The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-02
SLAVES
TO THEIR
DOLLARS
Have so Much Money
They Can't Have
a Holiday
Morgan, Rockefeller, Russell
Sage and Jim Keene Stay
at Home While Their
Clerks 90

There are six slaves in New York
City this year. who will not take
summer vacation. In vain the be.
witching Adirondacks and the health
giving CatslSills may beckon to these
drudging serfs.
The cool lakes and trout streams
of New England will not freshen
their spirits nor animate them with
a new lease of life. These six toilers
are chained to their desks. The cross
of labor bears heavily upon them.
The dim Office is their prison, and
their dollars are their relentless mas.
tiers.
Clerks may 'ako vacations and en-
joy life while II is passing, but not so
with these imprisoned slaves. Farm.
ers. mechanics. business and profes-
sional men may take their merry
families % resorts. and mountains
not so with these driven drudges.
In Wall street these six slaves have
their Offices and own, among them.
$GOO,0OO,0 900. They know no rest nor
recreation They feel no freedom
from the awful task of guarding their
holdings and at their heels. day and
night. they hear the demon Of greed,
and feel the smart OF his goad stick.
whenever the thought OF vacation
comes in to their minds.
The richest and puniest OF this
sextett is John ID. Rockefeller. worth
$500. 100000. His only diversion is
golfing and he is so wasted by exces-
sive mental strain that he can only
half play the game. and never takes
a long vacation.
George Jay Gould. who owns $780,.
900, 900. will not take a vacation this
summer, His increasing business
will demand his attention. His ste
nographers. who get from sl2 TO $50
per week. will spend two weeks each
In the Catskills.
John w. Gates, the free lance OF
Wall street. worth $4,000. 900. aged
81. loves poker. horse racing and the
aters. and Is a fend on matching
pennies with the office boys. He can
not spare time TO rest this year.
Russell Sage, the chief miser Of
American misordom. owns 100000 |
900. and Is never 20 happy as when
cutting down living expenses. He is
SO. years old and works harder etery |
day In the year than any clerk In his
employ When asked recently where |
he would spend his vacation, he laid
his hand upon an oak desk before |
wheich he has sat for 90 years.
Jim Keenc, the rival OF Hartman,
the shrewd, keen, far-sceing, unfeel-
ing prince Of hnsnciers, has won
derful vitality and al GO. does not |
feel that he cen SPAR time from his 4
S25 .OOO. 600 fortune to breathe the /
country cir for a week.
And not the least among this group /
OF pluful slaves, Is the great John |
Plerpont Morgan, with a private for /
tune Of s60.OO0QQos and head Of ihe /
most gigantic combine of capital on /
earth.
While some a his greatest schemes /
are conceived while resting, away .
from financial cares. he win confne
himself % his growing business tbs I
year and will dock his clerks ior [
time they will lose on a two weeks (
sacation. hlcU
The man on medium ground IS Che
happy man, after an The extreme
1f wealth IS as pltlful as the eXireme
II poverty. IN the one. a man wastes
his ME pining Tor relief from hls
.urfeit ln the other a man wastes
IFS llfe pining FOR the bare necessi' n
les al the last the 20 De down
naked. side by side and tha turf is
eyeled over them and che world 4
OILS round and Fouud.-Easr Ore I
.oniau,