The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-05

the schools should be taught the need of our development"
 Speaking of his recent visit to France. MT. Rockefeller said
 French Are Great Rivals.
 ''rhe 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 ad- , vantage of our mistakes. This is a strug- gle for supremacy. We must win, or they will, and there will be no quarter for us if they win. And now there is Japan rising in the east to a power we cannot estimate. We cannot foretell what her competition will be, We do not know the resources of the new territory which she controls, we cannot guess the com mercial and industrial possibilities of the Japanese.
 At this critical stage We are giving the enemy ammunition to fire at us. He is quick to seize this advantage. Take the attack We made on our own packing business, for instance. know none of the men in the beef trade, I never dealt with them. nor was I ever associated even indirectly with their business. or with themselves. But 1t Is safe to assume from the proportions of their industry that they are sound business men. And it is safe to assume too, that no business could have been built to such proportions on such false principles, or by such unsound methods as they were charged with.
 Ammunition for Foreigners.
 'I was in Europe when the attack was made at home on these men and their in- dustry and I could watch the effect of 1t there at close range. Those fellows abroad snatched al our own charges against our own business with the greatest g1ee. They used them promptly as ammunition with which to attack America and everything American, especially American manufac- tured products and trade. I do not be- 1ieve there was a line of American goods sold abroad that was not injured, or an American agent doing business abroad whose work was not hampered by this.
 w are too young a nation for this tearing down. Our position Is by no means secure It is like repeating A C.. to say that we cannot consume our total production. We must sell abroad or do less business Reducing the volume of our production means less work. less wages. less business transacted at the very least. It 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? 'Is 1t common sense to tell our young men, on whom the future must depend, | that they can hope for no other reward | for carrying our commercial flag forward | than frenzied attacks at home, and all | the handicaps their own government can pile on their business to satisfy the vio- lent prejudice excited against them?" Refers to Recent Subpoena. Referring to a subpoena recently issued, requiring him to appear in court in an 1 action against the Standard Oil company | MT. Rockefeller said.
 While l was in active business I used | to always respond. but now I am not iu l a position to give these inquiring people | the information they want. They know l that as well as l do. If they really l wanted information it Is other men they would summon, the men who have the | information they want. They know that
 also, So l am reluctantly compelled tC | conclude that 1t Is notoriety they wan 1 rather than information. l yield to no mar | in respect for law, but I am unable tc | see where the little notoriety an indus tor might get from putting me on tht l stand would serve the ends of justice. Sc
 l avoid the ordeal. with it's exhaustion
 when can, and preserve my strengtl
 and quiet"