Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-06
WI en- Standard Oil
Car ried West Va.
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to the finding of further letters, if
it only would
Be sure this letter and the Elkins
letter it replied to were, not the be-
ginning and the END of any Elkins
Archbold correspondence Do you re-
call the Elkins trust work in the Sen
ate? There is the Elkins law-it re-
lates to rebates, and other malefac-
tions of seven figures based
upon the almost universal assump-
tiDn that jailss are not .for the rich
but for the poor, declares that the
public must only fine and never i'm
prison a millionaire Relating is the
pet crime and cornerstone of Stand
ard OIL AS has been shown above,
it was Mr.. Rockefeller who invented
it. Also, rebating is crime that
none save mfllionaires are strong
enough to commit It. was natural,
therefore, that Mr.. Elkins should
wipe out the. element of bars and
bolts. and prison cells and stripes.
Doctor Guilletine invented the guillo-
tine, and headsman Samson strapped
that scientist to the plank and chop
ped him with his own knife inside of
a year. Mr.. Elkins was no Congress
sional Doctor Guillotine. In inventing
his Elkins law, he carefully left out
the knife. If the Clapp Committee will
dig up ALL the Archbold- Elkins let
tiers, it will find that the knifeless
Elkins law, as an original suggestion,
came not from Mr.. Elkins, but Mr..
Rockefeller, Mr.. .Archbold, and Stand
ard Oil.
Mr.. Elkins was strong and oaken
character. He was never the chattel
of Standard OIL The best that Mr..
Archbold might do was make deals
with him; he couldn't own him. Mr..
Elkins himself was worth, some say
$30,O00,000. His story in that gold
heaping behalf was the story of ev-
cry multimillionaire. They used to say
ofhthe old Panama Railway that a
dead man had been buried under ev-
cry cross-tie. The same might be told
of whatever track takes any gentle
man to $3O,000,O00 We must accept,
it would seem, our roses with their
thorns, our multimillionaires with the
crimes which produce them.
In every way Mr.. Elkins was one to
win the hearts of Mr.. Archbold and
Standard Oil. Broad, thick, tall
strong, enefgetic. sly, secret, aVari
cious, and a senator of these United
States, what would be more to the
Archbold. Standard Oil liking? Smooth
shaven, with never the trace of g
beard he had the face Of a prelate
Also, in his money getting, he had
the heart of shark. Upon celebrat
ed occasion Mr.. Roosevelt wrote of "a
man whose face is hard and whose
body is soft" In this he was supposed
to point to Mr. Elkins Since Mr.
Roosevelt never contradicted the sup
position, one is justified in regarding
that utterance of the Roosevelt pei
as embodying the Roosevelt impress
sion of Mr.. Elkins. And Mr. Roose
welt is a judge of men and weighs
them accurately.
No one could push a political but
ton or pull a political wire NOR,
! adroitly than Mr.. Elkins. He was il
his way West Virginia Mark. Hanna
I His political equipment lay in. talent
for organization, full pocket-booh
and plentiful lack of scruple., No on
H could get more out of dollar thai
he. No one could get more out of
man tain he And he kept none
better than he Kept promises.
+. In 1895 Mr.. Elkins caused himsel
A to be chosen senator-not from van
/, ty, not from patriotism, but becaus
4 there was no place where one coul
i $50 we'll swatch over ones coal intel
ests and railroad, interests as from
4 seat M the Senate In West yirgini
affairs his word was the kings wor(
1 You could no more beat him in Yves
i Virginia than you could get a rio
man than he. And he kept none
/, of the rules. II
In business as Ia politics. Nh. Ell
ina nroceeded on lines az least resi-