Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-09-18
HOW SOME FORTUNES ARE
MADE

| nduueT Ill WHICH, CERTAIN SlCdI AOlIulCe
in this country have been amassed are
taken from a recent speech of the Hon.
George Frederick Williams of Massa-
chusetts and are worthy the careful
consideration of all thoughtful people:
Now, | propose, if have a few mo-
ments longer, to say some words about
the class that we are compelled TO at
tack in this campaign. We, as | have
repeatedly said, make no war upon hon
est capital, but there are certain classes
in this country composed of a few men
whom it is the function of this free
people to curb in the misuse of power
and if these men are wealthy men, it is
not because of their wealth that we
attack them, but because they misuse
their wealth to the destruction of the
rights of Tree people.
hold in my hand a cartoon published
this week by gold standard paper in
New Iork-Puck-and wish you could
see it so that YOU could understand eX-
actly its purport. This picture is en-
titled The supreme court as it may
hereafter be constituted, and seated
upon the bench i'm various awkward at
titudes are nine men with long hair, in
various ungainly postures, who may be
commonly denomnated as HAY seeds. "
(Laughter.l a boy orator from the Wa
bash Is addressing the court III the case
of Backlots VS.. Jay, and prize pump
kin is placed near the bench, which
purports to have been presented to The
chief justice by Jabez Green.
Now, of course, so far as this cartoon
is an expression of the unfortunate
sentiments OF Mr.. Cochran in New York,
it reflected upon the honest farmer in
American politics. The farmer con-
stitutes one-half nearly of the popu-
lation of the United States, and if he
could be represented upon the bench of
the supreme court. or upon any other
bench, it would be a desirable thing,
certainly, to have this great majority
interest among our industries properly
served by the supreme court. Great
applause) But am not aware that in
the supreme court of the United States
today, or in our supreme court of Mas
sachusetts, the farming interest has a
single representative.
But this is not the point which wish
to impress. Outside of the bar in this
picture in what is entitled on the sign
Waiting Pen for GolGbugs and Mill
iOnaires" is a collection of gentlemen of
whom | desire to say few words. This
is the list of men with disappointed
aspects who stand down outside the bar
of Justice MI. Gould. Mr.. Wander
bilt, Mr.. Sage, Mr.. Astor, Mr.. j. u.
Morgan and the Messrs. Rockefeller
Now, in what | shall say of these gen
tlemen | desire every honest citizen in
Massachusetts who may read my words,
if they do not hear them tonight, to
form a fair judgment whether, in my
criticisms, | say a word which ought not
to meet with response from every hon
est citizen of Massachusetts; whether i'm
submitting thesc gentlemen to the criti-
cism that belongs to them | am not at
lacking eagles that strike at the interests
of our republic and of every honest citi-
zen in it. First, we have Mr.. Gould in
this group, who inherits an enormous
fortune from his father, who perhaps
ruined more honest men by vicious and
unprincpled practices than any man who
ever lived in the United States of Ameri-
ca whose business was, by The manipu-
lation of the stock market, to wreck rail-
roads and other enterprises in which
honest men had invested the products of
their toll, and under that mans vicious
practce-and have right to speak of
him thus, though he has passed away,
for the wrong lives after man and ought
not to be forgotten (applause) under
these vicious practices thousands and
tens of thousands of men, women and
children lost all.
How many people have gone to the
grave by suicide, disheartened and ruined
by the vicious practices to which jay
Gould with his black FRIDAYS and his
corners brought down railroads and 9TH
er industrial enterprises into ruin aud
bankruptcy. At last Mr.. Gould is out
ide the bar, and yet there are men here
who remember the day when that mans
father, who earned him his tens of mil
lions, boosted that he owned Judges in
the city of New York, who corrupted
the bench, who corrupted iurIes, who
corrupted caucuses and conventions and
elections, and had no hesitation in an
nouncing that such was his practice
lApplause.)
If | had my choice between the long
WHISPERED farmer and Mr.. Gould in the
control of the bench of New York or the
United States, | should choose the farm
eI. loud applause
Next comes Mr.. Vanderbilt. Possibly
there are some here who remember the
methods by which that fortune was
accumulated. They were methods SINH
lar To those which were adopted by MI.
Gould. For years Mr.. Chauncey NJ
Depew was the recognized LOBBYIST of
Mr., Vanderbilt's railroads in the New
York legislature and it is notorious that.
by corrupt methods, the New York
Central railroad has held the peoples
legislature in New York in its grasp and
defied courts of justice, legislatures and
any power that could be brought against
1t, because of its influence and the
strength of the great Vanderbilt for
tune. (Applause.)
do not think that the toilinp thou.