The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-03-29

Three hundred million dollars is the
amount OF The reported shrinkage in
values of securtie, iu this country in
the last two or three weeks. Who
caused 10: Who did 1T,
II was not mObs of frantic strikers,
inilamed with passion and liquor and
fenzcd by the wild appeals Of anar-
chist and socialist orators. 10 was not
the ignorant and reckless demagogues
of the country stirring up masses of
misguided voters by appeals TO their
class preiudices, their poverty and
their sense of wrong.
1t wa, the weil-dressed, well-grOom-
ed, perfectly appointed. smooth and
operator in Wall street. lie
saw where he could make some dol
lars. some scores or thousands or hun
dreds of thousands of dollars, accord
ing 90 his calibre, by selling short and
depressing the market. Without the
slightest hesitation ne has done what
he So vociierously denounces Mr..
Roosevelt and denounced Mr.. Bryan
for doing.
These people I'm wall street not only
caused "a los, of three hundred million
dollars but they did all they could to
cause a general panic i'm the country.
If their deliberate efforts had been
completely successful, if their purposes
had gone On 20 logical and extended
result. the streets of the cities would
be filed this morning with extra
editions of newspapers announcing the
crashing of banks aud the ruin Of
great commercial enterprises. Fac
tories would be closing down, working
people by the thousands would be
streaming from the gates of factories
out of employment and going TO their
homes 90 face destitute aud starva-
ton. Merchants would be making as
sgnments, employees of all kinds
would be receiving discharge notices
on every hand. Poverty and desoal-
latiOn would be everywhere and in
many places despair, with such incl
dents a. suicides, women and children
CRYING for food aud shiverng for lack
of shelter These consequences have
been brought 90 this country i'm the
past by just such causes raids in
Wall street. sudden attacks on the
confidence and hope Of the country,
stOumiug of the ciiadels Of confidence,
rapme, lOotiug and destruction follow
ING From such horrors few men in
Wall street won some dollars-won
them by methods a, cruel, as fer0ciOus.
as brutal, as horrible in their details,
I'm their execution and i'm their results
as any ,ackiug of a rich city by barba-
riaus or capture Of treasure ship by
pirates OF swift descent on an emigran;
train by wild Indians.
The intent 20 murder the commerce
and the prosperity OF the country is
plain and we'll established. The arm
Is puny and the dagger rotten and /
Aimsy but tic blow was aimed with |
deadly purpose. Whether that pur- /
pose was merely q bear raid 10 profit /
by ruin or whether 10 was concerted |
effort 90 brighten and punish the cOun- |
try, To- take vengeance for the harsh /
40 itude of press, public and govern |
menls To- The railroads by ellecting "A /
panic and It's awful sequences, the /
crime Isl equally yileand equally deserv- /
ing OfeOntempt, eXecraiiOn and punish /
ment 10 makes a new count in the /
indictment against Wall street and /
lbs method, and the foul and noise 4
some system and ideas of finance and /
of trade 10 has developed. |
There Will be 100 sense and no effect /
Boo future talk of the danger 10 the /
business of the country from any radi- |
cal political action or teaching. All /
the RooseVelts. an The Bryans, even /
all The AligeIds and Hearsts, all the /
political extremists, lunatics and de /
mag0gues we have, could not aim /
against the country credit and COM
mercial life blow so deadly as that
Wall street has tried 10 strike. And /
10 had the backing The railroad kings,
who have added their voices 10 the
lifge-like chorus of threat, lamentatiOn
and dismal prediction.
Down with the "Slreet' and its
methods. ils robberies and it, attempts
t0 bulidOze and destroy a whole c0un-
try of the radicals and the wreckers
in politics until we have cleaned out
their only real excuse for living and
support and the one cause that makes
them strong aud daugerous-the
thieves of high finance aud wreckers
In Wall street.
Isn't that ACKNOWLEDGMENT? And
ISN'T It true, every word Of il? And
lur readers are indebted TO the Rich
mond News-Leader for it, aud to Us
'Or reproducing il.