The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-12-06

W. Gates the unfortunate Charles T. Barney and others, until
they dropped their goods and fled in despair.
"These charges are perhaps heard often in the Offices Of
Wall brokers the popu sections Of the country They
appear in Wall literature and in the metropolitan press
The Evening World Of November H. bitter editorial
"Where the Money Is compares Wall street bankers with pawn
brokers who appropriate the properties pohecated with the
the bankers of illegally overceryng checks and refusing
pay cash their ordinary creditors and says that they have
tailed their commercial credits called their business loans and cut
off manufacturers oreeepers merchants from their facilities
for doing their legitimate business in order that they the great
Wall bankers might take advantage Of the low prices for
stocks and bonds and buy other peoples property cheap Con
tnuing, the Evening World says:
"Of the more than 81 100000 Of loans in the New York
associated banks than oneaf commercial loans business
paper More than half Stock Exchange collateral The men
who control credit of these banks using to acquire for
themselves the mne the railroads. the steamships and the other
great incorporated industries of the United States People who
are not able borrow SELL The few who can get
1oane are the purchasers The of these great
banks have taken Heinzs copper company from him. They have
taken from Charles W. Morse his banks and his steamboat nes
from Thomas his banks and his insurance company from lhorne
his Portceser railroad Georgia Central railroad from Gates
land his friends their Tennessee Coal Iron Company IS re-
oorted that they are taking Hartman his Union Pacific For
these men who are despod the public has sympathy They
deserved their fate whe instead Of stopping there the great
Wall street bankers keep from the manufacturer his Payo money
from, the farmer the means with which to market his crops from e
the accommodations necessary carry his stock IN trade
then IS plain time that the attention OF the public shouId De c
70 the facts and that banks should be compelled to conduc
business pay their legitimate commercial deposoS
in money even if to they have close the Stock EXcnage
and abolish gambling in Wall street
GLOW much truth and how much falsiy there is IN these state
: 1n 70 hit few and these usually keep their own coun
sci OF the frequeners brokers' offices in New York. 1t IS reason
abv certain that majority believe that these statements contain
more fact than fiction and of the older and more experienced
babes of these Offices still larger portion are ready 10 De
M worst Of the great high nanciers There are numerous sur
f 1i+ire that seem to Justify these wdey-hed opinions
Resides 50 MANY frauds in great corporations have been revealed
in the past two years. that there is reason tor the opinion p
there are anv honorable in control OF these corporations m
are at least in bad company These men have only uee
to blame if they regarded with Suspicion O5 i - m
+; Such men should help scourge Wall street AM
the great corporations that congrege there OF their many na5
factors and should conduct the business OF these corporations a
and honestly"