Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1913 — Rockefeller's advice. [ARTICLE]

Rockefeller's advice.

I believe that the laws are sufficient at present time to insure the conduct of corporations on an absolutely honest basis, and I believe also that most corporations are administered honestly, says John D. Rockefeller in Leslie’s Weekly. Mistakes are made, of course, but that cannot be avoided. But if more laws are needed, let them be such as are dictated by actual experience and enacted by the legislative power aiming at the best Interests of all. Specifically I believe in publicity. No honest , corporation has any escorts as regards its management to conceal from the public. The people have a right to the facts. To thewdrklngman I would say that his best interests lie in accepting the conditions which have come about through a natural process of economic evolution. Really, he will come to beam that the bulwark of his prosperity is the wisely and honestly administered corporation, which is here to stay. So firmly am I convinced of this that I look to see the day when the workingmen generally as Standard Oil employes have done and grown rich thereby, will invest their savings in the securities of the industrial combinations as they now deposit them in the savings banks. Finally, with honest administration assured on the one hand and confidence thereby compelled on the other, let those who are charged with the management of the corporations be held to a strict personal responsibility for their acts, and there will be ah' end to distressing Industrial strife.