Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-07-16
RETRACTS NOTHING
Miss Tarbell Stands Pat
on What She Said About
Rockefeller.
SAYS SHE SAID IT, AND MEANT
IT, so THERE'S THE END
OF IT.
Attacked Standard Oil King for Not
Practicing What He Constant
Iy breaches,
SHE DOES MORE TALKING

Cleveland, o., July 15.-Ida Tarbell
in statement wired to local news
paper, replied to John D. Rockefel.
ler's defense CT his action in the Cor
rigan controversy as follows:
''Mr Kline urges that Mr. Rockefel-
Ter sold the stock acquired from Mr.,
Corrigan soon after the transaction.
do not see that that proves anything.
He may have bought it back He GER
tainly was foolish if he parted per-
manently in 1S95-at least to anyone
:. sult a member of his family-with
any portion of the Standard Oil GER
tificates.
"Mr. Kline says [ used charges
made in the petition, instead Of the
testimony. 7 did and l see no reason
why should not have done so. used
nothing which I had not convinced
myself was true and nothing which
Mr.. Kline's statement makes me feel
I should retract
'Mr Kline says I put in quotation
marks certain statements which are
not in the evidence, as if | were re-
citing evidence used certain state
ments and important ones, but not IN
the evidence. though I had no lnte1i-
tion of making it appear that they
were in the testimony. If | did give
that impression I am at fault.
cone of these statements is in re-
gard to a conversation between Mr..
John D. Rockefeller and Mr. Frank
Rockefeller. The latter had pleaded
with his brother to be easy with their
friends. The interview broke up with
ont a decision, but as Frank Rookie
! teller left the room. John called MN
tack.
"sCorrigan is going tC' the wall.
Frank he said. 7 might as we'll have
his stock as anybody. Persuade nm
to sell it. and you get his mining
stock
"This does not appear in the evil
dence. I believe it to be true, and II
true, see no reason why l should
not use it. Moreover, do not under
stand that Mr.. Kline disputes its
truth.
"Another case on which | presume
Mr.. Kline would accuse me OF us'he
testimony not in the evidence is Una
where Mr.. Rockefeller. pressed abou'
an interview which he denied. is oe-
scribed as springing to his feet and
exclaiming:
"I call God as my judge that !
never did have an interview with MN
s1ker the 29th. call God to witness
that"
tT accuse Mr. Rockefeller, not or
breaking the law, or even the rules CT
business as they seem to be interpret
ed by many men in business.
judge him by the golden rule, and
claim that Mr. Rockefeller himself
gives me the right to use that rule in
estimating his character.
He presents himself to the public
in only two phases-as the richest
man in the world and as an active ad-
herent of the Christian church. If
Mr.. Rockefeller did not and had net
all his life publicly declared that the
church and the Bible We're the most
precious things in his life should
hesitate to apply the golden rule to
the Corrigan case. AS it is, I claim
that have that right.
! q see nothing in what Mr.. Kline
has written to make me change what
I wrote in summing up the case in
question. In Mr. Rockefeller's prac-
tice. mutual helpfulness has nothing
to do with the trade. Might makes
right'-not generosity, not Justice,
not humanity
''It is far cry, indeed, from this
creed to the one of that religion
which Mr.. Rockefeller holds up to
the world as his most priceless pos