Crittenden record=press., 1908-11-19
THE SUPREME DANGER.

Co-Operator close (Tuesday) the
great battle of ballots which Is to
determine the political policy of the
nation is being waged at the ballot
box, and when these lines are sent
to the public the result will be
known. Several issues have been
presented, considered of more or
less importance, according to ones
views of the essential objects OF civil
government. But. however much
good men may differ about the tariff
or bank deposit insurance or govern
ment by injunction, the disclosures
OF the campaign leave no room for
difference Of opinion as to the dan
ger which confrOnts this country
from what is called predatory
wealth. Numerous letters read by
MIR Hearst, which passed between
John ID. Archbold. the active head
of Standard Oil. ard senators, gov
ernors judges, congressman and in
fuential newspapers showed unmis-
takably the plan of the criminal
corporati ions TO corrupt and control
the law-makiug bodies, the courts.
the press, and. through the press,
the church and the schools, even a
majority of the people themselves.
In an editorial q few weeks ago We
discussed the S50.00O loan OF Stand
ard Oil for the purchase of friend
ly" paper in Ohio. In the last bunch
of letters presented 10y Mr. Hearst
was one 10 the Manufacturers
Record containing a check for So
600. specified for one years sub
scription." Another one carried
$1,000 TO the Southern Farm Ma
gazine. but did not specify for what
other letters showed large gifts to
college professors Another letter
from Congressman Sibley who is said
to have been the friend who ad-
vised Il Texas senator that "a man
o. his age should lay aside for his
{; mily in old age. advised MIR. Arch
bold that "an efficient literary
bureau is needed. not for a day or
a crisis. but for a permanent and
healthy control ot the Associated
Press and kindred avenues
Here. then. is the explanation Of
these lavish gifts 10 the press and
To the educators OF our children.
Having fastened the tentacles of
their greed deep into the body of the
wealth producer. the next step is TO |
make him content TO allow them 10 /
live by his toll. Having secured un- /
Just and unfair advantages from I
congress and the legislatures. they /
would hold them by the made-to-or- /
der court decisions from the pen of |
their chosen servants and then have /
these decisions endorsed and praised /
by their subsidized press few
years more and. unless checked,
here will be no press except the
subsidized because the newspaper
which shall dare to raise the fog OF
rebellion against the system will be
denied the mails as an inciter Of
Neason
Thus far only the daily press and
the weeklies published in connec
zion Herewith and a few other in
fuential weeklies are known to
have fallen under Standard Oil and
ether trust influences, but the circle
is being extended and the educa-
nonal process is gradually and sys-
tematically going on. He who has
not observed this influence is dull 4
indeed. Go among those in the cities
and towns of our Southland who
read the daily papers and note how
many there be who either apologize
for or defend the criminal corpora
tions. and ask yourself whence came
the change from conditions in this
respect "a dozen wears back Take .
the anathcmas which have been hurl-
ed tanl Justly SOD against th" night P.
riders who have threatened 7estruc-
tion to a few II they did not cease .
picking or ginning cotton and con-
trast them with fhe lUiuouS silence
OF the press as it sees rhe money
lords crush ont life and Aup' day h-