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Show AIDED BY "MAMMON" WHAT HAS MR. WILSON TO SAY ABOUT JACOJt SCHIFFT Financial King Who Supports Demo cratic Candidate Belongs to the "Money Trust" If Such Thing Exists. j Just how fur west of the Hudson river will Governor Wilson wish to spread the glad tidings of the accession acces-sion of Mr. Jacob 11. Hchlff to his standard? Mr. HclillT Is a man of great Influence In this center of Mammon, Mam-mon, He Is one of the three greatest powers In American finance. If there be In this country a "money trust," about which Mr. Wilson was confident and outspoken a year ago, but about which he now Is able to suggest only a "suspicion." Mr. Schlff Is one of the chiefs of that trust. If there exists "a control of credit which may ut any time become infinitely dangerous to free enterprise," Mr. Schlff la an essential es-sential factor lu that control Ills great bunking firm Is represented by himself or other members of It In the tnuxagement of the Missouri Pacific, Br. Louis & Iron Mountain, Southern Pacific, I'nlon Pacific and Oregon Short line railroads, the Oregon Hall-road Hall-road & Navigation company, the Pacific. Pa-cific. Mall Steamship company, the Western I'nlon Telegraph company, the Wells-Fargo Express company, th Central Trust company, the Kqultable Trust company, the National Nation-al City bank, the National Dank of Commerce, the Fourth National bank, several of the great bond and mortgage mort-gage companies controlling the real estate loans In this city, and other Important Im-portant corporations. This list is a perfect Illustration of the situation thus described in Governor Wilson's letter of acceptance: "There are not merely great trusts 'and combinations which are to be controlled con-trolled and deprived of their power to create monopolies and destroy rivals; ri-vals; there is something bigger still than they are and more subtle, more evasive, more difficult to deal with. Tlere are vast confederacies (as I may perhaps call (hem for the sake of convenience) of bunks, railways, express ex-press companies. Insurance (om-panics, (om-panics, manufacturing corporations, mining corporations, power and development devel-opment companies, and all the rest of the circle, bound together by the fact that the ownership of tlx Ir stock and the membeis of their boards of directors direc-tors are controlled and determined by comparatively small and closely Inter related groups of persons who. by their Informal confederacy, may con-lrl, con-lrl, If they please and when they will, b'h credit and enterprise." rpiarently one at leant of the fY s behind these' great confd- i.;ieigTven Mr. Wilson's polite assurance that, while breaking up this "suspicion of a 'money trust,'" he Isn't going to embarrass the good people who form It, Mr. Schlff looks to the governor to see "that the senseless prejudice against everything representing the material and substantial Interests of the country be ended." But what In that case does Mr. Hryan look for? He would have no candidate tainted by the support of Mr. Morgan, and the national convention bncked him up. And now he sees his candidate' attitude atti-tude haa won the support of a great money king closely associated with the Morgan, Hockefeller and Harrl-man Harrl-man interests In a chain of great enterprises en-terprises such as he himself denounces, de-nounces, and such as Mr. Wilson also a few montha ago roundly denounced, but now tpeaka of In milder faahlon. -Kx. Senator La Kollette would have It understood that he la not a Roosevelt Roose-velt Progressive. He Is still a La Follelte Progressive. |