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| Archbold Tells Frankly How
He d ried To Buy a
| President
The secrets of the Standard Oil eheek-book which Hearst s
Magazin • has been disclosing for several months -and which we
hope it will I'ont tine to disclose are epoch-making.
Tiu-v have furnished legal proof of political practices which
everybody knew, but which nobody has been able to prove
hither: ■
Tiic; have shown that in tin* traffic in men's souls, in buy
ing ( l.i i- men or legislation or in paying for immunity, the
erim trusts asked not what party a “statesman' belonged
to. bo’ ini', what price he asked for services to the trust.
Tiie first instalment of the Archbold letters read by Mr.
Hearst four years ago showed how strictly non-partisan the
Standard Oil Trust was. It had bought the chief I oiled States
senator in President Taft's own state, who largely controlled
legislation affecting corporations in the I nited States senate. It
bought al lie same time the man closest to Mr. Bryan and most
active n his campaign.
The one was a Republican ami the other was a Democrat.
The • limiiml trust did not at all object to or approve the poli
tics of either. It required only strict fidelity to the criminal
trust on the pari of both.
Now the whole country is stirred by the particular instal
ment of the Archbold letters which reveals the relation of the
Standard (til Coinpain to the present Republican leader in the
I riit’d State-, senate and to the Roosevelt campaign of 1904.
Mr. Cortelyoii. who was the chairman of the Republican
campaign committee at that time, has recently testified before
the senate committee that the Standard Oil Company made no
contribution to the campaign fund of 1904. And if it had not
been for the publication in Hearst’s Magazine the latter would
have rested there. Nothing more would have been said or done.
But the publicity in the August Hearst’s Magazine of Mr.
Penrose's financial dealings with Mr. Archbold has compelled
Mr. Penrose to tight for any shred or patch of respectability
that can be saved from his tattered toga. He has striven to
show and has been able to show that at least the larger part
of the $125,000 that he had to account for did not go into his
private pocket.
Mr. Archbold says that when be handed SIOO,OOO of the
money to Mr. Bliss he told him—in accordance with the habit
of the Standard Oil board of directors who had voted the monel
that he did not want to give the nioney unless the fact of
the assistance was known to the “powers that be,’’ that is to
say. as Mr. Archbold repeatedly explained unless the transac
tion *' was thoroughly approved and thoroughly appreciated ’ ’ by
Mr. Roosevelt
Tim Standard Od Trust does not fling its money to the birds.
When it pays for political favors it wishes to know that it
will get what it pays for.
That Archbold gave $100,900 to the Republican campaign
fund in 1904 can not be doubted in view of Archbold's testi
mony. Penrose's testimony, and the statement in President Roose
v Itletter to ('hairman f’ortelyou, dated October 26, 1901,
saying: "I have just been informed that the Standard Oil peo
pie have contributed SIOO,OOO to our campaign fund. • » *
If true I must ask yon to direct that the money be returned
fort hwith. “
I'lu r- are only three persons living whose testimony is now
admissible. 11. II Rogers, of the Standard Oil. knew, but he is
dead Cornelius X Bliss, the Republican treasurer, knew, but is
dead. The three living witnesses are Colonel Roosevelt. John
D. Archbold and George B. f’ortelyou.
Me \rchbold is the head of a corporation which has been
convicted of criminal practices by the unanimous judgment of
the circuit court and of the nine judges of the Pnited Slates
supreme court. The trust was a felon. If the guilt of the
criminal trust was personal, and all guilt is said to be personal,
it would attach to its president, and then Mr. Archbold’s testi
mony would not be accepted without corroboration; it would be
discredited by his bad character.
But Mr. Archbold was not convicted as an individual, but
only as a corporation, so that his testimony is admissible,
.Mr. ('ortelyou who has said that he is out of polities for
ever, has no motive to cornea! the truth, and has a high ch/Tr
acter for ability and veracity. He says that Colonel Roosevelt’s
version is true. The lett< rs of Colonel Roosevelt, the other wit
ness. .-peak for themselves.
Archbold appeared in Washington as a voluntary witness to
back up the Standard Oil agent. Senator Penrose, alias “Fan
ning.'’ in his testimony and to show his extreme hatred of Col
onel Roosevelt.
The power is not vouchsafed us to penetrate the mysteries
of the Roosevelt mind to find the real motive which prompted
his relentless warfare against the Standard Oil. Prosecute it.
or persecute it, he certainly did.
He had it indicted nineteen times in Illinois in 1906, ten
times in New York in 1907. He had it fined $29,000,000 in
Indiana for rebating, and when the judgment was reversed
President Roosevelt denounced it as “a gross miscarriage of
justice.” Finally, Mr. Roosevelt had the Standard Oil Trust
sued under the anti-trust act. and a decree of dissolution was
entered against it.
Archbold declares boldly that Roosevelt did all these things
because the Standard Oil refused to give the additional $l5O,
000 Treasurer Bliss asked for. To the Standard Oil apparently
the only question of importance about any statesman is.
“Wbat is his price?” Archbold states under oath his brlim
that *150.000 was President Roosevelt's price
But lias Archbold forgotten that President Roosevelt got
Continued in Last Column
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By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
ONE only neeus to glance at
the photograph accompany
ing this article in older to
understand Hr- irr. -i: i il>h> lure of
the highway of the air. On ■ feels
the charm, and sr-.-s why no num
ber of fatal accidents can dissolve
its power oyer advet tmous spirits.
The photograph tin- first of the
kind was made by Andre Sehelch
er, the r , 're’nch aviator, who has
'i <§ Heart-Hungry Wives &
I ’GET a gr- ,t mny letters from
women who claim that they
are starving for a litt'e affec
tion from their husbands Th'-w
--women write licit they are mar
ried to good men, who provide them
with all the physical comforts of
life, and that they have everything
to make them happy, except the
one most needful thing of all for a
woin.-t n.
This is love; not the love of the
take-it-for-grante<l. eonmibi.il kind
not the lukewarm, milk-and-wa
ter affection but r, al love, of tin
si bng. burr.il : ■■ . \ ,-r sort .
the lot e that < xj.i < >s, . itself In ar
dent glances, and wrecks the dic
tionary in e.lining t,f.iis of endo ir
ment and that clings to the hand
ol the beloved ope like a drowning
man to a straw.
Why There's Heart Hunger.
Needless to remark, these wives
are not permitted to fe ist upon this
fancy variety of matrimonial devo
tion. hence their hcart-liungcr and
these tears. They siy that when it
comes to being old and unrespon
sive their husbands could beat the
ice cold stone of poetry a cite
block; that kissing- their husbands
is like kissing the nutmeg grater,
, because it Is the custom of hus
bands to turn an unshaved cheek to
their wives' lips; and that as for
their husbands pax ing them a com
pliment upon their look-, they
yvould fill dead with surprise if
such a phenomenon sihould occur.
These ladies also declare that
they love their husbands and their
homes and that they enjoy doing
all the yvork and making saeritices
necessary to tunning a home and
rendering a man lomforlable, but
they yvould like for their husbands
te. ahoxx that th- y low them, if such
is the case, and to give some sign
that they ;i|'preciate th i’ wiy
good qualities, and al! th.it they do
lor Io -i
The women yy ho are envied by
TFESDAY, AUGUST 27. 1912.
devoted himself with great enthu
siasm to the development of pho
tographs from aeroplanes in flight.
M Schelcher, in this case, is the
passenger, and the pilot is M.
Pierre Debroutelle.
Th,- peeuliaiity of the picture,
that yy hich gives it its strange
charm, consists in the fact that it
shows at one glance both the in
terior of the aeroplane and the
vieyx that is spread beneath the
• yes of its occupantfe. The camera
By DOROTHY BIX
other xx omen are not the ones who
ride in automobiles and have boxes
at the opera and glitter with dia
monds. The women who make
every woman who knows them pea
green with jealousy are the xvlves
whose husbands remain lovers aft
er marriage, and xx ho receive from
their husbands the delicate little
attentions of courtship.
l- exx xx omen ar- fortunate enough
not to lose their sweethearts when
they get a husband. The average
man loves his wife, nut he would
rather die than let her know it.
P obably he feels that he expresses
himself in sufficiently intelligible
terms of affection when he pays her
biH', hut tl’.is doesn’t satisfy a
woman. She wants to bo continu
ally told, with good round oaths,
that’ho still adores her, and con
siders her as beautiful ;vnd charm
ing, and is slender, xvhen she is
fat ami forty, as he thought her
when she was slim, and sxveet, and
txventy.
Knowing this insatiable hunger
of women for love, and how happy
a few compliments make them, it
is strange that any man could be
so hard-hearted as not to take the
trouble to feed his xvife daily on a
choice assortmvnt of the bonbons of
affection. He doesn't do it. hoyv
ey. . and even when yvife goes fish
ing for compliments, she makes a
water haul.
< >f eout -e men ought to make love
to their wives even more ardently
after marriage than before, but in
asmuch as they don't do it women
should try- to view the situation
with more philosophy than they do.
They should try to realize that
because a prosaic, ha'd worked
business man doesn't quote poetry
to his wife of an evening, or hohi
her hand, is no sign that he isn't
tilled with surging emotions of af
fection for la r. A passionate de
votion may exprt-s itself just as
xveil in beefsteaks as it does in vio
lets. and the man yx ho toils early
and late In k'-eo bis wife com
i lortabie and shelteseU from the
was placed at the end of one of the
upper planes, at such a distance
that both the machine and the
landscape should be in focus at the
same time, and it was operated by
the pulling of a string. 'Thus the
observer is made to feel that he is
actually taking part in the adven
ture. In the most realistic way he
goes along with the aviators, see
ing them as if he were their com ,
panion, and also seeing what they
hardships of life is giving a work
ing model of true love that makes
tiie rantings of a Romeo look like
thirty cents.
Women who are married to these
dumb, devoted, domestic slaves of
men may "ell recall that talk *is
cheap, and that it is actions that
really prove things, and as long as
their husbands continue to spend
their days toiling for their families
these wives need not xvorry about
the state of their husbands’ affec
tion.
Another thing that these heart
hungry wives should remember is
that men and women look at the
subject of love-making from differ
ent points of view. A woman is in
her element in it. A man feels like
a fool when he Is doing it. It is
for that reason that men hate long
engagements. They are in a hurry
to get married and be able to cut
out the mushy talk. They never
realize that a woman marries in the
fond belief that the man is going
to monologue along in the same
strain, ami keep asking her. "(loose
ducky is oo?” to the day of her
death.
Quit Counting Heart Throbs.
Doubtldss all of this is cold com
fort to the women who pine for
some audible expression of their
husbands’ affection. The best ad
vice that one can give them is to
use a little common sense in the
matter, to believe that as long as a
man xvorks for a woman he is giv
ing the best possible proof of his
devotion to her, and that a hus
band who loves his wife feels no
more need to go about proclaiming
the fact than an honest man does
to cry out ip the streets his virtue.
Besides which love is not the
whole of life, and the less women
live in their emotions the happier
they are. If women xvould stop
taking the temperature of their
husbands’ affections and counting
their own heart throbs the world
would be a cheerier place in which
to live
THE HOME PAPER
Elbert Hubbard
Writes on |E||
Co-operation and ■
How It Makes For ■LgJh
the Big HkW
| Things of Business
By ELBERT HUBBARD
Copyright, 1912. by International News Service
IN an enterprise that amounts to
anything- all transactions
should be in the name of the
firm, because the firm is more than
any person connected with it.
Clerks or salesmen who have pri
vate letterheads and ask custom
ers to send letters to them person
ally are on the wrong track.
To lose your identity in the busi
ness is one of the penalties of work
ing far a great institution. Don't
protest—it is no new thing—all big
concerns are confronted by the
same situation. Get in line; it is a
necessity.
If you want to ’do business indi
vidually and in your own name,
stay in the country or do business
for yourself. Peanut stands are
individualistic; when the peanut
man goes the stand also droaks.
Successful corporations are some
thing else.
Saving of Time
Is Problematical.
Or course, the excuse is, it you
send mo the order direct, I, know
ing you and your needs, can take
much better care of your wants
than that disputed and intangible
thing, “the house.” Besides, send
ing it through the circumlocution
office takes time.
There Is something more to say.
First, long experience has shown
that “the saving of time” is< ex
ceedingly problematical. For,
while in some instances a rush or
der can be gotten off the same night
by sending it to an individual, yet
when your individual has gone fish
ing, is at the ball game or is sick,
or else has given up his job and
gone with the opposition house,
there are great and vexatious de
lays, dire confusions a l ''" ft groat
strain on vocabularies.
This thing of a salesman carry
ing his trade with him and consid
ering the customers of the house
his personal property is the thought
of only 2x4 men. A house must
have a certain fixed policy—a repu
tation for square dealing—other
wise it could not-exist at all. It
could not even give steady work
and good pay to the men who think
it would be only a hole in the
ground without them.
In the main the policy of the
house is right. Don't acquire the
habit of hutting in with your stub
end of a will in opposition to the
general policy of the house. To
help yourself, get in line with your
house, stand by it, take pride in it.
respect it, uphold it and regard its
interests t as yours. The men who
do this become the only men who
are really necessary. These are the
Archbold Tells Frankly How ‘
He Tried To Buy a
President
Continued From First Column.
$260,000 from Mr. Harriman one inontl after-Treasurer Bliss
got only SIOO,OOO from Archbold, and that this Hid not prevent
Colonel Rooseveß from attacking Harriman a, little later and
calling him an undesirable citizen?
Archbold evidently regards his purchase of statesmen with
smug satisfaction. His testimony reminds us of the ?ollossal van
ity attributed to great criminals. Note this passage-
••Senators Scott and Elkins, too. were inclined to give us
credit lor going into West Virginia.” said Mr. Archbold “with
enough Republicans to turn the tide from the Demoeraev to the
Republican party in that state.”
Mr. Archbold states under oath his belief that, for $l5O 000
more he could have bought President Roosevelt. Mr. Harriman
gave $260,000 and did not buy him.
Nothing but good can come out of this inrush of li-Mit into
the dark places of polities. Those who have be..,, t!1( . illsl i„. lt(l|S
oi the political corruption that has gone so far to make laws a
marketable commodity and thus to sap the foundations of Gov
ernment. will be revealed in their true character. On the other
hand, those who have been swept along by the tide of evil cits
toms, but have themselves neither instigated the evils nor
profited by them, will receive ,ueb measure of exculpation as
they deserve.
There can be no doubt, for example, that such a man a
the late Cornelius X. Bliss was caught in the swirl of a svsteni
that was not ol the color of his own eharaeter. He was a man
of high honor and delicate conscience.
One of the most interesting things hronght Al ,. h .
“fi Td " " S r ’-' "f
in
M,it,nation is ,/.i XZg to “T
.. „ . ' ' !" ls( >trd political iurisdic.
tion was confined to those two stat,-. w J 10
top-notchers. the hundred-pointers.
The worst about the other plan
Is that it ruins the man who un
dertakes it. For a little while to do
a business of your own in the shad
ow of the big one is beautiful—
presents come, personal letters, in
vitations favors. “Is Mr. Johnson
in’.~ By and by Johnson gets
chesty; he resents it when other
salesmen wait on his customers or
look after his mail. Fie begins to
plot for personal gain, and the first
thing you know he is a plain graft
er. at loggerheads with his col
leagues. with the interests of the
house secondary to his own.
We must grow toward the house,
and with it. not away from it. Any
policy which lays an employee open
to temptation or teud= to turn his
head, causing him to lose sight of
his own best interests, seizing at a
small present betterment and losing
the great advantage of a life’s busi
ness is bad. The open cash drawer,
valuable goods lying around not re
corded or inventoried, free and easy
responsibility, good-enough plans
and let *’*er go pqlicies all tend to
ruin men just as surely as do cig
arettes, booze, pasteboards ami tho
races.
The man who thinks he owns “his
trade” and threatens to walk out
and take other employees and cus
tomers with him is slated to have
his dream come true. The mana
ger gives in; the individualist is
then sure he is right: the enlarged
ego grows, and some day the house
simply takes his word for it and
out he goes. The down-and-ouler
heads off his mail at the postoffice
and for some weeks embarrasses
customers, delays trade and more or
less confuses system, but a month
or t*vo smoothes things out and
he is forgotten absolutely. The
steamship ploughs right along.
This Kind of Man
Seldom Learns.
Our egotist gets a new job, only
to do it all over again, if he can.
This kind of a man seldom learns.
When he gets a job he soon be
gins to correspond with rival firms
for a better one. with intent to
tak“ his “good-will” along. The
blame should go hack to tho first
firm where he was employed, that
allowed him a private letterhead
and let him get filled with the fal
lacy that he was doing business on
bis own account, thus losing sight
of the great truth that we Avin
through co-operation and not
through segregation or separation.
The firm’s interests are yours; if
you think otherwise you are al
ready on the slide