The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
THE MONOPOLY PERVERTS
By sAvoYARD

Washington, August 2.-(special)- 1.-The late Nelson Dingley was not only man of very considerable talent and labor1- ous student, but he was patriot and strove with ceaseless industry and never failing zeal to promote the common veal ss it was given him to see it. With clear vision he discerned the advantages that night come from an industrial trust that is good. and with dismayed heart he con- templated such a combination that is bad. "U," he exclaimed almost in despair, If they would only be content with req sonable profit!'
 But they will not, and that is why the American people are resolved to bust them. Standard Oil is the best of the trusts, and it is as bad as bad can be-. But it has abolished the middleman-in the urban communities at least-and deals directly with the consumer Now it is a poor cook who can't lick his own fingers, but Standard Oil's fingers were over greasy. Had MT. Rockefeller, his brother H. H. Rogers, Flagler, Archbold and tho scores of other plutocrats turned out by Standard Oil been content with 
 fortunes of two or three millions each, apportioning their extortionate accumula- tons among the consumers of their prod ucts, everybody would have risen up and called NIT. Rockefeller and, his associates philanthropists.
 But these men of wonderful genius for trade and finance were commercial and moral perverts. In their philosophy man has no mission but to accumulate money, and there is no earthly happines but in tho possession of wealth. To feed their greed they violated law, moral and statute. To swell their profits they committed crimes, and 1t was their creed that the possession of vast wealth not only cov- cred, but extinguished every sin. The money gained by the counterfeiter of a bank note is just as clean as the millions gained by rebates granted by railroads, ard he that would extort rebates is no better. and a great deal worse, than the highwayman who makes his victim stand ard deliver, for Jesse James took his life In hand every venture he made; but Rockefeller and Carnegie were perfectly safe and robbed with absolute impunity.
 Standard Oil was the first of the trusts to enter the political arena. Some 30 years ago it bought federal senatorship
 
 Sears since Standard Oil has had it's paid henchmen in the councils of the states and of the nation A law breaker, 1t em- ployed the best legal talent to be had to represent 1t in, the courts and bribed the best parliamentary talent it could seduce to represent it in legislature, state and federal. All the time it was rolling in the hucats, and Rockefeller's known income Is $65, ,0Oc GOO annually, which is equal to khe gross revenues of the United States when Franklin Pierce was President.
 All tho other trusts, each one worse .tan Standard Oil, in that they tolerated he middleman, were just as greedy as Standard Oil and nearly as successful, Carnegie boasts that he made AS million aires, some of them worth more than jio0,oO0,0OG each, and every dollar reeking with filth Guaranteed monopoly of the home market through the operation of the ,obber tariff they throttled domestic competition by means of the rebate, which is blackmail, and gathered tens and hundreds of millions by uttering watered stock, which is counterfeitng. No wonder Rockefeller and Carnegie are the two