Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-10-09
TAKE PRECAUTIONS EVERY
WHERE.
(Springer ]Stockman,)

"iALI1hl2s
springer Stockman.)
Last winter Springer had a few cases
of smallpox and the schools were closed
three months before the expiration of
the spring term. While it is not thought
there will be any Use of the disease in
the northern part of the territory this
winter, yet it is best to taxi every nee
sssary %precaution to prevent it. There
is a law on our statute books relating to
vaccination of school children as well as
others, and that section should be en-
forced to the letter. The school direc-
tors of Springer district should compel
all children attending to be vaccinated
and to more rigidly enforce it each child
should be compelled to produce a physi-
clans certificate showing that he or she
had been vaccinated within a reason
able period. If smallpox should again
prevail the schools will, through neces-
sity, be closed, but If the vaccination
Jaw is enforced there will hardly be any
occasion to close the schools, as that
preventative will no doubt be effective.
THE STANDARD OIL MONOPOLY.
(Alamogordo News.)
In 1891 the Standard Oil Company alb
sorbed the independent Oil Company,
which had its refinery at Florence, Col.
Since Their the markets of the southwest
generally have been at the mercy of the
Standard Oil Company which destroyed
the Colorado enterprise. There are
many merchants in New Mexico who
suffered considerable los Upon coal oil
which they had bought of the Colorado
company, because the Standard Oil
Company shipped oil into every town
where a car of the Colorado product
was received, and the Standard was
directed to sell at such prices as would
make the buyers from the Independent
Oil Company lose money. The Standard
has since maintained arbitrary prices
throughout New Mexico, regardless of
the cost of freight and production.
In all New Mexico towns the prices
charged merchants for oil and gasoline
are about double those which the Ell
Paso merchants pay for the same COM
modify, and the dealers in Ell Paso ac-
tually sell at a profit and retail at fig
ures one-third lower than the New
Mexican dealers have to pay the Stand
ard Oil Company.
The Standard Oil Company dare not
rob the people of Texas, for that state
and it's legislatures have a habit of get
ting after monopolies "hot foot" The
state of Texas has for years been pur-
suing the Standard Oil Company in the
courts, and that monopoly dare not add
to the resentment of the people Of the
state by raising the prices of coal Oil
and gasoline. New Mexico has been
robbed by this. monopoly v er since It
was able to crush opposition by cutting
prices, and this oppression will go I'M
checked so long as the people do not
resist 1t to the utmost.
1t is true that the first restrictive leg
lslation attempted by the New Mexico
Legislature has failed to accomplish
what was intended, but there Is a here
after, and other and more efficient laws
can be enacted by the next session of
the New Mexico assembly.
There is no question: Of politics about
this matter; the people of New Mexico
pay at least ten cents more per gallon
for coal oil and gasoline that do those
who live a few miles distant in a state
where a monopoly meets with a con-
slant and vigorous opposition from the
courts and lawmaking powers.
Had New Mexico begun her fight
when the state Of Texas did, she might
at least have kept that gigantic cor
poration from advancing prices and
have saved for the people several mil
lions of dollars by this time.
The oil monopoly question is a live
issue, and no man should be elected to
the Legislative assembly who cannot be
depended upon to do all In his power to
secure restraining legislation which will
prevent the greatest monopoly in exist
ence from robbing the people and Defy
ing the territory. The time has come
when other states will curb IT, common
wealths who have much less cause than
New Mexico, and the people here expect
to see an effort made to restrict the
damnable operations of the Standard
Oil Company and to compel that COM
pany to be decent and fair In it's charges
for coal oil, gasoline and kindred prod
ucts.
Whats In a name?" Everything,
when you come to medicine. When you