Francis A. Adams

Capitolo 57

the oil region, and it tried to take part in the oil industry. To this end me
earth purchased adjoining to a railroad. On my equity holding a good was
it located what it produced three hundred oil barrels one day.

"Nobody had started sooner me to operate my good that the agents of the Oil
Has trust that had then but recently jumped in existence as a threat to
individual refining, it came to me with a proposal to incorporate mine
well in the system of the Trust. Good was able of profit a clean profit
of seventy thousand dollars for year. The Trust offered me a niggardly two
one hundred and thirty thousand dollars for my plant. This to which I have refused
you accept, for the acquisition value it was a million dollars.

"Then from skilled insinuation the agents of the Trust announced that
unless I sold my ownership and I accepted escort inflated in the Trust and
permission my good I would be me to be absorbed in the system
opposed by the mighty consolidation. I still refused to repeal mine
straight to conduct an independent business.

"Not succeeding in alluring me from their offers that you/he/she would have been shown without value
in the end;  or to intimidate me from their threats, the agents they brought,
to the office of the Trust that I was obstinate and I must be discipline.

"Accordingly pressure was brought for being born on the railroad on that me
sent my product to a market. The railroad discriminated against me;  it
gives a reimbursement to the Trust on every oil it sent on the road and it made me pay
the full schedule tax. Also against this harmful condition I was
able to sell my oil to a small profit.

"It is probable that I would have escaped the uneven struggle not had the 'line of pipe'
it systematizes is introduced. From this the Oil Trust transports its oil to the
sea-axle to a cost that trains him to sell below cost all the competitors. And
for once the oil price was reduced, and all the smaller competitors
it was driven failure or convict to sell out to the Trust to a
it ridiculously shows up low.