The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-06

,uuthtiy III tht oHidil SHOp, Adihb W
them and Is one of them, TO GER
tain extent. He is SO directly In
touch with them that he sees with
his own eyes their efforts in his be-
half, and he tells the men SO. He
lis a fine man to work for, and is
popular in the community, because
the people of the community know
that he is working hard TO succeed.
that he is honest. and that his meth
ods are fair. They like him, not
because his capital is small, but be-
cause he is man among men.
Gradually his business ~ INCREASES.
lie can not look after fttso icloseB. He
has to have overseers and superin-
tendents TO look after certain things.
lie can not hear the complaints OF
1.-THE employees. He must depend upon
the reports made to him by the sup
lerintendents, and these superintend-
Ienfs, anxious to make every dollar
that they can for the business. are
not always fair with the employees.
Slowly the employees come to look
upon the business man with dlstrust
land repeat the many unfair things
they suffer while at their tasks. Isn't
Iit reasonable that the people should
begin to look upon the business man
with little colder stare in their
eyes? Not because he is getting rich.
but because he Is not as good a man
as he was n few years ago.
Then, the man takes advantage OF
a young competitor-some fellow who
is starting just as he started lie
believes that It is legitimate. He
"puts him out OF the business" per-
haps by working some kind of
scheme. Another and another COM
petitor bobs up, only to be killed or
crippled.
Now the business has grown to such
proportions that special legislation is
desired, and he has money to spend
for this special legislation. He works
the legislature of the people. Or
It may be, he is powerful enough by
this time to work the courts. either
by reason of being able to hire the
most competent attorneys, or TO in
fluence juries. BY this time he Is
money-mad or success-mad, or what
ever you want to call IL. His con-
science is becoming hardened. Any
thing is legitimate now that will in
crease his busines or his result. He
has time to see only the men, who
like himself are engaged in great
afairs. He builds a church or en-
dows college, or donates money for
a library, or sends a few hundred
dollars to the Y. M. c. A. and he
thinks that ought to suffice. Besides
Is he not giving employment to thons-
factor because he permits these men
to work for him and gives them a
part of the money they earn for him?
That is the way he Is finally resaon-
ing.
Or, he wants privileges from the
city in which his shops or his enter
prises are located. He does not trust
the people. He buys the council, or
works some kind of scheme under q
guise of some sort to obtain conces-
sions. He believes the community il
going to profit by any kind of
scheme that he knows will benefit
his business. If there should erop
out opposition to his undertakings,
he claims 1t is due to envious and
jealous competitors. or TO the fact
that he people hate man who has
wealth.
And, toward the close of his life
when he is fairly rolling in wealth,
when he has done things he would
not have thought of doing in his
days, when he broke up men
who were engaged in legitimate lines,
when he has strikes and lockouts,
when he has gotten TO the point
where Rockefeller has arrived, II you
please, and he beholds nation grim
ming at his discontinue, and jubi-
ant when he is fined in court; when
ne reads in the public press honest
opinions of men TO the effect that he
should be in the penitentiary, then he
claims. as does Rockefeller, that the
people hate him and his kind, be-
'ause they are successful which is
lot true. They hate his- and his
yind because of the way they have
their wealth, because OF
neir personality, because they them
ielves have isolated themselves from
he great masses and no longer trust
he great masses. II, In a spirit II
houghtless outlawry, some poor, mis-
5uided fellow throws brick through
he carriage window, It Is anarcy
which is springing up.
Yes, il is anarchy. But 1t is an
rchy born of the conduct of the man
.ssailed; anarchy in the brain OF
'oor weakllng who. knows no other
fay of showing his displeasure an
rchy on the part of weakling, not
m the part of a man Of strength, n
who imagines. like the
that one man or one
cts going TO settel something
Poor fools that we are-seekine IN
scape the just judgments of our fell
ows, as If those judgments could be
scaped. Whatsoever the community
elieves a man to be. that thing he
,, every time. This nation has
lied John d. Rockefeller up COR