Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-30
D. DOOMED
FOR PRESIDENT BY
NEWARK RECTOR
Rev. E. A. WATSON Gives His
Reasons in Magazine
Article.

John D. Rockefeller for President of
the United States is suggested by the
Rev. q. A. WATSON. rector of St.
Stephens Episcopal Church, writing in
the July number of 1.-THE Crown" the
church magazine, He says, in part:
MAY it not be that history will
recognize Rockefeller, Morgan. Harri-
man and their congeners as the great
mon and pioneers Of this age? That
they are reviled is IN favor of this
possibility, for the great are apt to be
spurned by their own.
docs not history Judge men by the
results of their activities and praise
them IL the world is better of because
they have lived and worked? 1t seems
certain hat history recks little of mo-
tives or moral codes, and much of re-
suits. It has, on the whole, a high
regard for Napoleon and Henry VIII.
and Queen Elizabeth. Yet all three,
from a moral point of view, were scape-
graces. Yet their work, whatever it's
motive and whatever Its mode, was
beneficial, and, while we do not exalt
them as great moral exemplars, we
speak Of them with respect. May 1t not
be the same with the great business
magnates Of today? No doubt, accord
ing to the definitions, they are crooks
and robbers and law-breakers, and per-
haps some of them murderers. At
least, IL Ida Tarbells story of the
Standard Oil is to be depended on, COM
peting oil works were blown up and
the workingmen killed by agents of the
Standard OIL. And so astute a man as
John d. Rockefeller must have been
cognizant of what was being done in
his interest.
New Social Era.
yet 1t seems as If these captains of
industry, albeit 'chevaliers d. industrie,'
were ushering In a new Industrial and
social era.
"Of course, the Masters of Business
have not the philosophic insight to
know the part they are playing. Their
sole thought is their own power and
pelf. From this dictum, however. we
should perhaps except Mr.. Rockefeller.
He seems in many ways the greatest
of them all, and now. In his leisure, he
seems to apprehend the trend of social
forces. Certain 1t Is that his great
wealth is being disposed of with a pene-
trating judgment. He seems to be free
from the petty vanity of Carnegie. And
suppose he does raise the price of oil
every time he gives away a million.
Perhaps he is disposing of that million
more wisely than its first owner would.
There is no a to think that in his
benefactions he Is animated otherwise
than by the wish to make his wealth
socially and permanently useful. Prob
ably nine men out of ten think that
the best use a rich man could make
of his surplus wealth would be to give
1t away to the worthy poor. He might
as well chuck 1t into the fire. In ten
years there would be as many worthy
poor in need as there were before
Charity does more harm than good
anyway, and the world would be better
off without It. But what does Rookie
Teller do? He gives several millions tt
a medical institute for the investiga'
ton of the causes and the prevention
of disease. That institute will do more
good than many hospitals, though hos
pitfalls have their place. But the aver
age rich man could not have gotten be-
yond the conception of a hospital. Mr.
Rockefeller knows hat the good tina
hospitals can do. though real, is limited
as long as disease is being manufac'
tured right along night and day. 81
he says: Let us see IL we can't fint
out the cause of disease and then pre-
vent 1t, so tina we shall not neec
hospitals
All Have Failings.
wouldn't it be a joke If histor,
| chAy.lI ~rnNn,a4a <ho ,a..oh-raxyiIoA NV
Rockefeller the greatest man tina
America has produced since Abraham
Lincoln? The only thing that seem
really petty about Mr.. Rockefeller i
his piety. But, then, every man mus
be allowed some failings. His rea
religion may be larger than most PEG
pie think.
my idea is that If the people of thi
country were sagacious they would as
Mr.. Rockefeller to become Presiden
for life. ar,d administer the country 70
the ommon good, and give him sue
moral backing that Congress woul
carry out his plans. I do not believ
that there is a man in the country S
we'll fitted for President as he, and h
would get my vote and voice. His lus
} for wealth and power has been glutted
and with a and success has cometh
philosophic mind. He would devote hi
great abilities unselflshly to the com
mon veal. Contrast him with tn
. weak. Incompetent Taft. If a bushes
concern could secure Rockefeller for 1t
manager 1t would think that its futur
was made. He would just as success
Z kfully manage the business Of the cour
try. The more I think of 1t the NOR
, enthusiastic / become. 1 hereby nom
> nate Mr.. Rockefeller for our mex
l President; and 1 claim my place 1
history as the original Rockefeller mai
THE other rulers of our countr,
such as Mr.. Morgan, are strong With
. very narrow lines. And they are a
!. doing their part toward the tran:
formation of discordant elements into
harmonious social order"