Cisco Round-up (Cisco, Tex.), Ed. 1 Friday, February 1, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
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CINClNNATUS
Was Called from the PLOW
to Take Command of the
Roman Armies.
YOU MIGHT BE ALSO CALLED
and if so. for goodness sake take care that you are using a good
plow. The best known of is the John Deere. We handle the
full John Deere line of Implements, viz.:
Walking Plows,
Riding Plows. _
DisI: Plows.
Stalk Cutters.
Disk Harrows.
Drag Harrows.
Walking Planters,
Riding* Planters,
and the Famous Riding and Walking John Deere Cultivators: also the popular
Oliver Chilled Plows.
The House
Fair Dealing
Built
The House
Fair Dealing
Built
“So on* can Ml today what; has cnt his hair and shaved off shall pay. It can raise the price states. The laws of several
Vlllf CisCXl KtnUtw-'UC BaileyV re-Xon c< -t him, or' fc.' ;-ard in onler to' look as in one locality ami obtain its states concerning the inspection
.....--—3- ■ rather th* corporate inti*:-.:., tm iissimi ir to that gentleman as own oil from another and of oil are singularly defective,
t ^ ^ .J£o*?d-5£?iS behind him. Money has be-n possible. reverse the process when it and this has been turned to
——-———........——-— gr^nt like water to reflect hii * desire to do so. Whoevercou-! profit by the Standard.
WALT SMITH. - - Editor j .... *y <.f Au-tin La-e—n to- T^t K -q o‘ Com»»re*al Pirates. trols the avenue of the transpor- The commission’s only knowl-
r. .. - . . . debauching fA
Friday. Feb. 1. 11*0«.
REVERSING CONDITIONS.
F’or the tiot time in the his-
tory of the fJoothwewt the hank*
of Texas are loaning money to
N*-w York, ('hieago and other
Eastern and Northern cities in-
stead of being borrowers from
that section. This unu**uai cou-
dttion of affairs is due to the
unprecedented era <*f prwpff* wSonow •*i*-*-no!j
itv in Texas during the past other stab - !oolc|
thr—• y-ar-. T.v ’* co.j. •
took several millions of dollars In the house. Be|
everla-M.g -na
Baney ia returned and id-s ?e-
»* lectern feeas v.tn »can>la. and
corruption that makes, even the
iu certain
paltrv and
or a legi-.ature. Tmo** terrific arraign- tation of the rawmaterial or of edge of the competitive methods
a and Sony w. - ' 1 1 h Com- the refined i»jndi^eanja£*alily of -tjm.-Stau&ud-M
only Integra'. parts of the cam- pany y*-* rua*!*' by either pri- drive his competitors out ot obtained from evidence taken
paign. Even* agency of vice vate or public investigator was existence, and the production under oath in this investigation,
and• cormpuoa waa.reiutled to that * ith congress Mon- and distribution of petroleum Tin* Standard was given i»t-
m an effort to **rrtrr- and hoM day bv »h** »»t«Hr«ra**e commerce- is no exception to the rule. mission to explain or rebutt the
ba.l-y votes. a:.d money was o n.>- r>s. The Standard has repeatedly, facts. This evidence, if true,
sj»e®t wttho"! *t:s* To the Ev*-ry *-*iiceivab!«> corporate after becoming the owner of a demonstrates that the competi-
,. ,f t':.*- ftate, *,"-m**. f* m d:*cr,mmation* and competing company, continued tive methods of the company in
false i *,<- bribery, cor- to operate it under the old,the past have been unfair or
; f the pKrs-s and de- name, carrying the idea b>4he even disreputable,
bau cry of public officials, i- public that the company was Its motto has been the de-
eontained in tic- catalogue of >tiil m<b-pendent and com] >e tiny struct ion of eotnpetitiou at any
•r.a’i'-*-. with the Standard. It has used cost, and this policy has l»een
After a .oi.g and painstaking such purchases of independent- pursued without much reference
investigation ordered by con* ly organized companies to kill to decency or conscience, and
gT.-**. in which hundreds of off competitors by such compa- it is significant that the larger
wilt*M*es were examined in va- uies reducing prices. independent refiners sell the
fkras cities of th- country, and The operation of such fake greater part of their product in
ample opportunity was given independent concerns has been foreign countries. One inde-
ihe oil octopus to defend itself, obe of its most effective meabs pendent testified that 75 per
the commission nmk*-s a report of destroying competition. The cent of his product went abroad
that completely overshadows Standard has reduced the prices and said that he could compete
the -n-at.onal disclosures re- against its Competitor in a i»ar- • with the Standard in Germany,
veab-i in 'he rer^,rt of Commis- ticular locality, while maintain- where its methods, as followed
sreL.;■, s totter of Coni ill us Garfield. ,Bg it* price* at other place*.-in this country, trre not taler-.
mutative
away from the East and North. Pierce delivered a speech
ami the greater portion of this roundly denouncing th - foul
found its way into the Texas slander, and a resolution wa-
banks. The big truck, onion, adopted appointing a i-gv-lativ-
sugac, rice and other crop* eooHuttc** to expose tc*- oar
brought several millions more, who committed the offense.
At Tew waw rc*t indebted to Heant and Meant - • ngs
to the East and North, tbi* have committed many d^pica-
moucy did not find its wav i*ack hie act,* during tbit c-ampa.gu
in tie* usual channel*. Money of mod-^bitgotg an**
ha* te>o scarce at New York, and now, that they have spewed on tn- -ato- *ui>r + last Mav. When competition was destroy- ated.
Chicago and all rather financial their slime uj»*o the legislature,
renters, and the borrowers of WBebdfoaftst to'be mad** to
those cities have welcomed th*- suffer.
opportunity to come to T*xa« ....... =rr—r
iiud get money at 6 and Oi per Penny Johwon, th*- o.*i
•lent. This is the condition a* toi of the
repsjrte*! by bankers of th*- vi# w. who
stab-, It means that the time federal
ny
;atn-
rthouse at I>^ug-
jght in the t
nd lately was5
»n* ia*h
"tamlard buy- advertis- it advanced <>r restored
tgapaeein : ewapaperstformer pricee. The Standard Malicious Mischief,
which it fills, not with adver- has sold .different grades of oil I wish to warn those bovs who
ti-m-nt- but with reading mat- at different prices from the same havelieeu indulging in malicious
ter prepared by agents kept for barrel. It hrt' paid employes nibehiof about my marble yard,
the purpose and |*ai*l f<*r at 0f indepeudeut companies for t0 lu-v annoyance and financial
rti-.r.g rat*--, a- onlinary information as to the busiues- damage, will be prosecuted to
new*
The
nmption
it near, if it ha* not already ar- printed with a ero-« of honor this literature furm-h^
stbat uf the <-om;>etitors, and has the full extent of the law. This
many pahl employes of individual *s tiU1‘ warning.
riv***l when Texas will no long- by th4 Daughters of the Con-jof ideas tiwicfiing the great companies to secure th*- adop* da 1 hco Marble Works.
er l»e forced to yield the pound tederaey, says that hw- gray j t#encfiu conferred upon tbe tion of its oil in preference to ~Z
f»»-ard and hair bad been allowed! pubic: by the Standard Oil that of tie competitors. Money lo Loan
to grow like John M. Duneim's!company. It has fotlow^l every barr*-l on Improved raal estate. Yen-
of flesh to Wall Street Shylo*k«
TRAIL IMG THE SLANDERER. for y*-an. as h* vs* a g • at ad
Last week the following tel**- mirer of Mr. and bad often n
gram was sent from Austin to taken for that gentleman, but
the New York American, a siin-e the part Mr. Duncait nad
Hear-t paper:
taken in the Bailey busines* be
The system of pipe lin*-s ena- of mdejiendent oil to its dcstin- dor lieu notes extended, cheap
bl*— the Jftandard to ab*olutcly1 ation. Its agents are instructed money and quick returns. Set*
control the price of crud* pe- to secure customers at auy sac- me at Scott A* Brelsford’s office
trotcuiii ami the price <viuch iV> ritic*-. It na* tampcrtsl with Eastland, Texas or write me.
competitors iu a givin ter.itory the oil insp*-ctors iu different I
J. W. llxOUE.
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Smith, Walt. Cisco Round-up (Cisco, Tex.), Ed. 1 Friday, February 1, 1907, newspaper, February 1, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth522836/m1/2/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Eastland Centennial Memorial Library.