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The Review of Reviews. 



June 1, 190'J. 



Standard Oil was law. Although founded, like othei 

 Empires, upon force and fraud, Standard Oil held 

 the sceptre of the Continent. Armed with the might 

 of immeasurable wealth, it used its power with the 

 ruthless indifference to ethical considerations which 

 characterises all the monsters which from time to 

 time emerge to prey upon mankind. ■' But Childe 

 Roland to the dark tower came " ; or, to put it 

 plainly, Henn,- W. Lawson, stockbroker of Boston, 

 began to publish his' memorable series of articles 

 on ■• Frenzied Finance." 



The Passing 



of a 



Pioneer. 



The Cyclone 

 Unloosed. 



At first the trntcrprise seemed hope- 

 less. It seemed as if a boy with a 

 pea-shooter was challenging a mas- 

 todon. But suddenlv something 

 broke. In the great domain of Insurance which 

 had become a satrapy of Standard Oil the thieves 

 began to quarrel. Still Mr. Lawson continued his 

 exposures, which, grim and lurid though thev were, 

 paled their ineffectual .^res beside the revelations 

 made by the men who but last year superciliously 

 brushed on one side the accusations of their critics. 

 Then on all sides there spread from State to State 

 a movement the like of which we have never seen 

 in our time. The people began to realise the ex- 

 tent to which they had been swindled. Legislatures 

 began to institute inquiries. The nation began 

 to stir, the foundations shook, the Empire of Stan- 

 dard Oil trembled. Its chieftains fled to Europe 

 or took refuge in private fastnesses. The satraps of 

 the Insurance world shuddered and died. Strange 

 rumours began to come across the Atlantic. The 

 Missourians were said to be contemplating the 

 seizure of all Standard Oil property in their State. 

 What will be done no one knows. As yet we onlv 

 see that the cyclone of public indignation is un- 

 loosed at last. How many corpses will be dug up 

 from below the ruins no one can say. For the 

 storm is still raging, and not all the chiefs are dead 

 as yet. What a day it will be for Europe when a 

 similar cyclone sweeps through the Continent 

 destroying the militarv incubus under which the 

 nations groan ! 



The death of Susan B. Anthony, 

 at the ripe age of eighty-six, re- 

 minds those of us who remain 

 behind how immense has been 

 the progress achieved in the cause of justice and 

 liberty by the indomitable energy and unshaken faith 



of the few. \Vhen 

 Susan B. An- 

 thony began the 

 struggle fifty 

 years since, the 

 political and in- 

 tellectual posi- 

 tion of women 

 was almost incon- 

 ceivable to us 

 who have enter- 

 ed into the fruits 

 of her labours 

 and those of her 

 sisters who 

 fought with her 

 in the van. The 

 victory is still far 

 from complete, 

 but the progress 

 that has already 

 V>een achieved 

 justified Miss 



Anthony when 

 she declared in 

 the last words 

 she spoke from a 

 public platform, " Fiiilure is impossible." We owe 

 it to her memory to take up the combat ■o'ith re- 

 doubled energy, and to secure the triumph of the 

 suffrage movement in America bv winning a decisive 

 victory for the cause this side of the Atlantic. More 

 than 400 members of the new House of Commons 

 are pledged to woman's suffrage. Mr. Thomasson. 

 the latest addition to the number, is a declared 

 suffragist. All that is needed is an opportunity for 

 a division, and it says little for the determination 

 and resource of its parlianientar\- supporters that 

 such an opportunity has not already been dis- 

 covered. 



The Late Susan B. Anthony. 

 A Pioneer of Woiiiin Suffrage in Anieric.i. 



The Index to the January, February, March, April=]Vlay and June 

 (1906) is.sues of "The Review of Reviews" will be found on pages 

 532. 533 and 534 of this number. 



