TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-09-18

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scene There eas q rush vi MANY
feet westward along wall Street. A
belly "a mounted peliee with stern
faces, pistols 10 their holsters, sal.
loptd up
From around ths Wan Street
corner there came slowly up Nassau
Street q long parade " motor
trucks, its mDnntsd guards on either
side. The crowds that quickly
gathered. looked on these guards
who had driven ihem from the east
cfn sidewalk, with curious and
somhre faces They seemed 10 view
a funeral cofieKe. And. indeed.
something III our public life, some
thing that was very dear 10 us. was
buried there that day.
There were twenty-five trucks.
The rear end OF each was closed
with a thick steel wiring. From
behind each OF these gratinRs one
could distinguish the grim forms
and faces OF four men, with rifles
and automatic pistols in their hands,
II was in this way that King
George of England sent TO J. Pier
pont Morgan, his accredited agent,
the gold in payment Tor bayoncts
and shrapnel.
And as | stood there on the side
walk the blood welled to my face
and rage surged through my heart.
For / asked myself, whom do
armed men threaten on the open
street, AT whom do they aim those
loaded ritlesl
Brothers, they were meant for you
and me.
It was the defiance Of Morgan and
his Money Trust to the silent wrath
OF honest men. He said. Bow to
my will or | shall shoot you down"
The pleasing masks these bankers
wear had dropped, and there were
revealed the hideous males, the
primal brutes, covering over the
gold they had earned by the mangl-
ing of human flesh, crashing their
tusks in rage at the people whose
sympathies they had thwarted,
whose ideals they had crushed by
the shameful trade in war munitions.
To those who dwell in the vast
stretches Of our country that spread
lar west OF the Hudson River. the
doings of Wall Street are an I'M
solved mystery. They suspect and
fear. They do not knows
Wall Streets Underworld.
/ shall draw back a corner of this
mysterious curtain and disclose the
workings of Wall Streets UNDER
world. You shall read here some
thing incredible, unbelieveable,-of
men who have duped, deceived, dis
honored you, and are now bent on
p~lundering you on a scale vaster
than has ever before been attempted
in the history of our time.
Colonel Robert M. Thompson a
high-minded American patriot, in
augurated on June 9th the organiza-
ton OF the Navy League OF the
United States. He advocated an inn
mediate issue by the government Of
$500, 000, 900, to be devoted to the
construction of a greater army and
navy. He then invited a large
number OF citizens. supposedly inn
bued with similarly patriotic sem
timents. to attend a luncheon and
conference on this important subject.
But hold, one moment, Colonel.
Why, when you issued those in
vitations, did you not address them
to public-spirited and disinterested
men, who have the peace and well
fare of our country at heart? Why,
on the contrary, did you invite the
members of ]. P. Morgan & Co,
official agents of the British gov
eminent in the purchase of war
munitions, and financial hackers OF
the Steel Trust, whose products are
being turned into bayonets and
shrapnel for the Alliesl Why did
you invite to your patriotic luncheon
the directors OF companies making
millions in the manufacture of war
material, and bankers who make
further millions from such concerns
by selling their securities and acting
as their transfer agentsf
Why, when you purposed TO spend
$500, 000, 600 of the public money,
without consulting the people who
earn it, did you confer with the
members Of Wall Streets Money
Trust, into whose pockets those
$~500,0OO,000 would flow?
Here are some of the gentlemen
70 whom that ardent patriot, Colonel
Thompson, addressed himself:
J. Pierpont Morgan
Thomas w. Lamont
William II. Porter
Henry r. Dawson
Charles Steele
Paul ID. cravath
Ebert H. Gary
Harry Payne Whitney
Seward Prosser
S. H. p. Peli
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Ogden /. Mills
Frederic K. Ceudert
Francis /. HIne
Edmund c. Converse
Daniel G. Reid
Percy Rockefeller
Frank A. Vanderlip
l.. L. Clarke.
The luncheon was held. The in
nocent Colonel, addressing his dis
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