THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1906.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8161, 19 June 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1906.

Profeseor Cesare Lombroso, the noted criminologist, author of "Cretinism in Lombardy," "Genius and Insanity/' and other works intended to prove that crime and immorality are merely physical diseases and distempers has recently been occupying himself with an investigation of the 'Amerioan milionaire. He has published the result of this investigation in an artiole in the Lettuxa (Milan), in whioh he pronounces the Amerioan millionaire a social and phyaiologi-

cal freak, at once "a prodigy of turpitude," to use Maoaulay'a phrase, an avaricious monster, and a benefactor of his employees. In person be is sometimes as beautiful as Shelley or Byron, and he shares with Aristotle and Napoleon ono characteristic of the degeneracy of genius, that of low stature. Yet he is not a genius, but an anomalous creature reared in the hotbed of poverty and ignorance, and urged along his course by an insatiable thirst for gain. In the pursuit of money, we read, he crushes with the relentless insensibility of a steel machine e»ery one who stands in his way. The millionaire's person is thus described::— -"Bis forehead is very high and square. In Jay Gould, Kockefeller, Gates, Sage, Morgan and W. H. Vanderbilt we find a powerful development of the jaw. The lowness of stature whioh is noticeable iu the millionaire is among the few degenerative characteristics which they share with men of genius. In most oases he has fine and well-proportioned features, like those of Hill, Keene, Sage, Stillman, and Grisoom. Oruger is a remarkably handsome man." Yet when their business powers are analysed, Lombroso finds nothing in millionaires but commonplace qualities developed and exaggerated in an BDormoue degree. The pomp and splendour of the millionaire's private life is described by the Italian writer aa more than regal. He becomes a descendant of Norman nobles; his palaces and entertainments surpass those of European kings and emperors; "he isolates his children lest they should come in contact with the lower classes. Colonel J. J. Astor's child was attended by two cooks, six attendants, and a governess, and Whitney's baby was watched by three nuraes and four physicians, who visited him every day and telegraphed his state of health to every member of his family." The professor concludes by stating that the wealth of the millionaire is shared by his employees, whose workrooms and factories are made beautiful, with the addition of ballroums, skating rinks, and libraries. As a whole, he considers that the country derives many benefits from the existence of the millionaire and his trusts.