Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-01-22
IS NOT RESISTLESS.
ROCKEFELLER COMBINATION TO
MONOPOLlZE STEEL.

Chicago Record-HeraId Says Rockefeller Has
Become a ResstIess Force in the Industrial
World - The Admission Is a Confession Of
Governmental Weakness-But II is Not True.
for the Temper Of the People Will Soon
Bring About Conditions That will Afford
Ample Relief.
The Pittsburg Post printed story
to the effect that MIR. Rockefeller and
his associates are devising combina-
tion Of the steel and railroad interests
which will develop in a monopoly of
the steel traffic. Commenting upon this
announcement, the Chicago Record.
Herald, Republican paper, says that
whether the scheme is near perfection
or not, it points merely to natural
evolution" The Record-Herald draws
a striking picture when it says:
Mr.. Rockefeller's enormous for
tune is founded upon the most CON-
plete and elaborate system of combina-
tion that has ever been established in
the country. Very early in his career
he conceived the idea of destroying
competition, and he carried it out with
extraordinary skill and relentless
persistence. His rivals we're crushed
one after another in their futile cam.
paign for independence, the chief in
strument used against them being the
railroad rebate. He should have been
an expert in rate juggling before his
made him powerful fac
tor in the directorate of railroad COM
panies.
He starts now in this new enter
prise with much greater advantage
than those which he enjoyed as the
builder of Standard Oil. His methods
are approved by phenomenal success.
He has a much larger capital at his
disposal than any other man in the
country. He is already credited with
a controlling interest in the steel cor
poration, he is the owner of vast min
ing properties and of fleets OF lake ves-
sells, and he is the holder of large
blocks of stocks and bonds in many
railroads.
"Power to divert traffic follows as a
matter OF course. He can do as he
pleases with freight that might make
or break a carrier company. His in
vestments play into one another in
such way that he may favor this or
that one as it pleases him. That he
should give the enormous steel tonnage
to a pet railroad would not be at all
surprising. That in his capacity as
railroad director he should be kind to
the steel corporation would be quite in
keeping with his old practices"
And then, after making this show
ing, this Republican paper makes a
melanc holy confession as follows:
The truth is that he has become
resistless force in the industrial world,
and that he will proceed from one mo
nopoly to another regardless of all
that is said and done to prevent. II
he could live to the age OF the patri.
archs the United States would come to
be merely one of his appurtenances."
Is it possible that in this govern.
meut, presumed TO be of, by and for
the people, the man who has done the
things has become" a resistless force?"
Is it possible that this man may
proceed from one monopoly to an.
other regardless OF all that is said and
done to PREVENT
If these statements be justified, then
who will say that popular government
in this country is not in peril?
This Republican paper speaks truly
when it says: elf Rockefeller could
live to the age Of the patriarchs, the
United States would come to be merely
one of his appurtenances." But, re.
membering what this man has already
accomplished, realizing the great plan
he is now undertaking, and reading in
one OF the great newspapers of the
country that be has become a. resist.
less force" and that he will proceed
from one monopoly to another regard.
less OF all that is said and done to pre-
vent," then it may be said Mr.. Rookie
feller need not live to the age of the
patriarchs in order to make the United
States OF America merely one of his
appurtenances." That deplorable con-
dition for this proud government
would, at the present rate, be brought
about within comparatively few years.
But the Record. Herald is entirely
too pessimistic. Mr.. Rockefeller only
seems to be resistless force" The
time will come when the American
people will call him and all the other
men who seek to manipulate this gov.
ernment to their own selfish ends to a
rigid accounting.
"JAMIE." called his mother sharply,
" You've been loating all day. Satan
always finds some work for idle hands
to do. Take this basket and bring in
some kindling."
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had a fall that knocked me senseloss.
Miss Peril suppose it is too late
now to do anything about it.
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