Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-30
CARLSON HOST
AT A CONCERT
BANKER AND BRASS BAND
ENTERTAIN
SAYS HE WILL COMPOUND ALL
HIS ENEMIES FL
President Of Consolidated Institution
Invites Friends and Creditors to
Meet HIm-Gives Min
streI Show

In response to an announcement that
william H. Carlson, president OF the
Consolidated bank, would again meet
his insistent friends and clients at
Blanchard hall, every seat In the
house was taken by s o'clock last
night. While a brass band played In
the street at the entrance to the build
ing, an Hawaiian aggregation dis
coursed soothing tropic melodies with
in. Four negro artists also enter
taincd the spectators with vocal selec-
tions. A large American flag, emble-
matte of the square DEAL" hung above
the platform. Mr.. Carlson evidently
believes in the power Of music to check
the palpitations of the outraged hu-
man heart and melt resentment into
trust and confidence. The music at
tracted a crowd and there was not
vacant seat in the house. Then as
negro with a mouth that opened up
capacious interior sang something
about being kicked by a mule, q brass
band filed in followed by Carlson dra-
matically bearing an American flag
over his shoulder and stepping to the
tune of marching Through Georgia"
A man with a John Hancock collar
stationed on the front seat started the
applause, which was taken up vigor-
ously by others in various sections OF
the room. '.Dixie" was played and
Dixie" as usual, brought down the
house. Carlson at this psychological
moment mounted the platform and de-
.livered a diatribe against his enemies.
He was surcharged with emotion and
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Nuncorked his Walls of wrath and turned
them loose without any attempt at
logical arrangement.
Having dramatically assured his
hearers that he was inexpressibly
grateful for their confidence, he en-
tered into a philippic against the press
and the Creeping, crawling, dastardly
towards" who were his enemies" He
breathed out anat athema on anathema
and accused the bankers of robbing
the poor while he had been the friend
of the poor man and liberator of the
oppressed.
II will whip my enemies before I am
through" Carlson Numbered as he be-
strode the platform. which fairly
creaked under his stride. He charged
to come on while he trampled them
under foot singly or by squads.
Il have met my enemies,' he de-
clared, when they had knives up
their backs.
II swear by the patient God." he
continued, "that IL had not been in
Albuquerque. New Mexico, there
would have been about three men in
their coffins-men who had attacked
my family in my absence from the
city and behind my back"
He declared that the greatest lawyer
California had produced was prepar-
ing a suit which would place his enc
mics and detractors hors de combat.
Carlson declared that he would first
pay every depositor 100 cents on the
dollar; that he would next clear up all
difficulties and secure the release of
the Redondo villa tract lots and make
good title and finally operate the rail-
road with free passes to lot owners.
Declaring that his ability to control
his resentment was fortunate for his
enem es and that every. purchaser In
the Redondo Villa tract was sure of
clear title and a profit on his invest
ment. Carlson came down from the
platform TO engage in an informal re-
ception.