The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-09-16
OPEN LETTER
Mr.. Carroll M. Carter.


Dear Mr.. Carter:-After neglecting your letter so
long, for impossible avoid
to discussion
To what l have to offer reprint from your
letter paragraph 10 to 10 inclusive
But speaking Of oil reminds me of your diatrbe about
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would be good for the country if we had hundred
Before MI Rockefeller took hold the business,
when this extracted the residue turned into the
might be other things useful humanity bound up in
to discovered hundred useful valuable
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ers fortune rather than the freight rebates and other
Of M Sesn goo
for the p people e. that he made for
failed put the condition the public It
he provided the people with safe and efficient rail-
se men as t. but etc.
to be encouraged both benefit to the human fam
Youngsters who may be by their pro-
efforts % s to gss S h tVe financially and benefit
maintain that any MAJ man who makes million dollars
fraction of and the balance is in
vested in enterprises which furnish labor for those less
lucky or intelligent and also furnish products for the
If you will look up the "Diatribe" that die
it, the word diatribe IN defines what said about
Mr.. Rockefeller.
My remarks concerning that gentleman neither
verbose abusive nor were they even learned They re-
ferred directly by Mr.. Rockefeller which
nshed word picture of the workings of his mind Mr..
Rockefeller has furnished better indictments of his
methods than any ordinary could draft Industry in
wrong doing is not virtue. Bank robbers work indus
triousy while drilling safe but the note
of their merit for such industry Saving ones money is
also virtue when not overdone But many virtues un
duly engaged in become vices Mr. Rockefeer's great
wealth has been obtained at the of of
better and while of it has been for the
general benefit most favoraby with the
duct of the foot pad who after touching his
his roll generously hands him fare when advised that
he is far from home. In my immature judgment you
clearly wrong when express the wish that we had
hundred like Rockefeller. If such the
judging from that gentemans and methods,
you and would not have shirt backs unless
of the Rockefelers in his Christian Charity donated
US of his old No, hundred Rockefeers.
let alone thousand opens vista of possibilities
rather impossibilities beyond feeble grasp
Mr.. Hartman did good things with the Union Pacific.
But it really if they might have been
plfshed without pumping quite much pura into
the stock. generation of people who infants
during his condemned to pay six per cent
annual interest that water 1t is than likely
that you have this administration for the
they decided you must pay for just that and
concur in every maledction uttered that subject
The three gentlemen named might well be encouraged
certain point but that point attained the public
interest would be SuDServed 0scOuragng them
with promise of the penentiary if they did treat
competitors decenty
Your qualification in paragraph Is (makes mil
lion honesy) nearly destroys the allegation. Making
million honestly almost white blackbirds.
Personally, doubt If it done. Many have
made good start for million honestly but they lost
their high ideals they the quarter pole
Paragraph 16 of your letter reads follows:
Capital just necessary maintenance cvili-
zation the Without capital would have no
seed plows, anything which is absolutely required
to produce living unless revert to period prior
to the Stone Age Every who dollar not only
benefits himself but every other person in the world
If you right in this statement why did God pay
much attention to creating and utterly ignore
establishing bank Why did He not only make a to
shine in the daytime but and stars for Adam to
spark by? Why when He found IT necessary fire
grandpa and grandma Adam and Eve of the Garden
of Eden for fear they would founder themselves
apples and left them the tender of fruitful
soil. sparkling waters, genial sunshine and gitterng
stars why o! why did he neglect to establish a trust
company bank and give them a check book? Does it
reasonable that If highly important capital
He would take chance Of losing His entire stock of
seed of mankind through neglect like that? For if the
sun had blowed up banks frequently do can
clearly that the Lords time spent making
and Eve would have been wasted No, Mr.. Carter it is
perfectly clear to that the Almighty does consider
capital prime necessity Evidently He agrees with
that capital is the evidence of having
exerted his brain and Drawn useful purpose and
capital the visible evidence of the fact of
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