Connecticut western news., 1908-03-26
NOT 50 MANY MOGULS
Fewer Than One Hundred Own Nation, La Toilette Now Says.
REGENT NUMBER TOO HIGH.


 Morgan and the Rookefellers at Very Top of Heap-Bryan and Roosevelt Pursuing Same Ends, Says Senator.
 Washington, March 25.--After hav- ing been twice interrupted by death among his associates, Senator La Fol fette concluded his three day speech in opposition to the Aldrich financial bill. He was greeted by a large audience in the galleries, but by slim attendance of his associates. As heretofore, he read from manuscript.
 In replying to the critics of the ear Her section of his speech, in which he asserted that less than 100 men cop trol the nations industries, the senator said that the number was too high, that, in fact, smaller body of men dominate the finance and commerce ill the United States.
 Mir. La Toilette argued that the Aldrich bill would only serve to strengthen tile great money power of Wall street.
 MT. La Toilette concluded his speech with a strong appeal to the progres- sive men" in the senate to stand to- gether and beat the bill. He spoke of the activities of the president and MT. Bryan in combating with wrongdoing among high f1nanciers.
 Bryan and Roosevelt Alike.
 'sWhatever difference there may be in party policy or personality between the president and Mr. Bryan, they are striving each in his way for certain fundamental truths. Whatever mis- takes MT. Bryan may have made in policy, whatever mistakes the presi- dent may have made In compromising legislation they are believed in by the people because they are fighting to preserve the principle that the nation should be governed by the people. "Along with the enormous increase in trust power has gone steady proc ess of standardization in the control of that power until now the entire situa- tionrfs dominated by the Standard Oil Morgan combination, he declared. ..The old fights between these two great powers have been laid aside. Mr. Morgan's picture adorns the wall of the inner room of the Rockefellers at 26 Broadway. Tn combination today they are working together to gather in the smaller powers. MT. Hill has been taught that he must not oppose the big ones. Standard Oil got in on the Great s Northern ore deal. The Gould interests are being swallowed up by the com bine. Morse and Heinze were neatly pocketed during the recent panic. The smelter trust was given a drubbing and started in the same direction. The Vanderbilts can no longer retain their important control and themselves see therhandwritfng on the wall"
 Fourteen Mon of Power.
 MT. La Toilette named as next after Morgan and the Rockefellers a, group of fourteen men who, he said, were -big operators and men of large power and interests in their own rights, These men, he said, find their best in terests fin working in harmony with Morgan and Standard Oil."s No combi- nation which they could form among themselves or with others could cope with that power, he declared In this list of fourteen he placed W. K. Van. derbilt,N August Belmont, Frederick Weyerhauser, Henry 0. Prick, J. Og- den Armour, George J. Gould, Jacob Schiff, E. H. Hartman, Thomas F. Ryan, Louis s. Swift, John Jacob As tor, James Speyer, James J. Hill and w. H. Moore.
 A second class of men in the list were the stars of lesser magnitude 2 but men of wealth and power, who work in with the combine, and a few of the higher rank of attorneys and bank presidents of the the system This group follows: c. H. Dodge, c. H Mccormick, stephen s. Palmer, Bray ton Ives, c. A. Peabody, c. F. Baker J. F. Dryden, J. s. Post, H. Taylol Payne, T.. H. Hubbard, c. e Haven w, J. Oakman, F. J. Berwind. J. B Duke, F. A. Valentine, w. D. Sloan Adrian Iselin, Jr.; Frederick Crom well G. W. Young, c. Ledyard Blair, D Guggenheim, V. P. Snyder, A. H. Bra dy, Edwin Hawley, D. o. Mills, Charles Steele, John J. Waterbury, Oliver Ames,+ Nathaniel Thayer, E. H. Gary John, Claflin, John R. Hageman, c. H Mackay, F. w. Vanderbilt, J. J. Mitch ell T. Jefferson Coolidge, Thomas Do Ian, Samuel Lea, Charles Lanier James c. Fargo, D. O. Reid, Henr, Walters, Norman B. Ream H. L. Hig ginson, P. A. B. Widener and F. B Morris.
 Last Group Merely Subordinates.
 Of the third group, including the bal ance of the lists, Senator La Follett said:
 "While some of them exercise larg power and hold many directorships, is a delegated power exercised by then in mere representative capacity. This part of the list is as follows:
 Edwin $. Marston, G. W. Perkins John s. Sterling, Otto H. Kahn, Jame F. Jarvis, A. W. Krotch, Paul Morton H. 0. Deming, Charles H. Russell Chauncey M. Depew, Oliver H. Payne w. s. Webb, James B. Forgan, Nose Taylor, Francis M Bacon, J. A. Stil ID