The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-07-04

/ practiced by the Rockefeller group o
ilnanolersl lie proposes 90 lay bare toe
/ system" which has plundered *
many OF the American people. Nc
! one can say that he does not speak
by the card. He seems to have fat
on ont with the men who were orig
inally his lntimates. The immediate
object OF his attack is the Amaleamat'
ed Copper company. or that blk cor
poratlon he says
THE enormous losses, millions up
on millions--to my personal know
ledge over hundred millions OF dol
larS--whch were made because OF
Amalgamated the large number of
sucides-to my personal knowledge
/ over thirty which were directly
caused by Amalgamated; the large
number of previously reputable citi-
zcns who were made prison conylcts
to my knowledge over twenty
rectly because of Amalgamated; We're
caused by acts of this system Of
which Henry II Rogers ana his I'M
mediate associates We're the direct
administrators: and yet Mr.. Rogers
and his immediate associates, while
these great wrongs were occurring
led social lives which, measured by
the most rigid yarl-stick of mental
or moral rectitude. were as near per
feet as il is possible Tor human lives
to be AS husbands fathers, broth |
ers, sons, friends they were ideal !
cleanly Of body and of mind, with /
heads filled with sentiment and hearts
flled with sympathies; their personal
lives were like their homes and their I
gardens-flled only with the bright-
est things Of this world, tho singing,
humming. understanding things
which so strongly speak to us of the
other world we are YET To know. As
workers in the worlds vineyard they
Iabored six days and rested upon the
sabbath, 4 ~ gave thanks to Him
from whom all blessings flow that He
Flowed them His humble creatures
to have their earthly being. And yet |
thesa.'men, TO whose eyes | have. seen
Some tile tears for othdrs. siifferinES..
ami. III whose voices. i.iafa. heard. .gfoM (:
husky in recountinig the woes ofatheir.l:
less fortunate. brothers these men.E.
under the spell of the brutal code Of Is
modern dolAr-making are converted /
into beasts Of prey and put to shame
the ienizens of the deep which de \.
your their kind that they may live.
In the harness of the system 4
these men knew no Sabbath, no Him;
hey had no time TO offer thanks, no
are for earthly or celestial being;
rom their eyes no human power
could squeeze tear no suffering
gring pang from their hearts. They
we're immune to every feeling known
o God or man They knew only dol
ars. Their relatives OF moment
since, their friends of yesterday AMI
ong, long ago, they regarded only as
jumps Of matter with which to feed !
he whirring, sinding. crashing mill
which poured forth into tnvir bins
dollars
Wheel my story is ended and the
great American people, whose sim
Die but proud boast Is that they can
lot be fooled In the same place by
he same instruments twice. know as
much as now know OF Amalgamated
md its relation to the system which
las for years as boldly, as coar3ely s
md as cruelty robbed them as the1
oolie slaves are robbed by tkeir mas q
ers, il will be for them to decide q
whether my story has been because
# the facts which entered into It, so I
veil told that they viii not be satis-l
led with the restitution of the vast ~
ums which the Amalgamated took
ram :thems' which Usted States's d.
feel s'stopSs :. from them, 'ansass' z
shSh;:'. .jthcfs'.. TOOK .. in 'o'lessdr.I$,
,mouht;%.. but:by 60 equally oyfllaagLapt:I i
iethjdss".s obfit' ::..sswilly'' d6fIfanl :the.:i
TerthfoR 'of"tht' SyStcm' s1ts6lf. /.
I'll. be. fore them e 70. DECIDE: and 'iI?.e
yer s.eeissloh :sg2am..1s.!s::! y t!te '.tr:H
y ll::be. amply repaid: .loF. :the .'piins: !:
dds ht,.miSeries ;%hich:: liiiist: naGe.:@. s:
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