The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1910-08-13
THREE RICH MEN SEEK
TO CONTROL COUNTRY
Millionaire Spreckles Working for
National Organization to Fight
Concentration of Wealth

The statement made in New York by
Rudolph Spreckels. the reformer. who
hacked Francis j. Heney in cleaning up
San Francisco and who is now on his
nav home from a brief tour abroad, that
"there are three financiers Of this coun.
try who are seeking to control the en-.
tire United States" is to-day causing
widespread comment. Mr.. Spreckels
would not divulge their names.
Il know what 1t is to have financial
power," said Mr.. Spreckels. II am a
corporation man. finaDcier, and / am
thoroughly able to understand how the
thirst for power may grow upon man
with money. / have made a study Of
the whole financial problem OF this
country, aud can say without hesita-
tion, as a corporation man, that the
people of the United States give more
and do more for the corporations than
the corporations do for them.
Every man high mp in the financial
affairs Of this Nation should have the
country itself at heart. The country
should be his first consideration. We
owe something very large to posterity.
We should not bring children into the
world and then create for them a state
OF affairs akin to revolution. This is what
three men are doing In this Nation to-
day. History is full of the names OF
men Of wealth who have done great
things for the people in their time, and
their names have not been handed
down to posterity by the erection OF
libraries.
Twenty years ago could name 25
men who practically represented the
financial interests of this country. To-
day we have only three. IL is this dan
gerous concentration of wealth that has
frightened European investors. They
know over on the other side that three
men can do anything they want with
the securities Of this country, and they
are afraid of this concentration OF
power.
"Financial conditions have gotten now
to such q state that panic can be made
by these three men any time they
choose to make it. and this is very con-
veuiently done on the eve OF general
election. II is done TO intimidate the
public and give the men who represent
the people in Congress an excuse for
voting against the interests Of the
people.
'Such a panic was created in 1907 and
the financial interests tried to put the
whole affair upon the shoulders OF
Roosevelt. Money was needed in the
West then not in the East. All the
money OF the West was tied up in the
East. We tried to get the Treasury
Department to send relief to the West.
but Wall street got to Washington first
aud cornered IL.
81 don't believe the three men whom
/ have in mind are wholly bad. One OF
them, reputed to be the cleverest, is not
as rich as he is reported to be. Much
Of his manipulation is done on fictitious
values and does not represent so much
cash as one would suppose.
"These men are surrounded by a
great swarm of parasites. who keep
from them all ideas of patriotism and
duty. Any one who tries to show these
three great ones wherein they are wrong
is thrown out by the parasites and
called crank.
ut was the financial inter ests OF San
Francisco that nominated and elected
Mccarthy. the labor mayor of San
Francisco. The laboring man and the
clerk were not to blame for this. The
financial interests and the men who
take to themselves the privilege of or
ganizing labor make the threats. pass
out the word, stuff the ballot boxes and
elect officials whom they control.
my work Of bringing about Ma
tional organization to fight the concen.
tration Of wealth Is gaining ground
rapidly. am constantly in receipt OF
letters from wealthy men and POOR men
who are with me heart and soul.
often meet wealthy men who have the
Nation at heart and who believe as do
My plans are growing stronger by the
hour. l shall return to New York IN
October and will then be able to give
some details OF the work / have OF
hand.
This insurgent spirit is coming t.
the front all over the country, and
think in time the country will be saved
from the three men and their parasites.