22/26 Therefrom comes their sanction to manage the bread and butter of the rest of mankind. They have even resurrected the theory of the divine right of kings--commercial kings in their case.* * The newspapers, in 1902 of that era, credited the president of the Anthracite Coal Trust, George F.Baer, with the enunciation of the following principle: "The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given the property interests of the country." "The weakness in their position lies in that they are merely business men. They are not biologists nor sociologists. If they were, of course all would be well. |