Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-09-14
IS
NOT D|CESTIBLE
OKLAHOMA on MEN GIT QUAIL
FLED klND
NfEDS Arc UNQUALIFIED
IL Also Entitled IN II Under Laws
supreme Court Ia soon Pass
Upon Pertinent Questions

BARRING the ono difference of opin-
ion as to reasonable price for crude
the pipe line companies have taken
| pretty good care of the oklahoma
fields, compared with nearly every
other field, and more real competition
! on a broad scale has been supplied
than was ever before known"
This statement ls just hot from the
OF and Gas journal and truly re-
fleets the state of mind Of that and
similarly conducted publications
The oklahoma producer Is getting
qualified competition or comparative
competition, just as the Journal says.
He may be gettinr more or he may
be getting less, hut the law of the
nat on and of thls state says and In
tends that he should have unqualified
competition, that there must be no
combinations I'm restraint of trade" "
and this refers to not only written con-
tracts but also a. verbal contracts,
UNDERSTANDINGS" gcntlcmon's agree
ments' and any other Of those forms
that undermine free and unrestricted
competition.
The supreme court of the United
States will. at its mex, sitting, be called
upon to go into this long delayed
question as It applies to certain phases
or the oil industry, 50 the matter Is
very much alive and the oklahoma
producer is more concerned than any
other producer in the country
What is this talk In the same article
in the journal in respect 10 tactical
hlunder' having been made by the
Prairie when that company failed to
raise the price to A. cents instead of
to ~ cents just a case of petty
tactics, is it2
The question is then evidently left
for solution TO the captains on the lir-
ing line! why not important enough
To be decided as matter of grand
strategy? That's what il o. TO the pro-
ducer, indeed, and hc doesn't want to
be made the subject or the object Of
minor tactics cheap as he feels,
People who know the petroleum
business Of course. know that there is
no combine" etc. This is some more
of that old line Of soft soap or
probably, "yNselino" would bc more
appropriate, under the circumstances.
OF course, II takes "people who know
the petroleum business to understand
that and make 4, The Supreme
court of the United States will soon
paNs on some of thcse same questions
of combines and II is desirable to
know If any Of those five learned men
are To be considered incompetent be-
cause they neglected TO get their train
Ing "nnder the beam" or In a publi-
city bureau
How long will Intelligent men be
compelled to endure this sort of cham
And here's another gem: Something
like the Illinois price of 81 cents for
heavy and 60 cents for Hight oil would
put new life into the Oklahoma fields. -
unquestiQna true, so far as II
goes. But why not say II all and
draw attention TO the fact that pipe
line companies boast about the super
ior qualities Of the Oklahoma product
when the desire to market thylr oils;
that the oklahoma crude ranks MI
nOls crude and Is therefore more val
liable? Why not assert that It
Is at least 30 cents per barrel more
valuable, aS many testify? why not
then add ~ cents for additional ad-
Vantages II has on the transportation
item? When $lO7 had been re-enact-
ed add a few more cents In the spirit
of the booster Of the community
that has given the journal" support
and that has hepled to build II up.
What Is wanted in this section Of
the United States Is SimOn-purc and
lOVal buildprg--OUly