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

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SCENE There vas fnsh 81 mshy
feet westward along Nsll Street a
body IL mounted police with stern
faces, pistols IN their holsters, aals
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ffpm around the Wan s,fces
corner there came slowly up Nassau
Street 4 long parade u motor
trucks ~ mounted guards on either
side. The crowds that quickly
gathered, looked on these guards
who had driven them from the cast.
em sidewalk. with curious and
fombre faces. They seemed 70 view
a funeral cortese. And, indeed.
something IN our public life, some.
thing that was very dear TO 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 BratinRs 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 ]. Pier
pont Morgan, his accredited agent,
the gold in payment for bayonets-
and slifapnel.
And as | stood there on the side
walk the blood welled 10 my face
and rage su-ged through my heart.
For | asked myself, whom do
armed men threaten on the open
street, At whom do they aim those
loaded riflesl
Brothers, they were meant for you
and me.
Ii 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
far west OF the Hudson River. the
doings Of Wall Street are an n
solved mystery. They suspect and
fear. They do not know.
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 0 bent on
plundering 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
100000, 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 SEN
timents, to attend a luncheon and
conference on this important subject.
But hold, one moment, Colonel.
Why, when you issued those in
yitations, did you not address them
10 pablic-spiritcd 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 J. 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 Allies? 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
100000, 900 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
100000, 900 would flown
Here are some OF the gentlemen
TO whom that ardent patriot Colonel
Thompson, addressed himself:
]. Pierpont Morgan
Thomas w. Lamont
William II. Porter
Henry p. Dawson
Charles Steele
Paul ID. crayath
Ebert II. Cary
Harry Payne Whitney
Seward Prosser
5. H. P. Pell
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Ogden /. Mills
Frederic K. Coudert
Francis l. Hine
Edmund G. Converse
Daniel G. Reid