The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-01
WHOSE OK Is GoRED

Newspapers expressing appfoNal oi
conviction of Stanford Robinson. at.
torney fo- Augustus Heinze. for being
unprofesslonal in his advice to wit
ness who was summoned before
grand jury. should lhnk a second
time before getting too free with their
approval OF the matters wherein
Heinze. the twenty-year-ago pauper,
now millionaire, is being prosecuted.
Unless memory be snort IIeinze
the one man who ever fought 10
successful finish STANDARD oil.
He got hold of his mines and kept
them and he operated than although
the richest firm In the world fought
all of tho way and used all the arts
known 20 the ultrafrlch TO encom-
pass his ruin,
Augustus Heinze is represented as
4 man of courage and one able to
meet almost anv emergency. lie en-
tered the Montana mining wars when
millions were poured into state leg
lslative hoppers and he had few dol
lars to spend BY positive AMI
strong policy he held to his mines,
and Ne eventually drove all Standard
ON dummies behind the very pillar
of John ID. Rockefeller In persoA. a
hrother Of Rockefeller going to the
ditch" with Helnze
He has never posed before the pub
lie as a representative of good-hls
life has been n war against the powe'
aud the corruption OF the very rich.
He varred for right and ascertalned
To hold even the csmmonest form of
n defense line he must corrupt the
corrupt,ble aud fight unrlghieousness
when his cause was right. No hon.
est man will doubt he was steered
against the STANDARD Oil dragnet IN
New York. His penchant for women
OF the stage and other of the green
HORNE" ',,:s q slAs tlric y ste
The ceast ttionsA the Siardard bat
tered duwa stj ei ,'stci T.. rood hul
.tmi iish people against lie nzc.
THIS man. not yet tLnts five years
If axe. AMI who WIS 4 palper at
twenty f,e has h'f,eJ o. tre check
srbeara Cf fast f.Ldate. ft has been
worth an h .',l'ei ".ors cf dollars,
he has made a thousand men pass
from want to plenty; he has conquer
ed obstacles sufficient TO make hi'
life In Montana surpass q work oil
ficti1n, and his open and avowed
fight against the RockeSellers was tht
most spectacular and stupendous IN
the annals of American commerce.
the most spectacular and strange IN
the worlds history.
II is question again OF whoN on
is gored.
Heinze, taught to fight the forces
OF organized greed, perhaps, has
fought according to the Montana
rules OF the game. In doing sc
friends rave plunged him against
breakers, and he must now enter th1
controversy OF right against wrong
with the people preiudiced against
him. He Is the gamest and the strons
est slngle-handed chleftain the Stand
ard oil interests ever contendec
against. and his friends believe he
will emerge triumphant.
In the history OF American finance
the past ten years have been but
repetition OF one man after another
being crushed by Standard Oil; o
one railroad after another falling into
the complete control of Standard Oh
magnates until the average man hA'
feared to even SO much as enter
protest against those who run whC
against all existent statutory an
moral law In the employ of Standar'
Oil.
Heinze is far removed from mora
man who leans heavily on the stat
of right. he never claimed that. BN
training and by the very life he hai
lived. he Is a gambler, as willing t'
stake his last dollar or his life {,
back bis judgment as any man who
ever was hungry on the Great Divide
But that he has demonstrated GOO
battle can always be won or Tough
by good general. is now so apparent
thoughtless folk should be chary o
criticizing him. unless they know the
enormity OF difficulties he has con
tended against in his brief career.