The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-28
ou MARKET QUOTATIONS..
Tarifff Fight win BE
uaoed More vigorously

a~ne tariff fight we are making
...I... o,arod even moro vigorously
E...rod Wm. y. DAVIS, president or
Nrd.Contincnt oil & Cas- asso-
,,...ar. as one after another thlnb~
barrcn 70 make our Necessities
s-.,ter and make g. more obvious
'hq, The tariff Is our only salFouoh
.vyht,e we are not talking apOu,
q, ,,. the papers. our men ar" I'm
IT,. -trrton aud are working night
.A,, dav and are doing IT IN the most
.un'ic and husincss-liko man
H. roes.blc. Thcrc VIII be no letup
i, l.r campaign for a tariff on
.,,j. oil. but on the contrary, W,
ore Gathering strength FOR our c1uS'
AS 'Nu days go by
rbus emphaticslly declared tn"
man who has sacrificed moro than
grt.uc else in the cause TO whieI
b.. hes devoted months or ilm" anu
,r.r.v and II there Is a man IN the
NtH.Duuttrcut field, or I'm any oih'i
r.# where oil is produced, who
,-rk. that MIR. Davis considers nm
,rf hcaten, he certainly has failed
=. rroperly gauge the fighting quail
,,.s Of the man who has led ana
rr.noses 10 lead the fight for the in-
aso.rlrnt oil producer as against
th. hig monopoly, backed up az i
.y ma president of the United
s4tes and all his advisors.
Nrr. Davis is right and Is bound
10 win. inasmuch as since the lgh'
tsr "A tariff began things have hap
rerad that would show to even the
most hidc-bound adherAnt or srecla.
rr,vIcgc and "God-given monopoly
.hat it is about time someone dld
yomethiug to make it possible to
ts.ff fH.vA fT N
nom Mexico.
Tho report OF tho National retro.
lslm Institute given elsewhere ON
this mage, is the strongest possible
argument for n tariff on oil.
Tho fact that the heads Of five 81
the largest concerns in the entire
Standard oil group are on the way
10 Mexico and nrc empowered by
our state department to bring about
any kind Of a settlement that en-
,rrnohcs the Standard I'm Mexico ana
accorded unheard Of power. whereas
but few short years ago this same
bunch was being prosecuted as dan.
Ee~ous to the welfare of the United
States by all the combined force ot
the department nj justice in every
judicial district, both state and fed
,-al. throughout the country.
This quintet Of Standard oil Of
ncials viii not demand Of Mexico
that tho recently imposed import
tax of $31G per barrel he taken Oft
nor will Il look after the interest ul
thousands of Americans who have
been robbed OF their possessions n
Mexico, either I'm land, cattle ant
mining properties, but Will he wei
satisfied to promise recognition t'
Inc Obrocon government II the eN'
.ff q
tive clause in article N\Nll be don,
away with.
1t is essentially an cgot!s'ical anD
revcngcful as we'll as a tremendous
" selfish bunch. that Is instructed
10 make this most important Jour
ney to Meyco, and will, doubtless
threaten ana conjolo the Mexican
government TO it's hearts content
and AT that, unless some Of the Of
ficials down there have been bough
OF. to be out-maneuvercd by IN
smooth and very wiley-Mr. obro
gor.
The president Of Mexico shoul
demand hostages; he should rc1uir
That one of five brilliant diploma;
hc loft with him rs a pledge that IN
government Of the United states ha
really cmpovoroA them all 20 max
peace, and further and above al
that everything viii b called Of
ard the score settled Il the tax
takcn off and the famous arucl
,NNVIIG be thrown In the vast
basket.
He, Ohregon, should at least Pre-
tect the men who have been p!al
ing the game, according TO the rul,
laid down by his own country, an
should insist that Colonel Guffy an
the rest who have taken him at h
word, and have helped nationall'
the oil industry in Mexico, are M
further prosecuted or denuded
their property, just as the GUM
Gillespie property was taken ava
and turned over bodily to tho It'd,
Oh company here.
There was released only recent!
from n Mexican dungeon, an Amer
can engineer who came out drno
ing idiot after % years of confin'
mcnt and who was cared for I
Texas cattlemen operating in Me-
leo. Ho had been tried and conVic
ed of tho murder OF a Mexican o