The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-05-01
]. Pierpont Morgan the World S
Greatest Power.
CONTROLS S5,OOO,OO 1000
WleIdS More influence In the affairs O
the Globe Than Any aflOndrCh
or POtent0te.

NEW 1ORh, April AO-W ucI y =.
Pierpont Morgan added the
transatlantic steamship combina-
ton to the list of great concerns
he has promoted and financed the
total capital of the companies
and trusts he controls was swelled
to S., 21O. 993, 1856. He has large
interests in concerns he does not
pretend to control and, therefore.
the real total of his vast holdings
is unknown.
A local newspaper said: "It
has been made plain that that ].
Pierpont Morgan's real intention
is to girdle the globe and capture
the carrying trade of the world.
All he needs is the Russian
Transsiberian road, which Amer
lean engineers are building. Mr..
Morgan is now planning to build
railways IN China. He has asked
China for a permit. A week be-
fore last he secured the transat-
lantic steamers. Last week he
was after the South. American
ships and railways. = What next
he will do no man knows.
"Mr. Morgan and six other
American citizens have now be-
come more powerful than any
congress or parliament in the
world. Fourteen steamship lines
and fortyfour railroads are
theirs. On land mileage of
1O6, 500 and on sea a tonnage of
100000 are in Their control.
Three hundred of th largest
steamships in the worldand over
30, 900 of the best equipped pas
senger and freight trains take
orders from them. This railway
mileage is greater than the com.
bined mileage of Great Britain,
Russia, Germany, Spain, Hol-
land and Belgium. And more
than 800 vessels, which will sail
under its orders, cannot be du-
plicated from the merchant ma
rine of every ocean.
ga worldwide transportation
trust has long been Mr.. Morgan's
dream. English newspapers are
making comically pitiful pleas to
Morgan to let England come into
the new trust, not as an annex
to America, but as an equal part
ner. The fact that Mr.. Morgan
is addressed in tones of suppl
cation shows that he is absolute
ly master. No Alexander in all
his glory; not Cesar Augustus,
nor even Napoleon with all his
mighty armies, was such a con-
queror as J. P. Morgan with his
little yes and mo- that makes or
unmakes trusts.
''No king is one-tenth so pow
erful as Morgan. Edward VII,
Emperor William, Nicholas of
Russia-any of these is a pigmy
in real power compared with
Mr.. Morgan. By nationality an
American, he is in fact a citizen
OF all countries. Almost every
kind of man who labors works
for Morgan through some of his
companies. Rudyard Kipling,
Lew Wallace-all the geniuses
who in the fine frenzy dash off
poetry and write stories for Har-
per's, are working for Morgan.
The patient scientists are dig
ging out minute facts for Morgan
to scatter to the world. The art
ist with pencil and brush draws
and paints, and Morgan pays
them.
$50 absolute has he become
that while he is personally worth
perhaps not more than hund.
red millions of dollars, corpora
tions over which he has control
possess more wealth than there
is gold on the earth. The total
capitalization of all the compa.
nies he controls is $5,210, $685.
366-and all the gold coined OF
uncoined, in all the nations, In
Guiding the populous East, is
estimated at "a, 847, 900, 600.