Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 25, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 20, 1894 Page: 2 of 8
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The State Capital.
By The State Capital Printing C0;_
FRANK H GREER. Editor.
dennis t. flynn
Cor IX' . I" Ooiiiri-
■ it) Ticket.
w. w. painter.
H s. i.awhbnck
liEOKOE H DODSON
a. h. ursroN,
I! KMMKTT STEWART.
JOSEPH STILES.
SARA L BUS WORTH.
k. O. barker, m. d
H. L. WHITE.
ro^iX-ii'i'i-i l-t Di-irlcl W It
District JOSEPH JONES.
legislative Ticket.
«,> .liMirlct o. w. campbell
oouoel linn.*' i .. |r|.;oan
ftrtr, W H MAM.N
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ilejiresi'nlaltve Ifttli .lislrii-t W t A KMll r.
U#-|>uI Uchii t'
fllt«ri(T|
Probate Judzr.
BepfisUrof Deed*.
County Attorney.
County Clerk,
County Treasurer,
HuperinteuUent,
Coroner,
ViNt knt should cull his pop liteiary
bureau, if he would make people be-
lieve his party it* not (or free and un-
limited coinage of paper money—and
hell. All the pamphlets he sells ridi-
cule the redeemability of money—and
hoot at a metallic basis.
R. E. Stewart is making a manly
tfkiupaign for county clerk, lie stands
purely on his fitness, not on his color,
and only asks what a competent, hon-
est American deserves, the votes of his
fellow partisans. He is making a win-
ning canvass. The only injury now
to his campaign is the revengeful tac-
tics of Capt. Tandy in trying to draw
•he color line and kick the whites for
what they have done here in banish
ing prejudice and giving all men, re-
ivgardless of color, an equal show
fkxne men are ever ready to recipro-
cate the doctrine of hate, and there
fore Tandy's attitude can have but
one effect, other than to fill his pocket
—and that is. to defeat Stewart.
The county commissioners, now that
^n election is on, are thinking of the
poor wood sellers frotn the countr\
and they have put a wood stove in the
clerk's office. No wood stoves have
adorned a county office heretofore.
Why not banish all the coal stoves?
Why pay eight and ten dollars
■ton, in warrants, to the bloated coal
•capitalist, when Logan county wood
many days goes almost begging for
buyers? This is just what the "poor
man's party," aided by a democratic
I'.ommissiocer, has been doing. This
is among the other things done to
,^ow how thoughtful they are of the
■farmer, who depends on selling jags
<>/ wood to buy his family groceries
TnE democratic deal in this distric
Snas been changed somewhat. Th
governor concluded it would be a dem
ratio disgrace to help elect a nig
gcr." and many t^mocrats openly
avowed that they would not voti for
one, so the democrats concluded to
nominate a candidate and the popu-
lists agreed to endorse him. 1 lie
agreement with Tandy still stands,
c-xcept th t Tandy is not to have the
ineffable bliss of an election and the
democrats are not to take any risk at
to his resigning, after election, land)
ihas agreed, we understand, that lie i«
-to pull off from the republican ticket
• enough of "my people" to defeat Col.
Karnes and elect Mr. Herod. The
-.scheme is to have "my people, the
colored brother, vote the democratic
ticket, via Tandy, and tlnis Msiat
"Tandy in carrying out his lucrative
agreement to elect a democrat and
have "my people" in this way vote for
•the "Jim crow" car anil Mississippi
election law. etc., for Oklahoma.
Some populists are making a how!
about < ieorge Dodson's " Daily Report,
laiming it a wilful
poor people who are compelled to ]a^or
chattle. etc. Well, just M men see The curse of all political parties to-
thls report daily. No merchant ever j js t|)at too manv Qf this class of
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Sons Problems of Today.
There are four great problems be-
fore the American people today for
solution.
Clcannlmj of politics.
TV silver problem-
The turif question.
Restricted ImmUjrution.
|T?I. ir..Sr. Ill Capital far fox attaining all of "Sunn I'nMnns of
! To-doi/" for to <rnN. to aiai aihlrtm: or yon can have a plunnptct, inMpaM, <■
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UtMng it fill, for to
C LEA SSI St i OF POLITICS.
Politics is supposed to be the science
of government, but some of the lead*
I ers of all parties seem to think it the
science of obtaining ofliee Men hunt-
ing ofliee are as thick as mosquitoes in
a Mississippi bog The only aim in
life of many seems to be to become a
public e)Utf|9 Bom of them care no
imagine that if they fail of a nomina-
tion, the party and the country is
started ''lickety brindle" t<> hell. Such
men understand that parties are not
made to put men into office, but that
the object of all decent and beneficial
parties must be the promotion of good
government and the betterment of the
people. Parties are made for the good
of the country, not for the special
good of certain individuals. The id*
ing ad
ents something is a fallacy: if the
X
otism. i* their
Any kind of oftic
than none. Their aspirations are easily
assuaged. They start high and are
willing to end low. if there is a living
mor* about principle than a calf does
for Christmas. Thev are for the party ,,
... . ." . . ,, „ that parties owe their leading auner-
which is most likely to elevate them 1 t. . a %i ,
to a public position. Pelf, not patri- Jt
. . * ... party has been any benefit to the
chief consideration, r * j ,
.. .i- i :.i country, the obligations are all on the
they think, is better ^ o{ ^ ^ ^ bl,neflUetl republicans belong to their party
thereby. I'arties owe individuals cause of the Bl"rie8of its Pa8t; beuause
nothing; the country at la.ge every- their fathers were republicans or be-
- Al raised among this
prejudices or the customs of the coun-
try from which he hailed. Prejudice
and revenge must be banished from
American politics.
Neither have we much regard for a
man who shouts for a certain party and
yet, were I* asked, could not explain
why he believed in any one of the
basic principles of that party. It
takes thought and investigation to
make a good citizen; and the partisan,
if he means to be a good citizen, must
be able to give a reason for the faith
that is in him. We have in the south
men who could not be raised from the
democratic party with a derrick. The
moss on the back of this kind of a man
drags the ground. He loves to tell of
the prejudices and traditions of his
party. No matter what his party in
power does, no matter how much it
may take from his pocket or how much
its rule may cost this republic, he
clings to it all the tighter and yells,
"'Kali for Jeff Davis and Grover Cleve-
| land!" The good of this republic as
1 a whole has no part in his philosophy.
He is jor the democratic party, washed
or unwashed, and any man who ques-
tions why he belongs to it is a dastard
and a fool.
We are sorry that in the north many
be-
which contains most good for the in-
dividual and the nation. We under-
stand that the people's party has a sort
of secret understanding that their
members shall attend no meetings
and read no papers except those
of their own particular party.
This is an indication of extreme-
ly small partizan&hip and very
narrow citizenship. Do they think
their beliefs so unstable that the aver-
age orator or the average paper of the
opposition can knock their pins from
under them and destroy their fealty to
the people's party ?
WHAT CAN LAW 1)0 .'
It Can Do Nothing hut Abridge or l-:i|uul-
1/0 the Opportunities or Man.
The laws of a nation have much to
do with the prosperity of the individ-
uals composing it; but the idea that
law is the panacea for all the ills of
mankind, is born of ignorance or
thoughtless. Laws can only abridge
or equalize the opportunitios of men.
America was founded on the idea of
personal effort, on the fundamental
principle of nature, that every man,
before ( od, is the equal of every
other, and that, starting at a given
point, each must work out his own
financial and moral salvation.
'1 he laws which come nearest equal-
' ■ k ' ' willing to end low, i4 there is a liv ing r , ptnivg thev were raised !iiu"nu v,,,a , . . ,
cynosure of the • • , , , „ thing. The first dutv of a party is to cdllse lne> ",re rl siu lzing opportunity are the best laws
exposure oiuit ln ,t for the least possible amount of B ,. breed of animals. They do not stop ,
e compelled to 1 > look to the exaltation of the nation, \ ' _ . . i l-abor
,, , , ... e ., , i — is the basts of all things, and
and with this will come the better- j to an:i t 1 princip es o tlr the man who thinks law can make
mentofall mankind. Nine-tenths 0{ j PBI-ti, and to honest \ determine as a j riel^ without labor, is a fool
sees it. Any man has a right to go to SCoUndreU are lloing much of tho the men of every party never held a
the records every day and take a list parti,an .houtinff. Thev an- loud in ' Publiu °ffioe' and never 8XPe0t l"'
of instruments filed-and this is what pro(,iamations of partv foaity, and IThese commoners, these privates in
ach of these 34 subscribers would do | 8iappin(f their manly hearts with a i the party who subsist on individual
product of reason whether the princi-
ples it advocates are the best for this
country and all the people in it. It is
whose belly will always be empty an I
the slack of his trousers holy and
frayed. The world owes every man a
the dutv of every thorough American __ri . . .. .
• •; . p .1 living and is willing to pav it—after
to discourage this narrow partisan t
, 1 ,, | the individual has earned it; but we all
if Dodson did not combine the work : widc.open palm, give themselves credit i "11 the various private vo- an(l to exhort raen of a„ ,,
f life, are the bulwark of the J . , i learn that it takes unstinted en
onto a sheet and give
graphic copy. During
jacli a stilo- jor plirity Gf character, colossal brains j cat'ons
Miss Diehl's | and the most hoDorable. disinterested republic and the bone and
, ..UUK.u v« uuv,u'y
, sections to give thought to the para- i, . .. . ., , . ..
sinew of • , , . I and determination to collect the debt
m. mount needs of the republic, and in , ^ , ,
The masses! , and a wise head to husband the re-
j the political parties. — „ ,
i 1,, • . ,i i . casting their ballot to tlnnk only of the
should have impressed upon them Jiat j * . . .
term an abstract firm here got out the pUrp0ses#
report, until the last three months, ;
when Miss Diehl began to issue the re-j These men are styled demagogues,
port herself, the same as Dodson does in the days of Rome a demagogue was j hands of bad men. Through public |
ne;v. There is not a county seat town j a pretty respectable personage. He ; offices the policies are applied to the
in the I'nited States of any conse- stood upon the street corners, pro- | machinery of government. To have inen.lv >in <ul rury ()f his fllture a rec-
claimed new laws and interpreted ! the proper application, to have the ; ^
them for the people. In other words, j machinery run smoothly that all men
he was the instructor of the people, i have an equal opportunity for the good
In these days a demagogue is a howl- things of life, the best men of the
ing dervish, and himself the only lord community and of the country should ^ be ^ ^
in his decalogue. He does nothing ex-1 he given the places of public rust ; ^ man CQntinuu their
Men soon come to understand that 1 , , , , .
; greatness and broaden their glory.
juenee where just such a report is not
got out by either the register or some
abstract firm. No one can prevent it,
for the records are for public use. No
one except those whose business de-
mands a knowledge of what goes on
the records daily ever sees such a re-
port—and such would have one daily,
just the same, were Dodson to cease
furnishing it to them. It is merely a
matter of the 24 pooling to pay one
man for making the report and giving
each a copy, instead of each, at much
larger expense, going to the. records
themselves daily to get this informa-
tion their business requires.
i , . . . , . 1 good of this nation and of every indi
' good principles are powerless in the in . ,
! vidual in it. no matter where he .ives
or what his vocation. The past of a
| party is like the record of a man,
men
ommendationor a censure; but no party
and no man can afford to sit down and
attempt to live on a glorious record.
The demands of the present and the
cept from self interest, while declar-
ing that the public good is his only
thought. Publicly, the emoluments
of office are but chaff, mere incidents
in his disinterested desire to be ele-
vated by the people. His talk is con-
stituted to tickle the public ear. It is
politics is a losing business. They see j *
that, after all. there is much self-sac- I'et
rifice in it—and all for an honor which '
may be great today and vanish tomor- j
row. An honest man seldom goes into
ends thou aitnst ;it l e thy <
That we differ in politics is a strong
element of progress. The
an ofliee and comes outof it financially 1 m,ndSi more than the clashing of sa.: nity.
turns after they come in.
No law ever made a lazy man an in-
dustrious and respected citizen. No
law eyer prevented the wife from
earning the living for the family over
the wash-tub when the husband was a
shiftless whelp without regard for fam-
ily obligations, with no ambition and
no personal pride. No law ever made
a statesman and a great financier out
of a man who never earned an honest
dollar in his life, and the dome cf
whose pants have been sliinod to a
dazzling brilliancy by continuous
contact vvith a dry goods box and
whose jack-knife has been dulled
clashing of , on every stray shingle in the commu-
the appreciative shouts of the people 1 as well off as when he went in. It berg Qr the piowin(? Gf bullets, has!
that he yearns for. Deception is his ] often costs him half the salary to get made the world>B civiiization. Force1 The differences in men are organic
chief stock in trade. He is for any-1 in and the balance of it, and perhaps j -s a dangerous arbiter. As raen apply ; and fundamental. The great Creator
thing to get into offlce, and when he more, to stay in and maintain the sup- Lhorse sense" to the affairs of ]ife, made men equal only in the chance of
Daily Leader: The republicans of
r.ogau county have nothing to com
ruend their candidates to the people
>iit partv traditions of long ig" 1 he
utrden of debt upon the county and
the present cramped condition of the
county's finances are largely the re-
sult of that party's mismanagement,
.and worse, of the county s all ail s.
Such inaccuracy is almost vicious.
Is it possible that the Leader does not
know that every dollar of the gl.".3,000
of debt of Logan county now was put
on it by two populist commissioners
±nd one democratic commissioner'.' < >r
■does it wilfully pervert the facts'.' The
first eight months of Logan county s
organization were under republican
rule. Elnehart, tJray and Seeley had
to set the county up in business from
nothing—buy everything necessary to
the organization. They spent in eight
months up to February 21. 1891, ten
thousawl dolltm. The demo-pop board
in three years and a half, forty-two
months, have spent an average of
•37,500 a month, about in cash and
warrants slipping through their fin-
gers—an average expenditure of six
-and a half times as much as that spent
,per month under republican rule! And
the commissioners, each year, have
received as mileage and per diem more
than five times as much as the repub-
lican board did for acomparative time,
tiuch a >se audacity as the Leader s is
trulv democratic—claim everything,
prove nothing. Yes, the people want
their money spcut right—and the rec-
ord shows that the crying need is to
-have republicans in charge of it.
Prof. c. Vincent in his speech yes-
terday took the land loan currency of
the old colonial states as an argument
for the land loan scheme, rnd says the
estoppel of the issue of the colonial
scrip produced the revolution. \\ as
there ever a more foolish misstatement
of history? The collonial scrip was a
necessity. There was no redeemer be-
hind it, because there were but a fen-
foreign coins in this country then.
Brittam did not destroy the colonial
scrip then out, but merely forbid the1 |)as
rease of it. There was a largr per
capita and as Vincent says, the people
were at first prosperous; but what dis-
aster followed! The scrip went down,
down until it took «10o to buy a doi;
lar's worth of stuff and the scrip, ev-
ery cent of it, was finally repudiated.
It was an excessive llritish stamp tax,
an attempt to allow no manufacturing
in tliis country—an attempt to make
of this an agricultural nation and to
bleed the people of their substance
that royalty might revel in luxury
that caused the tea racket and precipi-
tated the revolution. The people hail
lived on make shift currency, bartered
'coon skins and pelts for 15ii years, and
rebelled only when England by law
attempted to abridge all rights of de-
velopment inimical to 14ritish factories
and to impoverish them by taxes.
gets in is against everything that he posed dignity
I, - -
would a pestilence. He garlands his I oaks to select from are not so numer- d| more for U)e education 0f its
_ . of the Positio"' F°r force becomes less and less in demand. I a common etermty. He put mat, upon
got in on. He works on passion and , this reason too many good men shrink The grandest thing of America to- j*1® earth with just such a physique as
prejudice, and eschews reason as he ; from seeking public ofliee. 1 he sturdy -s -ts exa]te(] intellect. It ex- Ilature in its wisdom had chanced to
* * give him. He was given a free will
and a personal agency. What a man's
future shall be depends upon the man
himself far more than on any laws
which human ingenuity may invent.
To listen to the curbstone statesman,
oratory with llowers of speech and °us as they should be: but there is ( people tlian anv nation in the world,
decorates it with tapestry and brie-a- never a lack of crooked, scrubby tim-1 Thig .g the reaf>on its civilization Is the
brae; and when it is boiled down it is: ber.
found to be nothing but atmosphere, j
He hunts for statistic) only to distort!
them, and a fact which does not coin-
cide with the particular ism by which
he is attempting to "work" the people,
harm for him. The demagogue
i is the most dangerous element, that
ever struck at a nation's heart. When
a demagoge rides into ottice. he imme- ...
M).1 private business, could not keep
diately becomes the boss and the pet
pie the slaves. The old idea of the
To serve one's country and to serve
it well is the noblest action of human
life. To do this requires patriotism
and manhood of a superior order. Men
who are failures in private life are
not the ones to select for successes in
public life -though there are a few
conspicuous examples of men who. in
th
wolf from the door, yet in statesman
highest. This is the reason the broad-
est scope is given to individual opin-
ion and that from the friction of minds
over the problems of the day is evolved y°uwould thinl( il the duty of this
the highest science of government and f-'lea't government to feed and clothe
of exalted ODportunity for the individ- and lnal<u llaPPy ani1 prosperous every
ual : man in the nation, regardless of
whether he had done anything to earn
it or not. There always have been the
poor and the rich and there always
will be. Labor is the basis of all
Liberty of thought and freedom of |
speech are the chief promoters of every j
good. Truth is the thing to be arrived j 1
. . . ship reached the zenith: but in all
fathers of the republic, first declared 1
, ,,, , . . these were giant brains and superb
by George Washington, that the peo- ° 1 \
1 eloquence, patriotism
I at. and no one man can grasp all tin-
bearings of it.
things earthly. Nothing can be had
So we have no crow to pick with the | w 't'lou' 't. the palace of the rich
, , men who differ with us in opinion, if ;in'' the hovel of the poor, each in a
ano Honesty. | ^ op.nl(jn coincldes wiu> ,a„. and j comparative degree, is the product of
labor. Toil may not always
et its
Die are the employer and the offlciaJ . . ,
~ . , x i a i The men who can mostsafely be given
the servant, has been remodeled V) ! . good order. All we have a right to ask
him. I t''e bestowals of a political partv are * thoroughly honest in the I "onest return; greed and chicanery
It is the shame of the American peo- the men who have been successful ... - ,!(„.ause a profit by the ignorance of many toil-
their own attairs. The old political 1
hacks and worn-out financial failures
. of the countrv are rife among the rab-
ple that they allow these unprincipled
rapscallions to influence their minds
and their ballots for causes and for,
... ( ble who are always c amoring
men which mean the degradation of .
politics and the impoverishment of the j 111 °ffnlllon*
The idea that there
I wonderfully intricate in the affairs of
man differs from you in public poli-! ers' while ma"-v workers by their own
cies i- no reason why he may not be 1,aa llabits ""d profligacy let slip
through their fingers every dollar thev
for pub- J118*1 as kr°oc* a citizen and just as hon-
and perhaps earn' re£ardless of how hard it came
something
or where it goes. ' A penny saved
Politics must be cleaned up: and the government, is a mistake. The gov-
people must do the cleaning. The j ernment is only the enlargement of a
stamp of disapprobation must be put • p.'ivate business, and the same frugal-
The man who I ity, care and "horse sense" which will
"take a man successful in his own bus-
t a man as you are
more so. I
Every man should remember that | Penny earned, is a fundamental les-
there is more than one side to every
upon every hypocrite. - —
Tiifcv say that Mr, Watkins, the pop tjoeg not belong to his party through
andidate for county treasurer, could princjp|e alone should be given a' Jess will make him a success as the
not compute a column of figures with I -ln t}ie pants and driven I administrator of the affairs of the
five units to save his life. We do not ^rom the partv forever. The men people. The same business laws
say tins by way of ridicule. Mr. Wat- j who driving for public ottice, and | which apply to the individual will ap-
kins may have the best education the failing t0 get it, suddenly discover j p'.v " ith equal force to the county, or
onditions of his life would allow. ^|iat principles of the party to
This is no reason, however, that the
people should elect incompetency to a
public ottice. Not an ofliee in the
county is so intricate as the treasurer's
office. A man who handles more than
<150,000 a year must know how to fig-
ure. 3 The populists made a great mis-
take by nominating a man not known
to be thoroughly cotnpeten'. Colonel
Stiles is a blunt old farmer, as much
so as Mr. Watkins, but he is "up on
figures," and his ottice exhibits on ev-
ery record the highest capability and
greatest care.
pbop. Vincent calls a metallic ba-
sis "a fetish of barbarism"—and ar-
gues for an irredeemable currency.
Then what does he want with free
and unlimited silver coinage? Only a
substitute, in lieu of unlimited paper
money. No need to wait to dig
silver, if the printing presses in a
month can reel off paper dollars
enough to make us all rich.
R. Q. lii.AKBxv now has charge of
the Daily Oklahoman. No paper ever
had so many sires and evanescent
sponsors. It is hoped Blakeney has
come to stay.
which they have adhered are danger-
ous. rotten and untenable, should be
herded off in a party to themselves
and made to understand that that kind
of cattle cannot rule this republic, or
even a small part of it. ^
To seek public ottice is a laudable
ambition if you have the purity of
character, the fertility of brain and
the general fitness to fill the ofilec to
which you aspire, creditably to your-
self and to your country.
\\\ have no faith in tho purist idea
that "the office should seek the man."
Like the coquettish maiden, the office
is too apt to "go on appearances" and
light down on men who are shallow,
worthless and unreliable. If a man
thinks himself capable of filling an
office, and he craves it, let him come
out and submit his merits to the light
of investigation, that the people may
select with a full knowledge of what
he is.
the state, or the nation.
The privates of every party have a
patriotic duty to perform in the selec-
tion of men as leaders who have un-
questioned characters, men of pure
public and private life, of broad and
liberal spirit, of ability and candor,
men the chief component of whose be-
ing is a deep-rooted principle. A party
is largely what its leaders make it.
These leaders formulate the platforms
and erect the ipolieies. No party with \
bad leaders can give good government.
The stamping out of unprincipled |
leaders and the replacing of them by |
the best blood and brain of this coun-
try, should be the determination of
every American sovereign.
j question, and in order to arrive at
| which is the best policy, he must exam-
j ine all sides. The good lawyer, when
| he goes into a case, first examines the
I evidence of the opposition, and then,
! remembering that the strong points of
his case will sustain themselves, he
i hunts for ballast for the weaker
| points; and. knowing both sides of the
| case, goes into it thoroughly prepared
to combat the one with the other. So
It should be in politics. The man who
casts a careless vote — a vote not
based upon an intelligent belief that
it is for the best -r overnment for him-
self, his neighbor and for all the peo-
ple, Is a public menace.
A great many men seem so hide-
bound in partisan prejudices that they
think it a sacrilege to be caught in a
political meeting of the opposite faith.
They cling to those ideas they have
and avoid those which other men have,
when, were they fair with themselves,
and desirous of making themselves
i good citizens, should the opportunity
: offer they would encourage that
More principle must be injected into j which Is likely to throw light upon
every side of the questions agitating
the people. To become properly in-
formed should be the aim of every
man. He should attend every political
meeting which he can conveniently
get to, no matter what its persnasion.
All parties have noble,
men who seek public office.
politics. Politics is nothing if not
principle. The offices are the inci-
dents, merely the vehicles through
which to transport to success the prin-
ciples advocated by the victorious
party. We admire a man who belongs
respected to any party or advocates any cause
Such men ' through honesty of conscience
are the same partisans, however, re-
ward or no reward, and their purposes
are loyal and exalted. They do not
and
elevated purpose, but we have no re-
spect for a man who belongs to any
party because of its traditions, its
lie should give a respectful hearing to
everything said and should carefully
read the different phases presented of
all political problems, that he may
honestly arrive at a conclusion as to
son which all who would have a com-
petency must learn. To be rich in
this country a man only needs to de-
termine that he will be rich and bend
all his energies in that direction. How
many of the well-to-do men in this
community came into this territory
with practically nothing? And how
have they made the competency they
now possess excent by economy, ener-
gy and continuous alertness?
Hie cry that the big fish cat up the
little fish is fully answered in the fact
that you never can tell what day a lit-
tle fish will develop into a big cue and
do as much devouring as his predeces-
sor. Thirty years ngo Jay Could
started out with a rat-trap and not a
penny, and in twenty-five years
trapped sixty millions of dollars,
liussel Sage, the king of the New
York stock exchange, three decades
ago was as poor as any boy in
this republic today, John Jacob
Astor, who left his millions,
started in New York thirty-five years
ago with a valueless suburban lot on
which was a little shack. No "law-
fed monopoly" made the Astor wealth,
as It is all in houses and lands. Most
of the rich men of today, a few years
ago, were practically paupers. We see
men constantly developing from pov-
erty to riches by the discovery of an
oil or gas well, or by discovering a
gold or silver mine. Men have at-
tained fabulous wealth by the inven-
tion of a little cuff-holder, a shoe tip,
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