Show I 0 p- p pI I I I nH 01 IllS n Js J I Io o 0 E 17 D. D vice president of me Merchants Merchants' Loan and Trust compan of Chicago deserts the region thai tha has made his bank great and play aYt Into Inia the hands of the Wall all harpies who have produced the tho panic by bt declaring in this most public lash fash fashIon Ion lon He President Roosevelt ha strained public confidence to th the breaking point and then with willI tin thu taunt of or tho tim crook crool Who ho knows he haf hat hidden cu the swag where th the tho law canno had find It H he has the amazing to add The man manlio who lio sets fire to Ills his barn can cnn hardly Justify hi y t he lie dill did it to tu kill thu the rats Iau Th Ti That at la Is a u pretty smart nut mill and active fel tel 4 and I It I. I may be lie found a when hen it I 1 Itil ill til over n that he hits has suffered less tha tham m How lIow sadly true is his statement The Tue rats are the rich rascals who pro pre produced meed the 1110 panic lanie who locked ed up th thi money in their banks banIs who from hom the whole hole nation and then sus SUI payment who took the tho million I that a generous nation placed in the thol hands and stored store it to still sun embarrass the business of the coun try Yes the rats have proved plo them themselves themselves selves elves cr very clever fellows They hav ha I escaped and tho tile burden ot oC their mis mischief mischief chief has fallen on the people o of r nation that has p pampered them an far tar too long Ions has left leCt thorn them free t tc ravage age au and ruin everything c touched I But when that man enriched by bj bythe bythe the prosperity of oC the nation which lion ors ova Theodore oro Roosevelt puts him him ir It the character of or one who fires bit hlf I neighbors neighbor's barn who makes a n male malefactor 1 factor actor or of the Prest President ent of oC the thc States when States when that officer has bas done nc more than light the torch shows whore where the rats have b beer cr gnawing and then asks that the rats be banned banne that banned that that man puts puw himself under un under der the blackest condemnation that soul of or man can conceive or words ol of man can cnn fashion Like man many nany another violator of ot the law Jaw reckless of or civilizations civilization's magnificent cent structure absorbed only in the mad thirst for benefits he lie never neer earned an and angry at nothing so much muchas I as tho the grip of the thc law that restrains the author above e quoted proves his quality and his Ills bad deserts b by taunting er e every apostle of probity with the exclamation that tho the culprits have e escaped He has great faith ralth in his rats He lie knows they are clever Ho lie knows know a they thc can turn and md double and that heir their instinct learned from long study ot of lawlessness In Wall all street Inured to perfidy by br the tenets of or high finance enables enable s them to elude the pursuit of just st punishment and scatter scat scat- tr ter the tho brands of hunting burning in every hamlet and home of the land Here Hr i is the tho fight which President Roosevelt must meet Hero Huro is tho the character of ol the foe foo that confronts the tho champion of if the American JH people ople j Never r was w plainer than this mado made in published statement In th the of or tho Evening Post Th The threat cannot bo be 11 b by un any one If the tile light 4 turned turne on on If tr the law that all men inca should obe obey bo be invoked if righteousness bo ho the tho rule rille of th tile the land if tho the dt ells that Giat aro uro evil canno cannot go forward ard then then the rats rat of a shifty and lawless nest bred ant and born hom in and fattened by theft of tho tue best a nation can pro pro- duce cluce will wiH scatter the tho sorrows of their thel undoing dr hero they run i And they i I I will escape tho I erest of or the casti casU gation UD The fight co never como come in a helter better time line Tho They have declared I themselves l too too soon They have Im de de- I de-I elated clarell war on the President of the tho I United States and blessed and blessed ho bo the Power Powel that has baa made maclo and null preserved preserve us a na nation nation Slie ln he United States aro are wl with h the tho Presh President nt He Ho ha has han it in his Ilis f rower power er to win xUn J rhe They mey Im have havo told him ns as Nicholas B DI le long hong ago o told another an an- I other fighting President that his financial finan cial pst was stronger than the con congress ress Let them thorn be told by this President as Bi Diddle Biddle dle was told by that earlier chief executive that if iC he had that power he lie had too much for forI forthe forthe the good of tho the people and people and un By the Eternal I r will take it from front you ou II That Wall Vall street monster which makes panics when there is no reason reason rea rea- son for panic which demands the bonds and the money that p pays ys for them which threatens an official of or go government for enforcing the law which launches the threat to ruin where it cannot rule that rule that monster needs disciplining And dont don't you YOth think for a minute this nation cannot afford to administer the needed me medi i. i cine cIe |