Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-04
Corporations With Souls.

Some corporations have souls and some
! have not. as we know by observation
| and experience. Our President tells us
| that there are good trusts and bad trusts
and 1t is not difficult for a safe and sane
man as classify them. On the othe.
hand. there are good trust busters anG
bad trust busters and both kinds can bt
found In the Office of the Attorney Gen
eral and among his subordinates through
out the country who are commanded by
the Supreme Power to destroy the dragon
| that has already done so much damage
Any one who takes the trouble to refer
| to chapter xxxvii of the Book of Genesis
will learn that:
Joseph dreamed a dream and he told
| it to his brethren; and they hated him
| yet the more.
And he said unto them, Hear l pray
YOU, this dream which have dreamed:
For, behold. we were binding sheaves
in the field, and, 10. my sheaf arose an,
also stood upright; and. behold. your
sheaves stood round about and made obe;-
Sance to my sheaf.
And his brethren said unto him, Shalt
thou indeed reign over US? Or shalt
thou Indeed have dominion over us? Ano
they hated him yet the more for his
dreams and for his words
That quaint quotation from the Holy
SCI iptures describes ve-y accurately the
sentiments of the small sheaves in the
industrial world to the large sheaFes, like
the Standard OIL Company and the steel
trust and it Is perfectly natural. Huma
nature was precisely the same In the days
Of Joseph and his brethren as it Is T.
these latter times. Yet there Is some
good in every one of Gods creatures, even
n the Standard Oil Company and the
steel trust. and this is a good time to talk
about it. Virtue, as we'll as vice, is con-
taRious.
The Standard Oh Company has en-
Ightened the world: it has been one
the great st benefactors of mankind /.
IaS furnished cheap. pure and SAT-
burning fluid for all the peoples of tn.
Aarth. In the camps Of the Bedouns, III
the jungles Of Africa, in the deserts o.
Egypt and among the peaks of the Him
layas the kerosene oil Of that company
contributes to the comfort. happiness am
convenience Of hundreds of millions {
people who were formerly dependent upo1
| miserable tallow dips. greasewood togche
and the flames of their c3mpfires. In
| every will &c of China; In the most prim-
tive settlements of Oceanica; among the
Aleuts and the Eskimos the ten-galiol.
| cans in which the Standard OIL. Compan
distributes its products IS used for ket-
ties to cook the daily meal At the Foun
tain of May in the village of Naz ,retf
| the black-eyed women who gather ever.
| morning and every night to obtain tt
family supply Of water. as they did II
the childhood of the Savior, carry it OF
their neouS 10 tIlelr homes in OIL can
inste' d of the ancient jas that look S,
picturesque In the illustrated Bibles.
Within the door OF the tent of every
Arab you will find a Standard Oil car
filled with water l have seen rows
them on the walls of Damascus used
substitutes for flower pots. In india tn.
natives cut the cans into pieces and US
The tin for states in their schools. Thei;
| children write the numerals and the let
tiers Of the alphabet with India ink ano
4 vegetab BILE brush upon the strips of tin
and then wash of the marks when the.l
copy has been corrected by the teacher
In TERRA del Fuego the natives use TIL.
Standa OIL tins almost exclusively 70
cooking utensils and II you will COM
nearer home and go into the mining camp.
of the Rocky mountains you will fint
hundreds Of cabins shingled with them.
In the prosecution of the Standard O..
Company now going on in Nsw York Mr.
Kellogg, the representative of the gov
eminent. has not yet brought out thes.
facts. and 1t is doubtful whether any cou-
would accept them as "extenuating cir
cumstances' In the crimes of the creates
of monopolies. But, nevertheless, 1t Is only
fair that the world should acknowledge