The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-11
COLOSSAL AMOUNT OF
ROCKEFELLER'S MONEY
WHAT THE STANDARD OIL KING WHO RETIREs
JANUARY NEXT, COULD Do WITH HIS IMMENSE
FORTUNE IF 1T PLEASED HIM-oNE THIRD OF
INCOME WAY OF GIFTS

100000. for so colossal is the golden
! stream which flows ceaselessly into his
Golfers that the interest on 5000 900 900
/ of Government debt falls short by ST.
/ $4,000 of meeting one years flow.
Turning to its trade with foreign
/ Governments the United States could
/ offer to turn over to Mr.. Rockefeller its
entire exports of all products to Vene-
zuela. Ecuador, Corea, Bermuda, Chill,
! Colombia, Spain, Haiti. Nicaragua, Costa
Rica, Honduras and Guatemala, and It
would still owe him about 100000
And yet in 1902 its exports to these
countries was over 100000.
/ If Uncle Sam should say to the silent
man of millions that it would give him
| in lieu OF his yearly income the entire
production OF silver IN all its minis dur
ing the year 1908, the public would be
inclined to nudge his elbow and whisper
in his ear: Take it." He would be
obliged TO decline however, for a life
/ of bargaining would tell him that such
acceptance would mean the loss OF more
money than all but few men ever see
in lifetime.
i 1t is not easy to grasp the abstract
proposition that there can be IN the
! United States one man with a yearly
/ income so large as twelve months OUT
put of silver of all the mines in the
country would not meet. The man ex
/ lists in John Rockefeller.
Last years production of silver from
all the mines throughout the United
States aggregated $50, .6S8, or over
/ 100000 less than the Rockefeller in
come 1t would take. as an illustration,
the entire silver production of Montana,
/ Colorado, Nevada. Idaho and Arizona
to equal the Rockefeller income from
one property alone, the Standard Oil
| Company.
Excluding Alaska and Colorado, 1oo3's
production of the United States was:
/ California, $I6,535,o 900; Arizona, S4,7S4,-
600; Idaho, $2,o67,ooo Montana, $4T34,-
367; Nevada, $3,576,2Io; Oregon, I,364,-
.34I; Utah, $500, 900; South Dakota,
| s., $4,000; Washington, S434,ooo; New
Mexico, $372, ooo-about 81, 100000 more
than the Rockefeller income.
1t will doubtless be a shock to the
advocates of silver standard to realize
that the entire output of all our silver
mines is less than would be required to
paw one mans yearly income If he should
ever be in position to dictate how 1t
should be paid.
1t is equally astounding to consider
that the Golden State of California IS
turning out in a year less than one half
enough gold to cash Mr.. Rockefeller's
income check if it should be presented,
while the Centennial State of Colorado
falls $T3 ,ooo, 600 short of the same re-
quirement.
Perhaps there might be found in these
and other comparisons. herewith fruitful
topics for campaign discussion, but the
sole object of this compilation is to illus
trate by comparisons how fabulously
wealthy is Mr.. John D. Rockefeller and
how fortunate it is that the United
States, as a government, does not have
to pay him his yearly income.
Should the nations of the world be
called upon to pay Mr. Rockefeller's
income in gold it would require the en-
tire united twelyemonth production of
Russia, Corea, China, Brazil, Great
Britain, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Sweden,
Germany Austria Hungary and Mexico,
with the total silver production of japan
thrown in.
And if he could demand new coins
in every instance, it would take the
combined 1901 gold coinage of Austria,
Japan, Mexico, Persia, Sweden, Swift
zerland Turkey and France to meet the
bill
The yearly Government revenues from
all sources of these countries; Bolivia,
S3,43I 900; Colombia, S7.o3I,oo Costa
Rica, $3,5I3,ooo; Honduras, Sill, 900;
Peru, S5,oI4ooo; Venezuela, $o,452, 600
would fail by 100000 to equal Mr..
Rockefeller's income
| If Mr.. Rockefeller's yearly income
were paid in dollar bills laid end to end
| it would make a greenback ribbon three
inches wide and nearly 3,4oo miles long.
| 1t would extend as one continuous
greenback roll from Washington to New
/ York. New York to Southampton and
thence to London.
! If it were unroled at Vladivostok, it
would be carried down the sea of Japan
| to Fusan, around through the Yellow
] Sea to Port Arthur, up the railway to
/ Hardin and thence back to Vladivostok,
completely encircling with its magic
green roll the scene of hostilities in the
Far East
And if the wealthiest man in this Re-
j public should hire an able bodied man to
wind up the green roll thus extended, 1T
would require him $50 davs, walking ten
miles a day, to complete the task. Mean
time another roll over three thousand
miles long would have accumulated.
Harking ba>k only six yeas. Mr..
Rockefeller's personal income from Sc
ooo 600, invested in Standard Oil shares,
has been as follows:
Year. Per cent paid. Income.
1908. .....44 per cent. -. .SI7 100000
1902. ......45 per cent. -. 100000
1901. ..... .4S per cent. 80. 100000
/ 1000. .......4 AS per cent. 100000
1850. ..33 per cent 100000