The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-02-09
STANDARD OIL ON ITS KNEES
Philadelphia North American.

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Ou- arnershp offer nay seen q bit etarting. We think of M
airer va to convince the State an tn people that they are to get
s~ Sss eel f PRICES Ss n a s sha the the STATE STATE e t@ s sSsns % s snsn, watch rs
erful an INSCRIPTIONS Industrial trust in the world car be brought to its
knees y we'll considered, drastic laws enforced 10y able and incorruptuls
officials.
Missouri las "shown" something to the American people. The men
s sop%%aen nam AMI 'e es"tr Ss of a tor sTus sss R %ho@ fs Of 99 Would 3a appeia, under he
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o5 %s%R Of PRICES "a nd s s@u s"1 tina 'a %o aaa SSs1 hs as5s ~ by a1s sr"s then sn
state in the UnNon.
On the other hand to prevent that rutnous comparison Standard Oil
IS forced to offer tnese amazing terms Of partnership hat if accepted,
State honestly governed would force it to follow
Interesting as he experiment woul be. We hope tho pronr Will no
Huy refusedb y the Essourians
It is o because w fear that the State trustee and supervisors wou1d
become corrupt tools Of the trust Men whom Hadey would appoint would
hot likely be seduced by friendly letters from Archhold, enclosing cerid-
cateso Of deposit
Or hop Of prompt refusal is based Don our faith in the innate vrtne
Of every sovereign State tina is a component par OF this indiIsible Union.
Q abandon that faith WOud be to adm hat our system If government is
4 1aiure.a nd the highest Ve1opm Of democracy a cheat n a prehnse
Ior profit between q State am a convicted public enemy. History gives MS
the right to ok to Missouri for sef-respect and patrioisn-no civic
PROSTITUTION.
Roosevelt has declared repeatedly hat h aggressions of scrupu
socialism,
aft has announced his belief that tn chief problem Sc onr cy;E,,-
ta Is to preserve prl'ateo ownership While preventing its abuses
only the other day President Woodrow Wilson. of princeto made ar
"ooress at the University of NorthC Carolina which reads as If it were a
opnesc warning to Missouri OF tits tyin this emergency:
nom field The old order of work and enterprise hs nassed
utterly "a We mus make use o. combinations m of gan