The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-10-26
ST. PAUL, CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY.

Students of the riptures will no
doubt be edited to know that Mr.. John
D. Rockefeller has discovered new
patron saint for the trust magnates.
People who imagined that his name was
Beelzebub are all wrong. Mr.. Rookie
teller says that Paul, the great traveller
and letter writer of the New Testament
is entitled to the honor.
"Paul would have been great success
as business man." Mr.. Rockefeller
recently stated. can he would have
needed is capital, and man like him
would have had no trouble getting
credit. He was persistent, and persist
ency is the thing that gets you some
where in modern days.
"What a leader he would have made
for big combine to be sure! His
natural ability would soon have lifted
him out of the ruck and placed him
among the topmost captains ofindustry."
Being deceased for some years the
first great missionary saint is in no
position to enjoy this remarkable trib-
ute to his qualities as an organizer.
There is no culpability in possessing
such powers if one does not use them
for evil purposes. Doubtless, there
were just as many opportunities for
legalized robbery in those days as there
are now, if Paul had chosen to take
advantage of them; but it is more last
ing and satisfying to make great name
than to have a large estate.-Ldke
Charles Press.
Some years ago a number of letters
were stolen or bought from an employee
of the Standard Oil Company and pub
lished in magazine. Among the letters
referred TO were number addressed to
some of the leading publications of the
United States. They referred to enclos-
ures OF checks drawn in favor Of the
business offices of the publications in
payment Of subscriptions running into
the thousands. 1t was said at that time
that either the Standard Oil Company
management had conceived great ad-
miration for the various literary styles
of those publications or it was buying
the support of those publications in an
endeavor to influence or soften public
sentiment. Public sentiment was aroused
at that time against the Standard Oh
Company On account of it's many viola
tions of the law. 1t had violated the
laws of the United States and the laws
of about every State in the United
States; had brited Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress and had become
such an outlaw that the courts ordered
it dissolved as a corporation.
When Mr.. Rockefeller goes to HEAVIER
we have an idea that St. Paul is going
to chide him about the comparisons hi
has made. Christ would, we believe
have told both the old and young Rock
efeller to sell their Standard Oil stool
and distribute the proceeds among thu
widows and orphans of the dead miner
of Colorado before following Him. l
is not illegal to be rich and Christ Him
sef said that even difficult things ar
possible with God, but that, in effect
Mr.. Rockefeller has about as good
chance to go to heaven as camel ha
to squeeze through the eye of a needle
Some kindly and tactful ministers Of tn
gospel have done much toward oiln,
the camel and charging the eye of tn
needle CT Christ's time, but when all i
said on the subject it still cannot b
denied that St. Paul, the iourneyma
tentmaker, will always stand higher O.
the betting board here on earth a
regards the chances in the hereafter
He went to Jail instead of buying tn
courts and suffered death rather tina
corrupt the judiciary. But, as MI
Rockefeller suggests, man of Paul.
ability might more easily secure capita
to operate with in these times, and Pau
might be great captain Of industry a
citizen of the United States.