Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-12-28
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resentment against Anita, out came
the new array of new stocks and
bonds. Roebuck and Langdon ar.
ranged with the underwriters for a
fake" four times oYer-subscription,
indorsed by the two greatest banking
houses in the Street. Despite this
oftentried and always-good trick, the
public refused to buy. felt had not
been overestimating my power. But
made no move until the securities"
began to go up, and the financial re-
porters-under the influence where
not actually in the pay of the Roe
buck-Langdon clique-shouted that.
in spite Of the malicious attacks
from the gambling element, the rev
securities are being absorbed by the
public at prices approximating their
value" Then But l shall quote my
investors letter the following morn
Ing:
AT half-past nine yesterday-nine-
tWenty-eight, to be exact-President
Melville, of the National Industrial
Bank, loaned six hundred thousand
dollars. He loaned it to Bill Van
Nest, an ex-gambler and proprietor of
pool looms, now silent partner in Hoe
q Wittekind, brokers, on the New
York Stock Exchange, and also in Fill.
bert & Jonas, curb brokers. He loaned
II TO Van Nest without security
van Nest used the money yester.
day to push up the price of the new
coal securities by wash sales'-whicb
means by making false purchases and
sales OF the stock in order to give the
public the impression of eager buying
van Nest sold to himself and bought
from himself S47O6O of the 352 ,6S1
shares traded in.
Melville, In addition to being pres
ldent OF one of the largest banks in
the world, is a director in no less
tnan seventy-three great industrial en-.
terprises, including railways, telegram
companies, savings banks and life in.
surance companies. Bill Van Nest has
aone time in the Nevada State peni.
tentlary for horse-stealing"
That was all. And it was enougb-
quite enough. I was a national fignra
as much SO as If l had tried to assas.
slnate the president. Indeed. had
EXPLODED a bomb under a greater than
tne presldent-under the chiefs of the
real government of the United States
Tue government that levied daily upon
every citizen, and that had state and
national and the principal municipal
governments in its strong box.
confess l was as much astoupded
at the effect of my bomb as old Mel.
vile must have been. felt that 7
mad been obscure, as looked at the
newspapers, with Matthew Blackjack
appropriating almost the entire front
page OF each. was the isolated the
conspicuous figure, standing alone
upon the steps of the temple of Nam. |
mon, where mankind daily and de-
Voutly comes to offer worship.
Not that the newspapers praised
me. recall none that spoke we'll of
me. The nearest approach to praise |
was the Blackjack squeals on the
wall Street gang" in one of the sen.
sational penny sheets that strengthen
the plutocracy by lying about II.
Some Of the papers insinuated that
l had. gone mad; others that | had
been bought up by a rival gang to the
Roebuck-Langdon clique; still others
thought | was simply hunting noto.
riety. All were inclined to accept as
a sufficient denial of my charges
Melville's dignified refusal to notice
any attack from a quarter so dis
credited"
AS my electric whirled into Wall
street, | saw the crowd in front of
the Textile building, a dozen police.
men keeping it in order. | descended
amid cheers, and entered my offices
through mob struggling to shake
hands with me-and, in my ignorance
OF mob mind, l was delighted and
inspired! Just why man who knows
men, knows how wishy-wishy they are