MAY 28, 1903.
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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MILLIONAIRES AND A8TMOTES
The editor of The Independent has
had a somewhat intimate acquaint
ance with a few of the millionaires
who; run this country. Most of those
with whom he for a short time a3
sociated. were what are called "self
made men," though one or two of
them inherited their fortunes. Those
with inherited fortunes took things
easy and did not bother themselves
much about government, except when
the bankers got them excited about
the gold standard. Knowing nothing
, at all about political economy they
went wild over that and Mark Hanna
was able to "pull their legs" without
limit. The "self-made" fellows were
all hustlers and were in speculation,
' politics and business up to their eyes.
They were the chaps upon.whom the
political bosses relied. With one of
these millionaires the editor was on
terms of intimacy for two or three
years. He was the boss of .his church
and dictated who the pastor ehouM
be, claiming that he had a right to do
so, because he paid the main part
. of his. salary. He contributed liberally
to missions and colleges and all sorts
of church work.
He lived in a great mansion whica
had all sorts of electrical conven
iences. He had a library, of course
There was an ornate fireplace in it
and the book cases were of the most
costly kind. When it came to the
books, there were cyclopedias, histor
ies, biographies, works of travel, a
full set of Darwin, many works on
astronomy, all the standard fiction and
all of them in magnificent and costly
bindings. Works of art adorned every
room in the house. He really had a
taste for art and his selections, some
of them costing thousands of dollars,
were of the highest cast.
This writer spent one rainy day all
alone in that library. As far as he
could discover not. one of the books
had ever been opened. It was im
possible that the proprietor, who
started for his office every morning at
7:30 and did not return until 5 p. m.
or later and then in the evening at
tended church meetings, the clubs,
political meetings or the theatre, could
ever find an hour to spend there. He
read the daily papers while he was
eating his breakfast. .
He. had interests in several banks,
in street car, gas and railroad fran
chises, besides running a large com
mercial business. On current affairs
he was well posted, but his informa
tion was picked up during the day at
the meetings of directors of the vari
ous companies and banks in which he
. was interested and on the streets.
One night he started down town,
but one of his carriage horses went
lame and he ordered his coachman to
return. He spent that evening in his
library with this writer. There was
a big wood fire and the electric lights,
pictures and costly furniture made it a
brilliant place. After gazing into the
fire for a minute or two he remarked
that the cashier of his bank had, said
to him that there were some things
in -higher mathematics that were a3
beautiful as the finest paintings and
asked what the cashier could possibly
mean. Then the following conversa
tion occurred:
"I suppose that there are some
"things about asymtotes and conic
sections that to a mathematical mind
ould appear beautiful."
"What is an asymtote?"
"That would be very hard to ex
plain unless you began at the begin
ning of the science, learned the first
principles and gradually approached
an answer to the question by consecu
tive study."
"Well, tell me something about, it'
"Roughly speaking, it is a line al
ways approaching a curve, but can
never reach it"
"But it cannot go on always ap
proaching and never meet. That Is
impossible."
"It is something like this: If I
jtake that apple and always divide. It
exactly in half, no matter how long
I keep up the operation, there will fflV
ever be something left." ,
The millionaire fell into a brown
study for a minute and then slowly
replied: "Y-e-s, that is so." Then
he went to the book shelves and took
down . a cyclopedia, remarking:
"Asymtotes and conic sections are a
part of geometry, I suppose." After a
few minutes he said: "Yes, here it is,
all about conic sections, asymtote,
parabula, hyperbola. I see all those
words here." Then he closed the
book, saying: "Some time, if I ever
get a day off, I am going to look that
whole thing up." Seating himself he
said: '
"I -believe that Father Jasper is
right notwithstanding all the fun that
the newspapers poke at him. I saw
a long article written by a scientist
who claimed that the theory that the
world turns around cannot be proved."
Then he went to a drawer and found
the clipping. "I never read only the
head-lines," he said, "but when I get
time I am going to read the whole
article through."
Now this man whQ was a genius
at accumulating money, whose whole
life and thought had been devoted ti
that: purpose, was also the' principal
political factor in the city where he
lived. And yet he had no knowledge
of government, had never given a sin
gle thought to the vast problems con
fronting . society at every turn, and
was used by the boss of his party as
his principal asset. It was to the in
terest of that boss, and all bosses for
that matter, to hold up this man as
a pattern for every one, to pretend to
refer to him questions of government
finance, when for the life of him he
could not have told what value was,
what wealth was, what laws affected
production and distribution, where the
dividing line should be set between
government ownership and private
ownership and perhaps had never
given a thought to any of these
things. He had money and lots of it
That in the opinion of the citizens of
that city was a sufficient reason for
allowing him to decide how they
should vote and whom they should
elect to office. In exercising that pow
er it was of course the natural ten
dency of the man to favor all those
things that his millionaire associates
favored and above all look out that
there were no men elected to office
who would pass laws interfering with
the franchises and banks in which he
was interested.
There are several thousand just such
cases as this in these United States.
It is taken for granted that if a man
has a million or two, , he, of all the
community, is best qualified to control
legislation and direct how the laws
should be administered, when there
may be numerous other men in the
community who have studied all these
questions, and though they may not
be possessed of much wealth, are in-'
finitely better qualified to make laws
and administer them. When the peo
ple of the United States have arrived
at that state of civilization that they
will take account of the qualities of
men and not the amount of money
they have accumulated, there will be
better government, and not till then.,
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IMPERIALISM V. SELF GOVERNMENT
Admiral Dewey said: "The people
of the Philippine Islands are better
qualified for self-government than the
people of Cuba and I know them
both." Cuba has had one year of
self-government. When General Wood
turned the treasury over to the Cu
bans there was a balance of $540,000
in cash. On the 1st of May that bal
ance had been increased to $2,C99,000.
All current expenses have been
promptly paid, the educational ani
sanitary measures established by tha
American authorities have been kept
up, peace and order have been main
tained, and a good army has been
organized. Never in the history of
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the island has there been so low a
death rate.
The Filipinos have had three years
of imperialism and according to all
the official reports and private advices
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and deplorable condition of any on the
face of the earth. Instead of Im
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propriations have had to be made from
the United States treasury to keep the
people from dying of starvation.
It is a fair test of imperialism, and
self-government. One promotes pros
perity and the happiness of the peo
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content and constant war. It Is as bad
for the United States as it is for the
people of the Philippines. What is
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are all still for it will never amount
to anything under imperialism.
MARK HANNA RA8CALS
The putting of Perry S. Heath, the
most unscrupulous of the Mark Han
na intriguers, Into the responsible po
sition of first assistant postmaster
general was an outrage on the very
face of it No man with such ante
cedents should ever be appointed to a
general office In that department , of
the government The demoralization
of the force and the frauds on the
government which followed are what
any man of sense knew would follow.
The denunciations of the written
charges made by Seymour W. Tulloch
as "hot air" and "glittering generali
ties" will not "go down" with the
American public. Here is one, and
there are many more of like charac
ter, which is anything but a "glitter
ing generality."
The postmaster one day brought
me an allowance of the first as
sistant postmaster general, sal
ary and allowance division, July
27, 1898, appointing Emma Janes
and Fannie R. Winans as cleaners,
or char-women, for one year from
July 1, 1898, at $600 per annum.
Handing me the allowance, he
stated it was the order of the de
partment that the names of the
women should not appear upon
any pay-roll; that the parties
designated should not know that
the other was in receipt df any; -
money or had any connection with
the office. He also stated that
neither of them was expected to
report for any duty. This com
plimentary roll was added to
later.
Putting his women on the pay-roll
of the United States is just what
might have been expected of Perry
S. Heath. When congress meets per
haps we may get the facts about these
political rascals.
VICK-FRIhIDKNT THOMPSON
A number of Nebraska papers,
among them the Lyons Mirror, Cen-
tral City Democrat and Plattsmouth
Journal, are commenting favorably
upon the boom started by the Des
Moines Democrat for W. H. Thomp
son of Grand Island for vice president
in 1904. Nothing would please The
Independent better than to see Billy,
presiding over the United States sen
atebut if he must go in as the tail
to Cleveland's kite, and it looks as it
he must if he is to be vice president,
then The Independent would prefer,
some other candidate. Of course, the
Des -Moines Democrat was bringing
him out on the assumption that the
Kansas City platform democrats will
win out an assumption that is by no
means a foregone conclusion, as it
seems to The Independent at this
time.
The Louisville Courier Journal of
May 20 devotes almost its entire edi
torial page to Grover's "takin no
tice," and calls attention to its first
editorial on the subject, June 25, 1902,
after Cleveland had appeared with
Hill at the Tilden banquet; and re
gards ,his mourning at Hewitt's fun
eral, his Booker T. Washington speech
and his St. Louis journeyas evidence
that "the old Mugwump (is) getting
into place the literary bureau adroit
ly at work Mr. Cleveland is the
grand old man shunning publicity,
seeking nothing, not, even deigning to
utter the one word 'no,' which would
have stopped all question, have si
lenced all criticism."
And it will be found that his speech
at the Kischineil mass meeting, May,
28, is simply another step in the con
sDiracv. Meanwhile the eastern pa
pers are either actively or passively,
helping along nis Doom anu u umy.
Thompson runs for vice president on
the democratic ticket it looks as
though it would have to be Grover
and Billy. This -The Independent is
not anxious to see.