The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-01-25
The Eleven Groups of Men Who
Control.
The control of the immense in

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terests-transportation, finance
and lnduStrial-which center ir
Wall street, includes eleven
groups. These are distinct be.
cause of the methods of their
work, and because of the proper.
ties In which they operate.
These eleven constitute dis.
tinct groups, and though inter
related in a thousand ways, act
independently. When, however
1t comes to political control and
national legislation, they move
with rythmic tread. They may be
roughly classified as follows:
L. j. Pierpont Morgan, with
his chief lieutenant, Mr.. Perkins
and group of bank presidents
trust officers, and railroad heads
as supports. The Vanderbilt in
terests are in practical harmony
with this group.
2. John d. Rockefeller, having
as his lieutenant Messrs. Rogers,
William Rockefeller, and Still
man, each exercising control over
a host of officials at the head OF
banks and industrial corpora
tons; and the astute lawyers who
are at their instant beck and call.
3. Belmont-inferior in organ
ization and intellectually to the
preceding groups, but with the
RothchildS standing ever in the
background representing unlim-
tied capital for any enterprise.
4. Thomas F. Ryan, with the
heads of the great corporations
he controls as his business lieu
tenants; and supported also by
his political allies, Murphy, the
leaders of Tammany, Grover
Cleveland, and certain men prom
inent in Republican forces.
5. James Hill, with his con-
troll of the northwest, working
out his plans not as speculative
but as industrial successes.
CaSSatt and the Pennsylvania
railway group-Mr. Schiff the f.
nancial manager ;including also
the banking firm of Philadelphia
and New York who find profit in
the connection.
z. Edward H Hartman, hav-
ing Frick as counsel and Odell
as political lieutenant-co controll-
ing the central continental,
southwestern, and southern Pa
cific coast lines of transportation.
8. George Gould, with Presi-
dent Jeffery, head of the Rio
Grande system, as his chief lieu
tenant; working mainly along the
lines of railway development, and
having the support of the great
fortunes of the Gould family.
9. Messrs. Moore, Reid, and
Leeds-"the Rock Island crowd"
with Speyer as the financial ally
a minor influence barely preserv-
ing its independence of the larger
forces, but undoubtedly TO be
reckoned with as an independent
hulk sailing the financial seas.
10. The industrial group-Mes-
Sis. Westinghouse, in control of
his extensive electrical and man
ufacturing interests, the Guggen-
helms, and the vast industries of
the smelter trust, Schwab of the
Bethlehem Steel company, and
certain other men of high vitality
who have to be counted.
IL. The Independents, who for
convenience may be called the
marauders-Lawson, Gates, and
Keene.
No attempt is made here to
more than broadly indicate the
cleavage lines by which the fnan-
cial world is separated.
No attempted analysis of these
groups has been put in print, ex-
cept in a fragmentary way. 1t
should therefore be found inter
esting to the general public to
keep these divisions in mind if
they are to understand the var
ious operations which are report
ed in the press from day to day
Twentieth Century.