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The Commoner.
VOLUME 13, NUMBER 1
18 WIIaSON A NOT II EH JACKSON?
(Continued from Pago 12.)
Into tho Whlto IIouho, that t!io ropub
Hcan party might bo 'benefited. This
ort of talk, of courao, comes from
mon who put politics above every
thing oluo, and by no mcatiB repro
Bontfl the thought of the real leadens
of tho republican party."
But tho quoHllon will naturally
arlso: la Govornor Wilson right In
saying that "tho machlnory Ib In
oxlutonco by which tho very thing
can bo dollboratoly done." lie did
not toll ub who had control of tho
machine or who had been trained to
oporato It. IIo doubtless had In mind
tho comblnod forces known as tho
powers that control Wall street and
Stock Exchango operations. But tho
Indlanapolla Mows, diseasing the im
portant question, glvos such plain
facts and the necessary deductions
that It is given in full hero:
The Morgan Interests
"Speaking of the possibility of cre
ating a panic, Mr. Wilson, in his
speech boforo tho Southern society of
Now York, said:
" 'Tho machinery is In existence by
which tho thing can bo deliberately
done. Frankly, I don't think there
is any man living who dares to use
machinery for that purpose. If ho
does, I promiso him, not for myself,
but for my fellow-countrymen, a gib
bet as high as Hainan's.'
"Mr. Wilson added that ho did not
mean 'a literal gibbet,' but a gibbet
of public dlsgraco which would en
duro 'as long as tho members of that
man's family survive' 'America,'
tho speaker said, 'with her eyes open,
isn't going to lot a panic happen.
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But I speak as If I expected, that
as if I feared It. I do not.' But the
question is as to tho existence of ma
chinery through which a panic might
bo precipitated. Immediately follow
ing tho speech of Mr. Wilson wo were
favored with tho facts in regard to
tho consolidation of the money power
in the country. They are not now,
but they were massed in ouch a way
a8 to appeal strongly to tho imagi
nation. "Through a vast system of inter
locking directorates tho Morgan firm
directly controls $25,325,000,000.
This control centers in five institu
tions .7. P. Morgan & Co., tho Guar
anty Trust company, tho Bankers'
Trust company, tho First National
bank, and tho National City bank.
Morgan's house has sixty-threo direc
tors in tnirty-nine corporations with
total resources of $10,030,000,000.
Eighteen corporations and individ
ual firms closely affiliated with the
Morgan firm, have 746 directors in
134 corporations, with resources or
capitalization amounting to 25,325,
000,000. The total annual revenue
of the flvo great nations of tho world
amounts to but $4,950,000,000. In
this controlled group are banks, trust
companies, insurance companies,
railroads and industrial corporations.
The Morgan group is therefore more
powerful financially than the govern
ments of the United States, Great
Britain, France, Germany and Italy
combined.
"Here undoubtedly is the machinery-through
which a panic could
be brought about. We think that
Mr. Wilson is right in saying that
it will not be brought about, for self
interest will prevent it. But it is
quite conceivable that this vast
power, centered in a few hands, a
power which may be wielded by Mor
gan alone through his great in
fluence, might be used in such a way
as to harm the public. Perhaps we
shall insist before long that a bank
shall be nothing but a bank, a rail
road nothing but a railroad, etc.
But for the present it is enough to
know that we have here a great
power which might wage a not un
equal strife with the government it
self. The facts are as important as
they are interesting. They throw a'
good deal of light on the Roosevelt
plan for an industrial commission,
and on tho advocacy of it by Perkins
and Gary."
MURDER AND THE COLOR LINE
Apologists for lynching for the
one crime" might bo heard with
some semblance of patience were no
murders such as that at Norway, S
C, recently done under the label of
lynching or were tho doers of them
arrested and punished as murder
ers. But crimes of this sort are al
ways frequent where anarchy is ad
vocated under the name of lynching
The killing of the negro, John
Felder, appears to have been a secret
and cowardly assassination. The
man was taken from the custody of
the law under the cover of darkness
and done to death, probably by two
2T2ireSnOP h?lf a dozen Persons at
most. There is no evidence that the
rtSmJH TCVed by any spectable
?i? S, n "? community and none
that the victim was guilty of any
grave offense in the eyes of the law.
Had a white man, though a tramn
or ne'er-do-well accused of lSrSn?y
been taken from the guardhouse at
qonrhaypandif1Urdered the People of
South Carolina would bo alarmed
alSrfUChman 0Utrag0 could be com
mitted. They would reason that lSe
?? BnfQ ven when the offlcers of
the law in a particular instance had
become its protectors.
The practice of slaughtering ne
groes can not be tolerated without
endangering the lives of white So?
We can not havo in South Carolina
numbers of murderers who will S
ways discriminate in favor of white
men. A man who becomes a mur
derer can not bo depended upon to
draw the color line. Columbia (S.
C.) State.
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"Stolen Delegates"
I Wilson's Conquest of tho Bosses
The Birth of tho "Moose"
And many other stirring inci
dents of tho recent Ropubllcan,
Democratic, and National Pro
gressive conventions aro graphi
cally described and keenly
analyzed by
W. J. BRYAN
in bis new book, just issued,
"A Tale of Two
Conventions'
Mr. Bryan devotes graphic, day-by-day
chapters to tho Republi
can and Democratic conventions,
all written on tho spot, and
gives us a good account of tho
Progrcsslvo convention. Tho
book contains tho platform of
each party, and somo of tho
notable convention speeches, In
cluding Mr. Bryan's own at
Baltimore, with comments on
the speeches of acceptanco of
Taft and Wilson. Somo of tho
best cartoons of tho period aro
included,
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of what wan done at the conven
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