The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1905-11-02

Sir: IL is time your attention was
called TO the moral sense OF the \
American people. Ii Is time some /
one dragged you out of the Wall /
Street conservatory and set you In I
the plain white light OF daily life. /
IL Is time you were shown yourself /
as you are today seen by the millions
OF your countrymen who, d month |
ago, believed you to be great and
honorable man.
In spite OF the terrible exposures
OF the past few weeks, in spite OF the
pitiless reyealment OF yourself and
your directors as tricksters, In spite
Of the unveiling OF the iuggleiy,
grating, and corruption OF your ad-
miDistration OF the most sacred trust
that can be confided tc man, you re-
main unconyinced of your fall and
unprecedented by your shame. Forti-
fed by the sympathy OF your fellow
sinners, you imagine your audacious
buster and your sly evasions before
the Investigating Committee OF the
state Of New York represented
shrewd generalship and able strategy.
forgetting that the enemy against
whom your maneuvers were directed
was the American people and that,
in this inquisition. your character
and reputation were as absolutely be-
fore the bar as though you had been
indicted for seauestration OF the
funds OF some dead friends wife.
Throughout this broad country OF
ours aie good Americans who have
slaved and toiled TO gather up the
hundreds OF dollars which you have
exacted from them yearly as the price
of the future livelihood OF their wives
and children, or as the provision for
their own old age. You have made
yourself the custodian OF these funds
under sacred pledge OF square dealing
and safe and honest administration.
You have made yourself the national
executor, the great depositary OF the
moneys OF the widow and the orphan
You have cried your virtue and hon
orableness from the housetops, and
under the stress of your pleadings,
hundreds Of millions OF dollars have
been coniided to you annually scores
OF millions of the nation have been
turned into your Golfers, all because
you insisted that you were honest he
yond all other men, and that the
dear ones lett behind might rely on
your generosity and integrity for
their support.
And it is with the moneys that
might at any time have been claimed
by these widows and orphans that
you have been rigging syndicates, de.
bauching legislatures, manipulating
stock markets and doing other thing:
which will he proven later. Instead
of employing the vast power and th,
immense wealth entrusted to you tc
conserve the interests OF your policy
holders, you have made yourself q
part of the cruel robbing machin,
, which the System" has created t
deprive the American people Of thei
savings. Under the preteDse OF seek
ing profitable Investment, your cor
poration has been perverted into /;
vast stock gambling agency. Yol
have filed the high places In you
:. corporation with your own children
and relatives, and their relatives
and conferred on them great salarie
out of which they have grown rich
You have paid out to friends and as
sociates, on various pleas, enormou
}. sums that rightly belonged to you
: policy holders. You have done al
these things habitually. yet toda
you describe the investigation bein
conducted into your operations as a
impertinence, and secretly you regar
this inquisition and all that pertain
p to Ii waste OF time and energy
You are unrepentant, unashamec
and defiant.
i shall take this opportunity, sil
reviewing our own relations durin
the past year and contrasting you
position today with that you boaste
l2 months ago.
D. One year ago, In Everybody's Mas
: azine. ! said:
1.-The officers, trustees, and oflicfa
Of the '3ig Three life isurance con
panies have been and are now squai
dering their policy holders none,
They are grafters contemp
ible grafters.
gave specific instances OF the
thieveries.
You replied, not by hauling me
court, but by:
Circulating throughout the wor
documents by the millions, dispara
> ing my reputation by adyertis'
g ments and news and editorial
statements from your subsidized !
surance press, denying my cbarg
and attacking my character, all
the expense Uf your policy -holde
and without their knowledge or a
= proval
at You libeled me in thousands
nj private letters TO policy y-bolcel
many Of which came back to me.
You employed James NJ. Beck, Z
Assistant Atfornpy-C,enpral Of [