The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-12-20
INSURANCE pAILANrARopIsrs.

INSURANCE PHlLANTHRoPIsTs.
That whcle-souled philanthropist,
Thomas f. Ryan. who buys insurance
stock in order that he may do good
with It, must be greatly saddened at
Mr. E. H. Harrimans lack or conf
dence in him. Mr.. Hartman has pub
licly stated that Mr. Ryan's motives in
acquiring the Equitable stock were not
pure and unselfish" He was not CON
vinced. he says. that Mr. Ryan was sin
cere. We gather that Mr. Hartman
just dotes on sincerity 1t was with
the idea of forcing Mr.. Ryan to be
pure. unselish and sincere that Mr.
Hartman insisted on having a share
of the Equitable stock Mr. Hartman
would be Mr. Ryan's better self, so to
speak. urging. and If need be, prodding
him along the straight and narrow
way.
The alleged selfshness and insin.
cerity of Mr.. Ryan, whom every one
else has always believed to be philan
thropiss - ourest ray serene, with the
possible exception o. "violets" Hyde
got to worrying the unselfsh al sin
cere i. II. H. to such an extent that
the latter called in Messrs. Odell, Hig
gins and Nixon to help him lead Ryan
away f ON temptation and deliver him
from evil These gentlemen are com.
monty reputed to have some little in
fuence at Albany, and it appears that
they also suspected the motives OF the
philanthrople Mr.. Ryan, who buys in
surance stock in order that ne may do
good with e in HIS modest little way.
Mr. Hartman evidently convinced this
triumsigate that he could do more real
good with the stock than Mr.. Ryan
could. All agreed, however, that no
good at all could be done by mutuali-
zation OF the company SO many rank
outsiders are given voice under a
genuine mutual systas.n that It is nard
for any one philanthropist to retain
suddenly absolute power to do all
the good he wants to do.
whatever may have been the mo
tives OF Nj. Ryan. Mr.. Hartman is
I quite sure that no connection with the
insurance companies that Messrs.
Odell Higgins and so forth might have
had was otherwise than unselfsh, pure
aud sincere. SO careful of their feel
ings is he that while on the stand he
, begged the newspaper men to keel
. their rames out of the headlines The
/ brutal press, however, was SO cynica
D that It did use the names Of these mel
t for the Information Of brutal public
!. For the press and the public are so ut
s terly ignorant. stupid suspicious AM
brutal as not to be altogether apprecI
: awe OF the efforts Of the insuranc
rananthroplsts to do good
These be evil days for seli-sacrih'
ing, sincere, pure spirits like Chaunce
Depew, E. II. Hartman, Thomas
Ryan, the Observation-Disclosures
some, fomaso Platt. Picked Perkini
~yiolets9 Hyde, James w. Alexande
and the other Observation-Disclosures
phiianthroplsts. whose only desire
to do good. But It was ever thus. tn
genuine and gentle souls who iab'
long and arduously for the veal
their fellowmen are ever greeted wit
scorn and hissings by the generatic
OF wpers TO whom they would fa
carry the light and the law. Il is nj
an easy thing 20 do good in the worl
The world Is so ungratefal when
is maize the recipient of a certain so
Of philanthropy It has even be-
known 20 cast some Of its most ca
splcuous benefactors into prison. Al
surely. there are some Of che country
leading Insurance philanthropists VI
are altogether worthy Of experienced
this supreme test 20 which the worl'
most sincere, unselfsh and pure spir
have been subjected.