Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-07-19
One Kind Word for
Worlds Richest Man
From Golfers Weekly

on a vacation. which would have bee,
unpusinessliltc. but he went, 1t Ia SAT-
10 comfort his sister. who is under tn
ue'u"'oh That she Will die in poverty
1Nc Will oe the object of the courtcsie
Oh Lo American ambassador or minis
Ter. The founder of one OF the great
est universities will not be invited I.
-sNe''c the freedom Of any great for
oaHn university. Foreign fnancier,
VII onei no banqucts to the foremos
y. their kind: foreign field marshal:
y INDUSTRY will extend no honors Il
~"n 1Sapoieon OF the commercial age.
no one bade him godspeed excepr
MS own blood kin. Ia All the tweni,
ScatS mat his name has beer a house
Ao'u word no voice except that of Tho
HIne-scrver has been raised in his de-
tense: His word of commentator
YOU'D ruin the career Of almost any
T r man who seeks an elective Of
nee. yct his is probably 5he largest in
oiSidnal influence in legislation.
AS Free as You or l..
In March last he was In hiding from
ms enemy the public; a fugitive from
.ne subpoena server. IN more prim-
L.ive days the robber baron, his me-
1ievai predecessor. depended on n
and on soldiers. In the
pace OF lighting men the modern bar
"S iHN ANA XIV NtIS. rms is
progress. IL obviates the necessity of
any Senfimcnt whatsoever; it requires
|'osHiHS except mcrccnary service.
An June John -. went aboard n
steamer AS freely as you or would.
nm no one at all was i'm legal pursuit,
anose VINO saw him were surprised to
NM that after MI the press attacks he
had suffered he was still chinnnr VIZ
NOT! Rad n campaign of printers
INK cost him Il single cent? Douhtlcss
" was smiling at the people of the
united states, whom he knows much
Detter h we know ourselves. He
y useo 10 cartoons of his bald head
~" 10 ps,ssihs RACES. He knows thai
Eng nest brains of the country are for.
n!re II that those who fight the pco-
pcs onttlc for love of country m,st
HHnt III the open. while his mercenar-
seS - IN ambush. AS surely as Won
Wsh strike a soldier through his honor
~ surely VIII you strike IL monopolist
through his pocketbook. ROckefeIler
would not have been so clipper n the
wave OF popular anger had taken tho
concrete form OF an income tax the
opening OF the books of all corporations
xor natiOnn! inspection, and such
to the constitution of tho
United States as would give Tho Moo
pie control of what is their own.
~ months we have been abusing the
MAJ Rockefeller. Why particularly him
~ not other miIlionniresn Because his
Oaid mead Is good for c%artooniugp We
are told seriously that it ia because he
- tie type of the system which is the
Gauss OF the agitation; that only the
personal form OF Journalism vii, win
attention. IL we arc to be personal we
must be just. The truth is that Rookie
Xeiier u n of the best OF our million
aires He has never jcIlivd us into
thinking that he is "A good fellow. You
Know what he is %standir. for and why.
ana on which side to lif.e up in the bat
tie '''
With a eagpipe or With Prayer?
Wherein is Andrew Carnegie better
thcn Rockefcllrr? Why should Car
neSie escape al the bitter attacks? He
Also went abroad his summer. where
= y the friend of kings. The American
ambassadors and ministers viii do
MIN hOi,ors II he chooses to accent. At
nome ne Is wanted MT b%anquets as often
~ Mark Twain. lie lays cornerstones
wtth "A twinkle IN his canny eye. &c
0iks TO reporters with Il fascinating
Functions with n bonhomie of self-ad-
scrtiSement, II not with the austerity of
DehOlasticism.
Are all milltonnires essentially bad
- there Ii some good In them, then Is
n ere no good at all In John D.? Has
D. accomplished nothing for state and
Is It reasonable to let Andrew
ply us into excusing his millions when
will forgive John ID. nothing?
ihn ID. founded his fortune in rebates:
1drew by jollying us into keeping
R.e tariff up on steel. Does any one
that Andrew would have
lfdged the opportunity of rebates any
than he lodged the opportunity
n high tariff?
r<~v~r n 49,. -f.... ,---
Andrew. and he has not put his name
n snch big letters on the gifts. Does
I matter whether the bequest is made
the music of the bagpipe or with
The mount and the object
re the realities. Andrew once an
nunced that he was going 20 die poor:
md while Andrew continues to grow
richer. John u. has never been guilty
any such false alarm. 1t was the de-
OF those who made Andrews trust
It should be just as formidable as
John DIS: only n the making of a trust
d. IL without equal. He is the
'upremc trust genius. Possibly this
makes all the other millionaires so
that they will not say a good
gord for him.
Why Does Morgan Escape?
but surely you and l who are not
should not allow profess
SSssAA6 oAtoAiS UIiSaiAuS W llilu.
nee onr judgment. Consider the value
steel M Andrew personally
'wns Attle Of this; he Is long on bonds.
,1eYpont Morgan, who organized the
teeI trust, has also escaped public
Of late. Have you ever looked
{ b st0ck values of Il list of Nor
ANS companies compared with a list
Rockefeller's? II you put your
money I'm MOrgan's you are a loser. If
put your money in John DIS 1t
and trebles and quadruples.
Then. although John D. Is bald and
tvos In a cold storage plant. he is a
millionaire. All things with
shtch he has been connected have i
ecadily prospered and expanded in {
Ialoe with the exception OF copper
rhlD W18 too much even for him. He
~ Il 10 "H. Hone of our other I
names-and to that hero of {
crusadcs. that candid friend Of the /
John d. established his trust by /
vickediy crushing out small producers. $
liz ION once explained that this was ,
|Acasaary for the same reason that YOU \
dp b buds, in order to make the ,
IOcr3can Beauty rosa comparison '
. results which Is scarcely justified IL
h to judge by the cartoons of s
ohm D.ss bald head. Every other MIL I
would do the same thing that h
ohm D.. did: but I repeat that he was a
etter 1T the game than they. His h
n principles are precisely (
hB sauIc as those Of a man In a small
DWu who drives oil the retailers ont +.