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APPENDIX, NUMBER XIV

economy and give the purchaser the very best oil manufactured, consistent with a good and safe kind of oil—to manufacture at one point under the eye of one man. With an aggregation of capital and a business experience, and hold upon the channels of trade such as we have, it is idle to say that the small manufacturer can compete with us, and, although it is an offensive term, "squeezing out," yet it has never been done by the conjunction of any railroads with us or by the carrying out of freights.

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