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Be Grateful to the Power
I'hat “Pulls” You Along
A Man Believes That He Is Pulling a Big Load, When He Is Sim
ply Part of the Harness, and Another and a Bigger Power Is
, Pulling Him.
Di.hw Ihis picture in your mind:
A wagon is heavily loaded with twenty or more human liv
ings. Traves are bound to the front axle of the loaded wagon and
are fastened to Um arms of a young man. That man WITH ON
IA' HIS <>\VX STRENGTH could not possibly pull the load. He
could not move it.
But in front of the young man stands a big. carefully trained
elephant. Eor lhal elephant, able to pull three freight cars, the
load is not liing.
I’he elephant is harnessed, and the traces fastened to his pow
erful shoulders aie united in a soft, carefully cushioned pad at the
back of the performer’s neck.
When all is ready the partner of tin- man hitched Io the wag
on gives the order to the elephant 1 . If the big animal should
move too rapidly, if he should fail to start slowly and gently, he
might possibly break the performer s neck.
But, intelligent as well as powerful, the big beast leans slowly
forward until he has set the wheels of the wagon rolling, then
goes along ala .low walk. I’l LUNG THE MAN. who in HIS
turn pulls I Im wagon.
Il ma} seem almost lift belie va ble that a man could stand Ihis
strain upon the back of his neck, and that with the muscles of his
arms Im could pull this heavily loaded wagon, even with tip- ele
phant pulling HIM
But there is no difficulty about it. Any young man of ordi
nary strength could perform this teat the principal thing was to
have tlm IDEA, and to realize how fascinating it would be to the
public to watch the elephant pulling the man by tlm neck, and the
man pulling a wagon and twenty human beings with his arms.
If al play in a tug-of-war you have pulled against a number
of other nmii. yon know that the muscles of tlm body are capa
ble of WITHSTANDING a strain much greater than that which
they are capable of EXERTING.
Eor instance, if you have in your nerves and muscles and in
the leverage of your body power enough to pull one thousand
pounds, you could easily pull, as this man does, several limes as
much if there were a power ahead of you dragging you on
Tlm old} thing necessary is to have the elephant hitched up
in front T< > I ► THE I’l LUNG
Take uwu} the elephant and tlm harness buck of tlm man’s
neck, and you would see. apparentl} . a marvellous thing You
would see one slightly built young man pulling twenty. If you
saw this without seeing the elephant if the elephant and his
harness were made invisible, and you saw this young man walk
ing around draw ing stu h a load - you would believe in miracles
or believe that the man had some force above humanity.
Man}' a man gels tlm credit for pulling a load that he is not
pulling at all
Man}’ a man seems to be doing something very wonderful
when in realit} aiioilmr man ANOTHER MIND, not visible in
the work, but actually at the work does the heavy pulling.
You ma} see the salesman, the editor, the floor walker, the en
gineer. the architect any kind of a man engaged in any kind of
work apparentl}' doing something very wonderful
Yet Im is not doing it all An unseen power—another man.
another brain, perhaps some little man with a small bod}' and a
big Imad. who keeps out of sight is doing the real work
Mau} of ns have -I ■plmiits big, st rong. but unseen pulling
us We ought ai least to im grateful to the elephant give him
a fair chance since he does Hie hardest work and do our part,
big or little, in the general performance.
It would he a good thing if man} young nmn working in all
departments of activity in America should occasionally feel g>'al
itude toward tlm big elephant. Im big MAN, throne whose power
and experience pull them along, and do what thev can to encour
age him. to . T-s r -■ hB hi Ip mid the benefit that they get from his
pulling
Ever} on us WITHOI’T EXCEPTION is PL LI.ED along
or IT SHED ahead by some force unseen.
IT may be the man m the inside office. usually invisible.
It may be the woman at home setting a good example, giv
'ing to the man at work the inspiration and the power that no
one else could give.
It may be paternal affection, enabling a man to do for a
weak child what he eould not possibly do for himself.
\ ery often the power is one that has long disappeared from
the earth, a father or a mother whose energy and inspiration
persist and do in tlm life of the sou at work what the elephant
does in this picture.
We are all of us pushed or pulled, ail of us indebted to a
power above our own and be} ond our own.
And we should at least be grateful, from the small clerk
who is made secure, protected n his daily living by a man work
ing himself to death at tlm head of the firm, to tlm man of ge
nius, so called, who owes the power that the world, admires to a
«>oiimr unseen and uiiremenilmred.
ion t e.-g '. tilt- •depiiau: that pubs }<m. BE GKATEFI’L
In this wa} }on can add to your own force, ami perhaps in time
become the power that shall pull others.
The Atlanta Georgian
TUESDAY. JUNE 11. 1912.
(FROM HEARST’S MAGAZINE FOR JUNE)
New Standard Oil Letters and Their Lessons
United States Senate,
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These Are Only a Few of the “Archbold Letters'’ in HEARST’S MAGAZINE For June, Which
Contains Many Other Features of Notable interest
Further Light on the Meth
ods by Which the Oil
Trust Bought and Paid
for Legislation and Leg
islators Which It Needed.
The following article here given
in part from Hearst's Magazine
for June further illustrates the
secret correspondence between
Mark Hanna and the oil mono
poly. It is only one of many ar
i tides in the magazine equally in
teresting and instructive:
MARK HANNA died early in
1904. fighting bravely to
the end lor the mistaken
cause of the divine right of trusts
to rule. If we would understand
that system of mutual assistance
between big business interests ami
compliant politicians, a system
which still lives and still menaces
our republican institutions, we
have to treat frankly of the career
of the Napoleon of that system, a
Napoleon who never met his W'a
t erloo.
The nation had never witnessed
before two such political cam-|
paigns as those of 1896 and 1900.!
Mark Hanna, in whose hands the
fortunes of the Republican party!
were intrusted, reduced polities m
an exact science
With a cold business air. Hanna I
| had figured out just what doubtful!
stales must be carried in order to I
win, just how much money was
necessary to carry each one of;
those states; then he added the
sums together and proceeded ;
to assess the "interests" for that I
amount
li a certain bank or corporation
made ati inadequate contribution,
the coni ribut ion was ret tuned wit h
a cool demand for the amount ex
peeled Mark Hanna raised and
spent the two greatest campaign
funds in history—and Im won.
How could "the nation 's credit "
be improved by depreciating the
nation's virtue.’ How could the
nation's financial interest or any
true interest of the nation be ad
vanced by destroying the nation
itself, by debauching the electorate
which politically constitutes the
nation ?
Source of Hanna s Vast Funds.
We can not indorse any utter
ance which seeks to justify Han
na's orgy of political corruption.
We intend to expose and explain
Hanna's purpose ami Hanna's
methods of maintaining "sound
principle'' through the purchase I
of votes for "cash in hand." Wei
intend to cast a searching light ’
upon the source of some of those '
"\ast sums at <'hairman Hanim's 1
disposal more especially in the.
1903 campaign where "frightful
commercialism in polities rose to i
Other articles of compelling interest in Hearst’s Maga
zine for June, which is now on sale at the news stands,
include: “Modern Ships Unsafe?” by Charles P. Brewer;
“How to Insure Safety at Sea,” by J. Bernard Walker;
“How Shall W e Solve the Divorce Problem?” a sympo
sium; including President Taft, Bishop Doane, W inston
Churchill, Hail Caine, Frederick Townsend Martin, Prof.
E. A. Ross. Thomas Hardy and others; “Shuster’s Own
Story,” by W . Morgan Shuster; “America Is One Big
Cash Register,” by Harry Furniss; “The inside of the
Cup,” by W inston Churchill; “The Story of -George
Helm,” by David Graham Phillips;” “Captain Kidd in
Wall Street,” by Geoi 'ge Randolph Chester, the creator
of “Get-Rich-Quick W allingford,” and reviews of art,
books and science by the best writers.
its final pitch of vulgar effront
ery.' '
In the fall of 1903 Hanna was
facing what threatened to be his
Waterloo. His domination of Ohio
'politics and of llm legislature
'which was to reelect him to the
l iiited States senate was in dis-:
j pute.
In order to obtain the flood ol
I money w ith which Hanna won his
I victories, the state fight w as made
:to take on a national aspect ami
i the issue z of government by the!
i people or by the corporations was:
■ raised
1 lamia had found t hat a flood ol |
: money could drown a moral pro
test. void d submet ge the wis lies of
ia majority of dm people, could,
through corruption, carry any cor
poration cause to success.
If money could buy victory in j
the nation, why could it not buy
victory in the state.' The same
methods, therefore, that had com
pelled success nationally in 1896
and in 1900 were applied locally in
1903.
Standard Oil Willing To Pay
No company was more willing
unselfishly to contribute a few
hundred thousand dollars toward
saving the country if only it were
allowed to own the country it had
sit ved.
No other corporation was more
interested in good government, if
onlv the government were good
to IT
Ail tlull tlm Standard < >il < oni
pany wauled was the election of
the right kind of judges and- the
I right kind of legislators and the
I right kind of attorney general and
the right kind of I'nited States
! senators.
Demands "Simply Awful ”
Hanna wrote I<> Archbold from;
1 lev land. Ohio, upon the paper of j
I the I idled Slates senate, a gov-'
eminent institution, which Hanna
and Archbold were united in de
siring to ' save"— for future use.
Hanna s sialionerv was. therefore,
economical and appropria 1 e He
wrote as follows :
UNITED STATES SENATE.
September 15, 1903.
Cleveland. Ohio.
My Dear Archbold:
I am in receipt of yours of the 14th
inst. and wish to thank you for your
assistance.
Your prediction that I will have a
"walkover” does not seem likely. As
: to the governor, it is true, but the con
test for the legislature will be the hot
test we have known for fifty years.
Johnson is straining everything to that
end. We have *3O close counties out
| of 88. many of which we carried two
years ago by NARROW margins. Os
course. Johnson is making every effort
and using money in those counties. Now
I am the target, for my defeat means
more to J. than anything else he hopes
of accomplish. If you lose Cuyahoga
county with'its 14 members, it is a
[ close proposition. Daly can help up
I here and in Toledo, and I want your
people to help our state committee lib
erally. The demands on me are simply
awful. i ruly yours.
M. A. HANNA.
While no definite amount of
money whs mentioned in the above
elder, the immense extent to which
corruption funds were being used
can be divined from the statement
of a eallqus old stager like Hanna
that the demands upon him were
"simply awful."
It the extent of the use of mon
ey in this campaign seemed "sim
ply awful to Hanna, how much
more awful would it have seemed
to the public
in the following letter he ac
knowledges the receipt of a letter
written by Archbold on Septem
ber 15. The rapid-fire correspond
ence is mainly on the subject of
moqey. Hanna writes, as usual,
on the stationery of the Fr.iteii
[States senate, possibly with his j
i aulhoritative position and poten
’ tial usefulness in that body
i The appeal for a "liberal sub-1
I script ion ’ is made again, and is
’THE HOME PAPER
i now put not so much upon a per
- sonal as upon a corporation'basis.
■ The argument that corporation
. rule was threatened, which had
■ proved' so effective in national
campaigns, is brought forward
again to influence corporation con
tributions in this slate campaign.
It will he noted that all these
11 letters of Hanna's are written
throughout in his own hand. With
, all his bluntness and occasionally
i brutal frankness. Hanna was far
too cautious to dictate a letter of
. this sort Io a stenographer:
UNITED STATES SENATE.
Cleveland, Ohio,’
September 16„ 1903.
I My Dear John;
i I am in receipt of yours of the 15th
: inst. and reply that I can not go East,
as I can not leave this situation for a
' day.
I know you will do the fair thing
and I want the State Republican com
mittee to get a liberal subscription
from you this time. Although the fight
is all directed against me. I don’t want
them to think I am selfish in taking
subscriptions from my friends to use
in the legislative fight, nor do I feel like
bearing the whole burden, as there is
more than ME interested in the result.
There is no haste about it, only we
must cut our garments to our cloth.
Sincerely yours,
M. A. HANNA. '
(Personal) i
P. S. —Your people can be of great
help in Allen county, Hancock and
Wood counties, which if successful will
secire the election of THREE mem
bers. The whole fight is against cor
porations and me as their champion.
M. A. H.
"We must cut our garments to
our cloth," says Hanna, and. as;
the monster of corruption grew. I
more and more "(doth” was;
needed to cover its hideous oak-’
edness.
"There is more than me inter-;
ested in the result." says Hanna,
ungrammatically Iml truthfully.,
"This whole fight is against the I
| corporations and me as their j
| champion/‘
Misuse of the Power of Wealth. ,
As a matter of feet, there were
"many more than Hanna" inler-
Frequent Letters From
Archbold to Hanna Show
the Corruption That Was
Practiced to Attain the
Ends Wanted by the Mo
nopoly.
ested in the result. The tight was
between 1 he people on t he one side,
battling for the greatest good for
the greatest number, struggling
for the realization of a govern
ment of the people, by the people
and for the people, and the cor
porations on the other side, striv
ing to control the government in
their own selfish interests, endeav
oring Io continue the existing sys
tem with its special privileges and
its profitable plunder.
‘'This whole tight is against the
corporations and me as their
champion." says Hanna, but the
fight is not and never has been a
fight by the people against the
legitimate interests of the corpora
tions. It is and always has been a
■ -fight by the corporations against
I the legitimate interests of the peo
| pl* 1 -
$2,000 in Oregon Matter.
i As Senator Foraker received his
I certificates of deposit, so Senator
Hanna received his certificates of
deposit. I'he sum mentioned
($2,000) is a small one compared
with the certificates of deposit for
[ sls.(Mill and larger sums 1 hat have
been disclosed by the Standard Oil
letters.
Being a small sum. it was prob
aldy for a small purpose, or for the
purchase ol some small man with
a cheap price. But whatever the
purpose of the purchase was. it
was not an honest one or the
amount would not have been sent
in this underhanded and concealed
way. The letter and the certiti
eate of deposit are sent from
Standard Oil headquarters bv Mr
Archbold.
26 Broadway. New York
„ „ r. Ma i' 31 > 18 98.
My Der Senator:
l Responding to your favor of the 28th,
[it gives me pleasure to enclose you
i herewith Certificate of deposit to your
favor for $2,000 to aid in the Oregon
matter.
Trusting the desired end will be ac
complished, I am, with kind regards,
Very truly yours.
L a o JNO ' D ' ARCHBOLD.
Hon. M. A. Hanna,
Senate Chamber,
, Washington. D. C.
I From the above ft-ttor. address
fl to Hanna in the I nitcd States
[smiate. and iroin a similar letter
[addressed Io Foraker in the I’nit
ied States senate, yve observe ♦!>•»<.
[the Standard Oil Company k>"
iin close and constant eommuniim
tmn with both of its Ohio senators.
[ not only v ben they were engaged
I m Ohio slate politics, bui wiien
II hey w .'re engaged j n p,., | <» rin j n>i r
their duties as I nited Stales sen
ators.