Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — Two Views of a Rich Man. [ARTICLE]

Two Views of a Rich Man.

Baton Stumm, one/ of Germany’s most influential personages, commercially and politically, who died recently at the age of 64, was enormously wealthy, owning vast factories and iron foundries at Neunkirchen, where he was greatly loved by his work people on account of his strict justice and kindliness. On the other hand, he was bitterly hated by the socialists, who saw in him the type of capitalism. He was often called King Stumm because of his possessions and his somewhat autocratic bearing.