The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-03

of the most merciless competitors that the
world knows. Suppose you had son oil
! brother in our position, would you not
| feel that there was some sinister influence
| back of all these falsehoods and unfair
attacks? What about the Trego County
| Gold Shale company and hundreds of 9TH
| erS, stock companies that have practical
motors or solicitors for sale of the stock
necessarily criminals? Look at the lead
and zinc companies, the copper companies,
the gold mining companies that have &C
complished naught. Look at the oil com
panies promoted by wise financiers and
have gone broke Is every OFFICER of such
companies a criminal when the Standard
boycott ruined them? Look at the mining
companies that have not even got hole
in the ground and who have made pre-
tensions as to honest development. Look
gone broke from the Kansas oil fields.
Have any of these nO-accouH< Concerns
ever been molested by the postoffice de-
partment or bounded by the United States
district attorney? Why don't this army of
postoffice spies look up some of these com
In prosecuting and embarrassing legiti-
mate enterprise which is competing with
the oil trust and benefits the people? 1t
seems however. that the Uncle sam Oil
company with its million and a half dol
lars of tangible assets that is giving the
criminal trust the fight of its life is the
only company that this whole bunch Is
after and why? Come to the home office
from mt the Uncle sam REPRESENTATIVES that
are daily selling oil in a score and half
of the biggest and richest counties In
Kansas and-rsee what these men have to
say as they are annoyed by day and
watched by night by the trust hirelings
simply because they are selling oil for
member that the Uncle Sam Oil company
is the only independent company OF any
pleted single distributing station in
kansas. Then remember that from these
this Uncle Sam Oil company can reach, SO
per cent of the people in the Sunhower
borhoods in Kansas that the Uncle Sam
Oil company already has from half to
two-thirds of the oil business and in some
places had the trust shut out or some
whole towns. The Uncle Sam crowd was
leading fight in good faith. 1t was not
making any attempt to fix up any trade
agreemnts or to fight under false colors.
The instructions from the head office I'M
der the mana gement of the indicted secre-
tary were to go after the oil trade with
all honorable means and to shut the trust
clear out of business Il they could do so
be proven that this Independent Uncle Sam
company was leading a very successful
fight, 1t can also be proven that IT is
open and in a fair fight could in another
year secure at least one-half of the OIL
trade in the entire state of Kansas besides
making heavy inroads in the oil trade of
the neighboring states by keeping up the
record of the past. Then why should it be
attacked by the United States district at
torney's office of Kansas and an effort
made to assassinate the characters OF the
men at the head of this company on
some f1imsy pretext?
Why should this Uncle Sam OIL COM
PAW that is forcing the trust to ship good
oil into Kansas be thus stabbed in the
hack by people that it had a right to be
lieve were its friends and would give 1t a
square deal? This Uncle Sam company
that has made it possible for every tax
payer in Kansas to secure a barrel of
good kerosene at from 81 to So per barrel
less than they paid for poor oil. tested by
testers upside down by collusion of oil
INSPECTORS and the trust before the Uncle
sam company started to build its great
enterprise This is the company that the
great and noble United States district at
torney must prosecute by placing the case
practically in the hands of a crook If
YOU doubt this statement go to the district
court record in Shawnee county and read
the disbarment proceedings filed therein.
Is 1t a crime to sell good oil to Kansans at
a reasonable price? Is 1t a crime to build
ton? Is 1t a crime to raise over a million
dollars and faithfully invest the money
raised for the upbuilding of the company
for all the stockholders and therefore have
no graft to stop indictments with when
notified in advance? Is it a crime to
ploy and pay the heads and the bread
earners for over one hundred and twenty
five families for faithful services in carry
ing on a great manufacturing enterprise?
Is it crime to build up enterprises in
Kansas that give the laboring man job
so that those who depend upon him for
support will have position at home? The
fake companies go scott free They are