The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-09-02

The men whom he has broken. whose
happiness he has destroyed, whose
property he has practically confs-
Gated. cannot be consoled by being
told of the millions he has given to
the Chicago Institutes which shows
all the symptoms of a University,
except intellectual activity.
The magazine writer is to be con-
graduated that he has entered the
veil of mystery with which Mr..
Rockefeller has surrounded himself.
The elusive modesty which for so
many days baffled the Offices of the
court. has proven no obstacle to him
and he has prevailed upon the sancti-
monious millionaire to open for him
the secrte pages of Ledger A." his
is Mr.. Rockefeller most precious
possession. When any man has cried
to him for mercy he has turned to it's
pages for consolation. 1t is a com.
fort to know that the record is COM
plete, and that in at least one depart
ment of his activity there can be full
publicity. We have heard of Ledger
A. before.
| 1t appears, furthermore, that it
was in a pious connection that Mr..
Rockefeller first showed his remark
able talent for making others give.
Later he applied this talent to
more personal uses, but so did Robin
Hood and Captain Kidd and other
great lights of history and song.
Again it is recorded. and here the
words of the great man himself are
used, for it appears that both he and
his assistants ''were more than will
ling'' to extend aid to this magazine
writer. that Mr.. Rockefeller and his
associates dwellstegether in brotherly
love. This is disappointing, as it
prolongs the period of waiting which
honest men must endure. At the
same time this harmony is neither
strange nor unprecedented.
When the Lady of Niger took her
celebrated walk it is reported that
both she and the tiger returned. that
the smile was still apparent and there
is no record that the lady ever filed
complaint on accounc of her altered
position. The esprit de corps" was
perfect as could have been desired by
the greatest assimulator.
1t is not to be expected that the
sycophant who can in one column
dwell feelingly on the usual length of
Mr.. Rockefeller "drive" at golf,
and. in the next. harp upon 1.-THE flip
pant reporting of his daily doings'
which Mr.. Rockefeller is obliged to
endure. could have any sense of hui
NOR; SO it is not surprising that in
closing he should offer US this re-
markable solution of Mr.. Rockefel-
lerss unpopularity.
1t appears that Mr.. Rockefeller,
being born organizer. sought and
obtained only the brightest men in
the firms which he bought, (note the
word) into his organization. -
Therefore "the list of men who must
have FELT SIGHTED is very
large"
i It is matter of court record that
the methods of the Standard Oil Co.
have bankrupted hundreds of splendid
American business men. that these
methods have caused penury and want
and suicides. Therefore the list of
men who must have FELT SIGHTED
is very large. We are reminded of
the young lady. who. when told that
q girl friend had been attacked by a
fiend incarnate. remarked that she
did not think that was Every polite. :"
| We we're quite touched to learn from
these articles that the Standard Oil
nlagnates were training their progeny
in the gentle and somewhat exclusive
art of philanthropy. 1t was therefor
with surprise and CONSERVATION that
we read day or so later that John
D. Archbold Jr.. IA portrait of the
Senior prominent Vice President
of the company. being one OF the
finest exhibits in this defensive show
ing } had so far forgotten his training
and the traditions Of Standard Oil
that he had refused to pay all the ex-
pense of the burial of little Portu-
gese girl whom his auto had killed
while he was riding in it, and that