with our imaginary river. When a number of mouths are dammed up the river no longer can find a sufficient exit through the remaining mouths and it has a strong tendency to overflow the first dams put up which will require Strengthening if they are to remain secure.
This is seen in our industrial world when a trust is submerged either by outside capital in general, or the concentrated wealth of some other trust making an onslaught upon it.
Rockefeller with his enormous surplus income, which he is bound to "save" and cannot from the very nature of things find room to invest in his own confessedly overdone oil business, is constantly forced to seek out new industrial fields to conquer, He is the modern Alexander the Great of our industrial field, sighing for more worlds to conquer.
He has already taken possession of the electric light and gas plants of New York City. He is fast coming into control of the iron industry. He already owns the Lake Superior mines and the lake transportation service, and his only competitor in the manufacture of iron is Carnegie, who is only waiting to make good terms of Surrender. He is about to control the copper mines of the United States. He is in control of the largest banks in New York. When Rockefeller gets control of an industry the temptations
