Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-07-28

numDer or assignments OF salaries or |
policemen and other city employees and |
that IL the Treasurer dared to pay the |
employees their salaries they would hold |
him and his bOndsmen personally re-
sponsible for the money due.
The loan scandal Is assuming large
proportions and the people are asking
| whether the loan men are the "whole
thing" or not.
In the meantime hundreds of poor
men are unable to get money for their
homes on account of the avariciOusness
Of the sharks.
So easy Is It for the sharks to rob the
very Jurors Of the Cook County courts
Of their per diem,
That they believe they can wipe up
the earth with the United States of
America.
The United States has a National
bankruptcy law, passed for the pur.
pose Of relieving the overburdened.
Among the overburdened were sew.
eral members of the Chicago police
force, who were forced to borrow
money from sharks, and who had long
since paid the principal on their debts.
But these poor men, like many Others
who were grasped by the tentacles Of
the devilash, were 80 deeply in debt
to the sharks for interest owed on in.
terest ut the. rate of 10 per cent.
month chat the only way they could
free tiis ...selves from the octopus was
by taking advantage of the Federal
bankruptcy net.
They took advantage Of this act, had
an open hearing in the United States
Court and were duly freed from their
debts.
The sharks at once had them arrest.
ed In defiance of the Federal law, not
in one justice court, but in three. and
openly announced their intention Of
prosecuting these poor men until they
gave up the money which they do not
owe.
This prosecution still continues.
A more braxen violation of the bank.
ruptcy law,
A more oUspoken contempt for Fed.
eral authority and especially for Fed
eral courts, could not be found any.
where.
The United States District Attorney
should have these sharks railroaded to
the penitentlary without further delay,
And every justice and constable who
aids or abets them should be Jailed
for contempt at once.
The Weber gang should not be
alowed to use the city trea surev's
ofyloe for lie private bsnef1t, ~ q
collection agency.
People want to know who Il Ii at the
Board of Education who is making {
. pile Of money by standing in with tht
money sharks.
OVER ONE THOUSAND FIVE
HUNDRED SCHOOL TEACHERS
ARE THE VICTIMS OF MONEY
SHARKS TO-DAY, AND THE AS
y SEDIMENTS OF THEIR SALARlEs
TO THE TEN PER CENTERS. ARR
HONORED BY THE PEOPLE WHO
GIVE THE TEACHERS THEII
MONEY!
The sharks are demoralixing tn,
schools as they are demoralizing tn
public service.
In the meantime the sale Of polio
|s heimseA md uniforms. combined witt
the lo.:N:~s IT money to pc'icemen ant
. fremen, continues at Jake Weber
a pawnshop with unabated vigor.
8, The business community and all VIII
"a come In contact with Recorder SImOl
y are satisfied with the way he has con
,s Quoted his Office.
'e When Louis Weber IL Chief Of Polio
all commanding officers will wea
'r three balls on their helmets instead o
T. q wreath.
n Ono OF the worst Of all trusts Is tn
d. Brick Trust. Yet 1t has the gall t
,e want Its secretary, "Blll" Schlakt
W nominated for Recorder Of Deeds.
81 II the Weber gang run things muc
longer at the police headquarters ther
will be an explosion and some one wi
get hurt.
Many policemen who have to give "
" 10 per cent. month for loan to
es shark are not likely to refuse one fo
~ nothing from porch climber.
no Jake Webers grip on the police fore
r.. Is u strong one.
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