The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-14
SCARED
 OUT OF ENGLAND
Demonstration at Manchester
 Is Cause of Trouble =
WHEAT KING IS AROUSED
Extensive Trip in Europe But Is Stopped By the Affair in
 Manchester
By PAUL LAMBETH

London, March 13.-tSpecial.) )-Alarmed
 for his life, James Patten, the Chicago
 wheat king, who was hooted out of the
 cotton exchange in Manchester yester-
 day and narrowly escaped serious injury,
 sailed for home today, cutting short his vacation, which was to have extended to several countries upon the continent.
 MT Patten smiled grimly when I asked
 him if he had enjoyed his stay in Eng
 land, before the big steamer crawled away from her dock.
 "Oh, yes." he replied, smiling reminis- gently. Tt reminded me of the Chicago ;, wheat pit about the time a corner breaks.
 "But do you know my designs in visit l ing the cotton exchange in Manchester
 were nothing more than to show t'.e brokers that l was an ordinary man like I themselves. I wanted them to see that
 I had neither horns nor tail. I may be |.
 tull, butt without the horns
 "The English broker who is reared in
 an English town and never sees anything of the world beyond London is narrow. I The average Manchester broker seems to 1 think that I am responsible for the law of supply and demand. The Manchester spirners lack the fundamental knowledge
 of their business They do not know the | brcs der principles. Proof of their igno-
 rance is seen in the attack against me.
 "Why. Halley's comet has as much to do with the conditions in Manchester or
 Liverpool as l."
 MT. Patten said that during his stay in Liverpool he had received hundreds of letters from Englishrnen. Many of these were begging letters, while some con
 tained money which the senders wanted him to invest for them. Mir. Patten re- turned all the money as soon as he re- ceived it.
 Considerable feeling has been stirred up
 between the brokers of Liverpool and Manchester over the attack on Patten The Liverpool brokers are anxious to | have America believe that they were in
 no wise responsible for the outrage. Whey fear consequences should they be held partly responsible.
 The newspapers today did not treat the American broker In a friendly fashion. The Pail Mall Gazette and the Westmin-
 ster Gazette of London both contained leaders in which they expressed some regret over the hastiness of the English brokers, but both scored MT. Patten severely for his businefs methods. For instance, the Westminster Gazette said in part:
 Men who make corners in raw ma terials and necessities are no longer sent to prison, but they cannot expect to bs welcomed cordially by people who have suffered through their operations Cablegrams came both to London and Liverpool today iron. American brokers, who asked the exact circumstances Of the attack on MT. Patten. In some of these harsh things were said against the Manchester brokers.
 MT. Patten came to Engand for long vacation and expected to go to the con tinent after several weeks here. His
 nasty departure meant the cancellation of his plans. At the time he sailed from the United States newspapers printed ca blegrams from America in which 1t was said that MT. Patten was planning great international corner of cotton and that he would arrange to have great quantities shipped to England to be held in storage houses. In fact, 1t was fntt- mated that he would attempt to get con trol of all the cotton in both England and America. AS MT. Patten prepared to board the Mauretania today he re- | marked:
 q will be glad to get back to chi- cago." There was a sermon in that simple ,;tterance.