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THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



Standard has not its clutch upon. In the forest you will 

 come suddenly upon one of its great storage tanks, with 

 its thousands of barrels of crude petroleum and its royal 

 sign in big white letters, c United Pipe Lines. ' Put a pack 

 on your back and rifle in hand, and plunge into the wilder- 

 ness of the northern counties, where great pines forever 

 shut out the day in these deepest solitudes you will 

 spring aside to shun the serpent that lies in your path, 

 only to find you have dodged one of the glistening pipes 

 of the omnipresent Standard. There, in the primeval 

 stillness it is doing its insidious work. These same pipes 

 run through the cellars of houses, and fishes play around 

 them in the deep channels of mighty rivers. Every new 

 well found, no matter how small or how distant, the 

 Standard seizes with its pipes, as if by intuition or magic, 

 ready to take its product away. From that moment there 

 is no state the petroleum undergoes, no transportation, no 

 transition, but the Standard extorts its exorbitant profit 

 from all parties concerned. It has its pumping stations 

 here and there, like joints in the fingers of iron, which 

 clutches the country, and its frowning ramparts of tanks 

 are on the brow of every hill. Piping lines have been 

 organized and tanks built to compete with the octopus, 

 but have nearly always wound up by selling out to it. 

 The Columbia Conduit Company's line was put in at a 

 cost of $350,000 and sold to the Standard for a million. 

 The plant was then torn up. The agents of the big 

 monopoly, in one capacity or another, are every where. " 



Some very interesting information of the Standard's 

 tyranny and the extent of its profits were recently brought 

 to light by the United States Senate committee. Mr. B. 

 B. Campbell, an oil refiner of Westmoreland, Pa., testified 

 ' ' That the Standard Oil Company had been built up at the 

 expense of independent refineries, and by rebates and 

 special privileges given it by railroads. Eighty per cent. 



