Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-10-21
FROM WASHINGTON
Special Correspondents Of the cornIrn.



and astounded at the revelations
made under oath by Leroy Ores
ser, late President of the Trust
Company of the Republic. relative
TO the thimble-rigging in connec-
ton with the sale of the Bethlehem
steel plant To the ShipbuiIdinc
Trust. 1t has shocked even Wall
Street, hardened as it is, and APP
palled the people. According TO
Mr.. Dresser, j. Pierpont Morgan.
Charles NJ. Schwab, and their part
ners in high finance,' in return
for property worth 81, 200, 900.
$4,000, 900 in the securities of the
trust, together with an agreement
that none of the stock or bonds of
the trust was To be marketed until
the holdings of Morgan, Schwab
ct al. had been sold TO the confiding
public. What was this but a dou-
ble-intended cheat on a gigantic
scalel "A cheat on investors by
taking their money for water, and
cheat on the stockholders of the
trust by depriving them of a mar
ket for their securities until the
holders of the captains" had been
transmitted into money. What is
the difference, in its moral quality.
of the action of these captains of
industry" these financiers who
practice arts for the pillaging of
the community, from those which
land small swindling rogues in Jail.
Yet these discredited men have
held, and still hold, the financial
welfare of multitudes throughout
the United States in the hollow of
their hands. And among these arc
persons, who posed as democrats
during Mr.. Cleveland's last term.
and were conspicuous among the
boilers of 1896 and 1900. They
are the same SNUG hypocrits who
have the brazen effrontery, the in
etfable gall, to attack an American
patriot like William Randolph
Hearst. They are the same ban
dts who unctOusly talk about pro-
tecting the conservative business
interests of the country, who want
to pass upon the safety" forsooth.
of the democratic presidential can
didate, and who. under cover of a
sanctimonius demeanor want to
put forward one of their tools as
the standard bearer of Jefferson's
party. The Shipbuilding Trusts
records show that Mr.. Morgan
got his first.
Well. there dosen't seem to be
such a marked difference between
Mr.. Morgan's methods in this in
stance and when President Cleve-
land handed over to Mr.. Morgan
an entire government bond issue
10 float Mr.. Morgan took the
bonds at "A good deal less than the
market price and two days later
peddled them out at Il profit of So
or So bond. Again, Mr. Morgan
got his first. " The New York
newspaper headlines explain in
their terse way: Morgan got 50,
100000 for a nod in the ship
building swindle. What did he
have to give for the government
bond fioatation inquisition!
Remember that the gentlemen
who engineered the shipbuilding
deal, the exposure of which has
startled even the moral pachyderms
of Wall Street, are the same who
tell that they must name the dem
ocratic presidential candidate. VIII
the people.stand it! VIII they al
low the men who are pillaging the
people, and who are being helped
in their game by the President of
the United States and Secretary
of the Treasury, by loaning them
the money in the United States
Treasury, to name the candidate of
the democratic party for presidents
If they do they know what they
will get.
The republicans in Ohio are get
ting scared. Hanna has lost his
head and is swearing and stormine
at Tom Johnson like maniac.
He answers logic and reason with
curses and epithets. Verify,
Whom the gods woule destroy
they first make mad. " The re.
publicans are going to import about
1900 spellbinders into the state tC
demolish Tom Johnson and Johr
IL. Clark. One of these spellbind
ers is Mr.. Roosevelt's Secretary oI
the Treasury, Mr.. Leslie NJ. Shaw
The voters in Ohio seems to b,