St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-09-06

paper dollar bills TO make qlilt
that would cover the entire continent
and lap over the edge enough to
tuck in the navies of the world, if
sewed edge to edge. He also calls
attention TO the fact that there are
no issues before the people, such as
radical tariff changes, 10 to none
tary propositions, calculated to dis
turb the eqanimity of popular con-
fdence as IN the days of Grover the
Great and Billy Bryan; that there
is nothing OH the horizon which
could be seriously construed as evil
dence of coming calamity; that the
country was never safer in finances,
in relations with neighboring powers
than today
In another journal of equal reli-
ability in everything that goes TO
make a great news medium is a cal
amity howl from the notorious John
d. Rockefeller, who can praise the
Lord and rob his fellow man in the
same breath and apparently the same
degree of complacency. His wall
is all turned against the administra-
ton which has brought him to time
(for the time being at leasD in a
measure commensurate with the
enormity of his crimes. II is hoped
by every honest man in the nation
that the government will see that
the fine imposed by Judge Lands
will be collected. Mr.. Rockefeller
sayes the course of the government
in squeezing from himself and asso-
ciates in crime their pilfered hold
dings will result in disaster TO the
nation; that the country is drifting
toward rocks of financial depression;
that confidence in the financial con-
dition of the country is gone and
that this confidence is the basis OF
all financial operations; that he had
been approached for loans of ST.
600, 900, ~, 600, 900, ands3, ,ooo, 900
from parties he would have least
expected TO want TO borrow, and at
the enormous rate of 7per cent. lie
intimlted that he had no money to
loan; that the policy of the great
inancicrs of the country would be
to Withhold their money and thus
prccipitatc financial depression
upon the nation.
lie also glorics in the fact that he
has been enabled TO manipulate his
great steal because of the utter con
idcncc that existed between all the
great band of thieves Of which he
was the head, or chief robbcr. lie
took extreme satisfaction in the
knowledge that hc had enough for
himself and family aud that IL mat
tered not one wit TO him what sui-
fcring his actions might cause To
the millions he has already robbed
of the millions he has IN his Golfers,
From these views as presented 10y
these two great men, then, we are
enabled to draw this inference, that
John ID. thinks himself independent
of the government, above the gov
ernmcnt; that the government Is
criminal in its actions in attempting
To cur,ail his his liberty to steal as
much and as often and rs long as he
likes and will revenge himself upon
the government, /, c. the people, by
withholding from them the ncces
sary monetary power To do business.
II remains then 10 be seen by test
which will be made in the near fu-
tur. which is the greater and
stronger government which can
produce as much in a single year as
John ID, is worth OF John ID, with
his financial hackers. and the fact
remains that ii there is depression,
and there may he. IL will be the
ialt OF the people, The country is
too large, too powerful, the resources
too great for Mr Rockefeller and
his whole ring OF coteries TO brow
beat into quiescent submission to a
systematic peculation ol its resources.