The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-11-08
THE DESTROYER.

let them be confessed. lie has at
tackled long recognized business
methods and the established customs
Of our most successful financiers.
Scores Of the most daring stock
spectators have been ruined. The
cloud Of dishonor has fallen upon
some Of the countrys best known
family names.
This lmpetuous man could not be
content with stopping railroad rate
discrimination. dissolving numerous
trusts. reclaiming millions OF acres
from land grahbers, recovering vast
tracts from timber thieves. protect
ing our grazing ranges from devas.
tation by outlaws. cementing Euro
pean friendships. opening new ave-
nues for our commerce in South and
Central America and Asia and safe
guarding the peace OF the world at
Portsmouth and The Hague.
With al these occupations provid-
ed. he has refused to be content
He has persisted in going mp and
down the land preaching and teach
ing nerye.racking. confldence-shat-
tering doctrine new to most men
now living
Unmindful OF the feelings Of
those who have amassed great for
tunes by the most approved rules
Of latter-day finance. he has aroused
tne masses and arrayed them
against the system which has made
these men rich.
His attacks have fallen with
crushing force upon Wall street,
which. by common consent has been
the depository Of the country's ready
cash. The consequent collapse OF
quotations has amounted to butch.
cry of brokers to make a Roosevelt
holiday.
There seems TO have been no
bounds to the presidents inflamma.
tory and revolutionary declarations.
Here are some Of them and their
sad sequels:
Roosevelt said: Honesty is the
best policy.
\ panic in wall street precipitates
a financial stringency so far reach
ing that distress Is still felt in the
Newport casino and the restaurants
of upper Broadway.
Roosevelt said: No innocent corpo-
ration need fear the law. But the
guilty. rich or poor. shall be pros
ecuted
Thousands OF shares held by the
strongest banking houses and In.
surance companies are thrown upon
the market. and quotations are
marked down $4,000, 900 in a single
day.
Roosevelt said: Railroads are pub.
lie highways and all shippers should
have equal rights.
John ID, Rockefeller Immediately
SiN'S pu' an IhN'l Wow pl'ulNNlhE 'h-
lamity and financial chaos. This is
the signal for the Standard Oil
banks to throw overheard large
blocks OF high class securities. ere.
ating another panic The stock mar
ket statisticians show the losses to
be s2OO.OOO.OOO.
Roosevelt said: All men in this
country shall have the same right
before the law.
Wall street bank presidents de-
nounce the president as an anar-
chist. stocks slump. all loans are
called from legitimate business hou.
ses and accommodations are refused
to every concern engaged in honest
commerce.
And still Roosevelt refused to-
cease his incendiary utterances. He
heaped fuel on the fire by declaring
that no man shall be permitted to|
acquire or to use vast fortune
by methods or In ways that are tor
tuous or dishonest.
]. J. Hnl refuses to cut melon
that had been expected by Northern
Pacific stockholders, and the whole
stock list makes low records for
the year.
Roosevelt said: 7 will do every
thing | can TO help business condi-
tions except anything that is wrong,
Two railroads announced the aban-
donment Of proposed Improvements
owing 20 the administration
war against wealth.
Roosevelt said: u man does
well. II he acts honestly. he has