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Show M A DANGEROUS LOOK. H If it proves true that J. Pierpont Morgan has H started to have Grover Cleveland nominated and H elected next year, the matter is serious. It must H I he remembere'd that Mr. Cleveland gave Morgan M his first great start in life. Morgan was a promi- m nent banker, but that was all, until Mr. Cleve- H land and Carlisle gave him the placing of $150,- m 000,000 in government bonds. Some $18,000,000 B was clearod by that transaction. Allowing that H Cleveland received $2,000,000 and Carlisle ?500,- fl I 000, Lamont $500,000, and there was still enough H left for Morgan to make of himself a controlling H force in the financial world. The awful depres- M sion of 1893-94 and 95 was directly due to the ac- H tion of the National Bankers and bondholders of M New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. fl ! They sprung the depression in a single day by H 4. sending out circular letters advising all National H 'I bankers to suspend further accommodations to B 1 their clients and to call in their loans. That can B I be done again tomorrow, if Morgan, Gage, and a M In half dozen others will to have it so. The silver H I question cannot be made an excuse again, but B 1 some other can be invented. The trusts have ab- H i sorbed such incalculable sums, and trust stocks H have reached such an inflated figure that it couU H be easy to send out word to be cautious about H further loans. That would be enough to start the H l avalanche and spread the wreck everywhere. If H the plan is to elect Grover Cleveland, it has been H figured that the south can be depended upon, that H New York can be carried by fraud and Indiana H by purchase, and it will be seen that the situation H is dangerous. Mr. Bryan will be expected to vote Hi and lead the party of the dissatisfied, and it is H counted that the Socialist vote will go to him, H which will draw many Republicans away from H Roosevelt. Then the cry will be raised, as it har Hl been already, that the administration is pro-Eng- I- llsh, which will be enough to distract some millions mil-lions of voters, and there you are. New England's sensibilities are shocked already at the thought of President who can ride a mustang, shoot a revolver and lasso a wild steer; in the south it BH V will be told that the President "dined with a nig- H ger," and that will be enough. It will be seen Hl that possibly it has been fixed for the lightning H to strike a third time, and possibly the negative jH force of Cleveland is to be matched against the positive force of Roosevelt, with a further plan to have the friend of the great financiers put back where another $18,000,000 can be coined out of the distresses of the American people. It would not be any more causeless and cruel and Idiotic than was Cleveland's election in '92. It would supply great opportunities to short stocks and take in the uncounted millions which the people have invested in-vested in trust and railroad stocks during the past six years. Indeed, the temptation to do that very thing must be exceedingly great to those men who will be content with nothing less and to take to themselves all the money in the world. Cleveland defeated Judge Folger for Governor of New York, though In every great qualification, the judge was to Cleveland what "the eagle is to the mousing owl." He defeated Blaine for President, Pres-ident, though to Blaine, he was what "the mousing mous-ing owl is to the eagle." He defeated Harrison for President, though Harrison has been one of the wisest Chief Magistrates the country was ever blessed with, and though at the time there was not a cloud in the National sky. Fate sometimes some-times seems to love to play jokes upon the human hu-man family. Is there another joke to be played? |