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


political grating company wreckers
then don't give us your moral support or
to fight them until We win for we know
that 1t is the only honorable way out.
We contend that any independent produc-
the use of the mails of the people and to
free market and fair play anywhere
under the stars and stripes and especially
SO right here in Kansas and neighboring
states We also contend that there are
postoffice department should hold and de-
lay the mail of the criminal oil trust rath-
err than delay the orders for Uncle Sam
stocks and bonds with which to keep our
construction going forward. Isn't the oil
does 1t not use the mails daily in the
carrying on of it's criminal purposes? Are
its officers not under hundreds of indict-
ments.and are not its mails promptly de-
livered? Think of it, Our mail is stopped,
several fake suits trying to tie up what
ready cash we had, the secretary indicted
confidence of the stockholders and the in
vesting public All of our creditors of
course frightened and general attack
made all along the line all at one time.
OF course we are not particularly com
planning for we expected just such dirty
work as this but we think we do have a
right to lay claim on the support and as
sistance Of every honorable man and NO
ought to see that we have a square deal
and not let more than half a dozen jump
onto us at once. How does it come that
we are attacked in a score of different
places all at the same time ff'it is not q
put up job to accomplish unfair ends?
There are q number of other facts which
we know that we VIII not place in this
announcement that prove the conspiracy
tough that after the managers of this
company have cOntended with all manner
pay all of their bills promptly and have
built up unlimited credit until our
friends and neighbors and the score of
large business firms and manufacturers
we were dealing with had arrived at a
point where our record of square dealing
with them was good and this management
had n number one credit and were trust
ed; then after 81, 100000 had been raised
and go per cent of the work completed,
that few preiudiced men either from
fair or foul motives should be permitted
to use their position of honor and trust
prosecutors and to cause this great enter
prise trouble in the finishing of this great
work and cause it embarrassment fnan-
cia1ly and by tying up its remittances both
for oil and payments due the
panys stocks and bonds cause this COM
jack-Ieg lawyer who beats his office rent
and to the deadbeat who will not paw his
grocery bills. both of which are fairly
are in this conspiracy to wreck the Uncle
Sam Oil company, little matter of not
small, but the point which we wish to
make is that the managers of this com
pany take credit for paying their honest
debts and have always done so until we
were unjustly interfered with. The bust
ness man who pays his accounts and the
individual who is honest with his credit
ors can appreciate our position. The
question today is whether the friends of
a square deal are going to see this COM
pany treated fair.a We onlv need half
chance and all thee trouble makers can
be driven to ignoble defeat.
We want you, to use your influence to
keep these hounds off from us. We want
the Uncle Sam Oil company left alone
by the oil trust grafters who would tear
it down and for it to be allowed to peace
ably pursue it's business of producing,
and selling good oil to the
public at reasonable prices. If the little
handful of stockholders who have been
deceived into applying for n receiver, as
one of them has just written us, and
whose aggregate investment does not ex-
coed SO, 900 must rule or ruin the invest
nent of 81, G97 900 paid in bv over 1898
stockholders who are satisfied with their
investm ent and have demanded that the
present mana cement be left alone: if you
think this is right and justice then do
not assist the indicted secretary in an
effort to carry this fight forward. If YOU
wish to see the very thing accomplished
permanent receivership and the property
in time sold under the hammer and prac-
tically the life's effort of the managers of
this company destroyed. our property
confiscated as well that of all other
also, If you think this Is
justice then do not arise your voice in
the interests of our rights or send us a
single dollar to wage this unequal strug-