The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-18
LODGING THE LAW.
sAVOYARD WRITES OF THE ROCKE-
 TELLER SPECTACLE.
A Man Above and Beyond the Law . Making Socialists Every Day by the D0zen--His Preacher's Re-
 marks as n Commentary.

MT. John D. Rockefeller is supposed to be the richest man in the world and his life ought to be an example rather than a warning. He has the genius of acquisition and is to business what the genius of Napoleon was to war. When the Corsican demigod was in the field he never failed to bewilder the enemy by the rapidity and audacity. of his combinations; when Rockefeller dis covers a market that he would monop- olize he finds way to destroy compe- tition in that market and take it unto himself.
 Now, I believe that when mankind becomes civilized there will be. no such thing as commercial competition; but neither will there be any such Midas as Rockefeller, or Carnegie. or Armour, or any of that layout. Things will be produced at the least possible cost and sold at the least living profit, and at the same time wages and salaries will not be eaten up in the cost of living: But mankind IS far from civilized and this Is the age of the fakir in politics and the plutocrat in business.
 This age will witness the triumph of State socialism. It need surprise mo- body if William R. Heart is the next Democratic candidate for President. Certainly he is the most powerful in dividual Democrat in the country with the possible exception of MT. Bryan . run the show If they shall be so dis posed. The Democratic party is be- come more radical than the Republican, and God knows the Republican party chuckle over until another generation rises that shall turn to the teachings of Jefferson, Tilden, Randolph Tucker and, men of that ilk for inspiration. But that generation will be after our coun- try shall have got it's gorge of State socialism.
 This man Rockefeller is the product of Republican rule--he, Carnegie and A HIT T1fa TnathnA0 haUa a rluh into the hands of every Socialist. He Is making Socialists every day by the dozen. It is the legitimate and inevi- table result of the political sin Of the country. There will be q revolution and then some fine year the American people will awaken from their de- Bryanism and folly, Hearstism and dew iltry and return to the preachments of the fathers-from Jefferson to Tilden, from Mason to Cleveland, from Ran cratic party and restore the fabric of the Republic as it existed in the time of it's glory and its grandeur. Paternal- and the Federal establishment will be limited to the powers delegated to it, sanely and honestly interpreted,
 Rockefeller the richest man in the world, with an income of $100.0oo every day of the year, Is miserably poor man in the truly philosophic sense. He is, this moment, a fugitive from the law. He is in hiding and cannot be found by the officers of the law who have been seeking him for weeks to serve subpoena on him. requiring him 10 appear before Commissioner to tell the truth fin a lawsuit to which the Standard oil Company Is a party. He is afraid to appear in public. His preacher says he does not know where MT. Rockefeller is. Like master, like ma 1fka lilxh p1 a .Tn mol feller's preacher says that Rockefeller's escape from the process-seryers Is the cutest thing Rockefeller ever did" and he continues, in triumph: ',All the detectives and smaFtest reporters in the country can't find the richest and most conspicuous man in the >World!"
 Why can't they find him? Because Mir. Rockefeller Is above and beyond the law. He is a very rich man and a very religious man. He founds schools and colleges and sits in the sanctuary lodging the law of the land, setting 1t at naught, contemning 1t. How would you like to get your religion from the law? What sort of morality is it that dodges the law? In one respect Rockefeller is slave. He is afraid to venture in public, I am persuaded a day. It reminds one of the punish ment that riotous imagination of Dumas visited on his banker scoundrel. Danglers, in The Count of Monte Cristo '
 But Rockefeller's entire fortune came, from illegaltty and immortality, and SO did Carnegies. Carnegie went to the Pennsylvania Railroad and said. Haul my steel east and west at less rate than you give anyone else or I will build a road that will Of course the road had to do 1t, just as the grazier of Lowland. Scotland, had to pay black mail to the chieftain of Highland Scot land That is how Carnegie made his millions. Every dime he has Is the spoil of monopoly. Not only did his rivals have to pay higher rates, but they could not get their goods shipped at all until Carnegie's were both trans ported and sold
 Rockefeller did all that and more, too He not only got lower rates, not only kept his rivals oil out of the market until he had disposed of his oil, but he extorted from the railroads a part of the freight paid by his rivals. Midas never had such a touch. If he is not worth two billions it is because