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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.

Ida Tarbell

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
IDA TARBELL

Character Expense Living Our Raise Standard
He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
IDA TARBELL

Better Choose Common Democracy Fair Fellow Man Open Path Prescribe Secret Sound Way
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
IDA TARBELL

Abonded Against Belong Circle Knew replace Respectable Security Value Whole Force Won
I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
IDA TARBELL

Company Know Oil People Standard Truth Want
As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
IDA TARBELL

Achieve Business Class Consequence Larger Method Practically Sanctified
The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
IDA TARBELL

Acumen Auch Banker Business Corner Employ Employed Expose Grocer Ground Method Persistency Secrecy Sort
You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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Country Danger Exposure Settle Sufer
My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
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Become Believe Comment Corrupt Country Final Man Person Still Unfair Use Wealthy
There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
IDA TARBELL

Apply Effective Feverish Figure Medicine More Public Settlement
No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
IDA TARBELL

Destroy Only Original Owner Value
They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
IDA TARBELL

Blackmail Bribe Control Cut Drawback Efficiency Espionage Fought Organization Price Ruthless Way
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
IDA TARBELL

Art Boast Boost Commercial Craft Cultivation People Produce Wealth
A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
IDA TARBELL

Being Fuller Hamper Human Immediate Life More Movement Way Wring
Life is but a collection of habits.
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Collection Habit Life One Liner
Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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Cheerful Comfort Comparatively Contempt Country Endurance Hardship New Pioneer Surrounding Thing Virtue
I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
IDA TARBELL

Fundamental Impose Improvement Law never Ordinance Seen Top

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