p. 11 | The Power of Money

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 15, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 49.

The Power of Money

Just recently, in a New York court, where divorce proceedings for the poor linger long and with more or less publicity, Col. John Jacob Astor and his wife secured a divorce through their lawyers, neither of them being present, in fifteen minutes. She left for Europe with her daughter; he with his son on a tour to

the West Indies in his private yacht. A fearful storm having swept over the West Indies, people became alarmed for his safety. Three nations are searching for his yacht. One of the vessels of the United States was fitted out with a complete wireless telegraphy plant in order to find the lost yacht; and England and Germany were also enlisted in the same quest. From the divorce proceedings to the searching for the yacht, we are shown what men will do for one who has no more brains, no more worth, no better standing morally, than thousands of other men who are not thought of, simply and solely because he has the one thing—money.