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Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-04

Honolulu, Dec. Hawaiian hotel
rates have raised and United States
Attorney Breckons will. Il is said
make an investigation with a view
OF ascertaining whether the anti
trust law has been violated.
Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-04
FORD NOT GUILTY OF
TAKING BRIBE
MONEY
He Saw Coin Taken From
Mint. But Did Not Know
What Became of Ii.
JURY STOOD THREE
TO NINE AT FIRST

san Francisco, Dec. 4.--Tirey l.
Ford. general counsel for the United
Railroads. was acquitted late last
n ght of the charge or having bribed
former supeFrfsee Jennings Phillips
70 vote for the overhead trolley
franchise.
on the first ballot, the jury stood
nine for acquittal and three for con-
viction.
General Ford gave out the follow
ing statement regarding the verdict.
Under the peculiar conditions
now existing in our city II is greatly
to the credit of the twelve men who
have just rendered their verdict that
they have the courage to do exact
and even justice to a falsely accused
fellow citizen"
out of the San Francisco supervisor
scandal OF several months ago, and
was begun in October, but interrupt
ed November 1 by the holidays pro-
claimed by Governor Gillett to pro-
tec- the banks.
He Saw the Money.
When the trial was Interrupted
William Nj. Abbott assistant general
counsel for the United Railroads,
was on the stand. To the question:
did you, May %, 1906, accompany
mine and there receive some mon
ey?" the witness, upon the advice of
Earl Rogers, chief counsel for Ford,
refused to testify, upon the ground
that he was a codefendant with
Ford. Abbott, however, declined to
say that he refused to testify on the
ground that it would incriminate
himself
Witness Avoided Testimony.
At the reopening of the trial the
court in an oral opinion ruled that
Abbott was a competent witness and
70 avoid testifying, he must avail
Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-04
He Saw the Money.
Witness Avoided Testimony.

AT the reopening of the trial the
court in an oral opinion ruled that
Abbott was a competent witness and
to avoid testifying, he must avail
himself of his legal right to say that
Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-04
WEATHER FORECAST

ienVsr, Colo, Dec. 4, Fair tonight
and Thursday.
Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-04

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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31

master tricksters, dollar magicians,
long ago seeing this condition, invent
ed the system by which the people
are ruthlessly plundered. The system
they invented was simple, so simple
that for a quarter Of century it has
remained undiscovered by the world at
large-and even by you, who profess
to be experts. No man thought that
a free people who had intended to al
low all the equal use Of every avenue
for the attainment of wealth, and
who intended to provide for the safe
guarding of wealth after it was Sc
cured could be such dolts as to al
low themselves to be robbed or all
their accumulated wealth by a device
as simple as that by which children
play at blindman's buff. The process
was no more complex than that en-
ployed by the robber of old, who took
the pebbles from the beach, marked
them money, and with the money
bought the labor Of his fellows, and
by the manipulation Of that labor and
by turning pebbles into money he
took away from the laborer the
money which he had paid them FOR
the labor until all in the land were
slaves Of the moneymaker. These few
tricksters said: We will arbitrarily
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31

Barry Conant, not knowing of my
newly invented trick could buy only
what he could pay for on the morrow
or, at least, what he believed his
clients could pay for; while l, not In
tending to deliver what / sold-unless
by smashing the price to a point where
1 could compel those who had bought
to resell to me at millions less than l
sold at-could sell unlimited amounts
literally unlimited amounts. When
Barry Conant had bought all that he
thought he could pay for, he was
obliged to beat a retreat in front or
my offerings, and was able to smash,
and smash, until the price was so low
that he could not by the use of what
he had bought, as collateral, borrow
sufficient to pay me for what l had
sold him. Then he was compelled to
turn about and sell what he had
bought from me, and when 1 had re-
bought it for ten millions less than /
had sold it for, the trick had been
turned had sold him 100000 shares
say at 220. He had sold them back to
me say at 120 and he stood where he
had stood at the beginning. He had
none of the 100000 shares. Both Oh
us stood, so far as stock was con-
cerned where we had stood at the be-
ginning, but as to profits and losses
there was this difference: I had ten
millions of dollars profits, while Barry
Conant's clients, the System were
| ten millions losers-and all by trick.
The trick did not differ in principle
from the one in constant practice by
the System When the System af-
ter manufacturing Sugar stock. sell
100000 shares to the people for $lO,-
OOO, 900. they so manipulate the market
by the use Of the s1O,OOO,OO0 that they
have taken from the people as to scare
them into selling the 100000 shares
back to them for s5,000,0OO. After
they have bought they again manipu-
late the market until the people buy
back for 100000 900 what they sold fol
81, 900 900. The System commits nc
legal crime. I committed no lega
crime. l had not even infringed any
rule of the exchange, any more thar
had the System when they performed
their trick. Since my eXperimenta
panic l have repeatedly put the trick
in operation, and each time / have
taken millions, until today 1 have ir
my control, as absolutely as though
had honestly earned them, as the Ia
borer earns his weeks wages, or the
farmer the price Of his crops, oVel
81. 900. 100000, or sufficient to keep en-
slaved the rest of their lives a million
people.
What do you intelligent men think
of this situation? You know, because
you know the stock gambling game
that the American people, with theil
boasted brains and courage, come yeal
after year with their bags Of gold, the
result of their prosperous labors, and
dump them, hundreds Of millions, into
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31
To Be Continued.

GUNPowDER AND HAILsToNBs.-An-
other popular superstition has failed TO
stand the test of scientific investiga-
tion, says the Vienna correspondent OF
the Pail Mall Gazette. For years past
the peasants in Styria have been fight
ing hailstorlns with gunpowder, tena-
ciously maintaining that their efforts
were successful in dispensing impend-
ing storms. Recently the ministry of
agriculture granted a subvention for
proper scientific experiments. and
these have proved conclusively that
gunpowder explosions have absolutely
no effect against hailstorms. Indeed,
in one case the firing was followed by
an unusually violent storm when hall
stones as big as hens eggs covered the
ground.
The meteorological department has
joined with the ministry in declaring
that such attempts are absolutely val
ueless, and no more money will be
spent in experiments. Popular super
stitions die hard, and the peasants In
the neighborhood are exceedingly an
CRY at the conclusions reached by the
scientists, and are doing their utmost
to prevent the official results from be-
coming generally known.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31

times in each session and the seller
cannot know, much less show, that he
can deliver until he first adjusts with
the buyer and the buyer cannot adjust
until after he has become such by
buying. If a rule were made COM
pelling a seller to show his RESPONSE
bility before selling, every member
would have every other member al
his mercy and there could be no stock
gambling. When I had worked this
out, 1 saw that while the few trick
sters Of the System had a perfect de-
vice for taking from the people their
wealth. 1 had discovered as perfect a
means of taking away from the few
the wealth they had secured from the
many. With this knowledge came a
conviction that my way was as honest
as the 'System's,' in fact, more honest
than theirs. They took from the inno-
cent, 1 took from the guilty what had
already been dishonesty secured. I
determined to put my discovery into
practice.
II might never have done so but for
that Sugar panic in which l was
robbed of millions by the System
through Barry Conant. In that panic
the SYSTEM with it's unlimited re-
sources, filched from the people by
the arbitrary manufacture Of stocks,
and by their manipulation did to me
what I afterward discovered 1 could
do to them, without any resources
other than my right to do business on
the floor Of this exchange. You saw
the outcome, in the second Sugar
panic, Of my first experiment. In a
few minutes I cleared a profit Of $1O,-
1000. 1 could have made it fifty
or one hundred and fifty, but
I was not then on familiar terms
with my new robber- -robbing device,
and 1 had yet a heart. To make
this ten millions Of money, all that
was necessary for me to do was to
sell more Sugar than Barry Conant
could buy. This was easy, because
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31
BELIEVES IN STICKING.
A. D. Parker Got Rich by Applying His
Principle to Prospecting.

Principle to Prospecting.
A. D. Parker, vice president Of the
Colorado and Southern railroad. is
soon to be advanced to the presidency
Of the company, 1t Is said.
Mr.. Parker Is rich, says an Austin
Texas dispatch to the New York Sun
He believes in sticking to a PROPOSE
ton whether 1t looks good or bad. II
will come out all right in the end II
you stay with it long enough, Is his
theory. 1t was through this theory
that he gained his wealth.
In 1888 he was working as a section
hand on the Denver and Rio Grande
His pay was $1.25 a day. Working
alongside OF him was a laborer who
had visions of getting rich through the
discovery Of a gold mine.
He offered to go prospecting II Par
ker would grubstake him to the
amount of rs cents a day. That
would leave him only so cents a day
to live on. He thought he could man.
age 1t and entered into verbal agree
ment with the man upon the terms
proposed.
The man threw down his shovel and
went into the mountains Of Colorado
He roamed over the west for eighteen
years, and never a week did Parker
fail to remit the $5.25 as his share OF
the expense. Most men would have
thrown up the contract, but so long as
the gold hunter was willing to endure
the exposure and hardships OF the
mountains Parker was willing to live
up to the agreement.
Mr.. Parker was advanced from Sec
ton laborer to a place in the machine
shops of the road, then to the auditors
office. He never lost sight Of his
friend, the prospector.
In 1901 the prospector found himself
in Nevada still hunting for gold. Their
came the fortunate day, and Parker
received a telegram telling him thai
his partner was at Tonopah, and hao
a. last discovered a paying claim. II
made them rich.
Mr. Parker told this story Of his rise
to wealth when in Texas recently.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31

manufacture these chips-stocks. Af-
ter we have manufactured them, we
will sell the world what the world
can pay for, and then by the use of
the unlimited supply we still have we
will win away from the world what 1t
has bought, and repeat the operation,
until we have all the wealth, and the
people are enslaved. To do this there
was one thing besides the manufac-
turing Of the chips-stocks-that was
absolutely necessary-a granddaughter,
the working of whose machinery would
place selling value upon such chips;
hell where, after selling the chips,
they could be won back. I saw that If
these tricksters were to be routed
and their System was to be de-
stroyed, it must be through the ma
chinery of this stock exchange. 1
studied the machinery, and presently
1 marvelled that men could for so
long have been asses.
From the very nature Of stock
gambling it is necessary, absolutely
necessary, that 1t be conducted under
certain rules, Interchangeable, unbreak-
able rules, to attempt to change or
break which would destroy stock
gambling. The foundation rule, the
rule absolutely necessary for the ex-
istence Of stock gambling is: Any
member of the stock exchange can
h,,, or coll hatwaen tho oneninp and
closing of the exchange as many
shares of stock as he cares to. With
this rule In force his buying and SELL
ing cannot be restricted to the amount
he can take and pay for. or deliver
and receive pay for, because there is
not money enough in the world to pay
for what under this same rule can be
bought and sold in a single session.
This is because there have been ar
bitrarily created by these few trick
sters many times more stocks than
there is money in existence. The
amount of stock that any man can
sell in one session of the exchange is
limited only by the amount that he
| can OlIeT IOT safe, anu llC SSNit N'N~'
any amount his tongue can utter; and
he is not compelled and cannot be
compelled to show his ability to deliv-
er what he has offered for sale until
after he has finished selling, which Is
the following day. You will ask as
did: Can this be possible? you will
find the answer found. 1t is so, and
must continue to be so, or there will
be no stock gambling. Mark me, for
this statement is weighted with the
greatest import to you all. A member
of this exchange can sell as many
shares of stock at one session as he
cares to offer. If any attempt is made
at the session he sells at to compel
him either before or after he offers to
sell to show his ability to deliver
laway goes the Safeguarding structure
because from the very nature of the
whole structure Of stock gambling the
same shares are sold and resold many
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31
Doc Wasn't Mad.

Nobody had ever seen a dog act like
that on Broadway. He was a brown
and yellow curly haired one, with feet
slightly out of drawing, which indi-
Gated that he was just getting over
being pup.
He chased a woman up two little
steps Of one Of the closed entrances
of the Criterion theatre, says the
New York Herald recently, and there
he stood at the bottom Of the flight
with his long nose at such an angle
that a dotted line from it would have
touched the stuffed pheasant on her
mink hat. His eyes had CLASSY set
to them and his right foreleg had been
lifted off the sidewalk in a kind of
high-stepping attitude.
Mad dog!" cried she on the steps,
at the top Of her voice. Wont any
body save me? Police! police! Where's
policeman"
She backed nearly to the door. The
dog at the same time shifted his po-
sition and again relapsed into his three
legged pose and CLASSY stare.
From her muff the imprisoned wo-
man took a box of confectionery and
threw him bon-bon after bon-bon.
The animal was interested for two or
three times, and then again he re-
sumed a joyful shifting in the direc-
ton of the gaudy pheasant wings.
About the group congregated large
throng, which kept at a safe distance.
The cry Of Mad dog!" was sounded
through Long Acre square. Persons
on the way to the theatres went
around the block. The woman on the
steps was by this time in Mysteries,
and alternately sobbing and crying
Mad dog!" and Good doggie, have
some candy?" The dog stood still as
a statue.
Edging his way through the throng,
policeman reached for his revolver.
Hes going to shoot the mad dog"
said a hundred voices.
II wouldn't" said a lank man who
lounged up 1T amt a crime for q
Gordon setter pup to point at pheas-
ant either in Canandaigua or New
York l won't stand for him being
shot. Here, constable, you take that
animal to the pound and I'll pay for
his keep. He's a good one."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31

ton, and SO as collateral security, TO-
900 bales can be controlled by cap
ital Of $4,000. The difference between
at what sum cotton is bought at and
the price at which it is sold will be
one means of revenue to the corpora
ton. Each county, warehouse and
holding company shall give a bond to
the state division for the faithful keep
ing Of its contract with the other
states. AS soon as 10 per cent Of the
cotton-growing counties shall have
been organized, each county as organ
lied shall be required to call for what
ever per cent Of its subscription to
the capital stock its board Of directors
shall deem necessary with which to
begin business.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31
CHAPTER XIY-Continued.

For once at least the much-abused
phrase, He looked the part" could
be used in all truthfulness. AS Rob-
ert Brownley threw back his head and
shoulders and faced that crowd OF
men, some of whom he had hurt, many
of whom he had beggared, and all OF
whom he had tortured, he presented
picture such as a royal lion recently
from the jungles and just freed from
his cage might have made. Defiance,
Difference, contempt, and pity all
blended in his mien, but over all was
an Lam the one you are the many
atmosphere of confidence that turned
my spinal column into a mercury
tube. He began to speak:
Men of Wall street:
You have just witnessed a record
breaking slaughter. l have asked per-
mission to talk to you for the pur-
pose of showing you how any MEM
Der Of a great stock exchange may at
any time do what l have done today.
Weigh well what I am about to say
to you. During the last quarter OF
century there has grown up in this
free and fair land Of ours a system by
which the few take from the many
the results of their labors. The men
who take have no more license, from
God or man, to take. than have those
from whom they fitch. They are not
endowed by God with superior Wis
dom, nor have they performed for
their fellow-men any labor or given to
them anything of value that entities
them to what they take. Their only
license to plunder is their knowledge
Of the system of trickery and fraud
that they themselves have created.
No man can gainsay this. for on every
side Is the evidence. Men come into
Wall street at sunrise without dollars;
before that same sun sets they depart
with millions. So all-powerful has
grown the system Of oppression that
single men take in a single lifetime all
the savings of a million of their fel-
lows. Today the people SO,OO0OOO
strong. are shaving for the few, and
their pay is their board and keep.
saw this robbery. l felt the robbers
scourge. l sought the secret. l found
it here. here in this gambling-hel.
found that the stocks we bought and
sold were mere gambling chips; thai
the man who had the biggest stack
could beat his opponent off the board
that his opponent was the world, be-
cause all men directly or indirectly
played the stock gambling game. TIC
win, it was but necessary to have un-
limited chips. If chips were bough,
and sold, on equal terms, by all, nc
one could buy more than he could
pay for, and the game, although still
gambling one, would be fair few
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31
NAVY NEEDS MEN BADLY.
Several New Battle Ships Are Short Of
Strenath.


Strength.
Failure to secure enough enlistments
to properly man the ships now In COM
mission by the United States govern
ment, says a Washington dispatch, is
causing more than ordinary embar-
rassment to the navy department, and
as a result of which legislation will
undoubtedly be had at the next session
Of congress entirely changing the pres
ent manner Of securing men for the
service and making a thorough reor-
ganization Of the entire system.
So serious has the lack Of requisite
number Of enlisted men in the naval
service become that some Of the larger
ships recently placed in commission
have not nearly the quota Of men they
should carry, this being noticeably the
case with the louisiana, Brooklyn,
Virginia and Georgia, all Of which,
when carrying their FULL strength are
recruited to the number Of 700 or 800
mel each.
Desertions, while figuring largely In
the question, do not constitute the
only reason for the present lack OF
men. Poor pay, hard life, miserable
accommodations, and in some cases Ill
and brutal treatment are all largely
responsible for present conditions.
The present enlisted force Of the ma
val service amounts to between $1,000
and $4,000 men, while 1t should be
nearer $4,000 since the placing in
commission Of the Georgia, Louisiana,
Connecticut, Virginia, Kansas. and 9TH
ers. Where the extra men are to be
secured the navy department does not
know.
Every device known to modern times
has been resorted to to secure men for
the service, and there are now said to
be more recruiting stations In use
throughout the United States than
ever before. Many Of these are loca-
ted in the rural districts, as 1t has been
long recognized that some Of the best
men taken into the service were got
ten ITCIn Tile IdTlHS dLu Siiie1ii eO"hS -
the south and the west.
It has been pointed out that the gov
ernment will never be able to secure
the complement Of men required for the
manning of its ships until congress
takes hold and by legislation not only
increases the compensation Of the
men, but provides for their well-being
and treatment as men are treated in
other walks Of life.
The $1,000 men now In the service
being divided between chief petty Of
ficers of three classes, seamen (ordi-
nary sailors,) those in the commissary
and messmen's branches, and those In
the marine corps, are paid at a rating
beginning with $13 a month for first
enlistment as a minimum and $44 as
a maximum. These run to $50 and $S5
respectively, in addition to which there
are other small allowances for extra
good conduct, work, etc.
This wage. it is said, is so small
that men of worth and good physique
are unwilling to undergo the hardships
when there are other lines Of business
everywhere calling them and offering
good inducements with good pay.
It is impossible to indicate now what
measures congress will take to remedy
the present defective conditions, but
4 is the belief of many naval officers
that some radical changes will un-
1oubtedly be enacted into law.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31

3<r Prof. Brander Matthews, the es-
sayist enlivened with an anecdote a
Shakespeare Bacon discussion at the
Players club in New York:
"A literary woman" said Prof. Mat
thews. said one night to her hus-
bard:
when I get to heaven l am going
to ask Shakespeare whether or not he
wrote those plays
1.-The husband chuckled.
MAYBE he won't be there, 'hesaid.
Then you ask him. said the lady"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31

ar 1t occasionally occurs to a man
that all he gets for doing a thing we'll
Is to see lot of encouragement given
his imitators.-Atchison Globe.