ROCKEFELLER A SOCIALIST.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 9038, 30 December 1907, Page 6

ROCKEFELLER A SOCIALIST.

Mr J. D. Rockefeller, the Standard OU King, in a recent interview at Kew York, the idea that opportunities of making fortunes are all past. Let no man of spirit, he said, listen for a moment to the invertebrate, supine wail. Asked about Socialism. Mr Rockefeller said;—“Wo are all Socialists, in a sense. I certainly am a Socialist, in a sense. Wc understand that all men are hound together in vital relationshins from which there is no escape, ‘•iso man iiveth unto himself.” The interests of one are those of all. 4; But the error of Socialism is that you cau create by formal enactment "what must be a natural development, and carry on through the agency of men selected by some political method what must be carried on by men selected by nature. “That is absurd. It isn’t business. If the business of the Standard Oil Cornpan v were to be taken over by the Government and run by politicians, I would be the first man to sell my stock at any price.”