The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-19
MOVING DAY WITH THE TRUSTS-

& dS. X u6S VI SpIiiHtSilittl IN
tobacco and oil is dawring-so he
trust magnates and employers tell US.
The RESOLUTIONS so far have been. -
Acknowledgement Beckett predicted.
nothing except such as happens when
the hand divides into the fingers.
The staid> n conservative Boston
Transcript has the best description Of
the dissolution of the trusts that has
appeared, giving evidence Of an init
mate knowledge with former methods
and glowing with sympathy for the
various officers who are forced L. the
necessity Of separating and living
apart after all these long years Of
residence in New York. The Tran
scripts editorial is as follows:
Moving Day With the Trusts.
The Standard Oil Company. pro
nounced legally dead, declines To- re-
main so. Anyhow, its soul goes
marching on, just as everybody ex-
pected. That mingled odor Of pc
troleum tunrefned) and tobacco
smoke waited in on the breezy South
west is from the Offices of the two
day with them. What. nave the
mortgages been foreclosed by the
wicked squire? Is the h~ard-hearted
landlord moving them out on the
curb for the rent? Well. for destitute
land please notice., deeply religious
old gentlemen of high finance they
are suffering eviction with about as
few of the humiliations of abjeCt
poverty as hosts of loving friends and
generous stockholders can devise. 4
special train for st. Louis leaves New
York with a detachment from the
auditing department.. Here IS q
breaking Of home ties to put a choke
in the throat of an all plying public.
Learn also the insupportable plight
of Mr.. w. W. Fuller, since 1885 chief
counsel III the legal department Of the
tobacco -e has resigned
because he has accumu-
lated q large fortune, and no longer
cares to hold a position against which
public criticism might be directed
But let Mr.. Fuller endow an Anti
Cigarette League and, while sitting
the promptings Of his w conscience,
he will satisfy the amo Of public
morality, impairing the bust
ness which lent him his funds-so
slow are We, the peepul, to catch on.
More pitiable still is the fate of an
other of the directors, a v~ice-preSi-
dent, too, Mr.. W. r. Harris. He has
concluded to resign. He goes to
London Why not Paris?
But now receive instruction. About
ESQ stenographers and clerks will be
dropped from the New York office on
January L. You see, it is just as
Chairman Gary. of h Steel Com
pany told you it would be when last
month they got after his
kindly it is not we who suffer; no,
alas! gladly would we bear all. But
it is the innocent stockholders; it is
the weak and tender employees, whom
we are under the painful necessity OF
letting go or cutting in salary.
meanwhile the Standard Oil Com
pany is reorSaniZing: it is putting
up partitions between the desks Of
vice-presidents. Already these changes
have caused intense suffering among
the poorer directors. One secretary
has to go downstairs whenever he
needs a drink Of ice water. Another
will be obliged to live in Denver. It
is said that his parting with the other
vice-presidents before starting on his
train on the perilOus journey
the bystanders to tears.
must go all the way to Cali
When it is remembered that
this is a weeks journey from Broad
way the hideousness OF this doom viii
dawn on the average mind. Every
thing has been done to make this
fate as tolerable as possible. Villas
in orange groves will receive the
they will ride in six-cylinder
and be entertained at dinner by
members Of the Metropolitan opera
but this is small solace for
living SO far away from the world.
zone u~tterance alone is dark. In
side the building, however, there Will
be many shifts and resOrtings.' Does
this refer to the business
methods Of the Standar Oil Com
or to h a system Of secret ele-
vator shafts at the real Of the build
ing at 26 Broadway which, by popu-
report, communicated with wait
motor cars and q yacht in the
harbor with steam up ready 10 put
to sea in cas- the Government ever
got wise?' And what, pray.
can the Middle West and the Pacific
oner as the equivalent, either in
cyclone cellar or sub
lurking off the coast Of St