June 25, 1912 - Rockefeller Gets Million A Week

[shraby]

Administration of the government by Republicans is a good thing for John D. Rockefeller. Through the collection of rebates from railroads, a practice that his competitors were not allowed to indulge in and aided by a tariff wall which enabled him to build up a monopoly without fear of competition from abroad he has built up hs $900,000.000 fortune. From the oil industry, and subsidiary industries, which the high tariff advocates still refer to as "infants" yet in need of a protective tariff, Mr. Rockefeller derives an income of approximately $2 a second. The Rockeffeller income at the present time, as near as financial experts have been able to estimate it, is $60,000,000 a year, $5,000,000 a month $1,152,846 a week, $164, 735 a day, $6,863 an hour, $114 a minute and $1.90 a second
A girl working in a store for $5 a week would have to labor 4,438 years to earn as much as the unequal, unfair and unjust laws of this nation permit Rockefeller to draw down every week.

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Guess history DOES repeat itself. Republicans have helped those who matter. :grr:

[Octafish]

1. Standard Oil even did business with NAZIs DURING World War II

William Stamps Farish and other oilfellahs got busted. His kid, WSF III, became Poppy's financial advisor. Ah, those Swells!

[shraby]

2. History always repeats.