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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

Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
IDA TARBELL

Become Business Canoonise Hero Like Made Men National Oil Standard Success Trust
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
It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
IDA TARBELL

Always Happen Hear never Occur Revolution Thing
A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
IDA TARBELL

Absorb Complete Until Cultivate Feel Intellectual Media Mind Process Reproduce Some Truly
There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
IDA TARBELL

Athletic Dice Faur Game Loaded Must Start Table Tolerate World
Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
IDA TARBELL

Alone Company Conspicuous Done Give Method Practice Public Scorn Standard
To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
IDA TARBELL

Above Creative Democratic Dumb Essential Growth Ideal Impulse Vitality
There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
IDA TARBELL

Apply Effective Feverish Figure Medicine More Public Settlement
I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
IDA TARBELL

Company Know Oil People Standard Truth Want
One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
IDA TARBELL

Enthusiasm Heart Human Memory Noble One Permanent Possession
I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
IDA TARBELL

Affairs Assurance Attend Conviction Decent Effort Immortal Left Life Mind Mortal Much Necessary never Next Overspeclation Peace Person Too Useful World
No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
IDA TARBELL

Destroy Only Original Owner Value
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

Business Competitive Competitor Crowd Disdainful Doctor Fellow Fight Lawyer Man Method Ostracism Other Privilege Receive Secure Special Summary Track Tsame Unprofessional When
Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
IDA TARBELL

Another Company Contend Evil First Fluctuation Great Men Oil Price Speculation Stock
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
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

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,.

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