Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-04
Build UP, NOT TEAR
DOWN, SAYS JOHN D.
Standard Oil King Gives His
Ideas on National Devel-
opment
DON'T LIMIT OPPORTUNITY
DON'T LIMIT OPPORTUNITY
Or Brakes Will be Put on Development
Declares French Want Our Money
But Hate Us-Beware Of Jap Com
petition-Attack on Packers Hurt
America Abroad-"That Subpoena"

Cleveland, Oct. 4.-The Plain Dealer
today prints an interview with John
D. Rockefeller in which the latter
comments on the demand for governs
ment regulations of yso-called private
industries, and makes strong plea
for national development. Rockefeller
in part, says:
IF we limit opportunity we will have
to put the brakes on our national de-
velopment. Will the individual strive
for success if he knows the hard-won
prize is to be snatched from his fin
gers at last by his government? We
are still too young a nation to begin
tearing down. We must build up for
years to come. Every child in the
schools should be taught the need of
development
French People Hate Us.
Speaking of his recent visit to France
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 opportunity 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.
Giving Ammunition to the Enemy.
And now there is Japan rising in
the east to a power we cannot estim-
ate. We can not foretell what her
competition will be; we don't know the
resources of the new territory which
she controls. We can not guess the
commercial and industrial possibilities
of the Japanese. At this critical stage
we are giving the enemy ammunition
advantage.
Regrets Attack on Packers.
'Take the attack we made upon our
own packing business, for instance.
know none Of the men in the beef
trade, never was I associated even in
dividually or indirectly with their bus
mess or themselves, but it is safe to
assume, from the proportions Of their
industry, that they are sound business
men, and that no business could have
been built up to such proportions in
such false principles, or by such un-
sound methods, as they were charged
with. / was in Europe when the at
tack was made at home upon these
men and their industry, and I could
watch the effect of it there at close
range.
Hurt America Abroad.
"Those fellows abroad used the
charges promptly as ammunition with
which to attack America, and every
thing American, especially American
manufactured productsJand trade. do
not believe there was a line of Am
erican goods sold abroad that was not
injured, or an American agent doing
business abroad whose work was not
hampered by this.
Can't Consume Total Production.
1--WE are too young nation for this
tearing down. Our position is by no
means secure. We can not consume
our total production; we must sell
abroad or do less business. Reducing
the volume Of our production means
less work, less wages and less business
transacted at the very least. It is
checking our development instead 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 foreign riv-
ais? Is it common sense to tell our
Young men, on whom the future must
depend, that they can hope for no 9TH
er reward for carrying our commercial
flag forward than frenZied attacks at
home, and all the handicaps their own
government can pile upon their bus1-
ness to satisfy the violent prejudice
excited against them?"
Rockefeller Knows Nothing.
Referring to the subpoena recently
issued, requiring him to appear in
court in the action against the Stand
ard Oil Company, Rockefeller said:
''While was in active business used
to always respond. But now 1 am not
in position to give these inquiring
people information they want. Ii they
really wanted the information it is 9th
er men they would summon. men who
have the Information they want. So
am reluctantly compelled to conclude
that it is notoriety they want, rather
than information. yield to no man in
respect for law. but am unable to
see where the little notoriety an in
quisitor might get from putting me on
the stand would serve the ends of JUS
tice. So I avoid the ordeal, with it7
exhaustion, when 1 can preserve my
strength and quiet