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Nome, Alaska, December 1910.
A BILLIONAIRE.
The press of the country gloated
with almost individual satisfaction
over the fact that when the shares
of Standard Oil reached the record
quotation of 5(17, John D. Rocke
feller became a billionaire.
Of course there is not a single in
dividual who can grasp such col
colicsal accumulation ot figures as
Olio billion. While it can he made
use of in a mathematical computa
tion by the use of certain symbols,
no average mind appreciates the full
significance of a billion.
Very great numbers in course of
time become to the untrained mind
merely suggestive of infinity and on
tliing else, and this very well ex
presses the average conception and
the average realization of the huge
sum included in a billion dollars.
Rockefeller’s wealth we say is
enormous, and that is precisely as
. lose as we will come to understand
ing or fully appreciating its gigan
tic dimensions without cartographic
designs showing the relative size ot
it with other collosal conceptions ot
size in figures.
All of that however is immaterial.
The material point is that the tre
mendous accumulation of wealth
which has fallen to the lot of
Rockefeller is one that well is sub
jected to consideration so that it
may “point a moral and adorn r
tale’’.
This great wealth is not the re
ward of the labor of Rockefeller in
that it is the result of his endeavors
and the product of his own individu
al work. It is not the reward of
abstinence as (lie Mill economists
have claimed concerning such accu
mulations. It is not the reward
comes from superior management
and the product of genius and
skill.
The abstemiousness of Rockefeller
has helped his pursuit of riches; his
organization ability has aided it still
more; his perspicacity in judging
men has also been a powerful factor
a his w ulth acquirement. But
ih re are men who have greater
skill and genius and virtue in all
these lilies man rtocKcieiiei
iliey died poor.
We miss the who!. signibeanco oi
this billioned American if we regard
him anything else but the result of
of tin system: tlie very favored re
suit to tie sure, but just as much
the victim of circumstances, of eco
uomit conditions. as the man who
toils all his life and dies in the
poorhouse.
Rockefeller the other day said
that the opportunities for doing as
he has done were greater today than
ever before. That is not the case
and the reason it is not the case is
that the organizations which began
with Standard Oil and have extended
throughout the industrial realm
have practically made those oppor
tunities non-existent because tin
necesary.
The story of the Rockefeler for
tune is really the story of the evolu
tion of American industry. It is
even more important as American
history than the school stories ot
presidential campaigns, internation
al relations and the other matters
which receive such conspicuous at
tention from those writers of school
history who generally are quite cap
able of ignoring the really import
ant factors in the life and growth of
the nations.
The story of Standard Oi) brings
\is back to that period of the coun
try's history when the United States
began to organize its unlimited in
dustrial resources. The machinations
and movements of the economic pup
pets who reacted to the stimulus of
their money-making environment
are indeed just beginning to majte
themselves felt. And the rise of in
dustry upon a gigantic scale adjust
ed to the gigantic distances and the
gigantic quality of the national re
sources, is absorbingly interesting.
I Only American socialist writers have
j endeavored to give anything like a
partial description of that move
ment. We have to overlook the fact
that these movements were associ
ated with names now great in com
merce, finance and industry, while
we realize that these movements
were part and parcel of the econo
mic system.
The men associated with the move
ment were of course men adjusted
better than the rest, intellectually
mentally and from a bourgeois point
of view morally also. An examina
tion of the character or Uockefellei
reveals the fact that his associates
in American enterprise, or his com
peers is foreign enterprises in othei
lands, possessed the same character
isties to quite a startling extent. In
deed if one were to take a tvpica
American magnate, a French cap!
talist, a Ilritisli financier, a Germat
captain of industry, they all display
certain features in common whicl
there is no mistaking. This is no
due to the fart that the men mad<
the occasion, hut that the occasiot
made the men. and similar occasion!
make similar men.
The fact that control was once oh
tained of the oil industry made al
the rest-easy. It is an industry su
i premely important. The product 1:
| a household and industrial necessity
It was bound to grow and the profit
of the industry were bound also ti
ascend. Those profits were re-distri
bitted in other productive industries
Railroads were brought under con
trol, mines, manufactures, ehemica
works and other things were sough
out for investment purposes. Thes
j in turn produced profits which yt
again sought re-investment and i
this way control of the Industrie
and financial world accompanied c
course by well defined traffi
j and financial relations with othe
i controlling influences and interest!
j became in the United States highl
I centralized. The profits fre e Stand
ard Oil were always high. And the
! were of course utilized to buy u
i any subsidiary industry. These sul
; sifiary industries in turn supplier
profits which were invested in in
<1 ustries related to them in turn, am
1 the golden circle of control spread
! throughout the entire country,
j There is thus a constant volurn
; of capital in the form of profits fror
these industries seeking investment
' such investments give increased con
! trol. and the centralization of wealt:
! in the hands of fewer and fewe
' men goes on incessantly day by da
| and year by year, as a principle in
! herent in the present economic sy
! stem.
We see this in a very recent de
I velopment in American Industry. A
| everyone knows the manufacture o
' explosives entails also the manu
! facture of a number of chemicals it
whose production there is a tremend
ous quantity of by-products whicl
if lost, entail enormous waste am
consequent loss in profitable opera
tion. Allied with the refining o
petroleum, are chemical industrie
which take up much of the refiner:
by-products. These have been allow
ed In many cases owing to the fac
that they were relatively of smal
importance, to go to waste.
Germany had by economic opera
tion of all her industries and especi
ally the manuufacture of high expio
sivis, evolved a tremendous che
ntical and dye-stuff export trade
These were produced cheaply fo
they were by-products of still mor
: profitable manufacture. And thesi
! found their way to the United State
j which up to the war as all know
had been dependent upon German:
j for its dye-stuffs and chemicals,
j Now however so immense has thi
chemcial industry, due to the inten
sive production of explosives, be
icome in the United States that thi
| economical operation of ‘the factoriei
suggests that these by-products bi
| utilized, and since 1915 there hai
been begun an alliance between thi
Du Pont De Nemours company and j
Standard Oil, a practically allied
control in the upbuilding of an im
mense chemical manufacture in the
United States. It is only in the be
ginning, but in course of time, the
aniline products and the by-products
of the explosive industry will be en
abled to supply the country with
American chemicals and American
explosives quhe as satisfactorily as
could Germany. This industry en
tails an initial outlay of quite large
capital. But that is easily furnished
through the profits made in both the
powder industry and in the petrole
um industry. Out of the surplus
values produced by labor in both
industries another industry is called
into existence, and those who con
trol those surplus values in the pe
troleum industry and in the ex
plosive industry will control also the
new chemical industry which is built
up by them.
It is only a matter of time, could
Rockefeller live during the coming
years, when he would be a nnilti
billionaire. The centralization ot
wealth would assure that becoming
a certainty.
We must insist however that we
overlook the fact that this wealth
control is embodied in a Rocke
feller. He is merely a name.
! Were he to die tomorrow the Rocke
feller property would still go on pro
ducing and increasing additiona'
profits which would additionally
control. The personal factor is no
longer a factor. It would be utterly
impossible for a Rockefeller person
ally to prevent, by squandering, his
enormous profits accumulating more
and more. The increase is inherent
in the control of property which
enables him to control the labor ap
plied to property, and is part and
parcel of the condition of private own
ership which gives the hall-mark to
i the present system. There is a ten
dency to denounce and attack those
who have been associated with the
up-building of the tremendous pri
vate fortunes which stagger the im
agination like those of Rockefeller.
That is absurd and it is in many
ways unreasonable. The wealth ac
cumulation is identified with a
Rockefeller is beyond doubt enorm
ous. But his connection with it is
i accidental and an incident. It would
have been connected with that man
whoever he might have been, who
[ i would have been connected with
Standard Oil: A Nobel for example
aa in the Russian oil industry.
The labor employed in oil produc
tion and refining produces those pro
fits for that company. These profits
accumulate, demanding other invest
ment which only means that other
formv of labor are sought out which
will supply similar profits to be re
invested in other profit-producing
labor. To control by private owner
ship the fields where labor must ex
pend its power to live, is the secret
of this constant widening circle of
private control by fewer men. The
power increases with that control,
and with increasing power and in
creasing control, the rest is easy.
When Standard Oil was in diffi
culties with Germany, the Standard
Oil itself conducted negotiations
with Germany, not through the ac
credited representative of the
United States. It was too powerful
a factor in itself to do so; and it is
a striking example of the great eco
nomic power transcending the po
litical power, controlling it and ab
solutely dictating policies. The ac
tion by the Supreme Court temp
ering the legislative wind to this in
dustrial and unshorn wolf is alto
gether suggestive of the same fact.
The control of billions means also
the control of the lives and labor
' of those who produce those billions.
That is the most signicant fact in
| connection with the existence of a
billionaire in any country.
EAGLES TAKE NOTICE.
;
i The Annual Ejection of Officers for
the ensuing term will be held on next
Tuesday night. Dec. 5, 1916.
W. M. EDDY, Sect’y.
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posing of your patronage.
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PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
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