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GARBER SENTINEL.
Whole No. 256.
GARBER, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1904.
VOL. V. NO. 50.
FRENZIED
FINANCE
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The Story of Amalgamated,
By Thomas W. Luwson, in
Everybodys Magazine.
7th. The "Standard Oil" array of
followers, capitalists, and workers in
all parts of the world, men who never
require anything more than the order,
"Go ahead," ".Pull off," "Buy," "Sell,"
or "stay where you are," to render as
absolute obedience and enthusiatic co-
operation as though they knew to the
smallest detail the purpose which en-
tered into the giving ot the orr'er.
8th. The countless liords of politi-
ticians, statesman, lawmakers and en-
forcers, who, at home or as represen-
tatives of the nation abroad, go to
make up our political structure, and
judges and lawyers.
To the world at large, which looks
on and sees this giant institution move
through the ranks of business with
ease and smoothness of a creature one-
millionth its size and without noise or
dissention, it would seem that there
must be some wonderful or complicat-
ed code of rules which guide and con-
trol the thousands of lieutenants and
privates who conduct its affairs. This
is partially true, partially false. Its
governing rules are as rigid as the
laws of the medes and Persians, yet so
simple as to be understood by anyone.
First, there is a basis law, from
which no one—neither the great nor
the small—is exempt. In substance it
is: "Every 'Standard Oil' man must
wear the 'Standard Oil' collar."
This collar is riveted 011 to each on
as he is taken into "the baud," and.
afterward can only be removed with
the head of the wearer. Here is the
Code. The penalty for infringing the
the following rules is instant removal:
1. Keopyour meutti closed, as silence Is
gold, ami gold is what we exist for.
2. Collect our debts today. Pay the other
fellow's debts tomorrow. Today Is always
here, tomorrow may never come.
3. Conduct all our business so that the
buyer and seller must come to us. Keep the
seller waiting; the longer he waits the less
he'll take. Hurry the buyer, as his money
brings us interest.
4 Make all profitable bargains In the name
of "Standard OH," debatable ones In the
names of dummies. -'Standard Oii never
goes back on a bargain.
s. Never put "Standard Oil" trades in writ-
ing, as your memory and the other fellow's
forgetfulness will always be re-enforced
With our organization. Never forget our
Legal Department Is paid by the year, and
our land is full of courts and judges.
6. As competition is the life of trade—our
trade: and monopoly the death of trade—our
competitors trade, employ both Judiciously.
7. Never enter into a "butting"-contest
with the government. Our government is
by the people and for the people, and wc are
the people, and those people who are not ns
can be hired by ns.
8. Always do right Kight makes might,
might make* dollars, dollars make right
and we have the dollars.
All business of the great "Standard
Oil" system is dealt with through two
great departments. Mr. Rogersis head
of the executive, and William Rocke-
feller the head of the Bnancial depart-
ment. All new schemes, whether su ,-
gested by outsiders or initiated within
the institution, go to Mr. Rogers, Re-
gardless of nature or character, he
must lirst take them under advise-
ment. If good enough to rnn the
gantlet of his tremendously high stand-
ard, the promoter, after he has set forth
bis plans and estimates, hears with as-
tonishment these words:
"Wait until 1 go upstairs. I'll say
yes or 110 upon my return."
And upon his return it is almost al-
ways "yes." If the project, however,
does not come up to his exacting re-
quirements, it is turned down without
any further ado or consultation with
any of his associates.
Those intimate with affairs at 26
Broadway have grown curiously fam-
iliar with this expression, "1 am going
upstairs." "Upstairs" means two dis-
tinct and seperate things. When a
matter in Mr. Rogers's department is
awaitiDg his return from "upstairs," it
means he has gone to place the scheme
before William Rockefeller, on the
thirteenth floor, and laying a thing be-
fore Mr. Rockefeller by Mr. Rogers
consists of a brief, vigorous statement
of his own conclusions and a request
for his associate's judgment of it. Mr.
Rockefeller's strong quality is his
ability to estimate quickly the value
of a given scheme, and his approval
means he will finance it, and William
Rockefeller's "says so" is as absolute
in the financing of things as is Mr.
Rogers's in passing upon their feasi-
bility. It does not matter whether it
is an undertaking calling for the em-
ployment of $50,000 capital or $50,000,-
000 or 8500,000,000. Mr. Rockefeller's
"yes" or "110" is all there is to it. He
having passed on it, Mr. lloger^super-
visesits execution.
The other "upstairs" is one that is
heard each week-day except Saturdays
during the summer months. At 26
Uroadway, just before 11 o'clock each
day, there is a flutter in the otlices of
all the leading heads of departments
from Henry 11. Rogers down, fo^ going
"upstairs" to the 11 o'clock meeting is
the one all-important event in each
"Standard Oil" man's mind every work-
ing day in the year.
In the big room, on the llfteenth
lloor, at 26 Broadway, there gather
each day, between the hours of eleven
and twelve o'clock, all the active men
whose efforts make "Standard Oil"
what "Standard Oil" is, and there also
meet and mingle with the active heads
the retired captains when "they are in
town." Around a large table they sit.
Reports are presented, views exchang-
ed, politics talked over, and republics
and empires made and unmade. If
the recorders in the next world have
kept complete minutes of what has
happened "upstairs" at 26 Hroadway,
they must have tremendously large
fire-proof safes. It is at the meeting
"upstairs that the melons are cut, and
if one of the retired captains should
be asked why he was in such a rush to
be on hand each day when in town,
and he were in a talkative mood—
which he would not be he would ans-
wer: "They may be cutting a new
melon, and there's nothing like being
on hand when the juice runs out."
If a new project has been started—
an Amalgamated Copper, for instance
—it is at one of these meetings that
the different "Standard Oil" men are
informed for the first time that the
project, about which they have read or
heard much outside, is far enough
along for them to participate in it.
Each is told what size slice he may
have if he care for any, and it is a very
exceptional thing for anyone to ask
for more than he has been apportion-
ed, and an unheard-of thiug for any-
one to refuse to take his slice, although
there is absolutely no compulsion in
the connection.
The success of "Standard Oil" is
largely due two things—the loyalty of
its ^embers to each other and to
"Standard Oil" and the punishment of
its enemies. Each member before ini-
tiation knows its religion to be, reward
for friends and extermination for
enemies. Once a man is within the
magic circle he at once realizes he is
getting all that anyone else on earth
can afford to pay him for like services,
and still more thrown in for measure.
The public has never heard of a "Stand-
ard Oil" man leaving the rank, f know
of but one case, a very peculiar one,
which I shall tell of in my story.
While a "Standard Oil" man's reward
is always ample and satisfactory, he is
constantly reminded in a thousand and
one way that punishment for disloyal-
ty is sure and terrible, and that in no
corner of the earth can he escape it,
nor can any power on earth protect
him from it.
"Standard Oil" is never loud in its
rewards nor its punishments. It does
not care for the public's praise nor its
condemnation, but endeavors to avoid
both by keeping "its business" to itself.
In connection with the gas settle-
ments 1 made with "Standard Oil," it
voluntarily paid one of its agents for a
few days' work 8260,000. He had ex-
pected at the outside $25,000. When I
published the fact, as I had a right to,
"Standard Oil" was mad as hornets—
as upset indeed, as- though it had been
detected in cheating the man out of
two-thirds of his just due, instead of
having paid him ten times what was
coming to him.
CHAPTER III.
THE MEN IN FOWEU BEHIND THE
'•SYSTEM"
In the great Thing kuown to the
world as "Standard Oil," the foremost
example of a "system" which 1 will en-
deavor to get before you in later chap-
ters, there are three heads, Ileniy 11.
Rogers, William Rockefeller, and John
D. Rockefeller. All the others are dis-
tinctively lieutenants, or subordinate
workers, unless possibly I except
■lames Stillman, who from his peculiar
connection with "Standard Oil" and
his individually independent position,
should perhaps be placed in the cate-
gory of heads.
Someone has said: "If you would
know who is the head of a family, slip j
into the home." The world, the big,
arbitrary, hit-or-miss, to-much-in-a-
hurry-to- correct-its- mistakes world,
has it that the master of "Standard
Oil" is John I). Rockefeller, and John
D. Rockefeller it is to all but those who
have a pass-key to the "Standard Oil"
home. To those the head of "Stand-
ard Oil"—the "Standard Oil" the world
known as it known St. Paul, Shake-
speare, or Jack the Giant-killer, or any
of the things it knows well but not at
all—is Henry II. Rogers. John I).
Rockefeller may have more money,
more actual dollars, than Henry 11.
Rogers, or all other members of the
"Standard Oil" family, and in the early
days of Standard Oil may have been
looked up to as the big gun by his
partners, and allowed to take the
hugest hunks of the profits, and to
have so handled and judiciously invest-
ed them as to be at the beginning of
the twentieth century the richest man
on earth, but none of these things alters
the fact that the big brain, the big
body, the Master of Standard Oil is
Henry II. Rogers.
If you should happen to take station
at the entrance of 26 Uroadway and
watch the different members of the
Standard Oil family as they enter the
building, you will exclaim once and
only once: "There goes the Master!"
And it will be Henry II. Rogers,
The big, jovial detective who stands
all day long with one foot resting 011
the side walk and one on the first stone
step, will make oath he shows 110 diff-
erent sign to Henry II, Rogers than to
a Rockefeller, a Payne, a Flagler, a
Pratt or an O'Day; yet watch him
when Mr. Rogers passes up the steps—
an unconscience deference marks his
salutation—a tribute of the soldier to
the commanding general.
Follow through the door with the
sign, "Henry H. Rogers, President of
the National Transit Co.," on the
eleventh floor, and pass from the outer
otlice into the beautiful, spacious ma-
hogany apartment beyond with its
decorations of bronze bulls and bears
and yacht-models, the walls covered
with neatly framed autograph letters
Lincoln, Grant, "Tom" Reed, Mark
Twain and other real, big men, and it
will come over you like a tlash that
here, unmistakbly, is the sanctum sane
torum of the mightiest business insti
tution of modern times. If a single
doubt lingers, read what the men in
the frames have said to Henry H.
Rogers, and you will have proof posi-
tive that these judges of human nature
knew this man, not ouly as the master
of Standard Oil, but also as a sturdy
and resolute friend whose jovial hu-
manity they had recognized and en-
joyed.
Did my readers ever hear of the Na-
tional Transit Company? Very few
have—yet the presidency of it is the
modest title of Henry H. Rogers.
AVhen the world is ladling out honors
to the Standard Oil kings, and spout-
ing of their wonderous riches, how
often is Henry H. Rogers mentioned ?
Not often, for he is never where the
public can get a glimpse of him—he is
to busy pulling the wires and playing
the buttons in the shadows just be-
hind throne. Had it not been that the
divinity which disposes of what men
propose, compelled this man, as he
neared the end of his remarkable ca-
reer, to come into the open on Amal-
gamated, he might never have been
known as the real Master of Standard
Oil. But if be is missing when the
public is hurrahing, he is sufficiently
in evidence when clouds lower or when
the danger-signal is run to the mast-
head at 26 Broadway. He who reads
Standard Oil history will note that,
from its first day until this day when-
ever the bricks, cabbages, or aged eggs
were being presented to Standard Oil
always was Henry II. Roger's tower-
ing form and defiant eye in the fore-
ground where they flew thickest.
During the past twenty years, when-
ever the great political parties have I
lined-up for their regular once-in-four
years tussle, there would be found
Henry H. Rogers, calm as a race-track
gamber, "sizing up" the entries, their
weights and handicaps. Kvery twist
and turn in the pedigrees and records
of Republicans and Democrats are as
tsr 'liar to him as the "dope sheets"
are to the gambler, for is he not at the
receiving end of the greatest informa-
tion bureau in the world?
A Standard Oil agent is in evi^y
hamlet in the country, and who better
than these trained and intelligent ob-
servers to interpret the varying trends
of feeling of their communities ? Tab-
ulated and analyzed, these reports en-
ible Rogers, the sagacious politician, to
diagnose the drift of country far ahead
of the most astute of campaign mana-
gers. He is never in doubt about who I
will win the election. Refore the con-
test is underway he has picked his win-
ner and is beside him with generous
offers of war expenses.
Whenever labor howled its anathe-
mas at Standard Oil and the Rocke-
fellers and other stout-hearted gener-
als and captains of this band of merry
money-makers would begin to discuss
conciliation and retreat, it was always
Henry H. Rogers who fired at his asso-
ciates his now famous panacea for all
Standard Oil opposition. "We'll see
Standard Oil in hell before we will
allow any body of men on earth to dic-
tate how we shall conduct our busi-
ness!" And the fact that standard Oil
still does its business in the Elysian
fields of success, where are neither sul-
phur nor the fumes of sulphur, is addi-
tional evidence of whose will it is that
sways its destines.
An ifi/piession of the despotic char-
acter of the man aud of his manner of
despatching the infinatc details of the
multitudinous business he must deal
with daily may be gathered from see-
ing Henry II. Rogers at one of the
meetings of the long list of giant cor-
porations which number him among
their directors. Surrounded though he
be by the elite of all financialdom, the
very flower of the business brains of
America, you will surely hear his
sharp, incisive, steel-clicking, "Gentle-
men, are we ready for the vote, for I
regret to say I have another important
and unavoidable meeting at—?" You
look at your watch. The time he men-
tions is twelve, or at the most, fifteen
minutes away. There is no chance
for discussion. Cut-and-dried resolu-
tions are promptly put to the vote, and
off goes the master to his other en-
gagement which will be disposed of in
the same peremptory fashion.
At a meeting of the directors of "fi-
nanced steel, during the brief reign ot
its late "vacumized" president, Charlie
Schwab, an episode occured which ex-
hibited the danger of interfering with
Mr. Rogers's iron-clad plans. The fact
that the steel throne was many sizes
too large for Schwab, had, about this
time, become publicly notorious, but
Carnegie and Morgan on the surface,
and Standard Oil beneath, were so
busy preparing tbeir alibis for the
crash which then was overdue, that
they had neither time nor desire to ad-
just themselves on the seat.
In advance Mr. Rogers made his in-
variable plea for quick action on a
matter before the board, when Schwab
with the tact generated by the wabb-
ling of a misfit Wall Street crown
chatiing a generous pair of ears, blurt-
ed out: "Mr. Rogers will vote on this
question after we have talked on it.
In a voice that those who heard it
say sounded like a rattlesnake's hiss in
a refrigerator, Rogers replied: "All
meetings where I sit as director vote
first and talk after I am gone."
(TO BE CONTINUED)
The Garber Milling Co.,
Manufacturers of
HIGH GRADE at FLOUR,
ileal and Mill Feed.
We buy the choicest wheat upon this market and make lluur unsurpassed
by any manufacturers. I'se our brand? of ilour and patronize home industry.
W. S. WILCOX, Proprietor.
X NOTICE TO PATRONS.
88^ We wish to impress upon the minds of the
public that this is no longer a Racket stock,
but a stock of General Merchandise,consist-
ing of Dry Goods, Groceries and Queen ware.
We handle "Pride of Perry" flour which
X needs no other reccomendation than a fair
trial. ** j* J* jn j.
M. W. WflDSWORTH-
W©HjIPE A ®1®1®1M1#
rieat flarket and Staple Groceries.
Highest market price paid for Hides of all Kinds.
Home-rendered Lard, 12'^c per pound.Market price paid for country pro-
duce in meat or groceries. Ice always 011 hands in any quanity desired.
ICE IN ANY AMOUNT WANTED.
Are You going to Build a House^
a barn, a Granary, or Anything*
We Handle Lumber
Lime, brick, cement, posts,
pash, blinds, doors, glass.
and all kinds of building
material. Yours Res'y,
F. D. TREKELL.I
SALE and JOHNSON
A Thoughtful Man.
M. M. Austin of Winchester Ind.
knew what to do in the hour of need.
His wife had such an unusual case of
stomache and liver trouble, physicians
could not help her. He thought of and
tried Dr. King's New life Pills and she
got relief at once and was finally cured
Ouly 25c at Garber Pharmacy.
Dealers In
SHINGLES,
WINDOWS,
BRICK, CEMENT.
All kinds of building material kept on hand.
Your trade solicited.
LATH,
DOORS,
LIME,
LOUIS LIPPERT, Mngr.
DR. ). DEWI'F* GTHtPENVER.
OPIUM, MORPHINE, COCAINE,
CHLORAL, LIQUOR, AND
TOBACCO
Habtt Cuted - - - - Consultation Free.
Rupture Cured Without the Knife,
PERRY, OKLA.
German Soldier at 101.
Becht, the oldest former membea
of the German army, died recently at
Delkenhetm on the Rhine, age 10ft
years.
Shipping at Durban.
In the year 1003 the port cf DurbajL
South Africa, was entered by 7fl|
steamers and 168 sailing vessels.
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