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Rutherford and Son 237
because of which no one else must know joy,
"
Rutherford and Son."
The crushing weight of this inexorable monster
on Rutherford and his children is significantly
summed up by young John :
John. Have you ever heard of Moloch? No. . . .
Well, Moloch was a sort of a God . . . some time ago,
you know, before Dick and his kind came along. They
built his image with an ugly head ten times the size of
a real head, with great wheels instead of legs, and set him
up in the middle of a great dirty town. And they
thought him a very important person indeed, and made
sacrifices to him . . . human sacrifices ... to keep him
going, you know. Out of every family they set aside one
child to be an offering to him when it was big enough, and
at last it became a sort of honor to be dedicated in this
way, so much so, that the victims came themselves gladly
to be crushed out of life under the great wheels. That
was Moloch.
Janet. Dedicated we are dedicated all of us
to Rutherfords .
Not only the Rutherford children, their with
ered Aunt Ann, and old Rutherford himself, but
even Martin, the faithful servant in the employ of
the Rutherfords for twenty-five years, is
"
dedi
cated," and when he ceases to be of use to their
Moloch, he is turned into a thief and then cast
off, even as Janet and John.
Not love for John, his oldest son, or sympathy
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