The Washington times., 1919-12-03

A Business Man Gone.
Enemies Invisible.
Thinking Makes "Unrest."
Dangerous Minorities.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyright. Isi9)


Phocnicians and the Medicis,
Jacques Couer. old Rothschild, and
Rhodes, of South Africa, all win
be interested when Frick appears
and tells how he left business
He collected "art treasures" but
that was not important; he bought
what existed, did not stimulate
genius, as did the Medicis.
It is said that his pictures will
be given to the public. That means
he will give q lot Of his own
money and time and valuable ex-
pert opinion of others.
His important work was making
steel and building big plants
He was first to see what could
be done by making the steel bust
ness of the United States into one
concern he got from Carnegie an
option on the Carnegie plant,
foundation of the great Steel Trust,
at price Of one hundred millions.
He and another man, Leeds, paid
a million dollars for the option.
They couldn't pay the hundred
millions, and Carnegie took their
one million. He was q business
man. Fnck never forgave him.
You can imagine how Frick felt
when Carnegie sold to ]. Pierpont
Morgan for three hundred millions
what he had agreed to sell to Frick
for one hundred millions. You
must have a good deal of money
before you can even imagine how
bitter il is to lose two hundred
millions at once
Frick ruled rolling mills and
gigantic hammers that with one
blow could destroy the lives Of
thousands.
He was killed By germ poisoning,
By creatures so small that his eye
could not see them.
An anarchist tried to kin him
and failed Rich men fought him
and he conquered. Working with
fierce energy, he lived past seventy,
and then the invisible enemy sepa-
rated him from all his fine art. his
palace in Fifth avenue, his great
steel works in the West, his plans
for the future.
Except for little extra money
spent On coffin. funeral, and grave,
yffek leGvea the world S the
pooUuot workUnns n his nRfFl4
leaves IL Al TIE others that rre
building and planning and piling
up their millions will leave "A the
same way, and in q short tina
1t would pay them to use part OF
0eir money while they are here as
John D. Rockefeller does, lighting
GDeases that only the microscope
reveals. They would be wise also
n they would work to earn the
gratitude and affection of millions
while still here to know about 1t,
rather than be content to leave
some pleasing announcement of a
gin to be made after them
You read the Presidents mes
sage and, reading it, realize with
deep satisfaction that his health 10
greatly improved The man who
wrote that message is not a very
sick man. And Woodrow Wilson
IL not one to let some one else
write that to which he signs his
name.
All will be interested in the
Presidents diagnosis Of Indus
trial Unrest" He thinks failure
to arrange the peace league mat
tiers Is largely responsible, and that
passionate and malevolent agita-
ton" and profteers have made il
worse.
The cause of unrest will be
found also in the fact that millions
of men have been made to think
by the war. There has been more
thinking done in this country since
the war began than was done in
twenty-five years before the war.
The majority of men HAVE
nothing, ARE nothing, have little
70 nope kOE. w ucu lueY lQlQK.
they are dissatisfied. War makes
them think
Millions of young men were
taken from their homes, went
across the water, were disciplined,
dressed, fed. shod, lodged in a
new way. They thought in a new
way.
Wages increased enormously.
and having more made men
WANT more. Wanting some
thing makes men dissatisfied.
When you shake people out of
their ruts, you hear from them.
The war shook the people of
this country out of the ruts; it will
take more than signing a peace
league to get them back in a rut
again
The President says, "Russia to-
day, with its blood and terror. is
a painful object lesson of the DOW
er of minorities." To that the
President might have added that
q minority can have such power