West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-05-10


the honest or dishonest directors,
or managers, should be praised or
blamed.
How powerful public opinion is
on those corporation officials who
have sinned is shown by the self
Punishment of Rockefeller to avoid
appearing as a witness and the
Hitting OF the insurance grafters.
The corporation cannot be punished.
III you fine 1t. the money comes out
OF the pockets OF the shareholders.
so that anathematizing corporations
is so much vanity. That is where
the efforts of President Roosevelt
against the trusts have failed of ac.
complishment. The case against
the Northern Securities Company.
which resulted in its virtual dissolu.
ton, has had no effect, but if the
law had been brought to bear on
President Hill he would probably
have been glad to see competition
resumed between the Great Nothern
and Northern Pacific railroads.
The Administration has utterly
failed in all its anti-trusts contests.
Every trust, combine, or corpora.
ton is still a monopoly, as far as it
can be. and continues to plunder
the people as much as the business
sagacity of the managers considers
desirable. Will the voters, who are
the victims of trust and corporation
rapacityj endorse the feeble efforts
OF the Administration at trust bust.
ing' A true reformer, with all the
great power of the government at
his command, should have been
able to put the bodies of some trust
magnates at hazard in the courts.
But not trust magnste has been
convicted.
Public opinion with Its moral
force alone has done more TO curb
the trust magnates and if the con
tempt Of the people is centered on
the persons and not on the i'm
personal corporation, it will have
still greater effect.
Underneath all this. however, is
the cause that fostered the trusts
and that can only be removed by
the adoption of the good old Demo
cratic doctrine Of, equal rights TO
all and special privileges to none"
He washed us by the washing of
regeneration and renewing of the
holy spirit; which he shed forth
through Jesus Christ our Savior
again; "fiim hath God exalted with
his right hand to be Prince and a
Savior"-"We have seen and do
testify that the Father sent the Son
to be the Savior of the world"-
"Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ,
according to an appointment of God
Our Savior and OF Jesus Christ our
hope"
Note also our Lords own words
on the subject:
"The Father sent not the Son
into the world to condemn the
world, but that the world through
him might be saved"-I am come
in my Fathers nsme"-"My Father
is greater than l." Yet our Lord
was so full Of the Fathers Spirit, so
unreseryedly in accord with the
Fathers will that he could say al
and the Father are one" A perfect
representative and IN the last book
Of the Bible he has furnished MS with
the relations (Which God gave unto
him, to show unto his seivents" a
most beautiful picture Of this sub
ject OF the Atonement, is Symbols
(Rev. s.. In the hands Of the Faith.
er upon throne is shown a scroll,
written inside and outside, sealed
with seven seals. The divine plan
known only to the Father until one
was proved worthy to know il and
become its executor as Jehovah's
honored agent and representative.
Our Lord proved himself loyal and
worthy Of every confidence, and is
proclaimed, "Worlhy the lamb"
"Thou art worthy to take the scroll
and to open the seals thereof, be.
cause thou vast slain, and hast re-
deemed us to God by thy blood out
Of every tongue and kindred ard
people and nations" Then the proc
lamation throughout the heavenly
host "Worthy the Lamb that was
slain, to receive power, and riches,
and wisdom, and strength, and hon
or, and glory, and blessings" and
finally "eyery creature" catches the
thought that Jehovah has highly ex.
aIted his Only Begotton Son, and
shout their approval. "The blessing
and the honor, and the glory and
the power be unto Him upon the
throne Jehovah on the throne OF