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time "print" who grinds out "these
lines and often wishes as he grinds
that he could hark back about a
quarter of a century and again "hold
cases" with the other old-timers of
the hand-set days, when we wore so
confident they'd never make a ma
chine to set type'that we .spent our
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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND
THE PANIC
(Continued from Page 9)
$200,000,000. Then the republican
law making machine, with throe 'sen
ators, heavy holders of tobacco stock,
passed a law giving proper protection
to the great tobacco interests of the
United States, and the printing and
engraving bureau continued its good
work until in 1907, the total-capitalization
of this great home industry,
including its dummy and subsidiary
companies, aggregates the enormous
sum of $500,000,000.
This five hundred millions of
American Tobacco stock and the
stock of its. subsidiary companies is
part of the thirty-six and .one-fourth
billions of stock and bonds men
tioned in Moody's Manual of 1906,
and has been swallowed by the
American public and it is the effort
of that public now to digest these
stocks which has given the American
stomach that violent cramp which
we call the "panic."
The thirty-six and one-fourth bil
lions of stocks and bonds comprise
an enormous amount of stocks and
bonds issued in the same manner as
the tobacco stock. It was issued or
iginally, of course, by the frenzied
financiers to themselves, but not to
be held by them. Calling a dollar
ten dollars and then holding it does
not enrich the holder, but calling
one dollar ten dollars and getting an
other man to pay ten dollars, or nine
dollars for it, does enrich the man,
who succeeds in making such a trade.
That Is what the kings of finance,
under the protection of republican
rule, have been doing for years.
They incorporate an enterprise
for ten times its value, list its stock
on the exchange at that fictitious
figure, hold it there until honestly
or dishonestly a couple of dividends
are declared, then sell- the stock for
such prices as they can get a bun
coed public to give. Their brokers
will take five per cent margin from
any gamboling lamb, and their bank
ers before the . crash would loan
seventy-five per cent on the quoted
value of the stocks. Anything and
everytmng to get the money of the
confiding public.
By such methods and artifices the
dear confiding public were induced
to bolt, but had not digested, an
enormous amount of this thirty-six
and one-fourth billion stocks and
bonds, and found itself, In the sum
mer of 1907, suffering from a bad
case of financial indigestion. Some
time prior thereto our strenuous and
well meaning president discovered
that some of these mighty monopo
lies, notably the Standard Oil com
pany, the Northern Securities com
pany, and some of the big railway
corporations were not only skinning
the public by stock maninulat.lonR.
but were violating the interstate
commerce act by giving and getting
secret rebates and other devices. Not
being a man so constructed as to
differentiate between a big criminal
and a little one, he ordered their
prosecution and exposure and public
ly and emphatically declared he
would continue to so act while he
held public office.
This announcement may or may
not have affected the spirits of the
patient suffering from indigestion,
but whether , it did or not it was
not the cause of the malady.
Tho vicious policy of the republi
can congress in throwing a high pro
tective wall around the products
manufactured by theso mighty mon
opolies, and its refusal to enact and
enforce anti-mononoly and effective
interstate commerce acts, which
would prevent rebates and discrimin
ation, has enabled these oppressive
combinations i;o become powerful and
dangerous, so dangerous as to
threaten the perpetuity of this re
public. These great combinations
today control the republican party
and through it, the. government of
this country.
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