Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-05
TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE
National Advertising Representatives
Oil Producers Demand Iarifr
On Crude

rrde,sr5ent oil producers OF the five "No-0on'H'e"'
.o,d = - ;nportant conference in the
80, - T,,,sa Their leaders asserted tnat the Ihoe-
-arder+ nj men are threatened WIN eNVerinlnatlon
-.mo~,oa, ,r,norters Of foreign crude and the re-
- 1ouor,rv Of crude oil prices In the domestic
fields.
r. a. so,d that the Tulsa conference was a most re-
~arvohla gathering Of Independents organized TO
80 - q tariff on foreign crude and its products.
Tnev raised approximately sl0O, 600 to carry their
demand for 8 tariff to the floor OF the senate of the
Tr,,tad states. They arranged for a special train to
leave St. Louis Sunday. Feb. ?, and arrive in WASH
ington, Monday, Feb. 3.
1t is said that 800 representatives OF the petroleum
Industry in the five mid-continent states will make
the Journey to the capital Of the nation. hide
pendent producers who pledged money to carry on
the tariff fight are asked TO send checks to the In
dependent Petroleum association Of America, Ard
more. Okla. Writ Franklin, president Of the 1nde-
pendent Petroleum association Of America, will head
the delegation.
pres FRANKLIN made a stirring address. He urged
"the oil men to stand together, to work like wild
iackasses' of the West. as the progressive senators
from the western states have been called ny some OF
the stand-pat senators from New England ana 70
induce southern democratic senators to work with
Them as with the two units the oil industry would
he able to effect an oil bloc and obtain a tariff or
see that no tariff bill was adopted at all
One Of the many resolutions adopted at the Tulsa
yoeeting reads as follows: THAT we again point out
to the purchasers Of oil who are also producers and
.nporters Of foreign oil that II imports should be
nern1itted to demoraliZe the domestic petroleum in
dus.ry and must destroy the conservation program
thew must be prepared to take responsibility for the
dehacle which may ensue."
Lest we forget, the leaders Of the independent
movement calling for an adequate tariff on foreign
crude make the bald assertion that American pro-
ducers of the foreign crude shipped from South
American and Mexican fields to American ports OF
entry. duty free and while while conservation is then
battle cry, they make use Of the American marker
for foreign crude and its finished products to beat
down the price OF the domestic producer and have
him on the hip. so to speak.
1t is said that a big pipe line company with head
quarters in the Tampico fields will extend its pipe
line to Brownsville on the Rio Grande in the yer!
near future. Texas is one Of the banner oil field:
Of the world. and the wisest Of biologists and thei
scouts say that the Texas field his just been scratch
ed and that is all. There are three or four giants II
the field. but the Standard oil Of America and tn
Dutch Shells Of Europe are the Gullivers. AS for tn
others they are the Lilliputians.
Speaking Of Texas and the petroleum middle, Pan
handle independent producers and dealers have joine'
those of Oklahoma and other states IN demanding