Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-02-22

NJ II fE5| whole world, in fact, are going to
AL FA have their breath taken away by
~1ElG93& the speed with which history will
be made during the next few months. In my opln'
ion they will be somewhat dumbfounded at the case
with which this monster, STANDARD Oil" that they
have bred themselves into the now confirmed haolt
of thinking is nvneible, will go down before Pres
ident Roosevelts ''big stick"
All we hear now is the whistle OF the wind, which
it is making as lie moved IL through the air prem
mary to getting in his real thumps want TO 90
on record tnat the entire STANDARD OIL Outht VIII be
in about the same condition as the peddlor's push
cart which has been struck by motor car coming
down hill at a mile minute gait after President
Roosevelt finishes using 1t for punching bag, pre-
para.ory to tackling its many imitators.
You ask if will assist in the coming walloping it
is to get will hold myself in readiness to start
barefooted from here to Washington the codest
night in winter the moment receive telephone
call if necessary The public have not yet 'got
onto ROOsevolt's work When be notified the 70
Broadway gang shortly after election that now that
the people had elected him he going to be real
president they began to lay their usual pipes to as
phyxiate him, and the asphyxiatiOn trick was to
be done in the same chamber. They knew all about
his preparaOns in regard to the beef trust rebates
ETC., and he, like the poor innocent he is, walked
into it on schedule time the other day; thatls ne
walked into it as the boys say, emit"
The Senate clinched with him on the treaty ques-
ton, and as pretty trick as has Standard Oil has
laid out for many day pulled off successfully
successfully init" They had it all rugged for the
strenuous hot headed gentleman Of the white house
to lose his head and make an exhibition before the
country which was to be their cue for locking horns
with him; and then-well then, they were to resume
their triumphant way
They had done the same thing for so many years
that there was no question in the minds OF the large
hated magnates at 26 Broadway that all would be
plain sailing afterwards-after the president had
made an ass of himself but, as l say, they have
sized up President Roosevelt from the start through
double lenzed "skewed" glasses
He, as we all know, simply walked around the
Dit they had dug and covered with thiR glass, and
instead of deadlOcking the question they wanted
him to deadlock on he proceeded to draw IRON his
sleeve another Of the many pasteboards he has been
slowing away during the past two years, or since
26 Broadway put him on their blacklist that ngh'
when he gave the Western Associated Press his nov
famous dispatch, "tell the people John D. Rookie
feller told me what / should do and be never touch
ed but in six stairs his way to the street, ano
I only used my left boot on him at that"
This pastebOard happened to be marked ''inVes
tgate Standard Oil, but it could just we'll have
been any Of score Of others-others equally Ell
fectve.
Poor Standard Oil. It broke the record, goinl
from the bottom Of the ladder to the top but the rec
ord it will break during the next six or twelv
months in coming from the top to the bottom vii
make its first look like an ear of dried corr
which accidentally got into his maiesty's aulphn
factory