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Show years, )t is beginning td understand that Mr. Rockefeller Rocke-feller inakes Vis fi00;000, and even $1,000,000 donations dona-tions td college's as a means of educating the public on the trust question from an endowed college .viewpoint.' There is no question but that the trust, r especially. the oil trust, is a, grand thing for certain institutions of learning Uut the dear public? Well, it may be fun for the colleges, but it's h er pretty, hard-on the people! ' WHA T ABOUT THE PEOPLE? JS'ow that the Standard Oil company has acquired ac-quired the Beaumont and Jennings oil fields and raised the price of fuel oil $1 per barrel, we may look for joyous times in the richly-endowed Ameri-can Ameri-can colleges. Of course, a howl from the common 'people will.be heard throughout the. land, and a mighty protest against this typical good trust will bel-egjstpred, but what will be the result? The in- crease of $1 ier barrel will go into effect, and when things begin to boil Mr. Rockefeller will drop ?100,. 000 into the, treasury of some college. This act of generosity will be heralded over the country by the press and public attention will be drawn from the trust's Texas operations. The clamor will die away, the trust will take courage and tack another dollar to the price of a barrel of fuel oil andthe public ,will continue to pay the, bill. From the teachings of Rockefeller we have been led to believe, that when a "tent and good trust like the Standard Oil gefs rid of all its competitors the result is to lower prices. We hear even today such rumors in finan-, finan-, ' 1 and. college circles, but after the public has ' ' n meeting those $1 per barrel raises for twenty 1 . |