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Show ' PITY THE ORPHANS? j From 'New York comes the announcement that the -thirty-five companies of the Standard Oil trust are now individual entities, says the San Francisco Bulletin. "This week," says a press dispatch, "they begin their strife for business, deprived of all connection with their fond parent." Pity the poor orphans! 'tBut yestcrday thcy were members of a happy family, relying with touching faith on a great proteetor who was over solicitous of their welfare. Today, To-day, left fatherless and motherless by the cruel sentence of a fickle court, they are thrown tipon the world, forced to figllt one another like dogs in a meat wagon. Think of their awful plight, of how happy they were together, of their suddenly disrupted plan of always al-ways living in peace and harmony 1 Think of the tragedy of thirty-five thirty-five children engaging in a battle royal' Think of those things and weep and wail. Yet stay. Withhold your tears. J. Piorpont Morgan is not doing any weeping. Wait until he shows signs of grief. If he has no fears of the fata of. the poor orphans, why should we worry? |