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An Oily Question

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
March
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

In the democratie party in the leadog striugs of the Standard Oll Coinfpaï.v V It looks eo; for years this inoïopoly has trted to induce the legisature to cha.ni?O the test of Michigan oil as they (the company) desired it, )ut having a good republican workBg ïniajority, the interests of the enire people were cared ior, and this toonster Was foiled. Now that the democrats. have the power, this oil business 'was iixed jast as the Standard Oil Co.mipany desired and the nasty il as now seen, finds plenty of demoratic papers to apoligize for it. Thig bange of t."st was wholly In the inere8t of the cómpany. We Jiave been told that under the old test, an hundred barrels of crude jiitroleum produced seventy-five barels of fine oil, and under the present aw they can j?et ninety barrels of lichigan test oil. The government could do a service o the entire people ií it would cali t special seesion of the legislature to dopt the old oil test.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier