The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-04
4 Protest Of Peace.

4 Protest Of Peace.
Our demonstration was meant TO
be. and has been throughout. strictly
peaceful. That there have been at
the same time threats against YOU
has nothing to do with us. although
these threats have social Significance,
which should not be ignored.
Not only do our purposes in this
protest not involve violence against
any individual. they earnestly oppose
and condemn it, Even supposing some
one We're to kill every one of the
capitalists who compose that abhor-
rent thing which the American peo-
pie know as STANDARD Oil" and the
system" that system would not be-
changed a particle. On the contrary.
the progress of social evolution would
he put back many years
Sinclair quotes his friends letter a.
saying:
II Is known TO those who are near
the Rockefeller family that young
John has never been given absolute
control Of even n portion of his
fathers wealth. that he has always
been and now Is under, paternai con-
troll and that in no sense has he been
allowed TO determine the policy of
the estate. much less that of tho
Standard Oil group in Colorado.
In the Standard Oil crowd are men
of enormous wealth who ridicule the
generosity of the elder Rockefeller
am inclined to believe that
these avaricious men have made use
of young Mr.. Rockefeller In the pres
cnt crisis to direct attention away
from themselves. He has fallen into
their hands because he has some con-
nd Fri IN hiI
lights, TO be "A steward of his wealth.
We must stir up public
opinion to compel the Standard Oil
group to submit the Colorado ques-
ton to arbitration. That Is the I'M
mediate task.
Sinclair expresses his opinion that hi
friend il right and says to Rockefeller
'The statement which you issued fou
days ago as to the causes Of the strike ha
since been shown to be tissue of false
hoods. and this has brought public odiun
the people hate the name OF Rockefeller
zone Step before YOU"
you cannot dlvcst yourself of tina
name, but you can proceed as rapidly "a
possible to socialize any of the stolei
wealth which is actually under your con
troll One step In this process now lie
before you-.to declare that as a directo
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Compan
you will stand unfiinchingly for the RICH
of the miners to an increasing share II
the control OF the conditions Of their owl
labor"
Marie GAM was the first person 1
show up at the Tombs police court yes
terday morning. After Reba Edelso
had pinned bunch of sweet peas o.
her and Magistrate Murphy had deal
with several offenders her case wa
called. In court she said nothing. He
counsel. Harold !. Spelberg, said
II intend To insist tomorrow that JON
ID. Rockefeller, Jr, be- produced In cour
az the actual complainant. The Appel
late Division has decided that ma
against wnum Il threat has been mad
must appear as compla inant."
Sinclair. his wife. Elizabeth Freeman
Maxim Appel and Petro Allegro of the
w. W., Regina Wolf OF Alexander Berli
mans Anti Militarist League, Alfred N
Bedford, Leonard Stein, Sarah GREENWOOD
and Joseph \. Robin were among III
mourners at 26 broadway from 10 \. N
to Il. NJ. The Rev. DR.. CANDLES ger
vice In the afternoon drew II crowd q
several hundred.
Needles Eye aud Camel.
The clergyman read from the Bib
the passage about It being easier for
camel to pass through the eye of a ncedl
than "A rich man to enter heaven. The
he read the parable of the rich youn
man and passages from tho service 70
the dead In the Book of Common Prayer
In his sermon he did not mention tn
Rockefellers, although he did say tina
there WAS close connection betwce
the deaths in Colorado and the deaths 4
Vera CRUZ and intimated that the con
ncctlon lay AT 20 broadway.
''Our purpose to-day II 80 to commem
crate these deaths AS TO bring them HON
to the general consciousness" said d.