The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-05
Cost of Single FIfty-Five Thousand
Barrel Tank


1t is very hard to carry through any
large moneyed transaction in the United
States without running up against some
dummy tool director of the trust or one
of its subsidiary corporations One of
the reasons why the trust has main
tanned the monopoly it has enjoyed is
that capital has been afraid to enter into
competition with it. In fact we think
there arc very few men of large means
who would individually care to call down
on their heads the rfdicule. abuse, annoy
ance and backmailing methods of the
trust and its hirelings. By by appealing
to the general public as the Uncle Sam
Oil Company has done from it's begin
ing, and banding together together nearly
ten thousand loyal shareholders from ev-
cry part of the country, it has been able
thus far to raise the necessary funds to
build up this enterprise to it's present
height of success In other words, by
combining the thousands of free and in
dependent citizens who believe in a free
the boast brazenly made by the oil trust
gang that they are even bigger than the
company can, by securing thousand dol
land dollars here and another thousand
the money needed to build up a giant in
dependent enterprise capable of securing
and maintaining the oil trade of the cen
trail west, and under present conditions
and the feeling the people can
practically drive the trust, out of
Uncle Sam Company should have
at least four years supply of crude oil
ahead all the time; It is only good, praeo
tanks, which will last a lifetime and
VII Will be WORTH fb more eos IN tdd5g to bmiS
them. There are tens of thousands of
individuals in the United States who can
for fifteen thousand dollars and secure
fifteen thousand dollars worth of bonds
of Aud IN or do a r a
Sam Company to erect one fifty-five-
thousand barrel steel storage tank for ev-
not send you in your draft for fifteen
thousand dollars and secure these gilt
edged bonds and the bonus in the stock
and help push this good work along? If
this company was one of the subsidiaries
of the trust Or Was manages by men OF
fighting the unfair methods. of the trust
we would not offer these BONDS to the
pany reserves the right to reject any re
mittance BY retnGping the SANG TO eitb bee
as a stockholder or a bondholder who is
not an independent citizen heart and soul
The company is in touch with over TWEEN
ty thousand investors by special letter re-
ports. while there will be a large major
fty of nine thousand stockholders working
to place these bonds long before you read
that more than half of these bonds will
b tala taken bv his band of ioyal stockhold-
ers large majority of whom Joined this
company as much out of principle as
they did for financial gain. The an
nouncement will appear in nearly two
hundred of the principal newspapers of
the United States and Canada aand will
be read by over 20 million people. The
rate of interest on these bonds is high
But the company can use the money
where it can make from three to five
hundred per cent .rII II # ae you on,v buy buy
interest promptly but you will get your
money back for the entire principal proba-
bly, within years, and the stock which
be worth than less than two dollars per