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ENDING OF A METEORIC CAREER
There died .it Syracuse, N. V., last week, at an age when he should
have been in the enjoyment of physical maturity and the fruits of his
remarkable mental equipment, a man to whom future historians will
refer to “point a moral and adorn a tale." Having dissipated h>s
splendid powers, both physical and mental, during his brief but daring
career, after having demonstrated remarkable ability in his chosen
profession, his end came under the shadow of the Nemesis of the law,
and with the indications pointing to a suicide’s death.
A decade ago the state of Montana rang with the praises of a young
man who had appeared on the scene of political and corporation cor
ruption which permeated that state, and he was hailed as a Moses who
would lead the people out of the wilderness of corporation control.
The great Amalgamated Copper Company, an adjunct of the Standaid
Oil Company, was rapidly acquiring possession of the rich resources of
the Treasure State, not only in mining, but in all branches of human
endeavor. To accomplish its baleful purposes legislatures were con
trolled, courts were dictated to and public officials generally were under
the thumb of the gigantic corporation which, like the octopus to which
it had been compared, was gradually but surely entwining its tentacles
around the young commonwealth and absorbing its life blood. To
give battle to this gigantic opponent came F. Augustus Heinze, a young
mining engineer, daring, energetic, a master of his profession, and
possessed of a personality which won him friends by the thousands.
He was received with open arms by the people, who showed their con
fidence in him in every possible manner, and it is not too much to say
that at one time he could have had any political honor in the gift of
the people of Montana. A few short years later his name was exe
crated in everv corner of the state whose people he had hoodwink, d
and whose confidence he had betrayed to his own selfish ends. The
story of Heinze, if written in the form of a romance. Mould provide a
work worthy of the elder Dumas.
Heinze, splendidly equipped tor his chosen profession as a mining
engineer, made his appearance in Butte, the wonderful copper camp
of Montana, shortly after having achieved great success in mining ven
tures in the then new mining regions of British Columbia. Being fairly
well provided with money, he entered the Butte field as an operator,
and soon acquiree! some apparently worthless property. Subsequent
events proved that he had an almost uncanny knowledge of the ore
bodies of the district, and also of the maze of titles in going properties.
The Amalgamated company was at this time endeavoring to acquire
all of the mines in the Butte district, and with a few exceptions had
succeeded in gaining possession of all those located on the famous
Anaconda hill, 'the richest hill in the world, as the Montana news
papers delighted to call it.
Hein7.e commenced operations on a claim entirely surrounded by
Amalgamated properties, and was soon engaged in extracting the
rich ore, but came into conflict with the big corporation over the right
to mine certain ore bodies. The matter was taken into the courts,
and developed some of the most famous mining litigation in the his
tory of the West. In the meantime court orders were being violated
by both parties to the controversy, fights between rival miners oc
curred in the mine workings, thousands of feet below the surface of
the ground, m which workmen were killed and property destroyed,
and the whole community was in a ferment over the struggle. The
people were almost unanimously with Heinze in the controversy, and
the game of politics was resorted to to gain advantage. Legislatures
were elected to pass new laws in his favor, and judges were created
who would pass favorably upon his suits. He became a political boss
supreme, and such was his position that he was able to have the lower
courts pass favorably upon his suits and the supreme court confirm
the judgments. Thus came into being the famous apex decision,
which has become generally recognized as law. He was a most lib
eral boss, and besides spending money freely among his henchmen, he
had enacted an eight-hour law for miners and smeltermen, and other
legislation favorable to the workingmen, so that they almost idolized
him. All this time the Amalgamated had been trying to purchase his
interests and get rid of a troublesome opponent. Heinze, a clever
political speaker as well as manipulator, constantly gave assurances
that he would not sell out. to the big company, a contingency which
the workingmen feared, which was shared also by the small business
men and others. This assurance was the means of continuing him in
power, and matters came to such a pass that the Amalgamated com
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pany finally took drastic measures, closing down its immense work
ings, throwing thousands of workmen out of employment, and an
nouncing that it would not resume operations until the legislature had
passed a “fair trial bill.” The legislature was hastily convened in spe
cial session and a measure passed which allowed a litigant to disqualify
a judge without stipulating a reason therefor.
And then came an announcement which dampened the hopes of
the people and shattered the confidence of a whole community in its
idol. It was nothing less than that Heinze had sold out to the Amal
gamated, leaving the field in the full possession of the latter, with all
the attendant ills of corporation control of city and state. The price
was said to have been $12,000,000, which was conceded to have
been largely in the nature of blackmail, as the property disposed of
w'as probably not worth much more than half of this sum. It is more
than likely that there was a purpose in the action of the oil magnates
in thus buying Heinze off with a liberal sum which did not appear on
the surface, it was known to be the ambition of the mining man *o
enter Wall street as a financier and speculator. He had supreme confi
dence in his own daring and ability, and it was said that he fuily
expected to become a power in the financial center of the country.
He disposed of practically all of his holdings in Butte and repaired to
New York, where he became president of a banking and trust com
pany and other financial institutions. When the financial stringency
of a few years ago fell upon the country like a whirlwind, swallowing
up fortunes in the twinkling of an eye and bringing financial ruin to
thousands, Heinze was caught in the vortex, and his banking institu
tions went to the wall, and conditions w'ere revealed which resulted in
his indictment on several criminal charges. Upon one of these he
came to trial, the jury disagreeing as to his guilt. The other charges
were still pending. Men acquainted with operations on the “street”
immediately pointed out that Heinze’s ruin was accomplished by his
former adversaries of the Amalgamated and Standard Oil companies,
and gave details showing that the coup was deliberately planned and
executed by the men to whom he had been a thorn in the side in his
Montana operations. Thus did the octopus achieve its revenge. While
there have been rumors that Heinze was in a fair way to rehabilitate
his fortune, there is little reason to doubt that he had reached the end
of his means, and that he retained but little if any of the princely for
tune that he acquired by his shrewdness, combined with real technical
knowledge, executive ability and chicanery.
An an indication of the wonderful sway held by the man over tne
populace, it is stated that it was customary for him to make political
addresses from the balcony of a down-town hotel, and on sucli occa
sions the streets would be blocked to traffic for hours at a time. On
his arrival in Butte after a visit to New York on one occasion, his ad
mirers unhitched the horses from his carriage and drew the vehicle
and its occupant up town to his hotal, a distance of a mile up a steep
hill. Ropes were attached and hundreds of persons participated in
the performance. After his deal with the Amalgamated he was al
lowed to arrive in the city without attracting more than ordinary notice,
except from a few personal friends and hangers-on.
THE PROHIBITION MOVEMENT
The wave of prohibition sentiment which has just culminated in the
addition of several states to those already prohibiting ov law the man
ufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages is but the precursor of what
! is gradually being accepted by those who keep in touch with current
1 events as inevitable—a time when the liquor traffic will be outlawed
j throughout the length and breadth of the land.
The crusade against the liquor traffic is as old as the traffic itself.
Ancient and modern literature is filled with the admonitions of the
i sages against the use of intoxicants. In spite of these teachings, it is
; noteworthy that only in those lands where the non-use of alcoholic
; stimulants is a religious doctrine is tire curse of alcoholism absent, or
at least it is negligible. It has been often said that the seeming sanc
tion of the use of wine in the rites of the Christian churches has worked
to the encouragement of the use of intoxicants to some extent, and
the fact that Biblical narrative showed its use among the followers of
Christ and his disciples served in a measure to nullify the teaching of
abstinence even among the most devout. On the other hand, the in
hibition of the use of intoxicants by the Mohammedan religion has
been the means of making of the Turks and their co-rchgionists a re
markably abstemious people.
In the United States the crusade against the liquor traffic has under
gone several phases prior to its present apparently victorious onrush.
Generations ago the temperance lecturer, with fantastic eloquence
and by the aid of a “horrible example,” sometimes impersonated by
'he lecturer himself, appealed to the emotions of a certain few, and
these furnished as a rule the fanatical element of the movement. The
Women's Christian Temperance Union, by its persistent campaign
against the evil, and because of the bright minds it was responsible for
enlisting in the crusade, may lay claim to a large share of the credit
for the success of the movement. The Good Templars, now seldom
heard of, was a large factor in the fight, because it instilled in the
minds of the young at an impressionable age the evil results following
the intemperate use of alcohol. Another factor in the war on the
Uemon Kum was me liquor men memseives. ineir arrogant use ut
political machinery in furthering schemes for the advancement of their
interests opened the eyes of thousands to the enormous profits wrung
from the people, and their corruption of legislative bodies and elec
torates aroused resentment. But not one of these was the dominant
cause of the accepted defeat of the liquor interests. What will win
the battle eventually is hard-headed reasoning, from which the deduc
tion has been gradually drawn that the liquor evil must be destroyed
by man or the evil wall in a measure destroy humanity.
When the statistician appeared as an advocate not of temperance
only, but of total prohibition; when it was shown that a startling per
centage of the crime and an alarming proportion of the insanity preva
lent throughout the civilized world was due to the effects of alcohol;
when it was demonstrated that man’s usefulness was decreased in pro
portion to the manufacture and sale of stimulants of an alcoholic na
ture; when it was impressed upon the mmds of the people that the
enormous sum of $2,169,356,695 was spent in a single year in the
United States for spirits, malt liquors and wines, without beneficial re
turn—then, and not until then, was awakened the knowledge that the
liquor problem was an economic one as well as a moral one. The
economic waste of maintaining penitentiaries and insane asylums, alms
houses and correctional institutions, largely for the care of victims of
the traffic in alcoholic stimulants, and the fact that alcohol was gradu
ally undermining the stamina of the race, awoke in the minds of think
ing people a realization that we were paying too high a price for the
“rights” of the people.
Many men there are who will regret the invasion of “private rights”
by government, and will deplore a condition which makes impossible
the enjoyment of a “social glass” whenever so inclined. But when all
is said and done, all government is an invasion of private rights. We
forego certain indulgences and privileges for the common good. Time j
was when it was not a crime to maintain dens for the smoking of
opium, but when the public welfare demanded the suppression of this
evil, the “right” of the individual to saturate his system with this
species of poison was taken from him for the protection of society.
There arc some who place alcohol in the same category as opium,
alleging that one glass of distilled spirits creates an abnormal condi
tion of the brain, and in such condition the individual is dangerous to
himself and his fellows. If this be true, society’s duty is to take notice
of it.
As to the old question of whether prohibition really prohibits, that
is an entirely separate problem. It will no doubt be with this law as
it is at present with other laws—if the people desire its enforcement it
will be enforced; if, on the contrary, a disposition is shown to wink at
violations of the statute, officials will be found venal enough to profit
by its non-enforcement. But the cynical may rest assured of this—
that prohibition is coming, and it is coming to stay. The change in
public sentiment is so marked since the day that ii was not considered
bad form for a gentleman to be seen in an intoxicated condition that
nowadays there is no place in the business world for the drunkard.
More and more it is getting to be the rule that total abstinence is re
quired of those in responsible positions, and the example set by con
scientious and high-minded men in public life has found a response
among all classes of society, until today a total abstainer is no longer
looked upon as a crank.
The doom of the liquor traffic is sealed, and those engaged in it
have seen the writing on the wall and are laying their plans to meet
the new conditions. _
WHEN GERMANY AND RUSSIA MEET
(Toledo Blade, August 201
To laymen it lias been astonishing how successfully the military experts forecast, as
long ago as four or five years, the way in which this great European war would be
fought. They predicted, for example, that Germany’s first fighting would be concen
trated upon an attempt to crus-h France. They foresaw that Britain’s Expeditionary
force would be a small one. in spite of Britain's claim of having the largest oversea*
army in the world. They knew that in case of war the neutrality of Luxemburg and
Belgium would be violated.
It may prove interesting, since so much was foretold with exactness, to recite some
of the predictions applying to later operations of the war. If Germany cannot paralyze
the nerve centers of France in thirty days she is. according to the experts, whipped for
keeps. But if she does, the highway is cleared for triumphing over her enemies, how
ever strong and overwhelming they may have seemed at the start. Her railroads are so
organized that they can transport five hundred troop trains to the Russian border every
twenty-four hours. Austria can supplement the force with two hundred and sixty troop
trains a day. ’Russia's military policy is almost wholly along defensive lines. She has
not forgotten what advantage her far-stretching plains and marshes and her inhospitable
winters gave her against Charles XII. and the first Napoleon. Vet the advantages will
count her little if the Germans are merely content with driving the Russians across the
border. Russia will, in that event, play scarcely a larger part in the war than she does
now.
Should France hold the Germans back more than a month, Cossack hordes may he
pouring over the boundary lines, dodging the great fortresses and avoiding decisive con
flict with the German Hint Ausirian armies of defense. Their effort must be to compel
a withdrawal of part of the forces from the French border, where it could ill be spared.
The civilian population might be so terrorized that the organization of feeding the sol
diery. transporting troops ami caring for the wounded and ill. a necessarily complicated
system, might break down beyond hope of immediate repairing. When it is remem
bered that Beilin is only two hundred miles from the nearest point of the Polish frontier,
it is evident that a Cossack raid is more to be dreaded for its moral effect on the Gor
mans than an English victory over the German navy in the North sea.
The experts, of course, are not agreed upon every point But in this they do seem
to be of the same opinion—that thirty days will come very near to telling the world how
this war is to turn out.
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