The Washington herald., 1911-11-26
By MARY KATHERINE WOODS.

Z" E shall have Rockefellers
w Carnegies The gigantic fortunes of the pres
ent day the relics of uncivized half
century. Within another century these
barbaric millions shall have been distributed and
America shall know their like no more.
This is the prediction of Ida NJ Tarbe. muck
raker and optmist; Ida NJ. TarbeIl mercess e1poser
of evils in government and commerce, who
declares that nothing quite right in America to-day
and who adds that the nation waking up to better
things.
Nothing in America is quite it should be"
said Miss TarbelL We absolutely have govern
control of Big Business We absolutely must have
the fair distribution of wealth. We the
toward Federal jurisdiction already. Colossal fortunes
not above the law"
And with the building up of government control of
trade" there topples ground the dizzy possibility
of huge fortunemakinC.
The immense pile of millions passes, am con
WINGED, with the passing of Rockefeller, Carnegie and
their colleagues. They will be Duplicated
Miss Tarbel, explaining in interview her beliefs
to the future of America the future of government
and business and citizenship made these statements
very quietly and with entire She pointed out
the wrongs of the day and suggested remedy.
With completeness probably than any other
investigator in the country Miss TarDe has laid bare
the weak places in modern commercial life. There
has been no more pitiIess foe to privilege and
protection to all that makes for predatory wealth
She has attacked. with fear and with quarter,
trusts and the tariff business dishonesty and govern
corruption the suppression of competition and the
restraint of trade But she has only torn down:
she has told how to build up. And through all her
work exposer of all kinds of graft" she has
kept her faith in the people of America and, in spite
of her conviction that nothing is it ought to be-"
her firm hope for solution of present problems.
Rig co.
Nothing is quite right
But we working toward rightness
There things that must do. We absolutely
must"
Miss Tarben urges not Federal ownership, but
Federal jurisdiction.
Il am not saying that government jurisdiction
business will do away with all evils, Sshe added.
mo one thing by itself do that There much
that is awry. Such fight as this nation has hand
must be gradual, step by STEP
But Federal control is an important step. Federal
control Of interstate commerce and transportation has
already made it impossible for such aggregation
the Standard Oil Company to be duplicated"
D EFoRE she went on to an explanation of the
- achievement of Federal jurisdiction, Miss TarbeT
had further make huge fortunes.
"These giant fortunes of tarbaric," she
declared.
They barbarc in the literal sense of uncivil-
ICED. They grew up among rich nation that did not
know what to do with its wealth; that carelessly End
ignoranty allowed it to pass into the hands of few
men. Our immense fortunes are token of our ignor-
and inexperience q nation. We have them to
worry US because simply have not known how to
attend to business. We did not know what to
do with great industry and labor.
'They grew up like mushrooms In the past Fifty