Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-08-30
THE PARABLE OF TRUSTS.

latter.
THE PARABLE OF TRUSTS.
Being An Account Of How an overpro-
duction Begat Hark Mama.
From the Washington Times:
Now in the days when the people
had chosen a new king over the Amer
icauites, and men stood upon the walls
of the cities and cried aloud for sound
money, there came a great overpro-
duction upon the land of America.
And the overproduction was of such
exceeding dimensions that all men
were taken with it. And because of
the great overproduction many men
hungered and thirsted, and there those
who had not raiment with which to
cover themselves, and there were those
who wore bare feet because that there
was an overproduction of sandals.
And the people found much fault
with the overproduction, and they
gathered themselves together and cried
one to another: "Behold, here am T..
I have not of food, yet there is an
overproduction of food" And the
wise men of the party answered and
said unto them, "VeriIy, this is be-
cause Of thy underconsumption."
And the people were amazed and de-
parted each into his own home, say
ing, ''Verily, the Republican party
doth live.' .a.i;~is ,-... ..
Now it came to pass that a certain
rich man who had great wealth and
precious stones and possessed many
slaves, even unto those whose votes
and influence in legislatures he had
purchased. And this mans name was
called Rockefeller, because he WAS pos
sessed of much rocks. And he came
unto the wise men of the legislatures
saying: "Behold, there is great
overproduction in the land and the
people cry against it. will relieve
them of portion of the burden by
taking unto myself the oils of the land
and will hold the oils that they may
not cause an overproduction and bur-
den the people,
And the wise men of the legislative
halls had much JOY and cried aloud =,
saying, "Oil hail, Rockefeller, for in
him do we put our trust" And the
people hearing the loud rejoicing
caught up the words and cried
"Trust, trust.'' And henceforth was
Rockefeller known as 'trust''
And it came to pass that Rockefel-
Ter waxed mighty and fat. And he
took the oil OF the country and stored
it into tanks that there be no overpro-
ductioh. And those of the people who
failed to give over their oil were cast
into prison and their oils were taken.
And when all the oils had been taken,
the men who had gathered oil we're
idle and were sent to hunt for other
labor.
But there came upon the land a
great overproduction of coal. And
so great was the overproduction that
few men had fuel for their fires. So
there came a good Samaritan out of
the wilderness, crying: "Behold, I
come to relieve you of your overpro-
duction of coal. AS has my brother
Rockefeller done, so will I do like
wise." And he bought up many wise
men of the legislatures and went about
and gathered together all the coal in
to his bins and storehouses. And the
people and those who sat in the mar
ket places again took up the cry, say
ing, '"Trust, trust"
And there came men from every land
seeking to relieve the overproduction,
for the glad tidings had spread
abroad. And the coal trust begat the
railroad trust, and the railroad trust
>begat the steel trust, and the steel
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trust begat the sugar trust, and the
sugar trust begat the tobacco trust,
and the tobacco trust begat the whis-
ky trust, and the whisky trust begat
the electrical trust, and the electrical
trust :begat the telephone trust, and
the telephone trust begat the. paper
trust, and the paper trust begat the
ink trust, and the ink trust begat the
news trust, and the news trust begat the
tire trust, and the tire trust begat the
tack trust, and the tack trust begat the
food trust, and the food trust =begat
the medicine trust, and the medicine
trust begat the coffin trust, and the
coffin trust sbegat the cemetery trust,
and the cemetery trust begat 9 certain
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