Show A STRONG INDICTMENT In large l type tripleleaded the New York Journal has a halfpage editorial out of which we cull two extracts to give au idea of the whole The first Is as follows Thirty years ago the Standard Oil trust had a capital of 1000000 Now Its nominal capital is 110000000 I aijd the actual ac-tual value of Its stock based on market Quotations and earning capacity is I over 509000000 It has IncroUKcd its wealth over 000 times or COOOO per cent in thirty years In tho same tlmo tho wealth of tim Nation including Standard Oil has not Increased over Mi per cent If tho trust hat increased or much more than tho avonijro tho rest of the country mUM have increased that much leas That would not be strange in any other paper except the New York Journal Jour-nal But let us paraphrase it a little Thirty years ago Uncle George Hearst had not half a million dollars In the world 1 but nine years ago he died leaving leav-ing fifteen millions oC dollars besides mining properties of uncstlmaled value In those twentyone years fho wealth of the other residents of the Pacific coast had not increased 2000 per cent IH J it fair to say If the wealth of Uncle George Increased 3000 per cent so much more than tho average in those twenty years the wealth of the other men on the Pacific coast must Faye increased that much less The olhor extract which wo select reads as follows Ir we call tho average daily wage of the 35000 nun employed by tho Standard Oil company 2 since UO Is tho mini mum these 2o000 men would earn 121 000 a wck > or 21 > 8M a year considerably KSi than lie dividend or Llr John D Rockefeller alone To paraphrase again 1 i lImalInh what the miners in the Ontario tho I the HomeSlake and the Anaconda and other mines In which Undo George was Interested were receiving at the time of his death and tho dividends which the mines were paying it to clear that Uncle George received more than all the miners put together Now dofcj I that prove that he was a public enemy Does It prove that he ought to be held 1 up to scorn Or rather Is it not true that because of hla energy his pluck and his Investment somo thousands of men were receiving generous wages during all the latter part of his life who except for him would have had to seek some other means of earning a living Rumor has ltt too i that the Now York Jouinal IH Bllll being run by dividends paid but of a mind tlial the shrewdness and courage and money of Uncle George bought and opened and PlIt In working order that a new pa per was bought in Chicago and is being 1 be-ing run from the same SOUl ce If tho Standard oil proceeds ought to bo confiscated con-fiscated why ought not the dlvldendy from the Homcstakc As we said above It would not ho strange to sou an article of that Kind In any other paper pa-per In the country except tho Now York Journal but It is most ttrangc to see it there because Standard oil Is as jmuclx mineral product as copper or silver or gold and mining Standard oil Is like mining copper or gold or silver I when it pays It pays largely when It does not pay then there In a great losu in tho investment and when mon lose r money that way they have no sympathy sympa-thy Again suppose that Mr Hearst could have his way and could confiscate tho property of the Standard Oil company Who would be the beneficiaries Would it be the 35000 men who are receiving the 2 a day and would they be better oft Jf Unit 21810000 which they receive re-ceive every year could be stopped 1 Would the public got coal oil any 1 i cheaper What does Ute New York I Journal or Mr Bryan or any other manor man-or newspaper propose to regarding SUmtard 011 to benefit this Nation What kind of legislation could be instituted in-stituted against Standard Oil that would not apply Just as much to the Silver King in Park City or the Cent Cen-t nnlal Kureka in Tintlc Is it not the understanding that the men who deal in the mineral world and who succeed suc-ceed are the exception and not the rule Is It not fair too that where a man or a company opens up a great treasure In the t hills or In the desert that man or that company is entitled to the proceeds of It7 The Silver King I Is paying 75000 a month Hand H-and we understand a largo reserve I besides Now we state as an almost certain proposition that wero there another an-other mine hero or anywhere else that I was making just as good a showing as the Silver King was nine years ago not one of the men who arc Inveighing against the Standard Oil from Mr Bryan down would Invest in its stocK at 10 rents a share because it would be I too risky but so soon as the risk has been taken and the reward comes then every mothers son of them is Indignant Indig-nant that the men who had the courage cour-age and the pluck to drive the matter through are receiving so large a reward re-ward This world is filled with envious and narrow men and when Judging poor human nature that fact must be kept in mind If the Standard Oil company com-pany is using its power Illegally tryIng try-Ing to debauch the ballot or to corrupt the courts or to hamper legitimate trade that Is something to fight but the fact that a man or company Is 1 growing rich through mining is not a crime |