The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-02-18


New York City. From this palace
poIiticaI and economic power is eX-
ercised over Montana and other
states in the far flung domain OF
these Industrial EmDerOrs. At nOd
Senators and legislatures do their
bidding.
Economic Determinism
But what they are interested most
w in is oil. The enormously rapid
movement of mankind today renders
oil more valuable than the shining |
gold that attracted men to Alder
Gulch and Bannack when the state
was Young. The millions of motor
cars. the tens and thousands oil ar
nlaines. Uae thousands of oil-burnlng
locomotive !, liners, and warships---alj
of these have begun 20 exhaust rap
! idlv the resources of oil in the so
called more civilized countries. Mucn
of the oil outside the United states
TODAY is in lands influenced by Soviet
Russia-such lands as Sakhalie1l, Be-
l1u and Mexico. Beneath all the sur
face history of the League oil Ma
lions, the World Court, the varying
international conferences has been
the basic reality of this scramble for
oil. For in this titanic struggle not
only Senators and Cabinet ministers
but nations and International Con-
crosses have been utilized by the few
men for that mastery of oil upon
which so much of contemporary civil
lization has been based.
The Struggle in the United States
But these Emperors of oil who have
? their habitat in 26 Broadway, were
: faced with other pretenders who
sought to wrest their throne from I'M
!. der them around the goth year of this
4 century. The Dohenys and Sinclairs
S were challenging the power of Stand
: ard Oil. They we're grabbing up pub
y lie domain in the United States which
:. Standard Oil thought was parts Of
; it's principality. They went into the
S republican convention and that nigh
when Daugherty crashed the gate 70,
Harding in that room in the Black
/ stone Hotel, it was known that Do
:; heny and Sinclair and the Independ
y ents had won signal victory owe
Standard Oil. From then on tn
plumber would not all go into the la
4 of the Rockefeller interests. But tn
N resourceful Standard group, thong
e, they lost a battle, did not lose tn
war.
=, Walsh, Handy Standard Man
~ They looked for their trusty pol
II teal generals of the past. And on
y Of the first they thought of We
their old faithful henchmen who il
% PRODUCED their oil leasing law of 49,
y and helped them put through tt
III General Leasing Law of 1921 again
~ the bitter opposition of LaFollett
They thought of Senator Tom Walls
ne who owed his seat in the Unit
e. States Senate to one of their c
'l nn workers-John D. Ryan, Emperor
'oii the domain of Copper. Walsh HI
- proved handy man in passing {
III law which gave to the Interior q,
Navy pepartm the power to lea
- the Naval oil reserves. But now tn
CO. were up a tree because Doheny a
Sinclair had captured the very c
=. partments they had expected tn
-, could use to turn over these valudl
ue reserves to them.
i've Walsh Was Friend of DOheny
To But they were somewhat perpleX
of when they remembered that Wal
inf was a "friend" of Doheny; that
ned had partaken of the lavish hospit
,m- ity of the Doheny home and that
We had received favors at the hand
ar the old fighting western oil magma
ak winch II was hard Tor the avers
of man to forget. For be it known Il
; of Doheny was a likeable PERSONAL
suc- The nephew of a revolutionist anC
! of poet he had the imagination and
the fighting qualities to push his way
the to where he now challenged the pt
ms er of the great octopus that thrott
the thousands of small operators. Br
cov- at the age of forty he had trave
how to Mexico and told the incredul
xeen natives that under the Shiny,
ter brown mud where the famous T;
/, on pico field is now located, lay
+ in earth's richest oil field. He
ouch more than the ordinary discove
into He travelled to New York and by
exercise of financial wizardy indU
tightfisted money houses there to
d at up enough cash to develop the Fl
oun- Now hundreds of derricks rear t
1a0Sl 11dlIlCS shy WdIQ over II6 muddy ID
ster at which the natives laughed w
in Doheny told them covered oil.
was liquid riches that Doheny got
,ssed Of the Mexican ground caused
lcted to enter what the Standard Oil
the was its special domain. 1t also c
dele ed him to lose his quandom fri
,abcr Tom Walsh.
e or The Power of &c, Broadway.
.on- Never was the great power
wing ancial interests exercise over p
; and lie men more strikingly exem
r the fled than when the Standard
It. made Walsh turn like an an
dog to bite the hand of the fri
elect that fed him. Few men sink
year. such depths that they betray
Dan friend who has extended to Il
the hospitality of his home and
erson, condolences of his fireside.
Walsh, when Obeying the c
Plen- mands of the big company w
exercised political control over
Wan state in which his constituents
ed through its auxiliary the 4
omar. cOnda Company, turned an ing
Mus to the man with whom he b
bread, and backed by the pOwe
lie. press controlled by Standard