The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-08
THE FARMER ICoNoCLAsT AMONG
WALL STREET MONEY KINGS.
His Parable of the Cow-Fed on
Fruitful Farms of the Country,
but MIXED Only by East
ern Spectators.
TWO CARTOONS DESIGNED BY HIMSELF
THE KIND OF ARGUMENT THAT MADE
HIM A SENATOR.
Cleveland and the money Power'-Elected
as Protest Against Governmental Para
sites, but Has Added to Their Power.

Senator Tillman in New York World, March
/, 1896.
Wall street is term in very common
use and most people have an essentially
clear idea as to it's meaning. AS under
stood by the masses it stands for what
has come to be known as the money
power, the force exerted by aggregated
capital
There is at this time double interest
attaching to the term "Wall street" by
reason of the fact that everything of a
political nature indicates that the strug-
gle for the mastery of this country
whether the people shall govern it or
whether money shall govern it's ap-
preaching a climax.
The financial question and it's settle
ment is now the uppermost one in the
minds Of men. Interested persons may
attempt to push it aside and belittle it
and to substitute other issues for it, but
in the coming presidential election it
must be the issue.
Feeling thus, and having had cause re-
Gently to give expression to my ideas and
opinions in the senate in no uncertain
terms and no uncertain manner, | have
thought it well to ask the use of the col
umns of Americas greatest newspaper,
with view to presenting certain phases
OF the question with more clearnesS than
was possible on that occasion.
With that purpose in mind have de-
voted during the past week a couple of
days to the gathering of some facts by a
personal visit to New York and to Wall
street. 1t so happened that during my
term as governor of South Carolina l
- IL. 4:-4s
for refunding cur state debt to study the
methods employed by those who manip-
ulate and control the complex machinery
by means of which a few men, not eX-
ceeding five hundred, have laid the in
dustries the politics, and in fact, the
government of this country under trib
ute, and are gathering for themselves
wealth beyond computation in a period
of time so short as to stagger belief.
For the reader unfamiliar with New
York City it is we'll to give brief de-
scription as to what Wall street, taken
as a district of New York City, really is
to the eye. When Manhattan Island, on
which New York stands, was first set
tied by the Dutch, they chose to locate
on its extreme southern point, where
meet the East and the Hudson rivers A
town grew up, composed of a network of
irregular, crooked streets. without seem
Ing order, and all very narrow.
A few hundred yards up Broadway
from Battery Park, where the historic
Castle Garden, now transformed into
public aquarium, still stands, is Trinity
church. In the small graveyard sur
rounding it repose the bones of Alexan-
der Hamilton, Captain Lawrence, of
Don't give up the ship" memory, and
other great historic characters.
;c c<r TIT,
chimes it is carried into every office and
institution in the Wall street district, for
that district is so small that from Trim
ity's spire it appears to lay directly be-
Meath The Office of Russell Sage looks
right over the old burying ground and
dingy Office it is, in dingy building
where this one of the great money kings
of America sits and cuts his coupons and
calls his high rate loans. Casting their
shadows on Trinity when the morning
sun rises in the east stand the great
Office buildings, running over twenty
stories in height in some cases, in which
some of the great turst companies and
banks have invested portions of their
enormous surplus and in which they
have their homes.
Directly in front of Trinity's bronze
portals-the gift of an Astor-opens
Wall street proper, narrow, asphalted
thoroughfare, less than one-third of a
mile long and banked on either side
with massive stone structures some of
great height. One of these is the Stock
Exchange which also has entrances on
Broad street and New street, block or
two of which streets may be included in
the Wall street district, as can a block
or two of Nassau street. where a large
number of the richest banks and trust
companies in the land have their head
quarters.
Just across from the New street en-
trance to the Stock Exchange stands the
Consolidated Exchange where stock
gambling game of the same character is
carried on, but on rather smaller scale
Within easy gunshot Of both. were it not
for the obstruction that the buildings
offer, are the Produce Exchange and the
Cotton Exchange, where the products of
the country, representing the toll of mil
lions of farmers and other workers, are
tossed up or down in price according to
the whims or interests of the greedy
gamblers.
Strange to say the most insignificant
of all the structures on Wall street prop
er-or at least the lowest and one which
would be the most insignificant were it
not for it's massiveness-is the subtreas-
ury of the. United States, at Wall and
Broad streets In front of it stands the
bronze figure of Washington, on the very
SPOT where he took the oath of Office
when sworn in as the first president of
the United States.
Just across the way is the office Of Nor
gan & Co. The office of the Sugar trust
Is down the street few hundred feet. just
beyond the custom house. In the immedi-