The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-22
HOLD YOUR MONEY.
BURKE WRITES ON THE SITUATION
OF THE BANKS.

BURKE WRITES ON THE SITUATION
OF THE BANKS.
On Steamer Monarch, Lake Superior,
May II, 1895-Left Duluth last night
and Port Arthur this noon, and as it is
Sunday and being in a religious vein,
we composed the following sermon on
the lack of riches among bankers:
-Four years ago the writer publicly
advised all to beware of certain of the
so-called banks and financial concerns
of the Twin Cities, advising all to hold
their money out of the crime-breeding,
fraud-laden, perjury Matching, swind-
ling concerns Astounding therein, but
few needed our advice owing to the fact
that they believed the statements of
the daily press and Kenyon, the bank
examiner who does not examine. Since
that time eight banks in Minneapolis
alone have gone up in smoke, besides
several concerns that took deposits
not forgetting the Guaranty Loan and
McGill's st. Paul and Minneapolis, now
the Northern Trust Company, which
last has resumed after fashion.
Millions Of dollars have been lost and
one man prosecuted, while Sunday
school teachers, governors, mayors,
United States senator's, congressman,
and others of less degree of crime are
allowed to roam at large and prey on
the community, and Kenyon, who aided
the swindlers by his false statements
IN h0 ho~ 4k1 Sc @&oi~ b..
office by Nelson and Clough and backed
up by the leaders of the Republican
party and the criminal element gen.
erally-possibly with view of raising
some funds for conducting the next
Republican campaign, by levying black
mail or tribute on the pillars Of the
church, who, after demonstrating the
fact that they are expert cracksmen,
have succeeded in avoiding the felon's
cell by persuading Republican judge
to dismiss all cases on motion of Re
publican county attorney who had failed
in securing an agreement for convic-
ton, largely owing to the fact that he
seemingly abandoned the case by going
to Dakota to secure that $500 fee in a
murder case. Prior to- election this
county attorney could find time to pros
ecute home criminals and urge others
W 6AOd V1SOl Ill SCCuI1uS cVlUcuCC,
but being reelected he suddenly be-
comes too busy to prosecute the home
criminals, but can find time to go to
another state and get $500 fee to con-
vict those, while now he is spoken of
as a possible candidate for governor or
congressman, unless the people get on
to the facts of the supposed trade.
Perchance Loren Fletcher could I'M
fold some particulars as to the causes
of his frequent visits to certain office
in the Guaranty Loan, and by whose in
f1uence these cases were dismissed, and
it were well for Judge C. B. Elliot to tell
what part he took therein and why he
did not institute some inquiry if the
credulity of the court had been imposed
on-particularly when we called his at
tention thereto.
Our bunco shop friends of Minnesota
are tickled to death at our absence from
the state, but per chance ere we return
they will not be so tickled at the re-
suits Of our journeying, as in the mean
time to keep you posted and their blood
properly circulating we shall from time
Four years ago we advised you to hold
your money, and had you needed our
advice many Of you would have been
better off today-and now we say again
hold your money out of the swindling
concerns, for If you don't you will live
to regret that fact-since many of them
have been going on from bad to worse,
till now it is difficult to find a concern
that is not in some way connected with
the ramffications with some one or all
of the crew who wrecked the Guaranty
Loan, First National, State, American
Exchange, Farmers and Merchants
Citizens, and other concerns, not to
SoL
had a big wad of the Guaranty Loan
knows how much or how little of such
chaff they have now, but that they have
got or did have short time ago I do
| know. The fact cannot be denied, and
| If denied I can prove it that nearly
every bank or financial institution in
Minneapolis has one or more members
in it's directory who more by good luck
than good management have escaped a
felon's cell, while several have not even
escaped either this or conviction and
sentence, which last fact seems to have
eminently fitted them for positions in
the Republican state central commit
tee or as Sunday school teachers and
other luminaries in the alleged sanctu-
aries Astounding in Sodom. Thus far
these Sodomites have escaped wearing
serve and would 80 fittingly adorn, de-
| spite the fact that they are now mas
querading as pillars of the church, while
| literally being the agents of Satan
Even outdeviling the devil in devising
new ways to cheat, defraud and rob
| and plumber, by the aid of state, city
and national officials, while you stand
| by and see your wives and little ones
robbed by this gang of swindlers. Even
| sending more money into the sink hole
| of iniquity that swallowed up the for
mer deposits You cannot rely on the
statements of either bank or public Off
| Gals, state or national, for often I know
all have been false and it would seem
that Ananias and Saphira of old were
/ not in it as liars along side of many OF
the bank and public officials of this
state-since they lie when the truth
would better serve their ends.
mot every one that saith Lord! Lord
shall enter into the kingdom" is true
now as of old, "but every one that
knoweth the will of my father and doeth
| it," and when the banks of Minneap.
oils weed out of their directory those
whom they know and we can prove to
be scoundrels you can believe-and not
| till then-that they will at least try tC
protect your deposits from being stolen
| But oh! what q vacuum there would be
| in the various boards of directors. HOLD
| your money! JOHN H. BURKE.
HOW THEY MAKE THE PLAT
| FORMS.
| A NEW EIAwATHA,