The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-08-09
THE
HYPOCR|TE
A Severe Arraignment Of the Oil
Trust Man by Miss Tar
bell in McClures for August

In the second Oh ner Two CHARACTER
studies of John d. Rockefeller in the
August McClure's. Miss Tarbeil cor
to the conc us.on that so far as the er-
feet of Mr.. Rockefel er's career on the
public is concerned he is hypocr e.
THE great public does not deal In nice
psychological distinctions. 1t takes the
evident conclusion. 1t says this man
has for forty years lent all the power
celebrating a system of Illegal. and un-
just discrimination by common carriers.
He has done this in the face of moral
sentiment, in the face of .oud express
ed public opinion, in face of the law, in
caused at his very side. For forty years
he has fought to prevent every attempt
to regulate the wrongs the system
wrought. and when he failed to do so he
has turned his craft and skill to finding
secret and devious ways of secur.nf the
privilege he dc esired. He has done more
than any other person to fasten on this
country the most serious interference
with free individua, deve opment which
1t suffers, an interference which, today,
the whole country is struggling vain y
cured, SO deep-seated and so subtle Is
1t. except by Revolutionary methods.
Not on this, he has fought the pub
licity in business which is obviously
necessary to its safety: he has nitro
duced into business a spy system of the
most odious character He has turned
commerce from a peaceful pursuit to
war. and honeycombed it with cruel and
corrupt practice; turned competition
from honorable emulation to cut-throat
struggle. And the man who deliberate
and persistent,y does these things
calls his great organization a benefac-
tion and points to his church-going and
his charities as proof of his righteous
ness. To the man of straightforward
nature the two will not tally. This, he
says. Is supreme. cruel wrong doing
leaked by re lyon. There is but one
the man in the street who feels the hy-
pocr.sy of the case: it is the man in
the school of business Mr.. Rockefeller
has created, the man In the train of OBJ
sequious followers his giving has col
.ected. And what is the effect? Why.
to make hypocrites of them-hpocrites or
cynics! On all sides we hear the justi-
flcation of this schoo by its deeds OF
charity
The final question which Miss Tarbell
asks is, Does it pay the pubic to trust
the control of a great necessity Of life
to such a man? He has built hospitals
and col eyes and endowed schools. True.
and those helped have become his open
apoogists. by taking what they call the
large view or the charitable view or
by deliberate stunning a consideration
of the subject, quietly not seeing In it
a topic for discussion. Does it pay to
have those who are entrusted with the
very sources of our intellectual and
moral life blinded or 81 enced to the
ethical quality of the practices OF our
daily life? WIN It pay ,nr colleges to
put over their doors the teaching of one
of our present day moraists, Never dis
cuss politics or religion IL you wou
succeed? He has ed a life devoted to
charity and the church. True. And the
principles of the religion he processes are
so antagonistic to the principles of the
business he practices that the very
world which emu,ates him has been
turned into hypocrites and cynics under
his tutelage. While. in the world which
'ooks on. char ity itself has become hate
full to many a mana cloak to cover a
multitude of sins. Others actually with
draw their bequests from institutions
which accept his funds. Qt has been
stated on the best authority that three
wills making bequests to one Of our