The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-16

was no objection. And The first year
passed and there was no objection. And
the second year and the third year and.
the fourth and the fifth and the sixth
and the seventh, the eighth the ninth
and the tenth, and then when the cry
came out, they say Well, we didn't
know anything about it. This is the
fellow, this IS the man who has done It
ALL
.tIf they had stopped # they had per-
formed their duty when they should
have done ii, if II was a. duty but mark
4 am understanding or, asserting OF ac-
scepting that il was d duty but if 1t was
d duty, they should have stopped it.
iat Its inception And when tlsy eontiil-
ited and continued BY me, the faults. the
blame, the responsibility are theirs and
not mine.
II would have stopped the first month,
and if could not have performed my
duties without presenting detailed voileh7.
sers, T. could have surrendered my con-
tract. Never, as the evidence of yotirs
investigation shows, until you reached
.it. was there single criticism. Why,
how could there be hey sat there
.n,eciSly. castiing the enlollinents that
came TO them for the performance Of
their dtlty, with the vouchers there TN
der their noses, and if they took them
and looked at them, why, then they ap-
proved what was done, and [ stand
approved. JIG they did not take them
and look at them then they deceived me
into the assumption that they performed
with the manner and condition OF my
accounts
Judge Hamilton went on to correct
the press assertions which he said no.
body on the part Of the company has as
sunled to do. TO the effect that what
|is called the Paris account was actually.
reported upon and passed upon by the
auditing committee of the New York
Life
And lei me- say furtlier, he addeds
"that never a dollar of the New York
Lilies money passed through my hands
to which | did not put my John Ham
cock.
Nov. about the vouchers. all u say
about that IS that did not keep the
books of The New York Life. never
saw the inside of one of their books,
And when. q thousand dollars or FIVE
thousand dollars came into my posses
sion, ! gave my voucher for III.
IF / was going to do anything wrong
with il or put il ii my pocket, would
have got ii iii another way and ] would
not have got it. Because, want 10 tell
YOU that the stingiest man ever saw
lin my life that. ever audited an account
Twas John a. Mccall q had TO go UP
and show easlse before, we'll I had to
| show cause first before / went into It
| and then when came back had to
lsliow cause before could pay my bills.
So that never knew, and could moi
know. how the accounts We're charged,
whether $1,000 WAS charged To this .acs
i count or that oFFtle other 6lidnet keep
/ their books. had no Responsibility
flor that, and ii there we're errors and
lwfong ia that, il lays right down at the
administration and it comes right back
lto the board of trustees of the New
l York Life and to nobody else.
j They may talk about the yellow dog
Ebut the yellow dog is a dog of courage
land Eof loyalty but the cltrs who stooe
Earound this funeral that has occurred
j and the ours who know Of these trarlsac:
'itions and sl1ruJll into their shoes--thes
lare the ours and this is the reason tina
Il 4 come - speak before yolt and say tia
1.-The great interest of two billions Of dol,
liars of life insurance and four hundred
millions Of dollars of assets can never
he safely entrusted to the bands aiie
administration of lot of ours IN