Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-01-06

culiar form. There arose from tho com mon people man whose name was Rockefeller. He formed great combi- nations of capital oothers followed his example and, before many years all the business enterprises of that land were in the hands of few men, who regu- lated both prices and wages; who said what man should get for his work, and then what he should get for his money.
 The government began a desperate fight against these organizations, which were called trusts. Rockefeller thought to appease the people by giving out large sums of money to them. Then when the fight of the government was strongest against Rockefeller, he sud denly declared:
 Trusts are fine. Let us organize a trust to dispense charity to the poor. |"
 Come on over here and stand min ute with us Mir. Rockefeller.
 Get our viewpoint.
 Do you believe there will ever be a benevolent trust in the United States7
 You say the 'hower of American manhood, the men who know how to make money,' will join 1t.
 You propose to us, the American peo- pie, that we go on allowing you and your kind--you rebate e-takers; you ready-letter writers; you certihcate-of. deposit -dispensers-to get our money as you can; take our millions when you please, just as you've always done, ever since there was trust.
 And now you propose, when our mon. ey is gone, to have another trust that will give us back just enough to keep us alive-give 1t back to us, after we have been investigated and card in. dexed and classified after the baby is in one sort of scientific institution and little sister in another and brother in another and mother being cared for in some other scientific way, after father has been ground up, for instance by trust railroad that refuses to spend little of the money 1t gets from the people to eliminate grade crossings.
 And you Il have the fellows who know how to make money on the board of directors7 And you think ''the fellows who know how to make money" are the "nower of American manhood?
 Think your plan over again, MT Rockefeller. Some time the governmen, may do what you propose, but lot of Americans will die of hunger and women work themselves to death before your Benevolent Trust" will ever live ir this country.
 One trust to milk the country; anoth CT to feed it hay so that it will give more milkl
 Isn't that joke for historians 10, 900 years from now7
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 MT. Rockefeller says that "the fel lows who know how to get money, tn, flower of American manhood" will joiI and administer the Benevolent Trust.
 Can one imagine charity or benev olence that ould be dispensed by 1; board of directors chosen by reason o. their ability to GET money?
 It is written that "It is more blessed to give than to receive" Are we to b, denied that glorious privilege of giving,
 It is written, ''let not thy left hant know what thy right hand doeth," ant yet We are to have our benevolence' printed each year in the annual repor' of the "Benvolent Trust''2
 Or aren't "we' in. Are the goot fellows going to corner the market o, | good works7
 The world is moving fast, but is, al yet, long ways from the card-index scientific, cold -blooded idea of "prac tical charity.''
 The widows mite, carrying with f the infinite gift of human love, will out weight thousand Benevolent Trusts