The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1901-01-24
UP AGAINST IT
MEAT COMBINE Up AGAINST THEIR
OWN GAME.
The Kidnapping Trust Sets It's Own
Price and the Buyer Can Pay 1t or
Suffer the COnsequences.

Suffer the Consequences.
This is verbatim copy of the letter
to Mr.. Cudahy, of the meat trust, by
tho kidnapers of his boy last week in
Omaha. 1t had all the threat and un-
compromising character Of any trust
document, with the power back of 1t to
enforce its fullest exactions. Mr.
Crdahy. with trained business acumen
followed the instructions in each par
Gcular, and the boy returned home the
following morning, after being released
on the streets by the manager Of the
kidnapping trust Mr.. Cudahy recogniz-
ed the inevitable, as do the helpless pur-
chasers of meat, and promptly paid the
coin:
"Mr. Cudahy:-We have kidnapped
your child and demand $4,000 (twenty-
FIVE thousand dollars) for his safe re-
turn. If you give us the money, the
child will be returned as safe as when
you last saw him, but If you refuse We
will put acid in mis- eyes and blind him.
Then we will Immediately kipnap an
other millionaires child that we have
spotted and demand 100000, and we
will get 1t, for he will see the condition
OF your child, and realize the fact that
VIC mean business and will not be
monkeyed with or captured.
Get the money all in gold, five, ten
ana twentydollar pieces, put it in grip
III white wheat sack, get in your bug
gy alone on the night Of December 49,,
al O'Clock p. m, and drive south from
your house to Center street, turn west
on Center and drive back to Rauser 8
park and follow the paved road toward
Fremont; when you come to a lantern
tfat is lit by the side of the road, place
the money by the lantern and immedi-
ately turn your horse around and 60
home.
You will know our lantern for It will
Rave two ribbons, black and white, tied
o.: the handle; you must place a red
lantern on your buggy where 1t can be
panty seen so we will know you mile
away. This letter and every part of it
must be returned with the money, and
any attempt at capture will be the sad
Gest thing you ever done.
Caution, for here lies danger:
IF you remember some 20 years ago,
Charley Ross was kidnapped in New
York city and $4,000 ransom asked.
Old man Ross was willing to give up
the money, but Byrnes, the great de-
tective, with others. persuaded the oil
man not to give up the money, assur-
ing him that the thieves would be cap
tured. Ross died of broken heart,
sorry that he allowed the detectives to
dictate to him.
This letter must not be seen by any
one but you. II the police or some
attempt to capture us, although entirely
against your wishes-or some one might
use a lantern and represent us, thus
the wrong party securing the money,
and this would be as fatal to you as II
you refused to give up the money. So
you see the danger If you let this letter
be seen.
Mr.. Curahy, you are up against it,
and there is only one way out: Give up
the coin! Money we want, and money
we will get.
"If you don't give up the next man
WILL for he will see that we mean bust
ness and you can lead your boy around
blind the rest of your days, and all that
you will have is the damn copper SYM
pathy.
do the right thing by us and we will
do the same by you. If you refuse,
you will soon see the saddest sight you
ever seen. Wednesday, Dec 10. This
night or never. Follow these instruc.
tions and no harm will befall you or
ycurs'
The kidnapers have worked the trust
racket on Comrade Cudahy, of Omaha.
They worked to get complete power
ever him to raise prices. and took all
they could get. They grabbed some
thing he had to have, and run the price
up " VIo,VVV III 6OIu. lucy SOtcO III
gold and they wanted it, and no fool
ing. The rules of the game were lit
tie stringent but the comrade played
them all right. 1t was case Of have TO,
and trust manager like Comrade Cud-
ahy knows when he is UP against mis-
own game. He went over to his corn
field and husked it out Then he hitch
cd up his horse to the old wagon. put a
red lantern In front and drove out on
the prairie where the trust was doing
business, and followed operating rules
generally. The goods that the comrade
needed were delivered at daylight the
next morning. Their customer, Mr..
Cudahy, was not injured in any way by
the transaction; he was only hurt in his
feelings and scared stiff. The meat
trust to which Mr.. Cudahy belongs treat
customers with the same consideration
s'' long as they pay. But when they
won't or can't they mutilate their
children into starved and dwarfed
bodies and minds, and are willing to
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