The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-18
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bate. No semblance OF an effort to
remain within the law--by means OF
a legitimate agency relation--ap-
pears to have been made by these
competitors OF the Standard OIL
II make this statement because
do not intend to see an order of this
department made an instrument for
untustly attacking a business con-
cern for wrong doing OF which It
has been no more guilty than the
parties assalling It. have been re-
quested to revoke the special order
against the Standard oil company,
but for reasons given above do not
consider this advisable. have
deemed IL to be no more than Just
however. to state the background OF
that order and l hereby authorize
the Standard Oil company TO make
such use Of this statement as II may
deem necessary TO counteract the
distorted comments which have been
directed against that company"
Signed Edw. Nordman, commits
sioner OF markets of the state OF
Wisconsin. When the first resolu-
tion was introduced in the United
States senate, asking for an !nvest!.
cation of the oil industry in general,
and the cause for the advance OF
gasoline In particular, It was pointed
out that this resolution was aimed
directly at the Independent oil re-
finer and marketer in retaliation for
the big "holler" in regard to the
Teapot dome deal 1t certainly
looks now a. though this Ia what
II Is all coming to. as certainly the
Standard would not be giving out
interviews were IL not for the La
Toilette investigation, It is a great
departure from the usual Standard
way of doing things.
And I'm the face OF all the testi-
mony prepared for the La Toilette
Investigation of which the above is n
sample, 1t would seem a waste OF
time to bring the La Toilette COM
mittee to Oklahoma. II would not
appeal to any member OF that COM
mittee that oil is in the hands OF
strong pipeline concerns and tina;
the Independent refiner is obliged &c
| pay a premium ranging from 25
cents TO 81 barrel right now 20;
| his oil. II would be altogether 0
waste OF effort TO explain why this 1,
so and even why the refiners them.
selves are willing to pay premium
II would also be impossible TO ex-
plain to the committee that from
now on at least 75 per cent of the
| drilling In Oklahoma is expected tC
| be TO the deep sand. that the wells
will cost from $4,000 to 100000
to complete. whereas II has beer
costing only q fourth Of that amount
in the days gone by. II would alsC
! be impossible to even interest Mr.
LaFollette and his committee in {
statement of facts, showing that tn,
| deep wells are usually drilled to th,
second break in the lime and tha
this new sand which Is producing
so much oil now Is a decidedly elu
And would Mr.. La Toilette believ,
his own eyes IL he were TO visit
refinery in the Mid-Continent fiel(
and find that the gasoline tank
are empty and that there is a surplu
of fuel oil because certainly Will
this is absolutely true. It would no
get him anywhere with his constit
uents in Wisconsin on whom he 1
depending to re-elect him to tn
United States senate. No, tn
chances are he must find someon
TO make n scapegoat of, and II wi
not hurt Mr.. La Follette's feelings 1
the least If he finds 1t is the inde
pendent oil man who is doing s
much for this country in the way O
providing market and a price 10
oil and is the only genuine compe
tition the Standard has.
1t would be interesting at that (
know Just how the oil men fee
about inviting him here, and there
fore IL will be welcome news II any
one has any definite ideas to offe
along this line.