The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-07

eroadside Of facts really settled the
matter Seventy per cent OF the
worlds oil output was from the soil
of the United States, and all Of that
was capable, In the time Of emer-
gency. Of being brought under the con
trol OF the United States government.
Then there was Mexico. Sixteen per
cent OF the worlds output came from
Mexico, and threefourths OF the Mex
lean supply was controlled by Amerl'
can capital In addition 10 all TINS,
citizens OF the United States had
either secured production or had been
prospecting in at least ten other
countries and whilst he did not know
what the output amounted TO in these
countries, even leaving them out Of
account, some 81 per cent of the
worlds oil supply was under the
control Of the United States in some
form or another.
Sir Auck land then went on to CON
monopilist!" What are the facts? The
British commonwealth's total produc-
ton is about 25 per cent OF the
worlds supply while the supply Of
the Persian oil, is controlled by Brit
ish capital, is about per cent. Brit
sh companies have also some produc-
ton in Burma, but the output is
relatively small. In time of emer-
gency. British interests control D per
cent of the worlds output. do these
figures Sir Auckland asked, Suggest
monopoly for Britain"
Nor was this all. 1t ought not to
have been necessary for Sir Aucl
land Geddes to point out that Britain
does not own Batum and BalIu, but
he was evidently determined TO leave
nothing unrepudiated that was untrue
no matter how obvious the statement
In which 1t involved him. Finally
in reply to the charge that an in
satiable government" was preparing
| 70 exploit 10 the uttermost the oil
resources of Mesopotamia and Palos
tine. Sir Auckland Geddes made the
specific statement that Great Britain
had forbidden oil surveys and acquisi
tion of rights in Palestine or Meso
potamia, until new governments are
constituted there to deal with The
matter themselves.
Having thus disposed of the OF
monopoly, Sir Auckland turned tC
the charge Of militarism. And again
taking a specific instance, he pointed
out that when the armistice was
signed Great Britain had four battle
cruisers in process of building, but
that the moment It was clear thai
there would in all probability, be nc
| further fighting, work on three oi
them was stopped, and, later on, these
three were broken up. Naval esti
mates, moreover, had been reduced
| by rs per cent, and Great Britain hat
not, at the present time, a single
capital ship building or completing
"Our sir force and army" the Brit
ish ambassador added, have beer
dealt with even more drastically. The
era Of conscripuon in England is over
and the army reduced to its pre-wai
size Does that look like militarism,
Even the most perfervid Anglophob'
will find it difficult to produce evi
dence that England is feVerishll
building ships to dominate the sever
seas"
At the Pilgrims dinner, the British
ambassador was, no doubt, speaking
largely to the converted, but in th'
immeasrably larger audience It
which he was also addressing him
self there are many who need to b,
reminded Of the tremendous change
which have been brought about b.
the war in Europe. They need to b
reminded how the picture Of England
so sedulously presented 10 the Am
erican people, both before the war an
after 1t, by those who desire to Sc
no triumph of the Anglo-Saxo1 ideal
Is more untrue today than ever
was. And so Sir Auckland Gedde
put the matter fairly and squarely
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