The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-01-10
WRECKING A RAILROAD.

AS example of frenzed finance which there is absolute
moral depravy the courts sustain the obbe and loote
wreing Seaboard Railroad practically unparalleled
II the work of the Ryan gang of freebooters and to lie
hoped may be found bring them before the bar
Of justice Thomas Ryan appears be the dangerous and
INSCRIPTIONS of pirates of high finance and certainly abstract
justice would place him prisoners cell instead of being he is
confidential adviser Of the president Of the United States
The need day president White House who will
close Perpont Morgans the Ryan and the Har
all their dirty gang And if there laws check
their rapacous greed such laws should be enacted OF this latest
achievement of Mr. Ryan the Oregonian says:
"A judge holding Mr.. Ryans private at
morning the way from Danvie to Richmond
enveopd host of Ryan and Hartman lawyers
gesve edng spectacle If the Hartman and Ryan crowd
had got their receiver for the miserable Seaboard Railroad
appointed with this situation their favor would have been
prsing indeed There is record that the stockholders OF the
road were represented in this strange judicial proceeding and
likely would do good they had been. The whole
affair seems carefully and dried and this session
of the court held looks like carry the plan
through their interruption The next step will be to throw
the bankruptcy sell the property of the shareholders to the
Hartman crowd quarter its value the proceeds to
off fictitious debts leave the investors howl to the moon for
their money cine ae Geice the too atca Heine
would say IT'S old story and that has been told so often
that it is little sickening
The receiverhp of the Railroad is the eliminating
move in game of high which Mr. Ryan and his gang be-
gan years ago The road at that time under the
management of southern business of inHebe integrity who
had hereditary interest welfare The shares owned then
as now by people Virginia and Baltimore who had sought them
as an investment By well known tricks of his evng trade Mr.
RYAN got hold the property which he used to beat down the
price of its shares destroy its business and finally wreck it. The
game was PLAYED his customary skill and somewhat more than
his customary of law and honor In alliance with him were
Hartman and punderng Standard Oil interests which are just
now asaing high with their srie OF injured innocence
on account of Judge Lands fine What pity they could not have
spirited Judge Lands away of their sunPtous private cars
while he was celebrating upon his decision Perhaps then would
all have turned differently
Ths new high handed piracy OF the most mia
nous in the long Ryan and Standard Oil nfames FOR
cold booded vainy exceeds anything in the candaos history
of the New York street railroads Doubtless when the tale is mn
hed when robbery of the shareholders has been contaminated
then RYAN their pals will issue another appeal to the
bc for more confidence them and their methods Doubtless
heir organs in New York will begin another campaign OF SANDER
AGAINST the president their nay and smother the scent
Of their oulnes They know well how to play the trick
"Nobody expects this crowd abstain from robbery 50 long
as there anything anybody rob; but would imagine
that the courts all has been said and done would cease
10 lend them of legality for their thefts What can Judge
be thinking who permits himself be spirited at o'clock
in the morning gang corporation lawyers intent upon wreck
ing railroad? This judge lately enoined the state OF Vr
qinia from enforcing ostenby prevent the contaton
of corporation popery will he be alert to prevent the conauo
IF e property of the shareholders the hared and beeageed
Seaboard Railway?