Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — MR. ROCKEFELLER'S MONEY. [ARTICLE]

MR. ROCKEFELLER'S MONEY.

Ia There Danger That He. Will Oet AU the Monty There let There are occasional signs of anxiety for fear that John D. Rockefeller will get all the money there la. Mr. Rockefeller has not lately seen fit to publish his estimate of the value of his possessions, but sanguine gueasers rate him nowadays as pretty nearly a billionaire, and the most conservative computers believe he has more than half a billion. It would be impossible to say what la the total wealth of the United States, but the assessed valuation of the several States for 1902 amounted to about thirty-five blllions. Even If Mr. Rockefeller has a whole billion, there Is something left for the rest of us. But his fortune, they tell Eg, is probably Increasing as much as fifty millions a year, and it la not unlikely to double within ten years. Already his financial power Is enormous, *o that he could Influence atock values very materially If he choee, and, at times, make or unmake ordinary millionaires by mere whispers at the telephone

Malevolence Is not attributed to him, »or Is-he frit to be a mischief maker, hut the feeling Is that his business abilities are so surpassing and his business judgment so unapproachably sound that, he can’t hrip seeing and improving chances to make millions mors. To discuss him Is as little of an Impertinence aa to discuss the comet He is s force, sixty-four years old, moving through the earth’s atmosphere, and believed to be rapidly increasing in weight and velocity. Persons who fear they are in his orbit and may be pinched may find some relief In considering that even though his fortune increases very rapidly its growth may long be fed by the increase of wealth In the country.—Harper’s Weekly.