Arizona republican., 1908-11-22
LITTLE JAMES

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CThe Court Reporters Record of the
Testimony in the Case of the United
States VS.. the Standard Oil Company
of New Jersey and Elsewhere.)
I been a thinkin' fer a Long time at
when l git big I'd go into tn Oil Pro-
doocin Bizness which my Paw seq is
the Easiest Avenoo TO Welth fer tn
way is kept Creased. but sence l been
Reedin' in tn Papers what Mister
ROCKEFELLER tells about tn Crate Risks
an Small Prophets they IS in it, I
don't think nobOdy'l want to Waste his
Time a chasin' tn Fantom of Riches
along tn oiled Root an land in tn
Coart of Justus an mebbe. if tn
Prossycushun's lucky, in tn Penny
tenchry.
| Mister ROCKEFELLER was asst what tn
Standard Oil company Cleered last yeer
an he replize 81 can't jest eZzackly re-
member but don't think it was more'n
Forty Millyuns. l tell you this here
Oil Biziness is Hazardess in the EX-
tream.- We jist happened to be I'm
ushule Forchnit on account of a Raise
in TIL Price of our ProdduX."
do you know who Rose tn Prices?"
TIL Government Attorney asst.
Il aint been Informed" replize Mister
ROCKEFELLER, but 'spOse it was tn De-
mand which always Governs prices, tn
Demand in this case, coming, FUN a
man by tn name of John d. Archbold
who has offices at &c Wall Street.
where 1 understand, at his Corryspon-
dence which is very Extensif keeps him
up late SOS at he burns a Crate Deel
of Midnight Oil"
You're accused of Acceptin' Rebaits,
Mister ROCKEFELLER" SEE tn Government
Lawyer
I've heerd BOOMERS to SIGH a Eff
feck," replize Mister ROCKEFELLER: But
as neer as l can find out, they growed
out of a Reimbursement which tn Stan
dard Oil wunst Reserved frum tn
Pennsylvany Ralerode but it wasn't
any thing like a Rebait. 1t happened
this away. We shipped a Carbide of
Oil over tn Pennsylvany Line an we
thought at our Prophets on tn Ship
ment ort to be $1,000. 1t turned out at
we Cleered only S99617 an tn Ralerode
Comply made up our Loss fer us by
givin' us $3.50 cents. You can't call
that 10 Rebait, can you?"
Every cent counts in tn Oil Biz
ness" continuous Mister ROCKEFELLER:
An we go to watch it Mite an Day.
It's been a Hard Pull fer all of us /
sence we got Started. OF late Yeers, |
me an my Family have Manidged to
live Comferbly an been able to give |
my Children a Fair Educashun, but we
amt got Nothin' TO Show fer all our /
Yeers of Toll 'cept a Paultry hat Bill /
yum Dollars (S5O0,000,0O0) or 50. an |
few Copper Mines an some Bank an
a Transcontinentle Ralerode or two an |
a few shorter lines"
Il thought you sed this here kind of .
a Bisness was Risky an Frot with
Crate Finanshle Peril" SEE tn Guver- /
ment Attorney in 'sprize. He was APP
polded by the Facks an Figgers which
Mister ROCKEFELLER had just give him.
Didn't you say at this here Oil In
dustry was Hazardess to you?"
who? Me?" asts, Mister Rockefeller.
you must 'a'Misunderstood me. l
meant it was Hazardess to Some foxes.
Fer instance, you can't hardly pick up
4 paper without Reedin' about some
Hired Girl gettin' Blode up wriie-tryin'
10 Lite tn Kitchen fire with Kerry
seen"
yes" sez tn Government Attorney,
out I Understood you to say somethin'
about tn Finanshle Hazardessness of
n Oil Bizness."
mot to me-" replize Mister Rookie
'eller "Tve had some Deer Ole Friends
n other Oil cOmDnies at lost their All
n this here DangerousTraffick." I
was they in competishun to you,
Mister Rockefeller" tn Government
Attorney Asst.
Not verv much: Just fer a little
while" tn Oil Magnet replide, an a
ijournment was took fer few days. :
LITTLE JAMES.