Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01

Prof. Laughlin of the Chicago Uni
versity said the other day that Rookie
feller had made his millions without
interfering with any one else making
money. Prof. Laughlin is either mis-
taken or wilfully lies when he makes
tne above statement The history of
the Standard Oil company is full of in
cidents where the Standard has forced
independent refineries to suspend busi-
ness and in many instances ruined the
owners. The plan Was to secure entire
control of the oil product To do this
it was necessary to secure all the re-
ineries. If a refinery refused to put
its plant in the deal and join the con-
spiracy, the Standard would put down
the price Of oil to such refineries' GUS
toners until it was either ruined or
driven out of the business.
Regarding this giant octopus through
which Mr.. Rockefeller has made his
millions we quote some very interesting
matter from Morgan's impending
Revolution:
Some very interesting information
OF the Standards tyranny and the ex-
tent of its profits were recently bought
to light by the United States Senate
committee. Mr.. B. B. Campbell, an oil
refiner of Westmoreland, Pa, testified
That the Standard Oil Company had
been built up at the expense of indie
pendent refineries, and by rebates and
special privileges given it by railroads.
Eighty per cent of all the oil produced
in the country at this time had to be,
sold to the Standard, who thus con-
trolled the price
"The testimony of Mr.. Cassett, of the
Pennsylvania railroad, in 1873, showed
that the road gave the Standard and
affiliated companies rebate on crude
Oil of 49 cents per barrel from Bradford
field, and 81 cents from the lower field
The railroad also gave the Standard
221a cents per barrel on all oil shipped
by people not affiliated with the Stand
ard. The rates on refined oil were so
cents to the Standard and $1.45 to the
public.
Augustus H. Tack, of Philadelphia,
formerly of the Citizens Oil Manufac-
turing Company, of Pittsburg, related
how his company and others had been
squeezed to death by the Standard. The
allowance of rebates and deductions to
the Standard resulted in breaking up
all individual refineries which did not
coalesce with the Standard Tack
estimated the capital destroyed in this
manner at SIS 900, 900 to S17, ,000, 900 and
the amount of money which the Stand
ard had made by the rebates at $780,
100000"
The Chicago University was built and
is run upon the money which Rookie
feller made through the Standard Oil
Company's operations. Prof. Laugh
lin and his ilk are hired prostitutes to
gull the public. No man who speaks the
truth and possesses any independence
can hold a position in the Chicago Uni
versity. Thus the churches and the
educational institutions of the land, as
we'll as the great newspapers, are un-
der the control of the wealthy and
are aiding in the propagation of false
hood. Rockefeller poses as a Christian
philanthropist, while as a matter of
fact he secured his fortune by force
forcing trade from its legitimate chan
nels-and has no better right to it tha?
the common highwayman who presents
a pistol in your face with the demand
for your money or your life"