Ogden Evening Standard | 1913-04-03 | Page 4 | An Editor's View of J. Pierpont Morgan

AN EDITOR'S VIEW OF J. PIERPONT MORGAN The Denver News sees in the life I of John IV Morgan nothing of good ness, except the cold genius of th" man. In an obituary, the News says At his worst he was a buccaneer on the high seas of finance At his best, he loved art. perhaps not so much I for the sake of art. but as a healthy j child covets gew gaws and tawdry ' tos of the Christmas days. And even In the well guarded fields of the wondrous art of the past, was lie I something of the pirate, for reveren rial sentiment had no concern for hlin ami the sanctity of tradition was a menaec when it interfered with his c hase after the priceless treasures of the European gallerle? True, the country will be the richer for his piracies and his conquests, for many of them have been bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And now, outside of his piled mil lions, what of his memorials' TIip time Berver, the sycophant and the idolator of dollar power, will chan. their te deums for him for a brief period, until a new pillar is installed in the Morgan space. Then, the end, save the spasmodic reference of the reconteur with his foibles and his pus ings. But of the many who felt In their 60uls the Iron of his ceaseless and relentless foraging who winced ' and suffered and fell before its vo- racity and arrogance, they too, will I stand in the market places and proclaim pro-claim to a listening world their estl of his record and his work. Bul (rlend and foe alike will pay-tribute pay-tribute to Hie cold genius of the man to his energy: his power for concen-tration; concen-tration; his disregard for ideals; his contempt for precedent hit pity for ethics; his disdain of principles and his scorn for the higher moralities ot commercial life Mayhap, he haR pass ed out of the clamor and glamor of the world at the opportune hour, when the full tide of his world power was upon him. He died with the music of the Tiber in his ears, close to the shuddering slopes of Vesuvius There today the blue waves of the Adriatic croon their dirge alike for the sat li-ied '.-irs from the belching volcano, volca-no, and lor John Plerpont Morgan. Croesus of the centuries