The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-03-04

didn't preach this openly but all oil
acts showed that he believed that
and / / private conversation he advo
} Gated the doctrine, provided u
} thought that he would not be quoted
"The more meney he got the less
use he had for popular government
It was his opinion that Limited
monarchy where the government con
sisted of a king and a wealthy rulint
class was far preferable to govern
ment where the people choose theiT
own officers. All the talk ABOUT
curbipp trusts and limiting the power
of combinations annoyed him except
in cases where labo!ers combined 10
try to raise their wages. In that
C Use he was in favor of stern measures
O suppression. He was OF the opinion
that such combinations wee detrl'
mental to business.
Gle was a large owner OF maLu-
featuring plant ard bitterly resisted
all efforts to pass legislation limiting
hours of labor to eight per day, for
bidding child labor and requiring
sifety appliances in factories de
regarded all such legislation as an
Infringement of the rights Of capital
and calculated to interfere with the
profits of business.
can his life he regarded property
as entitled to more consideration than
person and the dollar as more i'm
portant than human life. The golden
rale he looked upon as the impractical
dream of the sentiments ist and its
application to business as Impossible
and undesirable. He believed that
what he had to sell, whether 1t was
money or the produce of his factory,
should be priced according to the
necessity IF the buyer and that the
doctrine that railroads and trusts
should be allowed TO charge all the
! traffic will bear is the correct rule of
business.
she built tenemeet houses and
made them as cheap as he could make
them and get tenants. His doctrine
was to get as much revenue as pos
sible out Of the investment. l never
knew him to miugle with the poor or
TO express any sympathy for their
20 ldition. When one OF the wOrkmen
III the factory of which he MAS the
principal owner was XII led while
working about a dangerous piece of
machinery he resisted the claim OF
I'll widow for the loss of her husband
OF the ground that the workman was
guilty OF contribut0ry negligence
because he knew that the machine
was not safe when be was working
with 1t.
"The fact that the nan had to work
with that machine or quit his job cut
no figure with him. He stood on the
law which said that the workman
worked at his own peril If he knew
that the machine was defective or
dangerous. The widow lost her suit
and is washing to support her father
less children, but no thought Of her
seemed to disturb the serenity Of his
couhtenance as he passed the bread
and wine at the celebration Of the
holy sacrament.
'lf this man who lies dead here
ever made fellow being happier and
did an act Of unselish kindness |
never knew of it. If he had thought
in his mind of anything except to
increase his wealth never knew it.
1t seemed to me that his soul was
shriveed by greed. 10 his will he
has left 5000, 900 to endow chair in
well known university. The chair
is to be named for him. 1t will be
posthumous bid for popularity that
he does not deserve and a hypocriti-
cal pretense of a charity that he
never felt
"But while stand here to tell the
truth / am entitled to no credit for
Sc deing. For years 1 lived like
men6icant on his selfish bounty and
never dared to say to his face what
an now saying over his dead body.
For the sake of comfortable salary
and house in which to live / stult-
fed my manhood, uttered prayers
that were mere lip service and with
sanctimonious smirk bowed before
the altar of mammon in order that /
aud mine Right be well clothed, well
housed and we'll fed. II heaven is a