Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
MORGAN NOT
HAPPY MAN
GETS NO MORE OUT OF LIFE
THAN ORDINARY MORTAL
so SAYS DIR. MCINTYRE OF Los
ANGELES
Also Knows Rockefeller, Whom He
Cites as One Hated contin-
ualIy--The Great Are
Lonely

Il have known John d. Rockefeller
and j. Pierpont Morgan personally,
said the Rev. Robert Mcintyre, d. D.,
liastor of the First Methodist Episcopal
church, in his church study at Sixth
and Hill streets, yesterday afternoon.
And l tell you they lead, in one respect,
Cnselfish lives. They cannot live for
themselves. They must live for others.
'These captains of industry as we
style them, remind me of nothing so
much as great mountain peaks. Take
rike's peak. Is there anything more
barren and desolate than that towering
top? Not a blade of grass, not a shade
tree. Does it live for itself? Never!
IT hears the cry of the lowlands and
the plains and the valleys, asking, beg
ging for water and nurture. And the
great mountain top gathers to itself
the water and then sends 1t down to
the thirsty valleys, where flowers and
grass and trees and grain grow and
flourish. The mountain top cannot
keep anything to itself. 1t lives for
others.
1.-THE same way with these great men.
Morgan. Does he live for himself? /
know him. A sad, lonely man, whose
only solace is in the collecting OF great
art treasures. When he goes on trip
over the railroad he cannot get any
more than | do. He cannot eat more
than one meal at time. He cannot
occupy more than one berth at a time
in the Pullman at night.
Money of Little Use
"He cannot wear more than one pair
of suspenders at a time. He can buy
more, of course, but he can't use more
than one of each. He uses but part
cf his fortune on himself. He is forced
by his position to supply the needs of
others.
Take Rockefeller. He is another
man whom / do not envy. With all his
wealth he cannot enjoy the meals do
Haunted and ever followed by that vim
dictive hate which is continually hatch
ing out new patches of lies about him,
he has no refuge even in his home,
where hear that when he goes out to
enjoy an airing in his own magnificent
grounds he is the object of camera
tends interest.
ct think in many respects he is mis-
understood. l have no doubt but that
he regrets many of the things which
he has done in a business way, espec-
tally in the beginning of his career
But business is a warfare of competi-
ton. Many smaller firms were crushed
to the wall during those oil discovery
days in Pennsylvania when Rockefeller
was laying the foundation for the vast
wealth which is now his. But circum-
stances forced him to do what he did.
1t was his life or the other fellows
and he fought to defend himself. Now
money acquiring is instructive with
him. He has been given that gift 10
accumulate wealth. But I know 1 am
as happy as he is, and more so.
Lead Lonely Lives
ITO offset these great men, these
mountain tops amid humanity, God has
placed thousands of other people, who
like the valleys and plains, do not
tower above the world. and 1t is their
reeds to which these mountain peaks
of wealth and ability contribute.
mot only the leaders in wealth, but
the great men of literature and art
have led lonely lives. Theirs are the
heroic lives-spent for others and never
for self. Are they happy? Look at
Burns closing days-look at the fate
CT Columbus-often poverty and dis
grace marked the closing hours of the
l'fe which has been lived as the world
thinks amid the glory of fame, but in
reality in a loneliness which none can
wish for themselves"