Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-11-01
A Burchard at Roosevelt Feast.
senator scott warmly Defends stan
dard Oil Trust, and Threatens
Trouble for Reporters who


Statement by Senator Scott, Of West
Virginia, at the dinner given to Governor
Roosevelt Friday night in Fifth Avenue
Hotel
(Reported by the New York City News
Burean)
Fright here want to say believe in
Trusts. They are a good thing The
Standard Oil Company put in its pipe
lines to all the small towns where oil is
produced, and if it was not for the Stand
ard Oil Company this prosperity that we
have wouldn't be there to-day
This remark seemed to oause some con-
sternation. senator Scott Immediately
recognized that he made faux-pas, and
standing up in his chair aud pointing to
the newspaper reporter over in the other
corner, said
III that newspaper man puts that down
! will make trouble for him.
At the same time Mr. Bliss, Mr. Odell,
General Greene and several others re-
quested that the remark of Senator Scott
be not made public. After the converse
ton Jagged a little.
Besides those mentioned there were
present at the dinner Charles S. Fairchild,
William H. Ten Eyck, Ex-Governor Black
and Morton, William Barnes, Jr., Joseph
II. ManIey and a few others. Senator
Scott is member Of the Republican
National Committee, and is chief of the
spellbinders. New York Journal.
$50, 100000 Per Year.
John D. Rockefeller is by long odds the
richest man on earth to-day, and probably
in all history. With fifty per cent. annual
dividends from the Standard Oil Company,
his income is more than $50, 600, 600 per
year or S165, 900 per day. He is the lead
ing stakeholder in nearly every great rail-
road system in the country and nearly all
the trusts. He owns almost outright one
great insurance company and at least one of
the largest New York banks. Should he
continue to make money at the present. rate
for ten years. Mr. Rockefeller will at the
end of that time be worth not less than
I g I'LL
nations of the earth will be compelled to
bow down before him. Indirectly he will
employ one-fourth of all the workmen in the
United States and his power viii be 50
erect that he can starve those worlSmen
into accepting any wages he cares to pay
and he will be able to compel the public
to pay any price he fixes for his product.
Competition against such a man will be
impossible Mr. Rockefeller is coming his
millions through the Standard Oil Trust
which Mark Hanna, the Constitution and
other Republican authorities say, is good
thing and which that party proposes TO
help along in every way possible. The
Democratic party believes that the Standard
Oil Company is the worst Of all offenders
and should be regulated to such an extent
that such fabulous profits would be inn
possible. 1t also believes that Mr. Rookie
Teller should be compelled to pay such an
income tax that it would not be worth
while to strive for an income of 500, o0o,0 goo
per year.
1t ought not to be difficult for any voter
to figure out through which party his inter
ests will be benefited The Republican
party is thinking first for Roekefeller's
welfare and the Democratic party is striving
above all things for the welfare of the
laboring man. 1t is plain and simple
proposition. a vote for Mckinley means
that John D. Rockefeller's yoke will be
fastened upon you tighter than ever. A
vote for Bryan means that that yoke will
be lifted.
Which will YOU choose?