The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
Sincerely yours.
FRANCIS ]. HENEY."
"san Francisco, February q, L

"San Francisco February q 1907.
Dear Sir: l hand you herewith file
Of papers covering the movement or fuel
oil shipped by the Associated on CON- tm6e
up to and including November TO-, l9O6;
1--WE agreed with the Associated OH
Co.'S negotiations with Mr.. Ripley, Mr..
Wells and myself that in consideration
of their making us a special price on oil
for company use, which Is covered by
contract, and the further consideration
that we would take certain quantity,
they would in turn ship from Bakersfield
over our line to San Francisco Bay
points a certain minimum number of bar
rels of fuel oil at rate of % cents per
barrel from Bakersfield exclusive of the
switching charge.
'"rhesc statements cover the movement
except that they have included stockton,
which is not correct, as 1t is not bay
point and could not be reached as con-
veniently by water. We have paid them
on account of this movement S,239 which
should be deducted from the total OF
movement shown in the attached papers.
al wish you would arrange to make up
a statement. check the same, and refund
to the Associated Oil Company down to
the basis of % cents per barrel from Ba-
kcrstleld where they are the shippers re-
gardless of who is Consignee, as al their
fuel oil is sold delivered. The reason
for making this deal in addition to what
| have stated Is that the Associated Oil
Company have their own boats and carry
oil from fields controlled by themselves
along the coast near San Luis Obispo to
San Francisco at much lower cost than
the special rate we have made them ana
in competition with the l'rion OH Com
nanv and the Standard Oil Company, 1t
was necessary for them to sell at the
San Francisco Bay points on the basis
Of the cost of water transportation from
the Goa at fields They figured they could
only afford to pay us the % cents per
barrel il by doing this they sold our
company certain amount of fuel oil.
otherwise the business covered by the
attached papers would have come in by
boat from the coast fields.
"T am writing this up completely so
that there may be in the papers history
| of the reasons why this arrangement was
made. l wish you would go ahead and
make the adjustment as soon as possible,
| as the Associated Oil Company are very
anxious to have the matter closed up
| ven1ber 18th at a conference between Mr..
Ripley, Mr.. Wells, Mr. Porter, and my
self. ,
"EDWARD CHAMBERS"
"shnments-Asso Oil Company,
"Mr. G. A. Davidson ,,,o,"
| The attacks by these great corporations
! on the administration actions have beer
| given a wide circulation throughout the
| country, in the newspapers ana othSr'
wise by those writer's and speakers VINO
| consciously or unconsciouslN, act as the
| representatives of predatory wealth-oi
the the wealth accumulated on giant scale
| nv all forms of iniquity, ranging from
tTa onnression Of wageworkers to unfail
ana methods desTauSng 16 grushp, n,
n,hI,r by stock jobbing and the manipu
Of securities Sosc certag ronduct Testny sRo6 me,
abhorrent to every man of ordinarily de
cert conscience and faaCbI0p ThO commit or toR, tn
men that phenomenal business success
must ordinarily be based on dishonesty
it apparent that they have banded to
gether to work for, reaction: Their en-
deavor is to overthrow and discredit al
who honestly administer the law, to pre-
vent any additional legislation whicl
would check and restrain them, and I
secure il possible a freedom from all re
straint which will permit every unscru
1 nulous wrongdoer to do what he wishe
Unchecked provided he has enough mon
ey. The only way to counteract tn
movement in which these men are .en
gagged is to make clear to the public jus
what they have done in the past ana Jus
what they are seeking to accomplish
the present.