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Archbold Tells Frankly How
He Fried To Buy a
‘ President
The secrets of the Standard Oil check-book which Hearst's
Magazine has been disclosing for several months- and which we
hope it will continue to disclose are epoch-making.
They have furnished legal proof of political practices which
everybody knew, hut which nobody has been able to prove
hitherto.
They have shown that in the traffic in men’s souls, in buy
ing public men or legislation or in paying for immunity, the
criminal trusts asked not what party a “statesman” belonged
to. but only what price he asked for services to the trust.
The 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 United States
senator in President Taft's own state, who largely controlled
legislation affecting corporations in the I’nited States senate. It
bought at the same time the man closest to Mr. Bryan and most
active in his campaign. x
The one was a Republican and the other was a Democrat.
The criminal 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 part of both.
Now the whole country is stirred by the particular instal
ment of the Archbold letters which reveals the relation of the
Standard Oil Company to the present Republican leader in the
I’nited States senate and to the Roosevelt campaign of 1904.
Mr. Cortelyou, 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 191)4. 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.
Rut the publicity in the August Hearst's Magazine of Mr.
Penrose's financial dealings with Mr. Archhold has compelled
Mr. Penrose to fterht for any shred or patch of respectability
that can he 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 he handed $100,0(10 of the
money Io Mr. Bliss he told him in accordance with the habit
of the Standard Oil board of directors who had voted the money
—that he did not want to give the money 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.
The Standard Oil Trust does not fling its money Io the birds.
When it pays for political favors it wishes Io know that it
will get what it pays for.
That Archbold gave SIOO,OOO 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
velt’s letter to Chairman Cortelyou. dated October 26, 1904,
saying: “I have just been informed that the Standard Oil peo
ple have contributed SIOO,OOO to our campaign fund. * * •
If true I must ask you to direct that the money be returned
forthwith."
There are only three persons living whose testimony is now
admissible. H. H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil. knew, but he is
dead. Cornelius N. Rliss. the Republican treasurer, knew, but is
dead. The three living witnesses are Colonel Roosevelt, John
D. Archbold and George B. Cortelyou.
Mr. Archbold is lhe 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 I’nited States
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. Cortelyou who has said that he is out of polities for
ever. has no motive to conceal lhe truth, and has a high char
acter for ability and veracity. He says that Colonel Roosevelt’s
version is true. The letters of Colonel Roosevelt, the other wit
ness. speak for themselves.
Archhold appeared in Washington as a voluntary witness to
hack 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, be 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 those things
because the Standard Oil refused to give the additional $150,-
000 Treasurer Bliss asked for. Io the Stand-rd Oil apparently
the only question of importance about any statesman is.
‘‘What is his price?” Archbold states under oath h - belief
that $150,000 was President Roosevelt A price.
But has Archbold forgotten that President Roosevelt jot
Continued in Last Column.
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By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
ONE only needs to glance at
the photograph accompany
ing this article in order to
understand the irresistible lure of
the highway of the air. <>ne feels
the charm, and sees why no num
ber of fatal accidents can dissolve
its power over adventurous spirits.
Tlte photograph—the first of the
kind was made by Andre Schelch
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« Heart-Hungry Wives
I'Tl’.’T a great many letters from
women who claim that they
are starving for a little affec
tion from their husbands. These
women write that 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
woman.
This is lote. not the love of the
take-lt-for-granted. connubial kind
—not the lukewarm, milk-and-wa
ter affection—but real love, of the
sizzling, burning, boiling-over sort,
the love that expresses itself tn ar
dent glances, and wrecks the dic
tionary in coining terms of endear
ment, and that < lings to the hand
of the beloved one like a drowning
man to a straw.
Why There's Heart-Hunger.
Needless to remark, these wives
are not permitted to feast upon this
fancy variety of matrimonial devo
tion. hence their heart-hunger and
these tears. They gay that when it
comes to being cold and unrespon
sive their husbands could beat the
ice cold stone of poetry a city
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 paying them a com
pliment upon their looks, they
would fall dead with surprise If
such a phenomenon should occur.
These ladies also declare that
they love their husbands and their
homes and that they enjoy doing
al! the work and making sacrifices
necessary to running a home and
rendering a man comfortable, but
they would like for their husbands
to show that they love them, if such
is the ease, and to give some sign
that they appreciate theit wives'
good qualities, and all that they d"
for them
The women who arc envied by
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1912.
devoted himself with great enthu
siasm to the development of pho
tographs from aeroplanes In Hight.
M. Schelcher, In this case, is the
passenger, and the pilot is M
Pierre Debroutelle.
The peculiarity of the picture,
that which gives it its strange
charm, consists in the. fact that it
shows at one glance both the in
terior of the aeroplane ami the
view that is spread beneath the
eyes of its occupants. Tlte camera
By DOROTHY DLX
other women 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 wives
whose husbands remain lovers aft
er marriage, and who receive from
their husbands the delicate little
attentions of courtship.
Few women are 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.
Probably he feels that he expresses
himself In sufficiently intelligible
terms of affection when he pays her
hills, but this doesn’t satisfy a
woman. She wants to be continu
ally told, with good round oaths,
that he still adores her, and con
siders her as beautiful and charm
ing. and as slender, when she is
fat and forty, as he thought her
when she was slim, and sweet, and
twenty.
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 wife daily on a
choice assortment of the bonbons of
affection. He doesn't do it, how
ever, and even when wife goes fish
ing for compliments, she makes a
water haul.
Os course men ought to make love
to their w ives 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, hard worked
business man doesn’t quote poetry
to his wife of an evening, or hold
her hand, is no sign that he isn’t
filled with surging emotions of af
fection for her. A passionate de
votion may express itself just as
well in beefsteaks as it does in vio
'■■ts. and the man who toils early
and late to keep his wife com
£ui table and sheltered from the
was placed at the end of one of rhe
upper planes, at such a distance
that both the machine and the
landscape should be in focus at die
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 tliejr com
panion, and also seeing what they
see.
hardships of life is giving a work
ing model of true love that makes
the antings of a Romeo look like
thirty cents.
Women who are married to these
dumb, devoted, domestic slaves of
men may well 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 familii s
these wives need not worrv 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, and keep asking bet, "Goose
ducky is oo?" to the day of het
death.
Quit Counting Heart Throbs.
Doubtless ail 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 works 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 in the streets his virtue.
Besides which love is not the
whole of life, and the less women
live in their emotions the happier
thej are If women would stop
taking the temperature of theit
husbands' affections and counting
their own heart throb.- the world
would be a cheerier place in which
to live.
THE HOME PAPER
Elbert Hubbard
Writes on
Co-operation and
How It Makes For
the Big
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 for 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 tn your own name,
stay in the country or do business
for yourself. Peanut stands are
individualistic: when the peanut
man goes the stand also croaks.
Successful corporations are some
thing else.
Saving - of Time <.
Is Problematical.
Or course, the excuse is, If you
send me 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 ft 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 apposition house,
there are great and vexatious de
lays. dire confusions and a great
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 poMcy—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 butting 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 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 month after Treasurer Bliss
got only $160,000 from Archbold, and that this did not prevent!
Colonel Roosevelt 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 collossal van
ity attributed to great criminals. Note this passage:
“Senators Scott and Elkins, too. were inclined to give us
credit for going into West Virginia,’’ said Mr. Archbold, “with
enough Republicans to turn the tide from the Democracy to the
Republican party in that state.’’
Mr. Archbold states under oath his belief that for $150,000
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 Light into
the dark places of polities. Those who have been the instigators
of the political corruption that has gone so far to make laws a
marketable commodity and thus to sap the foundations of •Gov
ernment. will he revealed in their true character. On the other
hand, those who have been swept along by the tide of evil cus
toms. but have themselves neither instigated the evils nor
profited by them, will receive such measure of exculpation as
they deserve.
There can be no doubt, for example, that such a man as
the late Cornelius N. Bliss was caught in the swirl of a system
that was not of the color, of his own character. He was a man
of high honor and delicate conscience.
One of the most interesting things brought out in the Arch
bold testimony is the explanation of the fact that the flood of
certificates of deposits, as revealed by the letters printed in
Hearst s Magazine, was confined to tin- venal statesmen of Penn
sylvania ami Ohio. The explanation is that according to Mr.
Archbold’s own statement—his own personal political jurisdic
tion was confined to those two slates.
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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 mall. He 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 opetj
to temptation or tends to turn his
head, causing him to lose sight of
his own best interests, seizing at a t.
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 policies all tend to
ruin men just as surely as do cig
arettes, booze, pasteboards and ths
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 tn; the individualist is
then sure he is right; the enlarged
ego grows, and some day the house
sjmply takes his word for it and
out he goes. The dow n-and-outer
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 two 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
take his "good-will” along. The
blame should go back to the first
firm w’here he was employed, that
allowed him a private letterhead
and let him get filled with the fal
lacy that he was doing business on
his own account, thus losing sight
of the great truth that we win
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.