The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-12

men of genius as well as wealth in the
direction of the massive machinery of
a thousand millions of dollars in money
has the strength, tie knowledge and
above all the courage to proclaim his
overlordship to all the fortunes in the
world.
Small men and great alike must bend
the knee of their new temple of
Rimmon. The means to crush as well
as the ability to prosper, make the fear
Of the trust to be remembered by each
adventurer in any enterprise, and the
favor of its council to be courted.
Through control of banking system
extending to every corner Of America,
and grasping the great nerve centres
Of credit in the old world. these men
can wreck thousands of fortunes in a
panic, and blast the prosperity of the
whole land and cripple Europe's; or
they can create. If it pleases them
better, a boom in speculation and en-
terprise.
GREATEST POWER RECORDED IN
HISTORY.
To give or to withhold happiness!
No king or emperor, no council of ten,
no triumvirate, of Rome, or nonqueror
olef Asia held these superhuman attri-
uuleS III lHe nOllOW Ol d manu-!
The men in the trust who exert this
power are:
JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER,
WILLIAM T. WARDWELL,
WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER,
HENRY H. ROGERS,
OLIVER H. PAYNE,
N JAMES STILLMAN,
" S. C. T. DODD,
az JOHN H. FLAGLER,
va JOHN d. ARCHBOLD,
r.> JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER, JR.
M Fash of these has his peculiar talent.
/, All, or most of them, finding that con-
htrol Of the product of petroleum and the
- marketing of 1t yields q constant in
crease of millions, have invested pro-
fits in many other enterprises which
they control and make productive of
more millions. They manage a con-
stantly growing capital, which involves
constantly increasing cares and re-
sponsibilities.
John D. Rockefeller is the nucleus of
these accretions. He expressed a wish
not long ago that he could find a man
who could take out Of his hands the
labor involved by his riches.
IT would pay him a million dollars a
year." said the weary Midas. He has
given away more than $30,000,000 in
benevolence and education. Clearly 1t
is not his genius that makes the Money
Trust fact.
Forty years ago no one would lend
John d. Rockefeller hundred dollars.
He was born in Tioga county, July 8,
1889. A farmers son, he made his first
dollar out of chickens. At fourteen he
moved with his family to Cleveland.
T. bod 60 A NKyl.
as his salary grew he had saved 81, 900,
he went into the commission business.
HE ENTERS THE OIL BUSINESS.
1t was In his early twenties that he
got into the oil refining business. The
Standard Oil Company, which grew in
his hands, ref1nes oil and sells it-all of
it that America yields.
He expects to own a billion of dollars
If he lives to his reasonable expectation
of life.
William Rockefeller, the younger
brother and John d. Rockefeller, Jr.,
his son, are rich because he is. They
know much that he knows. and have
their allotted shares in the detail of
the great operations their money
requires.
William T. Wardwell is the financial
genius of this group. The world at
large knows him as the Prohibition
partys hardy candidate for president,
governor or mayor. He pays 100000 at
least yearly for the prohibition party,
and gives much more to further the
cause a total abstinence. He 1t is who
has organized the chain of banks which
has at last shackled the finance of
America, and which hopes soon to con-
troll the issuance of all money. He
manages and plans the operations of
the Standard Oil syndicate, leaving it
to- others to execute. to investigate, to
prevent leakage Of money.
S. G. T. Dodd is the able lawyer who
keeps the Money trust within the law;
who drives through the statutes with
coach and four His genius is necessary
to the legitimate or questioned policies
of his colleagues. He is said to be the
most daring, as we'll as the most pru-
IDENTIFY iudicious of men. He is worth
millions to his friends.
HEAD BANKER OF THE MONEY
TRUST
James Stillman, related by marriage
to William Rockefeller. is the able
banker, as Dodd Is the able lawyer and
Wardwell the able finacier. known to
the Rockefellers. He is president of the
National City Bank, and expects to
make 1t the bank OF the United States,
performing such functions as the Bank
of England does in the British Empire.
He is Secretary Cages friend, and the
strength OF the bank compells attention,
and what looks like favor. from the
federal treasury. 6tillman. for the
bank, handled the war payment to