Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-07-19
prTTsBURG's MILLIONAIRE
How Some Have Risen from the Bot.
 tom Rrng of the Ladder

A newspaper page of biographies of millionaires, Pittsburg millionaires at that, ought to be sordid and dis heartening exhibit of the results of the capitalstic system, if indeed that sys- tenn is such as the socialist propaganda describes it. Yet any fair-minded per son may be challenged to deduce that conception from the score of examples in last Sunday s Times of what capital ism may do for the individual, and what the individual may do in return for so- ciety. The lesson we deduce is one of hope and promise for every poor strug- gler in any walk of life.
 Take, for example, Alexander Pea cock, but little while ago a humble employee of Broadway shop, "coun- ter jumper, in short He sold Mrs. Carnegie a gown so skillfully that her husband set him to selling steel rails, and he sold 600,000 tons to one GUS toner, the world s record for salesman ship, it is said. William Finn was Gas poor boy as any in Pittsburg." He sold papers and blaeked boots, and it is a credit to him and source of joyful recollection worth all the effort it cost to extricate himself. MT. Boggs s start was equally humble, and Mir. Donner, the tinplate magnate, was mill boy. MT. Barnsdall, who was to become an oil-well owner, could hardly be imag- ined as such when he was dressing tools. Mr. Heinz, of "ffty-seven varieties" !" fame, began by peddling his mother s make of the same goods, his first factory being her kitchen. MT. Davis, who owns skyscrapers and is real estate crazy, used to sell shoestrings and near-gold iewelry. Of Mir Prick it is unnecessary to say any more than that he was as poor as Mir Carnegie. Mir. Phipps was bench shoemaker s son, and used to drink borrowed coffee, or go without it when it could not be borrowed. Mr O 'Neill, who owns houses enough to make town, was an Irish lad imported by his brother s savings Mir Corey worked for $l0 a week and is worth $l0,000000, made by his own efforts Mir. Barnes drove cart fourteen years ago, and has made a million for each year since he began to make money. Mir Guffey, the oil king, started as a well driller and Mir. Snyder, who may succeed MT. Corey as president, was a minister's son. Mir. Lovejoy was a telegrapher. In all the list MT. Jones of Jones < Laughlin was the only one born to wealth and trained to the busi ness to which he succeeded.
 Some of these men have been rich and poor by frequent turns and have experienced the bitterness of reverses us well as the joy of triumph. They have been strenuous men, and their wealth Is justified by their services All but one began at the bottom, but all without exception come within MT Carnegie's s definition of business man as one who gives moneys worth for money. Not one of them is character istically an operator or trader or spec ulator. They are dealers in sure things, providers of real wants, and, it will be admitted, for real rewards. Society could not have spared these men or done without what they have supplied, and socialism can hardly be imagined as making their careers possible. Rich and poor and middle class alike should rise from reading such story with recon ciliation to the existing regime, with all its faults, which never were in bet ter way of remedy than now.-Editorial in the New York Times.