The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-02-17
SOME HOT SHOTS FIRED
conneIIy and Crawford Pour a
Broadside Into the tianks
of the Standard

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The following address TO Inc peopie
,v,,sas was nrepared by Messrs, w.
VI IT Oro,Dfnrd of thi,
H. Conneliy "nu Citv
city and pGoilsheu III VIC
Times Tuesday:-
TO the People of Kansas The stauehon' Oi
1ohn ,pr;ep. who presumes to speak ior
tho standard Oil company in Kansas, at Kansas
CITY Yesterday that the only people who are
onrosirg tbe Standards methods of extortloh
and oppression in Kansas are few spectators
in Chonute demands an explanation at our
hands When the development OF the Kansas
field was first attempted three years ago tIo
original developers wrote to the S'anu"'N va
company and asked it what to 90 ana vleS "o''
informed by the Prairie Oil and Gas company
lths Kansas name for the Standard thaC '''
standard would take care of them and II they
drilled in the field that the Standard woulo pro-
vida tho facilities for handling the oil At tina
time the Standard encouraged production
The SUPERINTENDENT of the producing depart
mept of the Standard, o. A. Evans, located aV
Neodesha, wrote letters asking people TO l"'esV
their money and assuring them that they Wouiu
find market for their product. Later On ias'
year when we anticipated that there wound DC
them what to do snd Mr.. Young the president
of the Prairie Oil and Gas company wrote us
thatit was all right, that we could not proauce
oil faster tnan they could take cars Vi ~
told him that if it was necessary the producers
would provide the storage for the surP.uS
and he told us it was not necessary to proVloe
any storage, that they would look aiter un"v
The producers were assured by representative
inf he
likely 90 to 81 barrel before the end OF Nui'
We wrote to them, when the Independent rem
ery of Pennsylvania was making inquiries as TO
whether they could get into the heid anu one
Standard assured us that it would 90 more Tor
us than the Independents could possibly 20 an"
that was to take care of our oil.
We have been the victims OF the promises "'
the Standard from the beginning OF the deVei-
opment of the field. Wohave believed the 9Vai'
dard was sincere in its assurances, We nave
believed'that it would take care OF the proo"c
tion of the field. We have given over to te'eN
means for the storing, transportation ana MAJ
keting of oil. Had we believed Tor "op'en'
that it did not mean what it said, had we ne
lieved for a moment that it was merely turing
us to a fall had we believed for moment tha'
it was at the very time it was giving us assur-
the field, we would long ago have made such ar
rangements as woud have the Standard &C.
cupy ANYTHING but first place in the oil Industry
in this state.
The whole record of the Standard Oil COM
pany in Kansas has been q record of broken
promises, of treachery to every interest," WHO"
is making for the material prosperity OF TIE
state, of duplcity deception and wrong. 1t hes
hpAv hng
kept faith with the people it claims to be its
friends. 1t is a record from start to finish OF
oppression. offavortism and of discrimination.
1t says it is buying oil in Kansas row, when
every producer of oil in the state who is rot on
its payroll knows that the tatement is untrue
1t says that it has, not boycotted the state,
when every thinking man in the state knows
that the statement Is false. 1t says it is the
greatest developer of the oil industry in the
state. when every man, woman and child in the
state knows that it is the buzzard of the oil
business, which came in after other people had
deyeloped the business and had put their money
into it.
Tn this fight against the Standard Oil com
many we appeal to the record to show that it
has done nothing in this state that it has not
made n proGt ont of, that it has done nothing in
this state that the producers did not pay for
that it has done nothing in this state which did
NOT Weld it ten.fold the amount of its invest
mani Weask the judgement of discriminat-
inc and an Intelligent people on the proposition
that the STANDARD Oil company for every dollar
+ha+,+b,s nrtin Kansas has taken $40 out of
K.ns.s
We onna.l to tho naonle To instruct their leg
;sl,tors 70 stand nv Kansas in this fight We
- a. ..i o. s+ood Ia, +bonsalvas in
+his e,bt We ANIMAL IN the peopla to stand by
tbair brethern all over the United States in this
uneir oieVhei" az ''0' 'n'
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Tree chhu' anu 10 suaFau'e' W '"en' ~ '"' % d"
xer rvTr Of the peone, by the people and for
the people, and not government BY the Stan
dard Oil company, for the Standard Oil com