Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-10-12


poratlon Of their own. Ender the
charter that they get from the state,
they will build half a milepf railroad,
reaching from their mine down to the
trruk line Of The rallroads The rails
road company has ADVERTISED that its
rates for carrying coal frun The neigh
horbood to the market is q 90 per ton.
there are other mines in the ueighbor-
hood, but they all must pay si60 per
ton. This particular company that
has built this hnls mile d railroad
that has thls pull-ships its cart out
at s1.00 per ton and paysit It. But The
railroad company says to the people
VINO have built this haif.miie Of rail-
road and who are the owners OF this
niue, "Yon are IN The rallroad busi-
ness also, and ehis business originated
on your line or road; this is through
billing and We will allow yona pro.
portion Of the through rate for crigin-
atlng the business, and for carrying 1t
over your half mile Of tract, and out
Of the 800 per ton, they pay hack to
that mining company that has the
half mile cf road 90, Is asytheir propor-
tionate part for origination the busi-
ness and carrying 1t over their half
mile Of railroad; SO that the favored
mine owner gets bis coal hauled to
market for, say, 25 cents per ton, while
| all Others in. the neighboFhood pay
one dollar per ton. Air Of these de-
vices and many more have been, and
will be, adopted as long as The ayarice
Of man Is allowed to proceed uneon-
trolled by the lack Of law or BY the
lack Of its enforcement. / would bet
| ter SOY uncontrolled BIZ officers whose
| lduty il is 70 enforce the lawof the
land.
The Standard Oil Company, accord
| ing to Miss Ida Tarbell, got its start
aud accumulated It's great wealth by
getting, originally, rebates on every
barrel Of oil that II shipped on any
railroad, and moi only that not only
got rebates that It's competitors did
not get, butan arrangement with the
railroad companies, there WIS paid to
the Standard on Company d certain
stipulated amount on every barrel OF
oil that any other shipper shipped
over the roads You can see, under
an arrangement Of that kind. how easy
It was for the Standard OIL Company
TO get rich, and its competitors to get
poor The transportation companies
are to blame for these things They
are created by the States for the bene-
Int OF the people, aud it Is tie States
dutY to see that they are operated for
the benefit Of all the people alike.
| But, as said, rebates have now some
what gone ont Of vogue.
Just recently in Kansas there was
developed large oil field. The Stan
dard OIL Company, OF course, got in
there as soon as it could aud looked
around. 1t didn't pay outany money;
It was not investing any; IL was not
building up the country or developing
I, lt bnt 1t encouraged every. Body who
felt inclined TO sink well to do 50,
Isaylug "We viii buy all the oil you
can produce, and it commeu&ed by
giving the market price, and then
raising it a little more, aud again rails
, ing 1t little more, until oil in Kansas
, was bringing, say sls0 barrel, which
! was a high price. The Standard OIL
, Company was taking all it could get,
and paying this big price for the pur-
pose Of encouraging the people to go
ahead and develop the country By
sinking wells at their own expense. Al
this time, in the beginning the Stan
dard on Company did not have any
pipe lines to bring its oil into ths
: market, SO that it had to ship it oyel
the railroads, 1t paid for shipping il
! over the railroads, say ten cents q bar
1 rel-I don't know that l am giving
/ the figures correctly, but this viii IL
! lustrate the idea-ten cents barrel
/ They had bought all the oil thel
7 lcould at high price, an increasing
! price, and shipped it out at ten cent
! a barrel over the railroads. Pfett.
!. soon the Standard OIL Company com
r p9ny completed its own pipe line from
Kansas 10 point near Independence
I Missouri, where it established a rein
!. cry, 50 that it now brings this oil II
q It's own pipe line, and has no furthe
q use for transportation companies 0
9 railroads. The people in the mean
time had been developing their Of
!. lands in the hope and In the expecta
tion that they would have permar
= ent market, and apermanent buyer Il
) the Standard OIL Company. AS 500
I. as the Standard OIL Company had 1t
O own pipe lines, and its own refneryia
+ Independence, they commenced pa,
4 ing less for oil. Now, don't say tina
oil went down; mean that the Star
\ dard OIL Company putitdown, ,becaus
nobody else had anything to do In fiji
! ing the price. 1t commenced goin
down cents per barrel week. unit
= = it got way down delow si.0o, and Vi
= I'll 1t got down less than one-half {