The Texas oil and gas regulator, the Texas Railroad Commission, imposed production limits on producers in the 1930s to try to prop up prices and later was a model for the creation of OPEC. ... Small oil producers would be exempt, Gallagher said.
He stated that the people are entitled to a bill of rights against every government on earth and that just government should not refuse to issue the bill of rights.
It helped them farm and to grow crops. They needed this to live and to trade. It had a good source of water and could be used to drive enemies away from them.