The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
ROCKEFELLER A COWARD
CHICAGO PROFESSOR ATTACKS
FOUNDER OF UNIVERSITY.
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE


Masnates Are Doing More to Cause
the Formation Of the Socialist Party
Than Any Other Factor.
Chicago, Aug 10-John d. Rookie.
Teller, founder and supporter of the
University of Chicago, was bitterly at
tackled by Prof. Charles Zuebin, of the
department of sociology of that insti-
tuition.
Coward" enemy of the people,"
"ally of the socialists" and all-around
evil.doer, were some of the names
hurled at the head of the Standard
Oil company by the educator.
similar attack was made by Prof.
Bushnell of Washington, who declared
that the whole world is turning to so
cialism in an effort to escape the bur-
dens that have been piled on by the
class to which Rockefeller belongs.
Orthodoxy AssaiIed.
Not only did Prof. Zueblin express
emphatic opinions about the head of
the oil combine, but he also criticised
the Standard Oil company itself. He
declared the defense made for the big
corporation in the recent case in which
it was fined $29,2400O0, that it had
only committed an offense that is COM
mon in business, was weak and cow
ardly.
The subject of Prof. Zueblin's lee
ture was 1.-THE Constraint of Ortho-
doxy." He assailed orthodoxy, not
only in religion, but in economics, pol
itics and social life, declaring 1t to be
the cause of many of the present day
evils. He said in part:
John d. Rockefeller, ]. Pierpont
Morgan, e. H. Hartman and the other
trust magnates are doing more to
make socialism possible than are its
most jealous adherents. They are
consolidating the industries and there
by simplifying the process for state
ownership, which constitutes social
ism.
"They defend their actions in a man.
ner most cowardly.
"Cowardice is today the most con-
spicuous phenomena in the economic
world. There are only a few bold
spirits who are willing to depart from
the standard.
when upon the Standard Oil COM
pany was imposed an enormous fine,
such as had never before been known,
one Of the defenses made was that its
offense was only what everybody else
is guilty Of. Whatever the actual mer-
1t of the case is, this only complexities
It.
"Take political orthodoxy. The two
political parties in America are as
good representatives Of this character
istic of orthodoxy as are the Metho-
dist and Baptist churches.
There is nothing to enable the or
binary individual to distinguish be-
tween them. But they must have GER
tain differences to put before the peo-
pie, upon which to make a campaign.
Born Into Position.
Few distinguish between them.
Most native Americans are born into
their political party, the same as into
their particular church, and belong to
one party or the other for no other
reason than that their father voted
that way. The orthodoxy Of politics
is expressed in party loyalty; in re-
ligion, by devotion; in economics, by
class consciousness, and in society by
convention.
"The example of orthodoxy most re-
pugnant to us is in the continuance
of the worship of tribal deity, such as
was shown in the worship of an Anglo
Saxon deity in the Boer war, in the
invocation of the kaiser as his soldiers
were about to embark for China, and
in the cars devotion to Russian de-
ity."