The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-10-12


vertising contracts. They also con.
trolled the main sources through
which the press was supplied with
newsstand often and well they had
used this control. and sU orisingly
cautious had they been not so to
abuse 1t that the editors and the pub
lie would become suspicious. When
my war was at its height, when was
beginning to congratulate myself that
the huse magazines OF The Seven"
were empty almost to the point at
which they must sue for peace on my
own terms, all in four days 43 of my
81 newspapers-and they the most i'm
portant-notified me that they would
no longer carry out their contracts to
publish my daily letter. They gave as
their reason. not the real one. fear of
THE Seven" but fear that | would
Involve them In ruinous libel suits.
who had legal proof for every state
ment l made; | who was always care.
full to understate! Next. one press
association after another ceased to
send out my letter as news, though
they had been doing so regularly for
months. The public had grown tired
OF the sensation" they said.
countered with telegram to one
or more newspapers in every city and
large town in the United States:
1.-The Seven are trying to cut the
wires between the truth and the pub
lie. IL you wish my daily letter. tele-
graph me direct and will send 1t at
my expense"
The response should have warned
THE Seven" But 1t did not. Under
their orders the telegraph companies
refused to transmit the letter. got
an injunction. It was obeyed in typi-
cal, corrupt corporation fashion-they
sent my matter. but so garbled that 1t
was unintelligible. appealed to the
courts. In vain.
To me, II was clear as sun In cloud
less MONDAY sky that there could be
but one result of this insolent aud
despotic denial of my rights and the
rights Of the people. this public con.
fession Of the truth Of my charges.
l turned everything salable or mort
gageable into cash, locked the cash up
In my private vaults. and waited for
the cataclysm.
Thursday-Friday-S Ap.
parently all was tranquil; apparently
the people accepted the Wall street
theory that | was an exploded sensa-
ton" THE Seven" began to preen
themselves; the strain upon them to
maintain prices, II no less than for
three months past, was not notably
greater; the crisis would pass, l and
my exposures would be forgotten, the
routine OF reaping the harvests and
leaving only the gleanings for the
sewers would soon be placidly re.
suined.
Sunday. Roebuck, taken iii as he
was passing the basket in the church
of which he was the shining light. died
at midnight-a beautiful, peaceful
death, they say, with his daughter
reading the Bible aloud, and his lips
moving in prayer. Some hold that.
had he lived, the tranquility would
have continued; but this Is the view OF
those who cannot realize that the tide
of affairs Is no more controlled by the
great men" than is the river led down
to the sea by its surface fiotsam. by
which we measure the speed and d.
rection of its current. Under that ter
rife tension, which to the shallow
seer1ed calm, something had to
give way. II the dam had not yielded
where Roebuck stood guard, 1t must
have yielded somewhere else, or might
have gone all In one grand crash.
Monday. You know the story of the
artist and his Statue Of Grief-how he
nodded the features hundred times.
always failing. always letting an anti
until at last In despair he gave
up the impossible and finished the
statue with a veil over the face.
have tried again and again to assem-
BILE words that would give some not
too inadequate impression Of that tre-
mendous week in which, with a success
sion of explosions, each like the crack
of doom, the financial structure that
housed S0,0O0.0 900 of people burst, col.
lapsed. was engulfed. cannot.
must leave 1t to your memory or your
For years the financial leaders,
crazed by the excess of power which
the people had in ignorance and over
and slovenly good.nature
permitted them to acquire, had been
tearing out the honest foundations on
which alone so vast n structure can
hope to rest solid and secure. They
had been substituting rotten beams
painted to look like stone and iron.
The crash had to come! the sooner,
the better-when a thing is wrong,
each days delay compounds the cost
Of righting 1t. So, with all the horrors
Of wild Week" In mind, all It's phys
cal and mental suffering all It's ruin
and rioting and bloodshel, | still can
insist that | am Justly proud of my
share In bringing It about. The blame
and the shame are wholly upon those
who made wild Week" necessary and
In catastrophes, the cry Is Each for |
himself" But in a cataclysm, the |
obvious wise selfishness is generosity, |