in this country and In Russia, BIZ. in
every othor nation OF the globe. Tho
Immediate effect Of this treaty will be
to raise the price of o necessary Of life
to the people OF the whole world and to
pour uucountcd millions into purses
already overlooking with illegitima,c
toll levied upon the people OF America.
This treaty exists at present in tho
form OF Memorandum OF Agreement"
drawn up and signed by all the menu
bers Of THE Syndicate OF tho Russian
Petroleum Retners, with tho Consent Of
the Minister OF Finance"
The twentieth clause OF this Memo
randum" begins as lollows:
'20.-The committee OF five persons
have to communicate with the Ameri-
can Standard Oil Company to work out
the necessary conditions Of arrange.
ments for dividing the markets OF the
whole world for the trade with Russian
and American kerosene"
These necessary conditions" have al
ready been worked out"
Western Euro..A including Italy and
other Mediterranean countries west OF
Greece, is to DO yielded TO the Standard
Company, along with all North and
South America and the west coast OF
Africa. Russia takes Eastern Europe,
all Asia and tho rest OF Africa.
The execution Of the formal treaty
Dividing tho markets OF the whole
world" waits but upon the inlillment by
the Standard Oil Company OF one con
dition. One great foreign refinery, that
OF Mannheim, refuses to join the trust,
and one or two American associations,
chiefly the Producers Oil Company,
have not yet surrendered to the Stand
ard combination. Until either the
Mannheim rcfnerios refuse to buy
crude oil OF the Producers Company or
the Producers Company refuses to sell
TO the Mannheim reflnerics, tho mouo-
poly will still lack q little OF being abao-
lutte, and the Russian minister OF finance
will refuse to approve the treaty.
To fulfil this Inst condition OF Russian
favor the Standard Oil Company Is now
concentrating ita tremendous powor in
q desperate struggle to crush the Pro-
tducera' Oil Company. and kindred asso-
Citations have for years defed Its power.
This Is why rotined oil Is now being
sold by the Standard Oil Company ut
less than the price OF crude.