Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-09
That Shook the World In
the Last Month.
ROCKEFELLER INTEREST
Is at the Head of the Money Trust
Which Controls the Fortunes of
Many Thousands Of Spectators in
This Country.

VNtVeT III AlSIpTy has any group VI lleH
power so vast and terrible as that Of the
coterie which has just been introduced to
civilization-the Money Trust.
John D. Rockefeller. with a private for
tune last estimated at 1915, 000, 900; his
brother and his son. leagued. with men Of
genius as we'll as wealth in the direction
of the massive machinery of a thousand
millions of dollars in money. has the
strength, the knowledge and above all
the courage to proclaim his overiordship
to all the fortunes in the world.
Small men and great alike must bend
the knee in their new temple of Rimmon.
The means to crush as we'll as the ability
to prosper, make the fear of the Trust
to be remembered by each adventurer in
any enterprise. and the favor Of it's coun-
Gil to be courted.
Through control of a banking system
extending to every corner of America,
and grasping the great nerve centers 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 please them better. a boom
In speculation and enterprise.
GREATEST POWER RECORDED IN
HISTORY.
To give or to withhold happiness! No
king or emperor. no Council of Ten, no
triumverate of Rome Or Conqueror Of
Asia held these superhuman attributes
In the hollow of a hand!
The men in the trust who exert this
power are:
john D. Rockefeller.
William T.. Wardwell.
William Rockefeller.
Henry H. Rogers.
Oliver H. Payne.
James Stillman.
s. c. T. Dodd.
John H. Flagler.
John D. Archbold.
John D. Rockefeller. Jr.
Each of these has his particular tall
ent. All, or most of them, finding that
control of the product of petroleum and
the marketing Of it yields "a constant in
crease of millions. have invested profits
In many other enterprises which they
cOnrol and make productive Of more mill
lions. They'manage a constantly grow
ing capital, which involves constantly in
creasing cares and responsibilities.
John d. Rockefeller is the nucleus Of
these accreltions. He expressed a wish
not long g that he could find a man
who would take out Of his hands the la
Dor involved by his riches.
Il would pay him a million dollars a
year." said the weary Midas. He has
given away more han $50, 900, 900 in ben
evidences and for education. Clearly it
Is not his genius that makes the Money
Trust a fact.
Forty years ago no one would lend
John d. Rockefeller a hundred dollar
He was born in Tioga county, July 8, 1899.
A farmers son. he made his first dollar
out Of chickens. At fourteen he moved
with his family to Cleveland. He work.
ed there for 81 a week. When. 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. Stan
dard Oil company, which grew in his
hands, refines Oil and sells it-all Of it
that Aemrica yields.
He expects to own a billion dollars, If
ne lives to his reasonable expectation
Of life.