Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-14
WHY SAVE HUMAN LIrn2

When John D. Rockefeller presents himself at the gate-an event which we may venture to hope may be long de- layed--he will have some evidence pre- scented against him. Saint Peter will no doubt have to take some testimony as in the case, alas! of all of us.
 But the saint will have something to set of against great many of the things so provocative of Tarbell, Hadley & Co.,, when the fact is read from the record, "This man founded the Rocke- feller institute''
 Let us hope that this great benefi- cence may keep the divine black ball in the box. For the Rockefeller insti- ute may go on blessing the race when the evils of Standard Oil shall have been eliminated from the body polite.
 It is a great institute, where delivers in the experimental sciences on which the healing art depends, may work year after year, whether they get results or not, supported, kept in funds, accorded helpers. cheered on by the certainty of lifetime to be spent in delivering blow after blow in the same spot, whether the stone breaks or not.
 Doesn't it warm your heart to the hairless magnate of the Pocantico hills to think of it?
 Why, these men may discover the an titoxin, at any time, that will cure cancer, or tuberculosis, or any of the other horrible diseases that make all of us afraid when We think of them! They may bring forth knowledge that will conquer disease and indefinitely prolong human life!
 MT. Rockefeller, in this splendid work, is actuated by the highest motives. Let us thank him for it!
 But why try to either save or p,olong human life?
 From some points of view thers are too many people now. There are more men than jobs or chances to work. There are more families than good hous,,s for them. Or, more accurately, ther, are many, many more than can sell their labor for enough to buy proper food and clothing and shelter. To save the lives of the sick or to prolong the lives of the race generally, will make people thicker and render competition for jobs keener, so that people will be forc,,d to sell their labor cheaper, and so be able to buy less and less in the way of food, clothing and shelter. Why not let them die? Why not adopt the old axiom of political economy that war, vice, I'esti- lence and famine are necessary inedi- cine of the state, to carry of the sur plus population?
 A hard question for MT. Rockefeller, truly; and perhaps a cruel one. But aw- fully, exigently pertinent.
 The thing that makes jobs few, that destroys free opportunity for self-em- ployment, is Mononoly. Monopoly of land. monopoly of trade, monopoly of highways, monopoly of mines-monop- oly in general of the planet God gave to the human race.
 And of the earth's monopolists, MT. Rockefeller is perhaps the greatest. This lonely old man who gives millions to the cause of healing, is the most perfect representative of the thing that would make perfect healing Dead Sea fruit in our mouths.
 MT. Rockefeller, accepted as type, is our bane. He thinks he is giving us the antildote in education and healing. But he isn't. Is he ready to give up his monopoly to the race he loves? It is the question so long ago put to Nico- demus