Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-02-10
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Stop the Drill.

The Standards allied companies com
pleted 120 wells in January, adding 3
$50 barrels Of oil daily TO the produc-
tion.
Of these. % were failures and 33 We're
in the Ohio fields adding CAS- barrels of
stink oil to further depreciate the value
of Pennsylvania oil.
They have underway lGS wells in the
different oil fields making over one
fourth Of the entire operations.
This is being done at time when
they are paying less than the cost of
producing oil, for the sole and only
purpose of running their patrons and
others engaged in the business. One Of
their men when making a large dona-
tion TO churches. said that God gave
me the money Yes, the same god
that gave Weyler the power to starve,
murder and rob the Cubans; the same
god that hOvers over every thief in
every land, and his name is Mammon -
and when they are called home to meet
their god they viii find their abode in
a most sulphurubrius cline.
The murder, theft, starvation and
rapine of the defenseless Cubans has
given Weyler great satisfaction, how
much greater is the satisfaction of these
men, knowing As they do, that they are
daily robbing their patrons of the saw
ings of lifetime, sending them penni-
less 10 their graves, or leaving their
families to depend on charity 1t is
the satisfaction of a demon, of that god
that gave them the predictions of the
oil markets of the word, signed stu
dent in the Derrick one of the most
infamous schemes of robbery ever de
yised.
Producers are you willing to help
these men to rob yourselves your neigh
bors and friends? Stop this foolish
drilling and they are at once powerless
to oppre3s you.
They buy wells attached to the Pro
ducers' line, turn the oil over to them
selves, and steal cents per barrel from
the land owner, or is their
money; Did Student pre-
dict that the market price of the world
for the royalty of these farms would
drop cents per barrel as soon as they
acquired the working interest.
the Farmers organization is perfected
and suits brought for conspiracy.
During the year 1897 they mixed or
used 20, 092, 426 barrels of stink k-oil with
20. 2S4, 119 barrels of high grade oil, and
probably not one barrel of this mixture
was sold under its true character.
The State of Pennsylvania should make
it the duty of the oil inspectors to
brand all mixtures of oil as such and
Pennsylvania oil as pure Pennsylvania
oil.
Independent refiners, the robbing of
the producers having been accomplish
ed, your tuln comes next. With the
aquisition of so great n portion of the
production which it would cost no more
to produce at s. per barrel than at 50
| cents, what is to hinder them from hav-
ing Student prophesy that their god
had given them price list for your
benefit and that he had dried up that
wonderful lake Of oil in Alaska which
they had so vividly described in the pa
pcrs--as well as many other lies Of won
| derful discoveries of oil and putting the
market at any price that would smut you
| out Be We also ready buy cel tificates or
| credit balances enough TO last you
| whilst your proportion Of the stock on
| hand would last Remember that they
had Lima oil made a good delivery on
| certificates, have certificates call foi
Pennsylvania oil and the superiority
Of your oil will carry you through
q. Z.
STANDARD DECLARES WAR.
indianapolis, Feb THE STANDARD
| oil Company began war against the
independent companies operating in
| this city to-day. The Standard lower
cd the price Of refined oil from 10 and
cents gallon to and cents "A gallon
| The Independent companies are prepar
ing for battle, and promptly met tho
| cut.
The Standard has rather overlooked