Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-10-24

W5WHFS&X time are easily adduclble.
MsA6G ~ The demand for the product Of
"a s1saASLA this schemiDg duality is world
GNGgTS &c. wide as its capacity for production
The advance of fraction Of cent in the price
means unconscious loss of millions to the consumer
and corresponding gain to the schemer; had these
millions satisfied the rapacity of the intreaguers,
they could have continued indefinitely without ex.
citing the suspicious OF their victims, but the
tary achievements only whetted the mOnOpolistic
appetite for increasing gain. New schemes must
be wrought out to touch the same people in other
ways. The small trader must be made to forego
hi Legitimate ambition for competence on his own
account and cast in his lot with the Standard loose
bis Identify as man and become part OF system
that was hencefOrth to recognize rights as
paramount but it's own. Individual men, aggre-
cations of men, the best and brightest thought body
and SOUL to be lost in the system, untitled for every
honorable walk in life and released from the
SYSTEMS grip SO long as they continue plastic clay
in the hand Of the potter of this fe-crushing con.
science. crushing, enforced self imolating system.
Cities and towns have their cesspools and quag
mires where squalOr, ignorance, filth, profanity,
Obsenity and degradation abound. The authorities
Indifferent to these conditions or unable to cope
with these producers Of crime and these products of
the sums, condone the offence and become power.
less in the presence OF the offenders to the horror Of
every right thinking man and woman, though them
selves powerless to stem the tide Of generalization
which issues from these known but never remedi-
ed conditions.
But these are elysan fields compared with ''the
system" school for crime, instituted and maintain.
ed in Ostensbiy hightoned, commercial circles,
h1o; 80
the aggregation Of dollars; educated honorable in
the estimation Of the world, but prostituted to
baser, diahOlical purposes than ever was con-
ceived in the vest sore spot in any municipality OF
the land.
Behold the revolving revelations Of the country's
commission 'let Out' days since in relation to
the Standard Oil's monopOlistic System, through
the Daily Press.
THE STANDARD OIL METHODS REVEALED
IN THE GOVERNMENT INQUIRY.
1. employees Of che railways bribed."
2. Competitors kept under espionage"
8. Character Of opposing producers blackened."
4. ''Oil dealers given secret rebates"
5. Railroads forced to give preferential rebates"
6. Dummy companies formed to kill competition
z. "Lying, deceit intrigue, chicanery practiced -
The fugres the writer's and are given to
show the force Of the cumulative arraignment issu
ing from analysis Of the testimony Of single day.
Thus is this school Of crime justly held up to the
nations scorn. Scholars the brightest and best
gathered in from every quarter and incpient lessons
instilled In bribery, black-mai lawlessness eing,
deceit, intrigue, and chCanery, until all Vestige OF
conscious manhood was lost in the systems PERM
cious mold. A school which gathered into it's
vicious fold the law.maker and the law-enforcer to
corrupt them and debase them and fit them for
bright particular stars in the system hellish in its
purpose and deviish In its product. It's principles
applied to demoralize the Common Carrier from the
President to YardmaD. Honorable legal competi-
tion compelled to aubmit to the domination Of 'the
system" or forced ingloriOusly from the Legitimate
pursuit Of ordinary business success. Driven to
accept pay from this sOrdid system or eufer defeat
and disgrace from this school Of iniamiy.
'The System" is known everywhere, its pre-.
senCe felt in every nook and corner Of the world
The ostensible synonym because Of It's wealth and
influence for hghtOned methods in business and yet
according 70 the newspaper reports about their
doings, and the results Of the courts InqusitiOn
and their own confession Of wrong doing, with