The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-10-11

yortising contracts They also con.
trulled the main sources through
which the press was supplied with
uows-and often and we'll they had
used this control and sU lrisiugly
cautious had they been not 800 10
abuse it That the editors and the pub.
Doc would become suspicious when
my war was at its height when I was
beginning to congratulate myself that
the huEt magazines ol Tile Seven
were empty almost tu the point 40
which they must suc for peace ON my
own terms. coo in four DAYS 81 uf my
d, newspapers and they the most im.
notified me that they would
ru longer carry out their contracts 20
publish my daily letter They gave os
their reason. not the real one. fear "
The Seven" but fear that I would
involve them IN ruiuuus libel suits. |
who had legal proof Tor every state
mont I made who was always caro-
500 to understatc' Next ono press
a.sHclation after another ceased to
send out my letter as news though
they had been doing so regularly for
months The public had grown trcd
OF The sensation" they said
J countorcd with telegram to one
or more newspapers In every city and
. large town in the United states
The Seven are trying to rut tho
wires between the truth and the pub.
Ilic II you wish my daily letter. tDle
Iguph me direct and I win send Dc at
Imy expense"
The response should have warned
fTbo Seven" But It did not Under
ho.r orders the telegraph companies
refused TO transmit tho letter. / got
an injunction II was obeyed IN typi'
cal corrupt corporation fashlon-thcy
iout my matter but so garblcd that Il
vas uuintollIglblo ! appealed to the
courts. In vain
To me. u was clear as sun In cloud
iss MONDAY sky that there could be-
ht one result Of this iusolcut and
espOtic denial Of my rights ana tho
fights Of the people. this public con-
issIon Of the truth Of my charges.
turned everything aalablc or mort.
ngcablo into cash, locked the cash up
10 my private vaults, and waited for
tls cltaClyBm
Thursday Friday Saturday Ap.
rrcnuy Rll was tranqull apparently
th people accepted the Wall street
theory that l was au exploded sensa.
tiol' The Seven began TO proen
Themselves. the strain upon them TO
maintain prices, n no less than for
time months past was not notably
Crater, the crisis would pass, ! and
my exposures would be- forgotten tho
rolilno OF roaping the haryests and
loailng only the gloaniugs for the
sovers would soon be placidly ro.
Wlred.
sunday Rocbuck. taken m AS hd
wa passing the basket Ia the church
ofghich he was the shining light. died
midnisht--a beautiful peaceful
aeah. thoy say. with bis dnnEht"r
reading tho Bible aloud. and his lips
moving In prayer. Some hold that.
had he lived. tho tranquility would
have continued; but this Is the view OF
those who cannot realize that the tide
Of affairs Is no more controlled by tho
great men" than is the river led down
10 the sea by its surface Hotsam. by
which we measure tho speed and d.
rectlon OF its current Under that ter
rife tonalon. which 10 tho shallow
seemed a calm. something had to
give way. II the dam had not yielded
where Roebuck stood guard, II must
have yielded somewhere else. or might
have gone an IN ono grand crash
Monday. You know tho story Of tho
artist and his Statue Of Grief-how ho
nodded the features a hundred times,
always falling. always r'tting an anti
climax. until at last I'm despair no gave
up tho impossible and finished tho
statue with veil over tho face |
have tried again and again 20 assem-
bic words that would give some not
too inadequate impression OF that tro'
mendous week In which. with a success
sion Of explosions. each like the crack
Of doom. the financial structure that
housed S0.00O.0O0 Of people burst col.
lapsed. was engulied. cannot |
must leave II 10 your memory or your
imagination.
For years the financial leaders.
crazed by the excess OF power which
the people had In ignorance and over
confidence and sloyenly goodnaturo
permitted them to acquire, had been
tearing out the honest foundations on
which alone so vast a structure can
hope TO rest solid and secure. They
had been substituting rotten beams
painted 20 look like stone and iron.
The crash had 10 comet the sooner.
the better-when a thing Is wrong'
each days delay compounds the cost
Of rightlng H. so. with all the horrors
Of wild Week" in mind, all It's phys
lcal and mental suffering, all its ruin
and rioting and bloodshel. ! sull can
insist that / am Justly proud Of my
share In bringing Il about The blame
and the shame are wholly upon those
who made wild Week" necessary and
I inevitable.
In catnstrophes. the cry is Each ior
himself" But IN a caaclysm, mo
obvious wise solAshness i7 generosity
and the cry "a; stand together for
singly. we perish" This was q cnia'
clysm. No one could save himself
oxcept the few who, taking my often
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