The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-02-13
WALL STREET IS
IN GREAT TERROR
Exaggerated Ego" is TrOub-
ling District
Thinks All Litigation Is Aimed az II
Thinks All Litigation Is Aimed at IL
and Fears Roosevelt's
Intentions.
STRANGE REPORTS CIRCULATE

OF Trinity church these days the
slaughter would be appalling. Men
of education, Intelligence and exper-
fence, men who have exercised i'm.
portant responsibilities and are still
performing duties of the most serious
character, have become possessed OF
Authorizations that ought to send
them Belize juries of insanity ex-
perts.
read in the papers this morning
a review of the annual report of the
New York state commission on luna
cy. which SHOWS that 5.761 citizens
of the state became insane during the
year 1906. The total number of pa
TENTS in all Institutions on Dec. 81 of
that year was 2S.sO2. During the
year 1A6S were discharged as re-
covered, LAP improved sufficiently
to make II safe for them to return to
their homes and $50 were classed as
criminals and sent to the penitentiary
1t would be interesting to know
how many of these cases the presi-
dent of the United States is respon-
sible for because he is the subject as
well as the cause of the hallucina-
tons which now prevail in the fin
ancial world.
Wall street is queer place. If
the entire membership of the stock
exchange were examined by a COM
mission in lunacy, very few would be
given an absolute bill of health
Every member of that famous insti-
tuition seems to be possessed of a de-
fusion that the center of the world is
located very near the corner of Wall
and Broad streets, and that what
ever is done or said or thought by
the rest of mankind IS intended to
effect In some manner near or re-
mote. the prices or stock. They
think that the laws of nature, as we'll
as the laws of congress and the sta
tutes of the state legislatures are en-
acted either to help or to harm
them; they believe that the rains
that fall and the frosts that freshen
the earth and the billiards. That
book railway traffic are designed to
benefit or injure them. and that the
corn and wheat that grow on the
western prairies, and the cotton that
whitens the sunny South are intend
ed for no other purpose than to fur
nish them business.
Just at present the consciousness
of Wall street is excited by the inves-
legations that are being made by the
interstate commerce commission, the
department of justice. the federal
courts. the state courts. the bureau of
corporations and other federal and
state agencies concerning the organ
ization and operation of the trusts.
and they consider the president of
the United States responsible for it
all. They do not suspect that govern
ors, attorneys of state and other au-
thorities are emulating his example.
and they give him credit for all the
prosecutions and all the agitations
that are going on. They have an
impression that he is batting the
corporations for the same reason that
Nero, CaNgula and other Roman en-
perors uced to make the Christians
"wrestle" with lions and tigers in the
arena. They seem to think that the
president is simply amusing himself
by indicting and prosecuting the
Standard oil company and by inves-
tigating the consolidation OF Mr..
Harriman's system of railroads, and
that whenever he jumps out Of bed
in the morning. ne calls up the Attor-
ney General on the telephone and
orders him to indict the presidents of
IA few corporations before breakfast
They do not stop to consider that
the laws of the country must be en-
forced and tnat II a corporation is
suspected Of having violated the laws
III is subject to investigation, indict-
ment and prosecution just like pri-
vate citizen. regardless whether 1t
affects the prices of stocks favorably
|or unfavorably.
These delusions are so general and
SO pronounced that responsible men
upon whom rests the peace of the
financial world. and In a measure the
prosperity of the country, seem to
have gone crazy. They are willing
to credit the widest kind of rumors
about the president. They seem to
believe that he has started out to
crush all the corporations in the
country. and that he is doing II mere
~ for his own amusement or for po-
litlcal capital.
There have been reports here that
the president intends to order the
interstate commerce commission ar