The herald., 1895-12-01
TO THE EDITOR
1.-THE Herald under this heading prints COM
munications, but does not assume RESPONSE
Dillty Tor the sentiments expressed.
Christ or carnegie-Which

Editor Herald-The Herald of Novem
Der 19h exposes tricK by which every
purchaser of a Five gallon" can of Stan
| dard oil is swinded out of sixty-one and
half cubic inches of oil. This swindle has
been going on for years and will doubt
less ''go on forever" or at least until the
company chooses to furnish an honest
measure, which it will never 10 until tho
govern nment compels it to. This will not
be done; first. because the corporation it.
self is a part of the governmental machin-
cry and law unto itself; and second,
because TO interfere would socialism,"
and, finally, because the corporation kings
control the policy OF our churches
and of our universities and colleges and
dictate to our higher courts.
What is true of Standard Oil piracy and
theft is scarcely less true of the policy
and conduct OF all the other great trusts.
They all, without exception, are at liber-
ty to strike" and clock OUT employees
and to 'conspire" against the interest
and convenience of the general public;
fixing the prices of raw material as well
as for the finished product and thus con-
trolling the laws both of supply and de-
maud, and converting competition, so
called, into farce and pretense with
which to deceive the unsuspecting and
unthinking who have not learned tho Sc
cret OF their own impoverished condition
and are still attrIbuting it to providence
bad luck, protection or free ii ade or over
production, when millions of honest peo.
pie are homeless, naked ard starving.
Fifty years ago black men were chased
with bloodhounds and arrested by slave
catchers for tying to escape from servitnde
to masters who had cornered the lands
and now white men are arrested as vag-
rants for the crime Of being moneyless and
In search OF work at the nands OF more
cruel masters who have cOrnered the in
dustral machinery without which labor
cannot even exist. And if TIE latter,
when driven TO the verge of starvation IN
order that the Pullmans Carnegies and
Rockefellers may build private palaces
and universities, dare TO strike in concert,
in order to show the world how depend
ent civilization is upon the muscle of
workingmen, they are imprisoned tor
conspiracy or contempt BY judges who
are fast rendering themselves contempt.
bic in the eyes OF the whole civilized
world.
Forty years ago John Brown was hung
for anarchy aud lawlessness," and men
were imprisoned for aiding fugitive
slaves to escape, and the pupic and the
u
Today men are singing and writing IN
praise of "Old John Brown" and good |
Republicans and Democrats, who are |
now denouncing Deps and Sovereign tor |
disregarding the supreme court decision |
which branded strik,rs as criminals, are |
warm in their commendation OF the |
stockholders and conductors OF the "un-
derground railroad for defyins Judge |
Tauney and aiding fleeing slaves to escape |
from southern Law abiding citizens"
Only forty or fifty wears ago-and today
history repeats itself!
1t is not necessary TO enlarge on the
subject We have only few short years
to wait in order to see what we shall |
see-only few years to see a newly |
awakened moral consciousness deciding .
between the white slave ana his judges |
precisely as it did between the black |
slave and the servile judicial tool who !
proclaimed that "the black had no rights |
that the white man was bound to re-
spect only few short years for the
Christian church to choose between
Christ and Carnegie.
JAMES G. CLARK.
Pasadena.