The Lamar register., 1906-10-10
JOHN o. ROCKEFELLER WOULD
SAVE OUR COMMERCE.
INTERVIEW AT CLEVELAND
Deprecates Interference With Ameri-
can Manufaoturers-Say France
and Japan Are Watching to Seize
Our Foreign Business.

Cleveland. OF We limit opportu-
nifty, we will have TO put the brakes
on or national development. viii the
indi iuai strive for success If he
knows the hard-won prize is to be
snatched from his finger at last by his
government?
I'VE are still too young a nation 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 development"
With the above words John ID. Rock
efeller opened an interview published
in the Plaindealer to-day. in which
he comments on the demand for gov
eminent regulation of socalled pri-
vate Industries and make strong
plea for national development.
Speaking of his recent visit to
France, Mr.. Rockefeller said:
The French people hate US, and
they will crush us If they can They
want our money. They want the pat
ronage Of our tourists. But they hate
US. They never let slip an opportu-
nifty to take c"' advantage OF our
mistakes This is a struggle for su'
premacy. We must win or they will.
and there will be no quarter for us u
they win.
And now there is Japan, rising in
the East to power we can not esti'
mate. We can not foretell 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 industrial posi-
bilities oi the Jaranese.
"At this critical stage We are giving
the enemy ammunition TO fire at us.
this advantage
Take the attack we made upon our
own packing house business, for in
stance. I know none OF the men in
the beef trade. never dealt with
them, nor was | ever associated even
indirectly with their business or them
selves. But 1t is safe to assume from
the proportions Of their industry that
they are sound business men And II
is safe to assume, too. that no Dusl'
ness could have been built TO such
proportions on such false principles
or by such unsound methods as they
are charged with.
Il was in Europe when the attack
was made at home upon these men
and their industry and l could watch
the effect of il there at close range
Those fellows abroad snatched at OUT
own charges against our own bushes.
Win the ETtdlthA -4tFs my 49,
them promptly as ammunition with
which to attack America and every
thing American, especially American
manufactured products and trade. }
do not believe there was line oil
American. goods sold abroad that was
not injured. or an American agent do
ing business abroad whose work was
not hampered by this.
I'VE are too young n nation TOT
this tearing down. Our position is by
no means secure. II is like repeating
A. B. to say that we can not con
sumo our total production We mus
sell abroad or do less business. Re
ducing the volume of our protection
means less work. less wages. less
business transacted, at the very least
1T is checking our development in
stead OF furthering it. Is it 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?
rs II common sense TO tell OUT
young men. on whom the future mus,
depend. that they can hope for NJ
further reward for carrying our com
mercial flag forward than frenzied at
lacks at home, and all the handicap,
their own government eau pile upon
their business to satisfy the violent
prejudice enacted against them2'