From all I've seen, he had a deep intuitive understanding of electricity and may have been able to tap what the solar wind pours onto Earth's magnetosphere. Morgan couldn't have that, couldn't have people getting electric power without paying Him or someone like him.
Check out the squat that old J.P. was up to back then, the Company Towns and Company Stores and wages set to keep people working in lifetime debt, because we're just about there again now.
Learn from history or repeat it, a bit less than half this country can't remember last year when Fox and propaganda radio tells them not to.