The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-07-24
WORK, WEALTH AND WIND.

Out GO0 I8CC Ludt MT. INOChcICIACA uoo
not been in his Office for years. And
it is not long since Mr.. Hartman was
revealed 70 the entire country as alb
sent from his Office during business
hours, and away frolicing after q COL
lege boat race. Yet Mr.. Rockefeller
and MIR. Hartman are both on fire..
Quent record to the effect that nothing
but work, and hard, unceasing work,
can make and keep q rich
While Mr.. Schwab was attempting
the gigantic task of breaking the bank
At Monte Carlo, he was quoted as say
ing that. while the thing might seem
to the average man to be impossible,
his success in life had always been due
to a degree of persistence and hard
work which had led him to doubt the
existence of impossibilities. His fail
ure in no way proves the ineficacy Of
hard work, since the bankers at Monte
Carlo r also hard workers. Their
brilliant financial success is due to
the same hard work az that which has
made most of the multi.millionai aires
of the day. Contending against op.
ponents unused to the hard work which
had made him great, Mr.. Schwab
might have succeeded at Monte Carlo,
but in going up against men reared
on the same style OF hard work which
had given him his confidence, there
vas only a meeting of Greek with
Greek and the inevitable tug of war.
The result was q drawn battle, for
while Mr.. Schwab could not break the
bank, neither could the bank break
Mr.. Schwab. The value of hard work
as a prepar alton and an equipment
for hard fighting was proved on both
sides of the table.
1t is impossible to get away from
hard work as the basis Of success.
Mr.. Rockefeller has not been in his
Office for years, but the hard work
which has made the money for the
augmentation of his wealth has been
going on, all over the country, all Of
that time. Mr.. Rockefeller is working
hard, it seems to US, both to keep his
money and to get rid of it. We have
reached this conclusion since his ap-
pearance at Chicago, and his bearing
upon the stand ia court there leaves
no room to doubt that he is seeking to
defend and perpetu ate the corporation
with which he is identified, and which
is increasing his revenues faster than
than he can diminish them. Mr.. Rock
efeller is attempting the impossible
feat Of giving away his cake and keep
ing it too. 1t is here that the hard
work, of which he has so often told
us, a be seen at its hardest. Hard
as Mr.. Rockefeller has seemed to work
in parting with his money, the hard
work OF his brother William, Of Mr..
Archbold, Mr.. Rogers, and the Others
who have occupied his offices during
the years of his absence, has filed his
mammoth barrel faster at one end than
Mr.. Rockefeller's beneticences have
emptied it at the other.
1t has long been clear that Mr..
ltockefeller's only hope of gaining ou
the rising flood was to assist the gov
eminent and people in removing its
causes. His failure to do this. and
his appearance at Chicago in an effort
to continue the conditions under which
the flood has been made to rise, auC
is kept rising, show us at a glance
cake while giving it away. This is /
job to appall the stoutest heart. No
body other than such q ~tireless worker
as MIR. Rockefeller would undertake
it,. The impossibility of the thing be
ing as plain as it is, government
must come to MIR. Rockcfeller's help
and through equalization Of his re
ceipts and expenditures, make it pos
sible for him either to keep his cak
or give it away, as he may choose
He is working too hard under presen
hopeless conditions.
AS for MIR. Hartman, it is impos
sible for him to get away from har
work. While making what began a
a pleasure tour Of the world, he wa
attacked by . Japanese mob in Toki
because of hard work in an effort I
secure Japanese railroad grants an
franchises which the mob held shout
not 90 to foreigners. This habit {
carrying his work with him on hi
outings made it perilous for Mr.. Hal
riman then, and it was the same hab
which recently brought about his a
rest on a college regatta course, whe
his launch was trying to take IL
water of both DO pats. This has bee
denominated IN ofense, but it ",
nor likely only the force of habit
nan who owes his success to ha,
work in taking all the water he ca
get, for stock atoms. After al
our men Of millions really do wo,
hard.-Globe. Democrat.