Life — May 18, 1905 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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a “ While there ts Lite there VOL. XLV MAY 18, 15905, No. 1 West ry-Fiest Sreeer, New Yous. is plea to call t tent persons wh have been used to de- that Am were clare the cans greatly over- addicted to ney-mal ing, to. the considerable against excessive urgen ployment which now invites observa- The si in many quarters this reaction are Mr. Carne- of the most years of his life to getting preposterously rich, has confessed, in at the re- ulting condition does not seem to him tion ns of visibl er devoti gic. a many precious the most public fashion, t to be creditable, and has made stouter and more persistent efforts to unload than any man whose struggle history has recorded. It is not so certain that Mr. Rockefeller thinks he much, but if not, he is the only man with the of his son John, who is not has too in the country ale ex- ception surcof it. Mr. James Alexander, aman of very wide experience, so earnestly distrusted the effect that control ¢ vast’ money-makir have upon the gencrous nature of Mr. Hyde n his young friend's selected F ide the effort of his life to relieve that young friend young friend and wa sordid in- him, Mr. has from contamination by the that threatened got rich. He contrition for some details of his own fluences Lawson evinced pecuniary success, and has filled the land with wails over the havoc that unrestrainable dollar -clutching has wrought with the sweet nature of his old friend, Henry Rogers. Mr. Armour -LIFE- and his accomplices of the Beef Trust had got things so arranged as to get the better of ever; m they dealt, from the steer to the beggar whose dog gnawed akers, they were one with wh ‘armer who raised a one. As money but far sout sixty-nine mil nificent from admiring ion Ameri- the Gov- cans speculate unfeelingly on chance of sending them to } crnor Odell lost influence as : the politician beeause he gave impression of ver-solicitous for pecuniary Folk Missouri as a being enlargement — Mr nade r of was token of appreciation of his efforts to restrain, by fit formalities, the con- version of public property into private wealth. Mr Edward Harriman. a man of immense vigor and vast possi- bilities of usefulness, has come to be somewhat apprehensively regarded because, in his zeal for the execution of huge projects. he has found expedi- ent the personal acquisition or control fous properties of Se of num immense value. HERE are other 1 space to catalogue time when Mr Trust have come more—many more— cases than we have Since about the Morgan put the Steel toget enormous fortunes so common as to lose much of the power of exciting admira- tion that they once possessed. Cer- tainly our Ame « so far at the sight of money as they did. To say that riches hac of fashion would not be true ‘an eyes do not stick gone their vogue is too deep founded to be seri- ken in any five, or ten, or But vast ously s! fifty years wealth as a spectacle really does not look so sol- emn tous as it did before we saw so much of it. We still appreciate the means of support, but the expediency of sweating overtime for overmuch of what John Gates thered fifty millions’ worth, and Charley Schwab almost as much more, does not com- mend itself as heartily to our judg- sit did. When the wood: has g ments so full of undigested millionaires, the acquisition of superfluous quantities of dollars commends itself less earnestly tothe judicious The disposition is to look the dollars in the date; to ask, Where did he get them ? How did he get them ? What can he do with them ? What have they done to him? We are not cured of acquisitiveness, of but really friends, are we not little 7? And must improvement have come, if it was to come at all, in just this wa a result of a partial loss of course, improving not appe due to the sight of too much super- abundance? R T would be nonsense, of course, to talk about not wanting money, for 1 do want a certa ible amouw ther, for current bills to pay our bills. The des is not small, ei If there is a reaction and some change for the better. above su tend to be high as ested, it may perhaps be traceable to the circumstance that the glut of American money has cheap- ened the value of dollars relatively to some other valuable things character looking up a little as com- pared with affluence? Do not folks who can afford to be a little squeam- ish about how they make their livings, and about the degree of extortion that they pra Is not ctice, and the size and gross- ness of their impositions on the com- munity, think rather better of them- selves of late, as compared with other folk whose appetites are so voracious as to outlaw all such scruples? Is there not just udice grain of growing yuk ej. is earned, as compared with money that is got by stealth and dexterity? Really, it lo« avor of mon a little as though we bull market for char- We have had bull markets for pretty much everything else, with a good deal of subsequent deterioration acter in values. If any one is long of righ cousness, and has been acquiring lines of moderation, and clean living, and honest industry, we earnestly counsel him to retain his holdings, for it really looks as though the market for such things might be considerably stronger. comicbooks.com