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rhe Review of Reviews. 



June 1, I'J'M. 



Mr. Henry Rogers, 

 " Mutual Life " and tlie " Standurtl Oil Company." 



proportioned head. His forelieiul is liisli and broad, his 

 grey eyes deep set under brows that come together and 

 give intentness and fierceness to his gaz€. Tvhen he is 

 aroused. 



The second is from the pen of Mr. Creelman : — 



Mr. LawBon stood squarely upon his heels, the incarnation 

 of strength and courage. Tlie square head, high ana wide 

 at the top, the long line of the jaw, and broad fighting 

 chin, big blue-grey e.ves, the big flat teeth, the strong 

 uose. large firm moulh, sinewy neck, hair.y hands, broad 

 deep chest, powerfnll.v curved thighs, aud the steady voice — 

 these were eloquent of strength, deteruiiuation and concen- 

 tration. 



.\ MIl.I.ION.MBE— 



Mr. Creelman says : — 



This is the man who left school in Cambridge at the age 

 of twelve, walked into Boston with his books under his arm, 

 and secured a three-dollar a week position as au office-boy 

 almost on the very spot where, after thirty-six years, he 

 has worked himself up into a position from which he feels able 

 to captain the fight against Standard Oil and its allies. He 

 owns a palace in Boston filled with works of art; he has a 

 six-hundred-acre fann on Cape Cod. with seven miles of 

 fences, three hundred liorses, each one of whom he can 

 call bv name; one hundred and fiftv dogs, and a building 

 for training his animal.- larger than Maddison Square Gar- 

 den. Some of his horses are worth many thousands of doU 

 lars apiece. Even the experts of the German Government 

 who examined Dreamwold the other day were amazed at 

 its costliness and perfection. 



-BUT AX HONEST MAN! 



According to his assailants — and they are numer- 

 ous enough — Mr. Lawson is " a man who, through- 

 out his manv j-ears of active life on the Stock Ex- 

 change, came to be generally considered as the 

 svnonym of chicaner}' and of misrepresentation." 



But according to himself he is the honestest man 

 who ever lived. Replying to one of his traducers, 

 he says : — 



Did I make my fortune honestly, you ask? and I answer: 

 In thirty-six years of active business life, very active, em- 

 bracing "transactions through which I have passed from 

 poverty to wealth and back again from riches to poverty. 



and In which I might easily have retained the riches by 

 sacrificing a, principle, I have never once in all these years 

 and in all tfiese transactions done a wrong to a man, 

 woman, or child, uor taken from man, woman, or child a 

 dollar unfairly, much less dishonestly. 



OTHERS WHO ARE OTHERWISE. 



Mr. Lawson deals faithfully with the Chiefs of 

 Standard Oil. Mr. Rogers, he says, is the man who 

 carries the brains of the System : — 



Rogers is a marvellously able man and one of the heft 

 fellows living: If .vou knew him only on the social side, 

 aud knew him for years, you couldn't help loving him. 

 He is considerate, kindly, generous, helpful, and everything 

 a man should be to liis friends. 



Once he iiasses under the baleful influence of " The Ma- 

 chine," however, he becomes a relentless, ravenous creature, 

 pitiless as a shark, knowing no law of -God or man in the 

 execution of his purpose. Between him and coveted dollars 

 ma.v come no kindly, humane influences: all are tlimst 

 aside, their claims disregarded in ministering to this 

 strange, cannibalistic mone>'-hunger. which, in truth, grows 

 by what it feeds on. 



Here is his description of the nominal head f 

 the firm : — 



John D. Rockefeller, however great his ability or worldly 

 success, can be fully described as a man made in the image 

 of an ideal money-maker and an ideal money-maker made 

 in the image of a man. A foot.-note should call attention 

 to the fact th;it an ideal money-maker is a machine the 

 details of which ;ire diagrammed in tlie asbestos blue-prints 

 which p;iper the walls of Hell. 



■ THE RELIGION WITH US ALL." 



Xothing in the book is more illuminating than 

 the following remark quoted by Mr. Lawson as 

 ha\-ing been made to him by Mr. Rogers: — - 



"I do not think a fair judge would find me guilt.v of 

 avarice, either in business or in the manner of my living, 

 aud yet I am made fairly miserable if I discover that in any 

 liusine.^ I do I have not extracted every dollar possible. 

 It is one of the first principles Mr. Rockefeller taught me; 

 it is one he has inculcated in every ' Standard Oil ' man, 

 until to-day it is a religion with us all." 



WHAT'S TO BE DONE ? 



The question that naturally arises to the mind 

 of the reader of this astonishing book is, What's to 

 be done? The Old World answer is simple. Buc- 

 caneers are enemies of the human race. Civilisa- 

 tion hr.nts them down as outlaws. A\Tien they are 

 caught they are hanged at Newgate, and their ill- 

 gotten booty is confiscated and passed on to the 

 public treasury. 



From the news cabled across the Atlantic it would 

 seem as if some of the Buccaneers of the Western 

 Strand are afraid that the O'.d World method of 

 dealing with buccaneers may be tried in the New 

 World. But for the sake of civilisation itself it is 

 to be hoped that no attempt will be made to re- 

 dress public wrongs by private crimes. What ap- 

 pears to fit the case is rather the confinement nf 

 the buccaneers in a State lunatic asylum. Dipso- 

 maniacs may be placed under duress. Whv not 

 dollar-maniacs? Their mania is far more danger- 

 ous to the community. The sequestration of their 

 estates wo'.ild naturally follow. The fortunes of 

 such multi-millionaires as the Rockefellers are in- 

 sompatible with the safety of the Republic. 



