Painful Incident,Cold Spell,Moral,Rockefeller,Standard Oil,1905,Kansas,Cartoon

Title: Painful incident of the cold spell. Moral: be careful about starting a fire with kerosene
Creator(s): Bradley, Luther Daniels, 1853-1917, artist
Date Created/Published: 1905 Feb. 13 [publication date]
Summary: Bradley's cartoon shows Kansas, as a stove, fighting back as John D. Rockefeller dressed in women's attire, pours Standard oil into it. As he pours, the stove explodes, toppling over a pot of 'Profits' and blowing Rockefeller away.
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Signed, lower left: Bradley.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1977; (DLC/PP-1977:215.56)
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil worked to squelch competiton in the Kansas oil market by manipulating it to secure better prices on freighting and refusing to operate its pipeline as a common carrier. Producers suffered from a rapid and drastic drop in the price of crude resulting from large stock piles and a lack of competive buying, dividends on stock declined, and consumers continued to pay for refined products at elevated prices. With Standard in control of the Kansas oil market and everyone else suffering the effects, investors, retailers, and consumers raised their voices in angry protest, as politicians in a campaign year sought out solutions to curb Standard's activities and restore competition. One suggestion, endorsed by the newly elected governor, E.W. Hoch in his inaugural address of January, 1905, was the construction of a state owned and managed refinery.
Published in: Chicago Daily News, February 13, 1905.
Subjects:
Rockefeller, John D.--(John Davison),--1839-1937--Ethics.
Standard Oil Company--1900-1910.
Monopolies--1900-1910.
Petroleum industry--Kansas--1900-1910.
Stoves--1900-1910.
Drawings--American--1900-1910.
Editorial cartoons--American--1900-1910.
Periodical illustrations--American--1900-1910.
Bookmark /2009616342/
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