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

There is not a business man who will
| read this announcement but who knows
receivership must be beaten by all means
| or all this great work against the oil trust
| VIII De or no avail Never again Will any
organization be able to secure the money
needed or the standing and the friends
| that this Uncle Sam company has today.
, We ask you if you are a fair minded
| man if this whole deal does not look like
| a brace game to rob and defraud the
pretended guise of law in the interests of
| the oil trust who can be the only gain
ers by permanent recefvership. The
| to handle 1900 barrels of crude oil per
day: In six months time it could easily
already have our own tank cars, our own
distributing stations. Don't you that
a position to sell over 100000 of manu-
featured oils yearly? Now what legiti-
mate reason is there and what justice is
there in striking down such an enterprise?
Why are all these oil trust sheets and
their hirehngs so loud in their attack on
of fact don,t vo,I bonestIv beIieve maj
they realize that they must resort to des-
perate means to check the growth of the
inal grip broken the oil trade of the
Central West? The facts are, if they had
months longer, everything including the
pipeline to navigation would have been
of the stock worth at least 80 cents per
share and the company in few years
could have retired all of the bonds. This
is just what the trust has been afraid of.
They in the Uncle Sam Oil company a
formidable foe, one built up by band of
| 5000 men and women who with the excep-
ton of less than dozen are against
the trust tooth and nail Every undep
taking must have its leaders. The in
dicted secretary and his associates have
made good. These same oil trust sheets
that are trying to prejudice both court
and public against the Uncle Sam COM
pany all the time during the past two
years have been falsely prophesying as to
their road why do they waste such valu-
able space and put in such valuable time
in deriding its managers and belittling
minute that this oil trust crowd would
be wasting any time on the Uncle San
Oil company or it's indicted secretary if
they did not fear the success of the COM
die the secretary? These oil trust sheets
said we never would build the Atchison
or Tulsa refineries. they said we would
never refine gallon of oil or lay joint
selves they have always questioned our
motives. but we have done Just what we.
promised and now after the properties
valuable and are in a position to become
great paying asset. these oil trust hire
lines-"guardians of the stockholders
rights''-want oil trust receivership.
Why? They have found out that the
charter-control owned by the indicted
secretary under conditions above stated
which he secured at a time when they
laughed at the undertaking. bars all hope
panies controlling the Uncle Sam ON
company in the oil trust interests. They
have found out they can neither buy
bulldoze the indicted secretary and his
loval associates.
They have found out that the Uncle Sam
Oil company is independent company
in fact as well as name: that it is fighting
under true colors and that it's organizers
and the vast ma iority of the stockholders
have built their business because they des-
pissed the un-American methods of the
trust These properties belong to these
stockholders and the stockholders by the
meeting a week ago are standing by the
indicted secretary and the other managers
bv vote of about one hundred to one.
Rut there is mean fight on. We need all
the help we can marshal to our assistance.
There is n great ENTERPRISE at stake. one
that could not be built up again under
like circumstances. 1t must and shall not
be lost or injured delayed by any fault
at least of its managers. Therefore we
are taken the public into confidence
in addition to practically a solid lineup
among the stockholders. BY doing So we
believe that we doing away with any
possible defeat. In other words we are
irving to hedge on every hand so as to
he doublv certain of final grand success.
If you believe in right, do what you can
by speech. by interviews In papers and by
cash remittances to help bring this com
pany through a hundred times stronger
than ever There will be Il hearing in Fort
Scott on next Monday. Nav 6, before the
federal court to dismiss the bankruptcy