The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-11-06

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comes a dominic to call this treason
compared with which Arnold's was {
merest misdemeanor an incident
Our sycophantish chancellor, before al
is done, will be for calling murder &
mere breach of peacel Verify, the
trail of the serpent is over US all! A
preacher of the Gospel too! And just
because the gift-giving Mr.. Archbold
"covereth his face with fairness, and
maketh collops of fat on his hanks!'
In good truth, our chancellor ought
to take good hard look at himself in
the glass. Also, he should consider
how far he and his are referred to,
where it is written: For the congre-
cation of hypocrites shall be desolate,
and fire shall consume the tabernacle
of bribery. They conceive mischief,
and bring forth vanity, and their belly
prepareth deceit"
The congregation of hypocrites!
And all the time while-for Stand
ard Oil-spider Archbold is immeshing
fly Foraker in his bribe-web, to the
end that public welfare be betrayed,
the elder Rockefeller is growing holier,
and pious ones are pointing him out
to their children as a headland on the
hard coasts of existence by which to
steer. Also, Rockefeller, Jr., is lead
ing his bible class in song and prayer,
and evolving in defense Of Standard Oil
and its methods that convincing par
albeit missed fire bit, at that-of
the American Beauty rose, which he
showed could only be brought to per
fumed and effulgent red perfection, by
pinching off what rival buds might
interfere with Its monopoly OIL the
parental juices Of its stem.
You think bear too heavily upon
the Rockefellers; too hard upon Mr..
Archbold? In personal truth, my own
inner attitude is one of abysmal in
difference toward rich clods of the
mud-hue of Rockefeller or an Arch
bold. Should you feel that lay hand
too heavily upon spider Archbold
acting out his nature in his web Of
Standard Oil, consider what editor
Henry Watterson is pleased to utter.
Says our Louisville Colonel; But
all the while, what shall be thought Of
John D. Archbold, the Shiny officer OF
the Standard Oil Company, who ap-
parently has been its chief purchasing
agent in buying politicians and public
officials? Foraker and the rest are
getting it from all sides. The man
who bought is neglected. For his
deeds, Archbold should be wearing
stripes. Decent men should not
speak to him. Clubs should expel him.
Society should regard him as an enemy.
Patriots should hold him a traitor.
Self-respecting burglars should have
nothing to do with him."
And yet, to adopt a softer and more
philosophic feeling it is within the rim
of the rightly possible that we, you
and take wrong and narrow view.
It is we-the public-that are to
blame. Standard Oil wouldn't last
as long as a pint of Old Jordan at a
barn raising did we not consent. And
with the last word, Mr.. Archbold and
all his ways are but native outgrowth
of Standard Oil.
The consistent is ever the virtuous,
and there is such thing as sequence.
The botanist, while reviewing the
coarse habit and fibrous rough roots
of the sunfower, will discover the con-
gruous in that broad jolly lolling vel
low blossom, as the proper expression
of so gothic a plant. His instinct will
warn him that, as the floral elimination
of so rude vegetable, the violet oil
lily would be a solecism-a hideous
example of the out-of-place. And Sc
of Mr.. Archbold. Of, for, by Stand
ard Oil, he belongs to and with Stand
ard Oil; and we who give daily oul
consent to Standard Oil must to justify
ourselves justify also Mr.. Archbold.
Moreover, as men make up theil
minds, we must admit that Mr.. Arch
bold, despite his walks of evil, should
be mustered with the the great. y
The philosophy Of the ages consents
to it that the question Of greatness is