Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-07

goods. The immense Osborne plant
worked over time, day and night,
supplying the demand for independ-
emit goods. Then, when the Osborne
advertisements were at their fiercest,
the truth became known. The
Osborne business had been purchased
BY the trust, and for eighteen months
/ had been used ais a dummy to fool the
! dealers.
! 1t dazed even the Osborne general
agents, honorable men, who had been
used to execute this wholesale fraud
upon the trade. They had been given
the most solemn assurances, written
independent company and to find
and verbal that the Osborne was an
themselves duped was hard blow.
Il The inside facts as to the manner in
which the Osborne company was
forced to the wall, how, the head OF
the Osborne family spent days Of
humiliation desperately begging for
1. loans from Wall street capitalists and
K New York banks, how relentless1y the
pressure was brought to bear, and
how the order for the final turn of
4 the screws flashed over the wires
would form chapter of financial
4 piracy worthy of prominent place in
the story OF Wall street wrecking ex-
petitions.
Another instance where the har-
ivester trust used dummy competition
in manner smacking strongly Of the
Standard Oil flavor came to light
when it was discovered that the fruits
owned the Keystone Co., located at
Sterling, Illinois. The Keystone Co.
under the management OF E. K. But,
Ter, formerly McCormick's right hand
man, a giant in the harvesting ma
chine business, had begun the manu-
!: facture of harvesters and were MAX
ing quite stir in the western trade.
especially as they were assailing the
harvester trust in their full page
advertisements much after the man
ner of the Osborne company. 1t
/ proved to be the Osborne deal over
again and the disclosure was another
shock to the trade.
1t would take many pages to tell
OF the typical Standard Oil tricks OF
: which the harvester trust has been
guilty; how it announced a esselling
arrangement" with the Weber Wagon
8 company which it had in reality
bought outright; how it has lobbied
with state legislatures; how it has
ca1oled officials and committees repre-
senting dealers associations; how it
has handled attorney generals and
county attorneys; how it has been
I. reprimanded for attempting to trick
an Ohio court; how it fought in vain
against Attorney General Rogers of
Arkansas; how it spread broadcast it's
! faise statements denying that it had
. been ousted from Arkansas; how it
mas tried to undermine the independ.
ent machine companies by claiming
to own them; how it has warred on
!: dealers who have asserted their
independence; how it has threatened
and bulldozed the dealers; howw ii
has misrepresented to the farmers in
It's advertisements; how it has held
up the dealers on freight, rates and
how it has held up the railroads on
rebates; how it is monopolizing the
Irvine trade; how, in fact, it has ever
been ready to use any tactics, how
ever inscriptions, to avoid fair COM
petition and force trade it's own way
regardless of the merits of it's goods.
This is, indeed, subject worthy of
Investigation at the hands of the
government at Washington. Then it