St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-15
THE MORNING WORLD
Hands a Lemon to Mr.. j.
PierpOnt Morgan that'
is Quite Sour
Texas Takes the Suicide
Fever and Makes For
Herself d Record
Starve the Masses.

SfafVe the Masses.
Editorial from the New Orleans Morning World
]. Pierpont Morgan is an amateur
OF art, without being its patron. II
the rich finaneier has ever assisted a
struggling genius that fact has been
kept very quiet. But he is quite
willing to pay thousands for paintings
and tapestries which the unfortunate
artist disposed of some centuries ago
for few meals and inadequate shell
ter. This, however, does not detract
from Mr.. Morgan's well known ad-
miration for the artistic, after CEN
turies have demonstrated the merit of
the work.
Mr.. Morgan is himself a genius in
the realm of finance, despite his ex-
traordinary failure in the matter of
the shipping trust. He is banker,
promoter and underwater, and
leader in all of these branches of high
finance. But when it comes to know
ledge of human nature, Mr.. Morgan
is the most ignorant or the most ar
rogant of men.
In an interview with Paris Journal
ist, Mr.. Morgan expressed much
personal satisfaction at the present
depressed condition of business affairs.
His keen eye detected the jewel in
the toad's head at glance.
The public needs to be starved into
submission to the will of men of Mr..
Morgan's class, and the stoppage of
the wheels of industry will effect that
purpose, he believes.
Tt was suggested that the carrying
out of his policy might produce strikes,
but Mr.. Morgan cheerily dismissed the
suggestion with the remark that the
workers had no jobs as it was and
could not strike.
He intimated, moreover, that he
and other Captains of industry" in
tended that the workers should re-
main jobless, until hunger brought
them to their senses.
All which possesses the merit at
least of unusual candor!
1t shows, on the other hand, ex-
traordinary ignorance of human
nature.
Never having been hungry, Mr..
Morgan is perhaps unaware that a |
hungry man is dangerous man, and
dangerous to the class rep
resented by Mr.. Morgan.
The arrogance of wealth in this |
country has had its counterpart no
where in Roman empire in its de-
cadent days and in France just before
the Revolution.
That portion of the French nobility
which attempted to shame and .tbring
to their senses" the peasantry-the
workers-by emigrating when the
troubles began, Were not. more Grass
than Mr.. Morgan. Astarving man may
submit or he may fight, and the odds
are largely that he will fight.
Having nothing to lose by violence
and everything to gain, he will re-
sort to violence.
The consummation of Mr.. Morgan S
plans would bring down his carefully
erected system with a crash.
Blinded by arrogance, the great f.
nancier is unable to see the danger he
is creating, but it is menace, never
theless.
It would be well, wer@ some one
close to him, to call his attention to
the fact that the feudal system
crumbled under the management of
starker and abler men than he, and
that there is not the remotest possi-
bility Of his re-establishing it.
The day of the lord of the manor
is dead beyond resurrection, and were
it capable of resuscitation the weapon
would necessarily be sword. not the
stock ticker.
Mr.. Morgan would do well to con-
fine his activities (outside of business
hours) to the purchase of paintings
and tapestries, and leave politics and
sociology to others.
His Paris interview will stir up
trouble for him in the future.
He would do well to deny it outright
and elect the interviewer to the
Ananias Club, established by his pet
No population was ever SO highly
civilized, Mr.. Morgan, that it would
not revert to first principles on occa-
sion.