[Vwdiesel] Fw: Rabbit droppings # 169 ---- ( this is for all of us )

[H . Hagar.]

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From: H . Hagar. 
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Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:58 PM
Subject: Rabbit droppings # 169 ---- ( this is for all of us )


In her most famous work, The History of the Standard Oil Company (which oil historian Daniel Yergin called the "most important business book ever written"), Miss Tarbell revealed, after years of painstaking research, the illegal means used by John D. Rockefeller to monopolize the early oil industry. Yet Miss Tarbell interspersed in her condemnation of Standard Oil's illegal practices, praise for Rockefeller's enormous accomplishments in organizing and stabilizing a volatile industry. She rejected being labeled a "muckraker" (despite its popularity), because "I was convinced that in the long run the public they were trying to stir would weary of vituperation, that if you were to secure permanent results the mind must be convinced." 

Hagar.