Albuquerque citizen., 1908-03-30
THE UNCR0WNED
KINGS AND
KNIGHTS
How Special Privileges Have
Given 100 Men Control Over
Eighty Millions of Men.

business-has been shown in the list
nf "ananciers" compiled by Senator
La toilette, from the directorates
ana s.ockholding boards of all the
principal corporations doing business
in the United states.
II has been announced that the
contrui Of all the great utilities the
railroads, steamship lines, the banks
the coal mines, the iron mines and |
smelters, the manufacture of agri-
cultural implements and the manu- |
facture of all the great necessities OF !
life-the control of all these utilities |
has been gathered into the hands of
a few banks, whose control has been |
gathered into the hands of few
individuals-possibly less in number
than tWpnty-five-who are. the real
plutocrats (from two words meaning
wealth and power, and meaning per-
sons who WELD a governing power oy
virtue Of their wealth.
senator La Follettes list of the
hundred plutocrats of the repupnc Is
interesting in two ways 1t is inter-
esting in the names which are famil-
lar. and in those which are not. There
are many men in this list who are
found to be on scores of directing
boards. who never have been heard
OF by the average newspaper reader.
In many instances they are mere
pawns on the financial chess board.
moved about by the Rockefellers ana
Ryans.
Unfamiliar Names.
After the paWns have been eliml-
mated the real control is found to
vest in a list of men who are gradu-
ally becoming better known to the
voting public. These men are found
to be associated in groups but each
group has directors in the other
groups and so the various groups
are more or less closely knitted to-
gether by ties Of common interest.
Among the names. in this list of
100. not so familiar to the public are
these: Edwin Marston, Samuel Sloan
Moses Taylor, G. II. Dodge, j. II.
Post. F. A. Valentine, C. $. Fairchild,
John w Sterling, stephen S. Palmer,
r II. Hubbard, Adrian Iselin, Jr,
Brayton Ives, q. w Oakman, G. w.
Young c. F. Baker, NJ. Taylor Pyne,
G. Ledyard Blair. V. z. Snyder, ii.
H. Nreeland, John Claffn, Chas. La
nier, Woodbury. Langdon, A. d. JUL
lard. Jas. N Jarvie. G.. G. Hayen,
Frederick Cromwell, c. A. Peabody
G. H Allen, a. w. Krech, S. b. Ship
ley. p. d. Cravath, Henry Walters, J.
T. Coolidge, Nathaniel Thayer, sam
uel Rea, Edwin Hawley, John r
Hegeman ID. O. Mills, A. f. orr
Chas. steele, II. Nick. Trombley
John l. Waterbury, f. f. c. Young
Thos. Dolan, John II. Converse. This
list contains forty-fve names.
The Four Divisions.
In the following list the names are
more familiar These men. in mos
cases. control or are the active man
ayers for the men in the former list
The Morgan group: j. Pierpon
Morgan. Thos. f. Ryan, August Bel
mont, Jas. ]. Hill, Jacob SchiH, Il. II
Gary. John F. Dryden, j. B. Duke
Levi p. Morton, Paul Morton, a.
Brady, G. NJ. Schwab, Geo. w. Per
kins p. A. r. Widener. h. j. Der
wind.
The Rockefeller group: John d
Rockefeller VIM. Rockefeller, Jas
Stiuman. f. II. Hartman, Geo. j
Gould. Henry NJ. Flagler. II. II. Rog
crs, D. Guggenheim, Victor Morawet
Daniel G.. Reid.
The Vanderbilt group: John Jaco
Astor. w. d. Vanderbilt w 5. Webb
Chauucey Depew Jas. NJ. Fargo, W
Is Vanderbilt.
The Chicago group: J. Ogden Ar
muur. John J. Mitchell, l.. f. SWif
Chas q Dawes, Jas. Forgan, Olive
Ames cyrus Mccormick.
In this list there are thirty-eigh
names all quite familiar; but som
more 50 than others The names
this list have been arranged in fou
groups, according to their bushes
affiliations For, as Senator La Fo
lette pointed out, there are principe
% hOWGNp
more or less knit together by III
common interest Of doing" the pee
pie
There are fifteen leading spirits
the so-called Morgan group. All al
less rich and powerful than Morgan
Many are little more than employ'
of his 50. i'm a way, it may be saI
that all this group of fifteen may
embraced in the single name of Mo
gan. for he is its control
The ten men I'm the second grOu
am are really controlled by John
Rockefeller. This group is general
antagouistic to the Morgan grou
but both groups gets together on II
common platform of desire to sid
rack Roosevelt and his policies, al
rn name some man they can contr,
They have the country's busines
they want it, government.
A very rich. but less militant gro'
IL. rHlr known aS the Nauderb
group D,pev is hardly more th'
the political and business represent
tive of the Vanderbilt money We
f- a -pu-.u-lav. Fargo -uggestS e
rr.ss interests. and 80 il goes.
In the middle west suoSidia
group has risen .u late years Do
uf vast wealth produced by the me