Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-27
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN YOURSELF

DO you know what this means!
Two men own control $780, 32s678 of the wealth
of the United States
DO you know what that means? Even if you have read
it the second time YOU do not The is so nearly
round numbers that may say it is forty billions OF
dollars
And forty billions of dollars doesn't mean much to you
either until you know that it than third
of all the wealth OF the country
The two men who control this vast proportion
of the wealth of this country j. Piepont Morgan and
John d. Rockefeller
This is not wild, irresponsible political talk. 1t is
taken from the report of special experts appointed by the
committee banking and currency OF the national house
of representatives by authority of the house itself They
have just recently made their report to the chairman OF
that committee and in their report they show that these
two through themselves and the interlocking in
teracng system Of drectorates 36 per cent OF all
the wealth and natural resources of the country Their
wealth is divided follows: lndustrias and public uti
ties $l5636 S53Sl4; railroad properties. $17,25OOOO;
banks and other financial institutions $3,OOOO1l ,O33
mining and oil properties, 81 5O0,949,942
The various listed under these groups include
Morgan concerns Vanderbilt, Gouds Standard OIL Hill,
Guggenhem, Ryan, Belmont and the like. Each is not
dominant in all, but each is dominant in some and each
works in harmony. There is one line that down
through Standard OIL another down through the Guggen
helm ne another through the Hill interests, but all are
tied up directly through some thread of interest to these
ated all working together and manipulated by these two
interests Each of these banks finances another chain OF
industries railroads. or other property or some OF the
great industrial trusts, like steel oil, lead copper.
Now do You begin to what it means!
Do you know that these interests have but recently
begun to realize that Idaho has grown to be too big state
for the Oregon Short Line to control alone and that only
recently they have sent here whose chief business
to see that they gain control of the politics and
ment of the state?
1t is true, and these men working harder now than
they worked before in all their lives.
Men have fairly gasped at the boldness OF the Capital
News in this campaign, that it should out and name
these and show where and how they are working
The Capital News would not dare to do this two or four
years from unless the people win their victory this
fall It only dares to do it because it believes the
powerful interests refrain from open attack to drive
it out of business to force to keep SILENT only because
they too fear that the people back of it. SHOULD
THEY FIND AT THIS ELECTION THAT THE PEG
PIE ARE'W1 THEM OR THAT THEY. ARE IN
IDAHO WILL EVER DARE AGAIN TO MAKE SUCH
FIGHT AS THE CAPITAL NEWS HAS BEEN
MAKING AND IS NOW MAKING AGAINST THESE
POWERFUL AGENCIES. Even now the Capital News
is perfectly how they chatting Even now they
have been able to make it feel the loss of patronage
What would it do should they be so bold to be abb
through their banks and other channels to instruct thu
merchants who do business with them to to do bust
with the Capital News-an order which they woult
give today in holy minute if they not afraid tina
appeal to the people would put those merchants
those agencies out Of business
LET THIS FIGHT FAIL, HOWEVER-LET Thu
PEOPLE GIVE THEM AN INDICATION THAI
THAT THEY DO NOT CARE, AND NO PAPER, HOW
EVER RICH OR POWERFUL COULD LONG EN-
DURE THE FIGHT THAT WOULD BE sTARTEI
AGAINST IT.
The Capital News would not dare to make this fgh
nOw had it not been that the people of Boise showed il
the hardest battle fought in Idaho in the recent
mission form of government fight that they alive t
the necessity Of retaining their independence Com