Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1902 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The Youth’s Companion, a republican sheet published at Boston, Mass., in a recent issue in discussing Andy Carnegie’s “gift” of $10,000,000 for “education,” says: “The people of this country have reason to be proud of their millionaires.” You bet they are proud of them. Only a few years ago Andy Carnegie was a telegraph operator. Then he got into the “steal” business and in a short time he had accumulated a couple of hundred and fifty millions, and nearly all of it was acquired by selling steel at less than cost! And all of this time the republican statesmen, including the lamented McKinley, kept a stiff tariff on steel and steel products so the pesky “furriner” couldn’t keep Andy from making the price right. Price-making has always been a trump card with Andy, and he always had a handful of trumps. We are proud of Andy and only wish he had the earth well fenced, and we think our fondest dreams will be realized if Andy and the republican party stay in power for another four years. - We are proud of John D. Rockfeller, who in less than the average life of the human race has become the richest man in the world! Think of that! An American citizen, a good Baptist, who by pluck and energy and economy has saved up $600,000,030, and he has taken enough time from business during each week to study his Sunday school lesson! John has, as a matter of course, met with some obstacles but when a remedy which John has applied with huge success on Judges, legislators, congressmen and senators failed, he simply told them to go to h , or words to that essect, and no instance has come under our notice where one or the other of these remedies has not worked successfully. We might remark here that some coal oil John sends to this town will have a tendency to compromise his good name, as some pretty good men and women, too, have had the audacity to accuse this oil of containing water in as liberal quantities as does the capital of the company John presides over. We are proud of John though. It takes brains and a powerful sight of economy to save as snug a fortune as John has, and especially so when his goods have been sold on such close margins, and his expenses have been so heavy.