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Show "STOCK EXCHANGE IS MONTE CARLO OE FINANCE" THOMAS Colorado Senator Also Defends De-fends Wilson Tariff Bill of 1893. WASHINGTON, .Inly 13. Senator Thomai, Democrat, of Colorado, in a peech today defending the Wilson tariff bill of 189.1 from responsibility for the financial panic which followed, charged former President Cleveland and the Now York banks with conspiracy con-spiracy to precipitate a calamity to force repeal of the Sherman silver act. Though denouncing the 1893 bill as "a most miserable pretense of tariff reform," he branded the New York took eichange as the most prodigious "gambling hell" of any age, and "the Monte Carlo of American finance." "It is the swindler's paradise," he continned. "It is a huge vampire that sucks the blood from the arteries of industry. It is an unincorporated, ir responsible monstrosity bevond the pale of laws. It n the antithesis nf fair dealing and common honesty. It has sanctified speculation. It la the most pernicious and corroding influence in the land." |