The Boise citizen., 1907-08-23
PLEA FOR ROCKEFELLER
BONE Things THE TRUST MAGNATE COULD SAY
In SELF DEFENSE

The Hearst papers adopted style editorial writing adapted
10 youngest readers Some of these aside their quanness
o style ody of reasoning contain kernel of There
deepr meaning than appears the surface the following
speech put the mouth of John D. Rockefeller which
5Ssf lind in the San Fransisco Examiner of the 18th:
8 Rockefeller like many other Americans has been making all
the money could he hasn't always extraordinarily partic-
sular about laws o the rights of Others
@ Recently there the that his company had been fined
millions of dollars breaking the No paid
going be pad On top of this
other very much important if be hope
This second announcement states that certain scientists HIRED
AND PAID BY MR. ROCKEFELLER have discovered positive
cure for spinal meningitis
Everybody how dreadful disease that is 1t attacks
children often grown people ofen and practically always
fatal.
has puzzled and afflicted humanity for long time Mr.
Rockefeller decided of his money fighting that disease
and other diseases children And the semofcal
discovered that absolutely
the at least valuable as the precious anti
toxin of diphheria which thousands of lives year
Newspapers politicians judges district attorneys and the public
generally been pretty free in telling Mr. Rockefeller what THEY
think How would Mr. Rockefeller should turn around and
say the public this
Good public always bowling together Did you notice the dis
covery spinal meningitis due to OF MY employed
scientists DUE IN OTHER WORDS TO SOME OF MY Doll
LARS?
Do you know that while you have been cisng have been
spending money and lot of it. TO EDUCATE YOU, AND
FIGHT THE DISEASES OF YOUR CHILDREN?
eff can decrease power of disease if successfully tight
spare dreadful grief which ignorance nlc upon te DO you
not know that shall be vndicated in my eyes?
hat do YOU great public do You have at your command
all the resources of the country AND YOU DO NOTHING With
THEM
You have Government which leaves NE fight the diseases
that DESTROY children, WHILE THAT GOVERNMENT SPENDS
IT'S MONEY INVESTIGATING DISEASES THAT DESTROY
PIGS
"Your government spends twenty millions Tor warshp'
SPEND TWENTY MILLIONS FOR EDUCATION
into better thieves. -,
great university in which young men are taught IN WHICH
young women opportunity to enter the vide hed OF No
edge
81 do not say l perfect
81 do say that have not put my business ana ltS p
ahead of antitrust laws, but do say this
GAS LONG AS YOU THE PEOPLE, YOUR GOVERN
MENT. DON'T KNOW ENOUGH TO FIGHT DISEASE AM AM
TO SPREAD EDUCATION, BUT SPEND MILLIONS UPOM
MILLIONS FOR NO BETTER THINGS THAN WARSHlPo
AND PRISONS IT is LUCKY FOR YOU THAI hNOM wv
HOW TO TAKE THE MONEY AWAY FROM YOU AM -
SPEND IT FOR YOUR BENEFIT. .s
If old Mr. Rockefeller should write in that way Would De W
fcut to deny sense in his writing. surrey
strange that the people and Government SO vocterou
ing great financial barons SHOULD LEAVE II ~ lliO W
TO FIGHT IGNORANCE AND DISEASE. vi,
We have to look to Pepon Morgan to establish IN ew oi
City lyingn hospital for women That monument - n my 49,
that noble temple of real charity the people must get from one " W
big men that control them, or get 1t not at oil" 4
AS people as Government, we have got as Id de8 "
ing the methods for curing diseases OF FlO0' SleP' ~
things WORTH MONEY. 4,s :.
But we leave it to John D. Rockefeller, the man VINO
financially to spend part of our money studying ways u
diseases that attack OUR CHILDREN -. - to,d;no
If Won went down to Africa and found few whlte men
80 ~ w., AND AT THE SAME TIME PROTECTING
THE FROM WILD BEASTS AND SNAKES AM = re re IP r.Iz
AND yOODOO TRICKSTERS, YOU WOULD oAf - - Illl
SAVAGES seWel those white men may exploit YOU Ou' "
lucky you have got them among you. ocince
And perhaps the future looking back at us may 'y -
you didn't know enough to after children OF ops
young men, or deal kindly with unhappy woi"eii