Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-20
Ida Tarbell Gives the Kansas
Oil Men Some Advice Re-
garding Situation
STANDARD METHODS
Tells Them to Go Ahead and Do Some
thing Now That the Legislature Has
Given Them Power-WouId Apply
Standard Methods, Only Having Re-
gard For Rights Of Others.

independence Kas., March 20.--"Quit
sizzling and play the game as, the
Standard plays It," was the advice Civ
en- to the Kansas Oil Producers Asso-
citation here by Miss Ida Nj. Tarbell
"As to your legislature" she told
the more than 1000 producers present
1T seems to me it has struck funda-
mental principles. 1t aims to give you
free competition in manufacture and
it puts a stop to the prohibitory and
discriminating rates on oil freight. 1t
aims to stop the cut throat competition
in the markets and it makes the great
system of pipes on which the Oil indus
try depends for reaching market a
common carrier.
There may be practical difficulties
in working out some of these bills.
The great thing Is that you should not
give up your effort to establish freedom
in the oil industry in your state. The
great thing is that your principles are
right.
What you should do now is to get
down to business. Please note that
the time you spend in talking at In
dependence. the Standard Oil Company
spends in putting up one or two $4,000
barrel tanks and laying ten or twenty
miles Of pipe line, and refining tens of
thousands Of barrels of oil 1t is keep
ing quiet and doing business.
1T seems to me the time has come
for oil men in Kansas dissatisfied with
the way the Standard Oil Company
is handling their Oil, to take a lesson
from the Standard itself"
"The time has come for you to study
the oil problem as the Standard Oil
Company studies it, to find out the ex-
act relation of your oil production to
the oil market of the world, and then
by means of independent pipe lines,
to reach the markets.
Remember, there is a world mar
ket. The Standard Oil Company by
no means monopolizes this market.
Your problem is to get in touch with
the world market. You cannot do this
by cursing the Standard Oil Company,
neither can you do it simply by de-
manding and securing the best legis-
lation which honest men can devise
for you. .
"If you are to succeed in youn oil
fight you must follow up legislation
by doing business, saving wood My
advice, then, to the Kansas oil pro-
Queer is to play the oil game as we'll
as the Standard plays it, with due
regard to the rights of men, something
the Standard has never done. Stop
sizzling and plays the game"
Kansas Oil Boom is On.
Toueka, Kas., March 20.-Kansas
will have dozen independent oil re-
flneries within year. w. j., Pickell
of Humboldt is engineering a company
to establish an independent refinery
at that place with capital of 100000.
One third Of the money has already
been raised.
Since the maximum freight rate on
oil has gone into effect the Webster
refinery at Humboldt has cleaned up
over $500 in profits last week. and its
owners expect 1t to net $1,000 week
after this.
Governor T.. A. Burk, of North
Dakota, and HI. r. Ewart of South Car
DINA, representing concern with ST.
100000 capital, are looking for sites
for three Independent 'refineries. 1t is
understood that one plant will go in
near Chanute, one near Independence,
and one near Chatauqua Springs
After today the services of Frank S.
Monnett as attorney, will be dispensed
with by the Oil Producers Association.
Secretary Parker says that Monnett
"broke into" the game and that his
connection with the Santa Fe case has
injured the cause.