The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-12-06
COMPTROLLER EckELS

COMPTROLLER ECKELS
He Visits Boston Bankers and IL Lavishly
Entertained = He Was the BsnksRP
Choice.
Recently Boston lavishly entertained
q visitor from Washington. Comptrof
Ter Eckels was the guest of the bank
ers. At the same time Carlisle was in
New York taking his instructions from
Wall street.
On Shekels' arrival hero he was
driven to the residence of the leading
bank president and there closcted for
hours with the gentlemen who live On
the interest of what they owe.
In an interview with q reporter
Shekels said, in answer to the question
''who was your hacker in securing tho
appointment" mo one that know OF,
except Grover Cleveland was sur
prised at my appointment I am .
lawyer and never studied banking al
all. OF course since Ientered upon the
Office of comptroller of the currency
have read up and become more or less
familiar with the workings of the sys-
tenn"
This refreshing frankness is hard on
Cleveland. Just think, men of Amer
lea, of the assinine treachery of Cleve-
land in appointing Hebrew dude who
apes English customs, and is nodded
and manipulated by the money sharks.
to suit their purposes! He was sur.
prised at his appointment So was tho
whole country. He has not one qualf-
cation for the position. Tender in
years. lacking in brains, experience,
honesty and integrity, this un-Ameri-
can ass like Van Allen was appointed
in payment of campaign debt at tho
expense of the country.
ITO what do you attribute the finan-
cial stringencv of last summer" he
was asked. 1T is idle to say" was tho
reply, "that the bankers themselves
were panic-stricken, and those who
studied the situation with intelligence
could see it. From my position can
question, and as l stated before. there
was no real panic, no stampede in this
country this past summer"
Give this ape an opportunity and he
would tell the whole story of the bank
ers' conspiracy, because he was in a ''po-
sition to know" From the beginning
we have insisted that the panic was
cruel and unnecessary, brought on as q
pressure to force repeal and make way
for bonds. Now let the fight begin,
the other was boys play compared to
the struggle just before us. Every inch
of ground will be contested as never
before.
Shekels addressed the confidence men
and the Globe announced 'the bankers
glad to listen to Eckels' financial
ethics" Ethics remember! Would il
not be interesting in this connection,
to hear an experienced burglar give an
address on the ''ethics" of burglary, or
trainwrecker on the ''ethics' of his
profession. Shekels added that 1.-The
bankers prosperity is the prosperity Of
every other business We have too
much money now.'' says this exponent
of financial "ethics," and further, that
1.-The greatest difficulty the bankers ex-
A few months ago we were suffering
from starvation in the currency, and
now we are suffering from a surfeit"
Too much money! Think of it, farm
ers, who cannot paw the interest on
your mortgages! Think of it, you
three millions of men out of work.
Think of it, you bright young people
all over this land. struggling against
the fearful odds of poverty! Think of
it, you women toilipg in city slums for
two dollars week!
This boy Jew, with nothing in his
head but the bankers champagne,
says there is too much money This
appointee of Cleveland who frankly
admits his unfitness for the position he
holds, makes a mistake in talking so
freely. He reveals with charming in
genuousness the many things he don't
know. Let him go to the miners of the
west, to the farmers of the south and
the half million unemployed men Of
the east, with his little fable of too
much monev and picture the reception
he would get. or to the bankrupt mer-
chants almost anywhere in the United
States, or to the evicted tenants and
the cold and hungry everywhere.
Lilo OOy leaves III S1l6tOOW vi UOuU0
that he was put in the position he holds
simply because as an Illinois politician,
his influence was patent in securing
the nomination of Cleveland. His APP
pointment was his pay for so much
wire-pulling. How do you like it, you
southern democrats who voted him into
office? 1t is only another chapter Of
Van Alenism. This Shekels, who Is
supposed to be the protector of the peo-
pie. the prosecuting attorney for the
public in matters affecting finances, is
banqueted, toasted, wined and wor-
shipped by the pirates in public and
again laughed at and scorned by them
in private. Said leading bank CASH
Ter in the Globe, when asked what he
thought of Eckels, sWell it almost
makes me smile to have any one ask
me how Mr.. Eckels impresses me-"
GEORGE F. WAsHBuRx.
Boston, Mass.
THE RAILROAD PROBLEM.