Rockefeller Internationalist

Emanuel Josephson

“Rockefeller, Internationalists the Man Who Misrules the World”



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His program was a recrudescence of one which was old
when it was introduced by the Gracchi in ancient Rome and
which eventually destroyed the Empire. It furthered
Bismarck's quest for personal power in several ways. First, it
robbed the Socialists of the planks of their platform which
made the greatest appeal to the mob—Social Security,
Unemployment Insurance, Workmen's Compensation, Health
Insurance, and all the other quasi-benevolent and paternalistic
clap-trap. Bismarck shrewdly saw in these plans, devices
fashioned to destroy liberty and to chain the workingclass to
his program and to any jobs to which they might be assigned.
He saw in that program a snare which would deceive them
into accepting submarginal wages and the surrender of
adequate present existence in return for a mirage of future
security. As a means of winning the favor of the workers and
of gaining some measure of power over industry and entree to
its records, a part of the cost was levied on the employers.
This made of what conceivably might have been a boon to the
worker a penalty on industry for offering employment; and
meant a tax on industry which materially increased the cost of
production. Both factors ultimately operated to increase
unemployment.