Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-03-10

and am proud of it, if not little
boastful.
MAKEUP THE STANDARD.
The Standard Oil Company is made
up of graduates of the University of
Hard knocks. They have played the
game accordi g to regulation Ameri-
can rules, and they have won because
they had the foresight, patience. quick
ness, courage, good cheer, economy,
skill. The men who went down be-
fore them failed for lack Of these
American qualities qualities in
culcated in our public schools, extolled
in books, preached in sermors--the
qualities that have made Americans
supreme wherever they have had a
fair field The American invasion has
been carried even to that dear or Luu-
non, whose underground railways
have been rendered light, airy and
safe through being electrified by Amer
lean push, pluck and perseverance.
Now, Americans as people are
fair--or least we wish to be fair. When
we judge Moses and Aaron we Judge
them according to the times in which
they lived. And when the Great Ag-
nostic wrote a lecture on the "Mis-
osition that Moses was a rogue and
robber because he made war on the
Hittites, Ammonltes and Midianites.
We invoked the statute of limitations
by saying that these things happen-
ed over three thousand years ago, be-
sides, did not Moses lead the Children
of Israel out of captivity?
That is to say, we point to. the Ten
Commandments and the moral code Of
Moses and all the good he did as q
set-otf to deeds doubtful according to
present-day standards Moreover, we
refuse to abandon the history of Moses
as written by himself and his friends,
and accept that of the disciples of Cog
and Magog.
VILIFICATION RAMPANT.
Up to this time, or until very re-
Gently, The Standard Oil Company has
declined to answer its assailants. It's
managers have been so busy doing
things that they have had no time to
shake the RED flag of wordy warfare.
Their faith has been that their work
would speak for itself. Usually, this is
a wise policy, but in this instance
think it has been a mistaken one. Si-
lence has been construed into plea Of
guilt.
There is time to speak and a time
to refrain from speaking, says Ecciesi-
astes The Standard Oil Company
should have nailed few Of the Ida
Tarbell fairy-taes, ten years ago.
Ida Tarbell is not charter member
of the Ananias club-she is worse than
that-she is an honest, bitter, talented
and prejudiced person who wrote from
her own point ofview. And that view
is from the ditch, where her fathers
wheelbarrow was landed by Il Stand
ard Oil tank-wagon.
enough to read it--you must have
glympse of the author. Ida Tarbell
has twenty-three pictures of John D.
Rockefeller in her book, but none of
herself Her own history is written
between the lines, and her picture is
on the fy-leaves.
She shot from cover, and she shot to
kill. Sucn literary bush Whackers
should be answered shot FOR shot
Sniping the commercial caravan may
be legitimate, bnt to my mind the Tar
bell-Stefens- -Russell-Ro Roosevelt-Sinciair
method Of inky warfare is quite as IN
ethical as the alleged tentacled- dragon
policy which they attack
There is a life of George Washington
written by Cockney who was born
within sound of Bow Bells and was
never farther away from Charing Cross
than HammersmiJh. We call Wash
ington the "Father of his Country"
but this man calls him ''arch-iend" and
ga bloody, blooming rebel"
Recently, man picked ont Of q file
of the New York Tribune" one hun
dred editorials on Lincoln. The intent
was to reprint the Greeley editorials as
a literary curiosity, but no publisher
could be found with stomach to stand
for the joke-it was sickening. Yet,
Greeley was an honest man. His at
tacks on Lincoln, like those on Wen
dell Phillips, represent point of view,
and point of view which we now
see was out of focus,
ida Tarbell is great woman, but if
she were to write my life, I'd take
hers-with apologies to Ursa Major.
She might tell in truth of how | stole
watermelons, turned the cows into the
corn, because had tiff with the own
er's daughter-sold railroad pass,
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