The Portland daily press., 1895-01-26
HETTY GREEN ON HETTy GREEN.
She Invites Attention to Her Patriotism,
Probity, Piety and Proves.
New York SUM

In the corridor of the Mills building Mrs.
Green addressed the reporters. She said
that the country was fast going to ruin,
and that she con inued her Investments
here only because she was an American.
belonged to the country, and proposed to
sink with the ship. The ruin was being ac-
complished by the lepers and scum of Eu-
rope who were draining this country OF
gold to the extent of $2.000,000 month.
~ know Them she said. II was MEM
Der. of the London Bankers Association
for eight years." She said the foreigners
made un1ighteous profits from our railroads
and our railroad lands 1.-THE way that
Reading property went is shame and
Disgrace she said. land a road out of
which used to get per cent. the Georgia
Central, went just like it. 1 tell you If
the working people know whatthey are do
ing they will never allow the coal mines of
that company to get into the hands of the
trust companies in the re-orga nfzation.
Some of them are coming on from the west
to see about 1t next MONTH
"Shall you help them Mrs. Green?"
will help any body who needs it. I'm al
ways helping somebody when I can't be
seen. l get up in the morning and do
something IOF sOIn6DOuy OtoAy ooy SeASAS
night, before go to bed. i would help you
if you needed it. l have been In railroad
accidents and Witnessed operations and
helped the wounded when even a butcher
boy tainted. In one OF. the big southwestern
disasters was the first to get out with my
pillow to help the wounded engineer. I've
got nerve sometimes. They say I'm mad.
People are called mad now who are honest.
But God is on the side of the right. I've
been successful only because I've had God
and the Ten Commandments with me.
never disobey the Ten Commandment"
Referring to her own affairs Mrs. Green.
indicating the Offices of her opponents at
torneys, said: There is an epidemic of
stealing Wills and codicils over there.
Young men, when you get to be little
bigger than God you'll be as big as Choate.
Id just like to have it shown to me where
that section q went apparently referring
to some Chicago land which is in dispute In
the executors account. II you ever saw
a square mile of land run. and get away,
that one did Evarts, Southmayd & Choate
were counsel for my father. and Evarts,
Choate g. Beaman have been his executors
counsel, I'd like to know where my land
went"
Mrs. Green mingled her Ideas of the
affairs in litigation indiscrimna tely with
her personal opinions of economics and
finance, soma of the latter. being beyond the
reporters comprehension.
eff you young men will help me-" she
said, 1--WE will beat 'em reterring apparent
ly.to the capitalists other than herself, al
though she named no one). I'm always
ready to help those that need help. The
only ones I'm afraid of a senator and
Massachusetts represent ative. The
people of san Francisco are with me. And
see what they say of me in Chicago. Here
is a clipping from Chicago paper in which
they say, that eccentric Hetty Green may
be. but she knows how to get along. l beat
these people in six suits out there, and l
am the only one who has beaten Huntington.
One of the reasons its so hard for you young
men to get along is because of such people,
and its going to be harder. I've got q son
down in Texas who is working hard to earn
his living on railroad down there which
Huntington tried to get. but beat him at
it, And when licked him thS PEOPLE of
San Francisco wrote me and sent me a AZ
ca liber revolver for buttonhole bouquet
saying they would meet me 10000 strong
if would come down there and lead them.
When Mrs. Thomas Eagan, the wife of
Police Sergeant Eagan of Harrison, NJ
Y, was undressing her four-year-old boy
Willie one night recently she prlcked her
finger as she laid her hand on the child's
back. On examination she found
sharp metal point projecting through the