The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-06-01

charged that the Rockefeller inter
ests corrupted voters, and conducted
saloon in the mining camps of Colo
RADIO. Mr.. Rockefeller, on the stand,
under oath, admitted that "their
company rented the buildings to
saloon keeper, but had no interest
in the saloons" He also admitted
having heard rumors of political
corruption by the same company,
but refused point blank to face his
moral responsibility, and say if he
would vote for the discharge of an
official found guilty. This is a
matter of public record. Ida Tar
bell, in her history of the Standard
Oil Company, proved beyond doubt
that the House of Rockefeller in it's
deals had skinned" people left and
right, crushed competitors and sunk
families into despair and misery.
Some of us believe that John d.
Rockefeller fits your own words,
"some people can yell Amen in
prayer meeting to beat the band
and skin you next day in a horse
trade"
The Bible says: "And again l
say unto you, it is easier for
camel to go through the eye of
needle, than for a rich nan TO en-
ter the Kingdom of Cod The
Great Teacher who uttered these
words took a whip of cords and
dashed the money changers out of
the Temple, while you have asked
representative of the most con-
spicious House of Mammon in the
world to it on the platform with
you, and have not accorded equal
recognition TO the plain people whom
Christ consciously honored when
he selected fishermen and humble
workers to be his spokesman and
closest associates that goes far to
nullify all the good you do.
In the face of these facts many
of our people maintain that you
cannot wholly make good with the
majority of three million of organ
lied working people, unless you
translate your expressed sympathy"
for the working people in the wrongs
done them, into the same militant
terms that you use against other
great wrongs.
The Public Ledger, of Philadelphia,
during your revival there in 1915,
took about the same attitude when
it asked you if you had the
"nerve" to supplement your catchy
phraseology when hitting at things
generally, with a very direct drive
against the corrupt and greedy in
dividuals and groups in that city,
whom they could point out as re-
sponsible for breaking down re-
ligious standards and making "life,
! liberty and the pursuit or happiness"
more difficult for the mass of peo-
pie You said-"Yes and III bawl
them out Individually, too! Will
you 'bawl them out" in New York I?
You say that the newspapers mis-
reported you-you never said that
you would talk personalities. We be-
live you, we have had some ex-
perience with the newspapers our
selves. Personalities are not the
evil, we agree, it is the system of
things and the social sins that come
out of it. You said that if we gave
you the dope" you would use some
of it. We will give you more from
government records. While dealing
in personalities is not the best way,
we want you to take a shot at
Ludlow and the sins it represents
and wildly illustrates.
We are glad to know that the
Tabernacle was built by union la
Dor with its humane standards of
working conditions. BY all means
tell the public that from the pulpit,
the working people would be glad to
know it.
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