The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-03-10

great trust captains OF the country
have been irratrievably ra;ned u nc
but study the financial oapers AM read
reports OF the meetings
II the bare statement be made that
thirty-two men control tne entire corn
mon carrier roads OF tho Republic. 4
would at first seem Incredible and still
il is fact so patent that cafelessness
alone Is the cause OF its nos being
more public
These tbirty-two men are residents
of the following cities. admirably stu.
ated for the movement n ay seei, 10
some day have in hand
Now York, s.; Kansas City. u St
Paul, I Spokane, /; Denver 4: los
Angeles. /; Chicago, 6. Philadelphia.
|3; Cincinnati, WashingtuI ?: Boe
ton, 3; st. Louis, 3; louisville. l.
OF course there are hundreds II
|other men. able, competent and Wiling
to work in t',e industrial field u the
carrier, but should these lnirty TWO
men unite their interests, there would
be no railroad entering two of the
large cities OF over $4,000 inhabitants
that would pull a train into the cities.
The Burlington, Santa Fe, Rock
island and Frisco systems. three OF
these being practically one. are all
separated from the other great sys-
tema known by their advertising as
having trackage from the Mississippi
to the Great West, but of these only
the Santa Fe has trackage west OF the
5ierre Navada mountain chains,
With the exception OF the Clark
aud Moffett interests, Hill an Harri-
nan own four-ffths of all railroads
extending west of the Rocky NOM
tains, and they control all vessels OF
size dying the American fiag on The
Pacific ocean.
The thirty-two men listed as being
the great carrier magnate5 are rich
beyond computation They own sc
many miles OF trackage It Is almost
beyond belief And the crime OF it all
is that there are no dozen OF them
with a solitary dollar Invested in these
great properties
BY the stupidity OF our corporation
law iramers. these stock jobbers
we're allowed TO dispose OF suf
hcient of their stocks to pay the ex-
Mr. Moflitt and Ex-senator Clark owns
several million dollars worth Of roals
his own money being invested therein
But Mr.. Clark is not one of the fa,npl
thirtytwo. be ranking with come
eight others as secondary magnates
And strangely and IN contravention OF
what some of the magazines have tc
iay Oh the topic. John d. Rockefeller
y not Of the selected baud OF mag
nafea
i's partners in stockiobblng Rogers
lNid fiagler are head and shoulders
in ihc ilst. but the real president Of
.he Siandard on has never scattered
hia iiesiments where he thoush hi
Jtber5 might know as much about the
inNostm ~ as himself h
Recently some nifty railroad men
mot IN the beautiful city OF Rochester.
New York II was strange place 20
meet, but IL is SO far away from the
actual east aud west travel rs net 10
be OF much Importance away from It's
own provincial territory At that
meeting the man who did the talking
was not one OF the men advertised in
the press reports as being all-poweriG
Yet the word OF Hbdep Thomas is
supreme 10 the railroad world east OF
the Mississippi There are thousands
Of mon better equipped to operute a
railroad system and maiN who would
NNNAAA'A a nNnN'iA AtAi NfHfNfN WI AHN
stockholders But there is no one IN
Tins wide world who cares less for the
weilbeing and comforts 1t his fellow.
man than this Mr. rhoras lie tells
how and when 10 push the alveroc "a.
stocks; holds down or pushes up bond
lnsues making his fellows millions np,
on millions. never seeking 10 add q
dollar 10 the real value OF the proliel-
ty aud figuring not the let's. as -
maintenance OF the rOi'ing stLy5y
When road has been drained OF ala
Source OF profit. he pef.ni's tho mis-.
guided So ckholderR TO vofs another
ss,t of h lds and +n n ..n. ~ rs-'--
interest must be pa ? ~ stlthhlh
er tiusting in Providence and good
crops 10 keep the pager he hnals from
becoming wholly Sorfiliess
Hence the stocks are kept where
thty can be secured by thu combine,
on the other hand the bonds. with in
terest guaranteed also belonging 40
their syndicate. or next best associa
tion thereto.
And yet the senate OF these United
states. composed OF some as learned
men as ever SAT- ia a legislotiF, body
sraveiy debate whether they will irs
and enact a law 70 make these stocks
and bonds worth what thoif face calls
for,
Sarely The DAYS OF wildcat money
proposals are coming back 20 as and
strang. 10 relate. thos who hut a few
yssrs ago were den9ii1s that lho
mon-s b. safe. sane and soulil are
SPONSORS for the ret l,A
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