The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-08-14

Representatives of the steel strik-
ers Is n Characteristic of the MIL
Iionairc - some stories Narrated
About His BIuntness.
Mr.. Morgan was pictured in some OF
the newspaper reports and in all prob
/ ability in some of the recitations made
| by those who attended the Amalga-
mated association conference in New
York as having with brusque, domI-
neerlng. dictatorial manner repudlated
the proposition made by the association
/ and laid down another as an ultlmatum
and then abruptly and angrily quilted
| the room.
! There Is no truth in the report ex-
| Pepting that Mr.. Morgan was upon this
occasion exactly what he Is at all meet
| ings where there are discussions, diff
| ferences or propositions ana counter
| propositions, says Holland, the regular
| correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press. Instead of attempting to humil-
| fate or overawe the members Of the
| Amalgamated committee, Mr.. Morgan,
/ on the contrary, acted toward them
precisely as he would have acted had
| they been the representatives Of some
very powerful and wealthy trusts or
! capitalists, financiers and bankers like
! himself. He displayed toward them
none Of tnat sham condescension or
| patronizing manner which some CAPT
| talists almost always assume when
they are i'm conference with representa-
! 90 IuI.
conference committee, with President
| Shaffer at its head, met Mr.. Morgan,
| they saw him exactly as he Is, and he
| treated them as he would have treated
any one who represented powerful cor
porate influences. For that very reason
! they should have felt none of the hu-
initiation they are reported, possibly in
! correctly, TO have experienced, but In
stead some sense Of self respect and OF
qualification that Mr.. Morgan by his
very mannerisms showed that he rec
/ ognzed their power, what they stood
! for. and that they were within their
rights when they made their demands.
| If the members of the committee rep
resenting the Amalgamated associa-
| tion had been taken into the confidence
Of some influential business men in
| New York, they would have learned
| that il is not Mr.. Morgan's habit to
approach n desired end circutously.
His way is to state exactly what he
has TO offer in the way Of n PROPOSE
tion, and those who have had expert
ence with him know well enough that
when lie has formulated a statement
he means that it is TO be accepted or 10
be left alone. Take it or leave it, is
the Morgan method. AS TO the brusque-
ness or imperiousness or bluntness, he
! did not differ I'm respect to these things
| In his meeting with the committee the
other Saturday from his lifelong habit
Several years ago Mr.. Morgan was
elected a director Of certain corpora
| tion whose charter was granted by an
other state than New York. 1t Is one
Of the great corporations Of the United
! States. Some very wealthy men are
members of its board of directors. At
the first meeting that Mr.. Morgan at
tended as director he listened quietly
/ TO the various reports, heard the dis
cussions, saying nothing until at last.
when, the business seeming to be at an
| end, the president said TO him that the
directors would be glad TO hear any
views he had about the corporation or
| the reports that had been laid before
the directors that morning. To this
| Mr.. Morgan replied substantially in
the following words, as reported soon
after by a fellow director: The re-
ports are all we'll enough, Mr.. Presi-
dent; have nothing TO say about them.
But there is one thing that do want
/ TO say, and may as well say IL now as
at any other time, This corporation
has the reputation Of being guilty OF
the most contemplate practices in re-
gard to the payment Of its just debts.
| Contractors hate TO deal with you be-
cause you do not pay them until the
last moment. Your reputation Of stav-
ing of payment Of just bills is n dis
grace. 1t ought TO be changed. If you
haven't money on hand to pay current
bills, | viii lend it TO you
Having said as much as that Mr..
Morgan left the room, but that one
warning was sufficient, and the reputa-
tion Of this great corporation as a
payer Of just debts was speedily inn
| proved.
Last winter when Mr.. Morgan had a
proposition 20 make i'm behalf of him
self and James j. Hill 20 the officers
of the st. Paul railway he called at
the offices, laid his proposition point
blank before them, found that It was TO
be objected TO, in all probability de-
clined. He departed instantly, and
began at once with Mr.. Hill that
movement so amazingly and swiftly
consummated by which the Burlington
railway passed into the possession OF
the Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific.
Anecdotes of this character could be
narrated until they became tiresome,
but they would fully illustrate the spirit
n q -. - 4. 4.