East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-10-15

n. Hoter, editor OF the salem Jour-
nal writes the following humorous
sketch entitled "a Day With Portland
Plutocrats," for his paper,
For one day at Portland I flocked
in almost as bad company as Tom
Richardson keeps ] met nothing but
millionaires, and not even all of them
were admitted to me. Like Harvey
Scott at the Jason Lee memorial,
was not so much honored by the oc-
casion as they were by my presence.
| There was some curiosity on my part
to come in contact with the wicked
| plutocrats and prosecuted heads of the
, first families who are revelling in ILL
gotten wealth, and who are supposed
to go silently and with abashed
| heads down the streets from their
palaces between Sixth and Tenth
streets to their banks and financial
joints, where they spin the dark webs
that are engulfing the innocent masses
in ruin.
One of the first butted up against
was A. l.. Mills. He was trying to
escape attention by slipping into
side door of the late H. w. Corbett's
offices, on First and Washington. He
were hunted look. His shoes were
not polished, but that Sunny Jim
smile soor came back into his coun-
tenance, as he talked over old times,
when. as poor boy he got his start
on the little chicken farm and peddled
eggs and poultry in shabby farm
clothes, Well, he no longer wears
shoes with holes in them.
| But for his evil associations with
low persons like VIM. NJ. Ladd, Ed
gar P. Hill, j. Thorburn Ross and
other unreconstructed Presbyterians,
Mills would not be bad fellow, plu-
tocrat and multimillionaire that he is
represented to be. They keep elect
ing him president of corporations, and
so far no indictments are hanging
over him. He is not a candidate for
the United States senate, although he
IS of senatorial dimensions, and there
fore deserves watching
YES" said Millionaire Mills, 81
shall be up to the Legislature a few
times this winter, just to see how the
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tend to continue to live in Oregon
If they will let me. There is but one
blot and obstacle to the still more
rapid development of the state, and
l need not mention what that is"
did not meet VIM. NJ. Ladd. He
is east. in hiding | presume, at pres
ont. seeking to drive away the cloud
of care that hangs over the life of all
plutocrats, with such soft drinks and
tiddledewink dissipaticns as are per-
mitted to a Presbyterian. Charles
Ladd takes his place in the bank, and
the awful magnitude of being a mem
her of the I,add family that rests its
vast fortunes in the tottering founda-
tions of tin-cup bank, does not visi-
bly, oppress him.
The Ladds continue to prosper and
found y. NJ. c. AS and Y. w. C. AS.
and other corporations more or less
designed to help people with doodles
of tainted wealth to a semblance of
respectability. AS for Edgar p. Hill,
he had to go. AS the spiritual ad-
wiser of the little band of hunted
plutocrats, Portland was made 100 hot
for him, and his abashed fellows only
mention his name with bated breath
and a "lct-us-forget" expression on
their faces.
Another of the hated class of pluto
Gratis who grinds the faces off the
proletariat Is ]. Thornburn Ross. His
Title Guaranty Trust company, at Sec
ORD and Washington streets, is en-
ploy.ng hundreds of people, and the
unfortunate poor are rushing In by
hundreds to swell the deposits of his
savings department. Ross and his
family are making a tour Of Europe.
He seems to flourish in spite of an
ocean of newspaper opprobrium and
worse than all, is Of low origin start
ing life as a job printer. While It
would pe hard to find any property
In his name, or that he even has any
where to lay his head. he has the con-
fidence of a greater number of people
than even some of us who have hold
of the lever that molds the minds OF
the multitude. Ross controls a great
deal Of advertising and 1t is distribut-
ed like the rain.
The closest search did not reveal
Joe Teal, as he has been all but OBJ
liberated from Portland society. As
soon as 1t was apparent that he was
In the multi-plutocrat class he was
put on the blacklist and his name Is
Dennis.
Besides being democrat, his con-
troll of great wealth marks him as a
dangerous man. Teal is pleasant to
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