Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-06-17
A Gigantic Merger Proposed.

Despite the fate OF poor Morgan
whose eminence in the financial world
few months ago made nations trem-
bic, there seems TO be another who is
willing to make an attempt to scale
what appears to be the height OF per-
sonal ambition Of all who have &C.
qnlred great wealth-to become the
Money King of the Universe. 1t now
seems that Rockefeller, despite the
ominous grumbling of the people over
absorption Of the worlds resources, has
buckled on his armor to found two.
and-a- half billion-dollar trust, which
is to embrace an amalgamation of all
the valuable mines Of this country,
and that would involve means OF con-
troll of the mineral wealth of all ma
tions, for it will not be long after such
sturendou, scheme is accomplished,
until the Alexander ambition will be.
come dominant for other worlds to
conquer, and unless the unexpected
again happens, and a jealousy that is
national in its extent and power inter.
venes, metallic letters will environ the
incentive of nations the same as the
golden unit has shackled the limbs of
prosperity for the masses in our own
country.
1t is now ascertained that for ten
years the Standard Oil millionaire has
been acquiring mines in this country,
and at the present time his holdings in
Colorado, Arizona, Montana, Utah,
New Mexico, Washington and Alaska,
afford ground for belief that the big
deal is at least under contemplation.
1t is predicted by one of the heavy
stockholders in mining properties, who
is said to have been buying for the big
combination, that when the project is
sprung, probably by the first OF the
year, it will "fairly take the peoples
breath away" and that he will make
the mining spectators of the world
wonder whether they may not have
been asleep the past ten years."
Natures laws teach that there is a
limit to all things; Morgan's failure
seems to exemplify that law when ap.
piled to human possibilities. May it
not be possible that the present auda.
cious exploiter is tresding upon the
verge OF precipice whose rocky way
trembles at bare touch? Every act
that has led to the aggrandizement Of
the few, it has been noted, has been
met with greater disquietude of the
many. The horrible tragedy, a few
days ago, at Cripple Greek, aud the
present unrest there, is but q knot in
the web OF time drawn by discordant
methods.
Can the multimillionaires not see
that by such efforts to exalt exr.h's
transitory honors they are lessening
the most positive guaranty of their
enjoyment? What would be the value
Of money, or the objects it will buy,
without the protection Of the law to
compel respect for their ownership
Abiding to this very thought. DR..
Thwing said, Sunday night, in a bac.
sermon. in Cleveland, Il
sometimes fear that forces, now active,
may wreak themselves on the COM
munity and again overthrow civiliza-
tiOn As it was overthrow in Southern
Europe 1900 years ago. Neither this
nation, nor any of the other advanced
peoples OF the world, has any preferred
right to constant progress or a last.
ing existence"
THE Toledo Blade, in noting Oh.
jections to Cortelyou as Chairman of
the Renuhlican National Con,p,;t,oo