The Mena weekly star., 1906-10-11
ROCKEFELLER ON TRUSTS
Organizer of Standard Oil Com ments on Government Regulation
 of Private Industries.
PLEADS FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The oil Magnate in an Interview at Cicve- land Deprecates the Attacks on OrEan- ized Business in this Country-says Beef Trust Scandal Injured Every Line of American Goods Sold Abroad.

Cleveland, O., Oct 5.-The Plain Dealer Thursday prints an interview with John D. Rockefeller, in which the latter comments on the demand for government regulation of so- called private industries and makes a strong plea for national develop ment. Mir. Rockefeller is quoted in part as follows:
 If we limit opportunity we will have put the brakes on our national development. Will the individual strive for success if he knows the hard won prize Is to be snatched from his finger at the last by his govern ment? We are still too young a na- tion to begin tearing down. We must build up. build up, for years to come The very children in the schools should be taught the need of our de- velopment."
 Speaking of his recent visit to France, Mir. Rockefeller said:
 The French people hate us, and they will crush us if they can They want our money. They want the patronage of our tourists. But they hate us. They never let slip an op- portunity to take quick advantage of our mistakes. This is struggle for supremacy. We must win, or they will, and there will be no quarter for us if they win. And now there is Japan, rising in the east to power We cannot estimate. We cannot fore tell what her competition will be, we do not know the resources of the new territory which she controls, we can- not guess the commercial and indus trial possibilities of the Japanese
 At this critical stage we are giv- ing the enemy ammunition to fire at us. He is quick to seize this ad- vantage. Take the attack we made upon our own packing business, for instance. know none of the men in the beef trade, never dealt with them, nor was I ever associated even indirectly with their business or them selves. But 1t is safe to assume from
 
 they are sound business men. And 1t Is safe to assume, too, that no business could have been built to such proportions on such false principles, or by such unsound methods as they are charged with.
 "I was in Europe when the attack was made at home upon these men and their industry and could watch the effect of 1t there at close range. Those fellows abroad snatched at our own charges against our own business with the greatest glee. They used them promptly as ammunition with which to attack America and every thing American, especially American manufactured products and trade. I do not believe there was line of American goods sold abroad that was not injured. or an American agent doing business abroad whose work was not hampered by this.
 We are too young a nation for this tearing down. Our position Is by no means secure. It is like repeating A, B, c. to say that we cannot consume our total production. We must sell abroad or do less business. Reducing the volume of our production means less work, less wages, less business transacted. at the very least It is checking our development instead of rurthering 1t. Is 1t common sense. then. to handicap our export trade at home. to attack the good name of our business for the benefit of our foreign rivals?
 ''Is 1t common sense to tell om young men, on whom the future must depend, that they can hope for no other reward for carrying our com mercial flag foraward than frenzied attacks at home, and all the handi- caps their own government can pile upon their business to satisfy the violent prejudice against them?"
 Referring to subpoena recently issued. requiring him to appear in court in an action against the Stand ard oil company. Mir. Rockefellrr said:
 While l was in active business used to always respond. But now am not in a position to give these in- quiring people the information they want. They know that as we'll as do. If they really wanted information