Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-13

from the New 1ork WCTiu.
When Jones sat down at the breakfast
table yesterday and opened ais morning
nail the first envelope gave forth a gas
Dill.
More money to be paid to Rockefeller
and Morgan" he remarked.
How so?' asked MRS. Jones.
"Why, Rockefeller and Morgan own or
control the gas trust he replied, land
every dollar / or any one else pays for gas
goes to swell their wealth."
The next envelope contained the monthly
Gill for groceries.
Rockefeller again." said Jones.
why surely Mr.. Rockefeller hasn't
gone into the grocery business?' remarked
ais wife.
''Oh yes he has. A few years ago Rookie
ieller's money took that great firm with
which we deal, united a few minor con-
Germs with 1T and formed a joint stock
company. So all the groceries we buy re-
.urn a profit to Mr.. Rockefeller. OF
course you don't LAY to deal with this
irm, and If you don't want to enrich
Rockefeller you can buy from the corner
grocer, but even then you Will be paying
some other rich man, for all OF them are
controlled by trusts and the trusts are In
the hands Of a few men.
THAT box Of biscuit that Johnnys hand
Is in, from whom do you q you
bought it?'
IT got that at the corner store
YES, and the corner grocer got IL from
The biscuit trust, which is ]. p. Morgan.
'Ice!" cried the janitor up the speak
ng-tube.
Rockefeller" said Jones.
What! Again. laughed Mrs. ].
Yes again. Besides Morse and Van
wyck and a few others, Rockefeller is up
"a hic osrlr an fhn Zoe trust and If there Is
any profit on that hunk that Bridget Is
putting In the refrigerator Rockefeller
gets his share of II.
And that sugar you are putting into my
.offee pays its tax to Rockefeller, as does
this cigar / am abou to light. Thomas +.
Ryan gets a rake-off on the cigar also, bu
so far as I hav been able to learn Morgan
has nothing to do with It,"
The bell rang Inc Bridget nnounced a
messenger boy in answer to Mrs. Jones's
:ail. She gave him a package to be sent
by express to a friend in the country. and
paid him Is cents which was his fee.
More money for the big three" laughed
tones. Rockefeller controls the District
Messenger company, and he, Morgan and
Ryan are heavily interested in the express
companies, which are not rivals, as many
people believe, but working smoothly to-
gether, dividing up territory and inter
changing business. Morgan controls one,
Rockefeller another and Ryan another"
Jones kissed his wife good-by and went
to the elevated station in Brooklyn and
took the train for New York. The nickel
he paid as fare meant a cent more to
Rockefeller. On the station he bought a
New York morning paper which Is owned
BY J. P. Morgan. At the Manhattan end
Of the bridge he took a car, with the re-
Election that he was paying Thomas +,
Ryan to bear him to his office.
AS he walke along the street he bought
at a newsstand copies of two magazines,
remarking to a friend as he did 80 that he
was sending more grist to Morgan's mill.
How so ?" asked the friend.
Morgan owns both these magazines
replied Jones.
"And he gets another rake-on, at that
commented the friend. For he and
Rockefeller are among the men most
heavily interested in the paper trust which
sold the paper on which the magazines are
printed"
Jones accompanied his friend to the
Grand Central station to see him of tc
San Francisco. AS they stood in line al
the window of the Pullman company he
said:
Your ticket to San Francisco enriches
Morgan. Rockefeller and Ryan and your
Pullman ticket is bought from Morgan
and the Vanderbilts. The springs of the
cars in which you will ride are made by