Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
OIL MARKET QUOTATIONS
ANOTHER THOUGHTl

Since the beginning of this agita-
ton In the OH business Tho World
has taken the position that no good
would or could come from H.
The results mp to this time iulIy
confirm that position.
EXpcrieuce goes further than mat,
it has proved. not only the utter iulIy
and usclcssucss. but the absolute
harm aud injury resulting from the
agitation
II did not require any special lore-
sight or wisdom TO fOrcsec all mat
has happened Common ordinary
reasoning could lead to no other
conclusion than just what has nap
pencd
II Is with mo- desire to try and
Justify methods or acts. one after an
other that have had "a sequence IN
the condition In which the oil busl-
ness finds itself at the end Of sew
oral months wrangling, pickering,
fighting and sQuubbling. The trouble
IS that no amount of retaliatory reg
ulation or restriction Of the opera
tluns Of the purchasing ana trans
porting branches Of the oil business
are going to increase the price oI
crude oil at the top Of the ground or
"a
ana hardships the independent pro-
ducer has to contend with
II we thought differently there
would be no length of trouble MAX
ing to which we would not be willing
to go Bat simply raising row does
no good, has never done any good
and never win do any good.
OH Men WIN Come TO-.
oil
going TO come to-.
Most of them already know that
there is nothing to be gained by the
methods that have been pursued the
past few months Few Of them, per-
haps, have actually been in sympathy
with IT, Most OF them now know
that they have been injured by the
things that have been done ostensi-
bly, for their benefit.
The fact Is already apparent that
the common carrier provision not
only Is not beneficial to the indcpend-
cnt producer. but 1t Is going to he
"A letrment 10 the business gener-
ally Just watch the results ana see
II this does not prove to be an accu-
rate prophecy And so IL Is about
practically every phase Of the con
scryation and regulation proposals
that the big. concerns which legisla-
tive propaganda seeks TO hamper
and Illustrate are hdmpercd and frus-
trated, but this In itself does not BEN
eft the Independent producer
Go out into the northwest. whtre
the governments conservation policy
as applied 10 forest reserves, power
sites. coal aud mineral Development
and observe first handed the dam
age and handicap upon the develop
mcnt Of the country.
Government conservation in It's
practical workings has proved "a fail
urc and u disaster I'm the west Add
the influence Of the state to the gov
ernmcnrs powers to restrict hamper
and harrass the big interests in the
oil business, and the results fail heay-
lest upon the innocent Independent
whose welfare ana interest are the
only possible justification for trying
to hamper the big concerns
CONSERVATION" and tile West.
without transportation facilities
the Wide reaches OF the west with
its fertile valleys and extensive plains
would have remgincd desolate wastes
us uuprnductiyc and uninhnhit1hle as
the sahara desert
without pipe lines and transporta-
tiou facilities the crude oil of okla
homa would not be worth as much
as good drinking water I'm oklahoma
city during The boom days when il
had to- he shipped iI from kansas
Harry sinclair hit 10 of just about
right when he said there was not an
oNcrpoduction OF ont In the world
but congestion I'm oklahoma. and
with this situation staring us I'M the
face the utopiau dreamer or the an
archistic agitatOr who huists a red
fMr and asks every body To- trail
behind while he spouts about what
hC b. going 90 do tu the pipe line i'm
tercSts is a hindrauce instead OF a
help All he wants 90 do ia to make
The fur fIy and uy that same token
thlt is an hc does accomplish
Now the prospects are that there
mJN he another euj 900 the price OF
OH
THAT Is the uuuch which most OBJ
servers are Standing out
NJ % comes lt will have to come
cur belief Is that there can Doe no
settled condition iu the oil market
until the ,1ugsstcd condition Iu mar
iauug facilities has been relieved
o. % takes u OJt boz the price tu ace
cowul.-h That end. the sooner Do is
duuc and over with and the sooner
tUH drills hugiu tu work and the ro-
tfu.fou~ and regulations are AN
taken off the better
If ,.u have tho t0u,uuUhe YOU may
relieve t hy local applications 'o the
f.Wr lur NDu WON'T get ria us 10 Cu-
tIpf until some good dentist has dug
DH' 'Hr cavity AND puJ boo t.e right
k."I nf a filling Won may not even
Ie Hhie To- restrain yip' or two