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Wall Street Probers

Wide Power of the Commission Governor Hughes of New York Has Appointed to Investigate the Mysteries and Transactions of the Wonderful Financial District That Affects the Whole World.

Cov. Hutfhes.

By JAMPS A. EDGERTON. ww tall STREET is to be inrestlgated. Wall street says It is ' yyf glad of It. That makes It unanimous. Following his successful fight against race track gambling, Charles Evans Hughes, sometime gas and Insurance prober and now'governor of the state of New York, intends to find out about the mysteries of selling “short.” speculation on margins, looting of public service properties through the stock market, creating panics in the midst of prosperity, fleecing lambs by get-rlch-quick promises, betting on the price of Industrials and various other practices popularly included under the name of stock gambling. To this end he has appointed a commission. Hughes Is quite as confirmed in the commission habit as Roosevelt Is In that of using vigorous names. Whenever Hughes appoints a commission everybody praises the act in public, but in private some gentlemen jjrow uneasy and Jump sideways. They recall the insurance mixup, as a result of which certain high financiers are still residing In Europe. You ! never can tell what a commission will i dig up. Not that there Is anything Improper In the exchanges. Far from It. But there Is a certain class of transactions, perfectly legitimate and approved by custom, you know, that the public might fall to understand. It would have been better for the governor to hare appointed some Stock

there, and my ears are yet stunned by the yells of the money mad. The Stock Exchange in action has all other kinds of noises sounding like the great interstellar silence. To one who is not an initiate ’change after 10 o’clock in the morning seems like a combination of pandemonium, bedlam, babel, a sewing society, a football match, a boiler factory and general chaos. There five hundred or a thousand men, who otherwise appear to be quiet, respectable citizens, howl, shriek, yell, rave, scream, bawl, rush, jam, jump up and down and generally behave in so irrational a manner that they would make a wild man or a maniac take to the woods to escape the din. Yet to one who is in the game this confusion and clamor are all as plain as ABC. They merely represent the buying and selling of the wealth that other people create. For the class of transactions that beget most of this frenzy they do not represent even that, but only a wager on prhether given stocks will go up or down, being on a par with placing money on a certain horse, a certain card or a certain color or number on the wheel. But man, proud man, Dressed In a little brief authority. Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. I do not know whether Wall street makes the angels weep or not, but it certainly makes them stop their ears. I do not believe angels venture into

ICEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE AND THREE MEMBERS OF THE WALL STREET INVESTIGATING COMMISSION.

DAVID LEVENTRITT. CHARLES A. SCHIEREN. HORACE WHITS.

Exchange members on that commission, say the stockbrokers. Outsiders do not understand the technique of the street. Nevertheless we welcome the Investigation, understand. But— It is In some such wise that Wall street has been commenting on the appointment of the commission. It approves, of course, but there is a lack of spontaneity and heartiness In the approval. It is like a man trying to appear tickled when his mother-in-law is coming. It makes whistling In a graveyard a cheerful occupation by comparison. Wall street is not scaled —not a bit of it. But doublety-dum this man Hughes! T^here is more money represented in a block or two on Wall street than any other like area of the earth’s surface. Now, do not get off that gag about “Whose money?” or the equally obvious answer, “Everybody’s.” That is not only old, but is so near the truth as to be positively rude. Truth is so unusual on the street that whenever anybody tells it by accident the mar•ket sags. That is what makes people uncomfortable about the prospect of this commission. Frobers, and especially Hughes probers, have a way of asking direct questions and calling for direct answers. If they succeed in getting direct answers in the financial district they will do more than the brokers can do with each other. There deceit is even a higher and more finished art than it is in diplomacy. Men gather In millions by making the other fellow believe they are doing something else. Yells of the Money Mad. Wall street Is a wonderful place. At the befld of It Is a church, and there is no spot on the planet that needs a church more. I have Just come from

that thoroughfare anyway. If they do they lose their money. I never have seen an angel there except of the kind that get behind actors, poets, playwrights, artists, inventors and other Irresponsibles who know how to create but not to appropriate, how to make but not to take. “Watered Stock.” Wall street is the spawning ground of the tapeworm that has given the entire country financial indigestion. This worm is hundreds of miles long and is ticked off in all corners of the land. I fancy something like that has been said before, but there is nothing original about this stock gambling game anyway, so there is no need of being too startlingly original In writT ing about it. Practically all the tricks practiced now are variants of the schemes worked by John Law and Blunt In the Mississippi and south sea bubbles. Even the term “watered stock” was invented by old Daniel Drew, who used to sell cattle in New York and in order to increase their weight fed them large quantities of salt. Salt begets thirst, and just before driving his cattle to the scales Drew would let them drink till their sides stuck out like those of a poisoned pup. A man who can sell ordinary American water, even water on the hoof, for real money has in him the makings of a high financier. No Halfway Man. Governor Hughes is going to look into all of this. When he was pressing his race track bill he was criticised on the score that he was leaving alone a much more injurious form of gambling. that of the stock market. Hughes is not the sort of man to rest under a charge like that, so he will remove the ground for It by a cam-

paign against the worst feature's ■ of speculation. Wall street men profess to believe that the governor proposes nothing drastic, but will take some such measure regarding stock transactions as he has already taken on banking. But those who expect him to stop short of going to the bottom of things and recommending sweeping action If the facts warrant, as they certainly do, do not know Hughes. He Is no halfway man. He means to get the straight of things and to bring them up to honest and decent standards at whatever *Cost. A vast amount of the business in Wall street represents the legitimate buying and soiling of securities. Against this there has never been complaint. What has scandalized the country have been the buying and selling on small margins, which do not represent bona fide transactions at all, but only a form of -betting on the turn of the market. Another glaring evil that has called forth criticism is the practice of selling “short”—that is, of selling what one does not own. Many measures have been proposed to end these two abuses. One is to increase the margins to 30 or 40 per cent—they are now ns low as 10— which would do away with most of the gambling. Another proposal is to put a heavy tax on all undelivered stocks and even to penalize the selling of more of a given stock than the seller has in his actual possession. There are other abuses in the %treet that it is hoped the investigation will bring clearly before the public. Already Governor Hughes has moved against the bucket shops, which represented perhaps the most scandalous form of stock gambling. In these the margins were as low as 5 per cent or even lower. Commission’s Wide Power. At the last session of the legislature Governor Hughes recommended such an investigation, but it was turned down. He now proceeds to make it on his own motion, which he has a perfect right to do, without asking the legislature anything about it. In his letter to the members of the commission he gives them entire latitude to inquire into every phase of the subject and to recommend whatever they deem fit. As Wall street affects the entire country and indeed the whole world, the wide power given to the commission makes it one of the most important investigating bodies in the history of the nation. There are ninw members, including editors, merchants, bankers, lawyers and educators. The.\ are all men of the highest standing in their respective fields, and some of them *re of national reputation. Horace White, the first muu named and presumably the chairman, was for many years editor of the New York Evening Post, prior to which time he was editor of the Chicago Tribune. He was born in New Hampshire in 1S34. educated at Beloit college, in Wisconsin, and has been a newspaper man ever since the days of the civil war. lie is also author of books on political economy and finance. Charles A. Sehieren was formerly mayor of Brooklyn before that city was merged with New York. He is one of the largest manufacturers of leather goods in the country and officer and director in many banks and financial institutions. He is also president'of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and vice president of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He was born in Prussia in 1S42. A Stock Exchange Member. David Leventritt was until recently a justice of the supreme court of New York and. although he had nearly four years still to serve, resigned to resume his law practice. He has been a special counsel of the city of New York and Is a member of manj T charitable Institutions. Justice Leventritt himself is a member of one, of the stock exchanges, but has not been active for years. He Is a native of South Carolina and sixty-three ‘years old. Clark Williams Is state superintendent of banks of New York and author of the Hughes banking laws of last year. Though only thirty-eight years of age, he has been vice president of an Important trust company, president of the trust company section of the American Bankers’ association and chairman of its committee for the prevention of crime. John Bates Clark Is professor of political economy in Columbia university. He has held the same chair in Carleton college, Smith college and Amherst and is author of several standard works on the subject. He was also lecturer at Johns Hoj ’-Ins. Professor Clark is a native of Rhode Island and Is sixty-one years of age. Willard V. King is president of the Columbia Trust company and a financier of wide experience. While he lives In Morristown. N. J.. his Interests are all In New York. Samuel H. Ordway Is a New York lawyer and was born there In 1800 He Is a graduate of the Harvard Law school and a member of one of the largest law firms In the financial district. Edward D. Page Is a prominent dry goods merchant, a member of the firm of Faulkner, Page & Co., of New York city. Charles Sprague Smith was formerly a professor In Columbia and is now president of the People’s Institute of New York. He is a noted linguist, lecturer and author, a native of Massachusetts and was born In 1853. This is the commission that is to probe Wall street, find out all about “wash” sales and other iniquities and tell Governor Hughes how to stop the most monumental form of gambling ever started on this small earth. If it succeeds in squeezing all the water out of the street there will be an appreciable rise in New York bay.

WINNERS OF FIRMS, south disagrees

Chicagoans Lucky In Rosebud Land Drawings Form Society.

JOIN IN ROMANCES AS WELL

On Taft’s Kamous North Car olina Speech

The Old Cry of “Negro Domination’ Raised by Southern Press.

£ome Will Take Brides With Them. Doubt Assails Man Whose Sweetheart Has Homestead, So Will He Take Girl or^Land? Would you marry a girl te go out into new country and build a home with you with the chance of having to live for the first five years of your married life on farms separated by thirty miles of prairie? In addition to that, make the girl pretty—the girl, in fact—and isn’t it a problem to daunt the stoutest heart? Well, that is one of the problems presented for the consideration and possible solution of the Rosebud association. which was organized In Chicago the other day. In all of cosmopolitan Chicago there probably was no meeting half as strange frs that held in 'a little lodge room at 112 Fifth avenue—men and women from everjjr walk of life, business men, street car conductors, widows, professional men, farmers, stenographers. clerks, people differing radically in every Imaginable particular, the winners of the drawings for homesteads on the Rosebud reservation, the people who are to populate a county. Sixty farm winners, many accompanied by their wives and daughters, attended the meeting. All sorts and conditions of men were gathered in that room, knowing that chance has thrown them together for the remainder of their lives and determined, says the Chicago Tribune, to co-operate In a firm union for offense and defense against all. the trials and perils of the new country. Committees of men fitted by long experience to deal with certain-problems were formed, and to these questions may be submitted by any members. The chosen experts will consider carefully matters of agriculture, what to plant, when to plant It, how to take care of it. matters of transportation, how to pool shipments in cafload lots and thus reduce railroad rates, how to make further reductions by co-operat-ing teaming, matters of building, what to build, how to build, the possibility of living In tents of portable buildings. the cost of. materials* matters of location, how to get good lands though having high numbers, how to cut down surveyors’ expenses, how to locate in “strings of forties,” how tb “pocket” valuable land, how to pool interests anil force the location of town sites. AM questions will be answered and the printed results distributed to members. But among all the Intensely practical questions asked by those present and recorded for study and reply that of the furiously blushing young man who was evidently’thinking of "pooling interests” with a feminine winner was the most interesting. “Must every one have Ids home on the quarter section he draws?” he asked, and, being satisfied, or possibly dissatisfied, on tills point, proposed the following problem: “But if a young man and a young woman should draw lands in opposite corners of the county would they have each to live on their own section?” No one seemed to be sure, but most of them thought it would be a case of “the lady or the IfiO acres.” Romance permeated the meeting, as it is an indisputable fact that every one of the young women winners will have to take a helpmeet with her to win hcr # way on the frontier, and probably every young bachelor is also fully aware of the necessity of a woman on a farm. Then, too, almost every one knows every one else. There was the trip out on the excursion train, the stay at the land office town, the Informal meetings of winners in Chicago, and it is probable that more than one couple is facing the problem of a possible embarrassment of riches after the allotment. The officers elected were: President. C. A. S. Hewlett, an electrical engineer living at 3300 Beacon street; vice president, William I. Carroll, a decidedly eligible young man, said to be still “fancy free;” secretary. Miss Frances M. Ranney, the pretty stenographer who was the first woman to “file” at Rosebud last October and serenely certain that she will not again go there alone; treasurer, Dr. William Hogan, who drew No. 2323, and who was unable to be present because of an important engagement with Miss Edith Garvey. Dr. Hogan and Miss Garvey expect to spend their honeymoon on the Rosebud next June. The chairmen of four of the committees are: J. W. Carter, location: H. Sowdon, transportation: Roscoe Buck, buildings, and Cornelius Medema, agriculture.

Why Be a Bear? [Any man who Is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.—J. Plerpont Morgan. ] Cheer up! The best Is yet to come; A bright new year lies just ahead. Your troubles may be burdensome. Perhaps you have to earn your bread. But there are chances still for those Who bravely do or boldly dare. There are more pleasures still than woes. Don’t be a bear. Cheer up! There Is a large supply Of glad tomorrows yet to dawn. With greatness waiting for us why Bemoan the chances that are gone? New hopes with each new day come In. The way ahead Is wide and fair And strewn with honors we may win. Why be a bear? —S. E. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald.

Since the publication of President elect William H. Taft’s speech before the North Carolina Society at New York, in which a plea was made for equal opportunity and education for the Negro, many newspapers and pub lie men, North and South, have commented relative to Judge Taft’s admirable stand on the Negro question. Some Southern papers and public men coincide with the President-elect’s views, while others continue to show a disposition to wave the “bloody shirt,” and express the old-time fear of “Negro domination.” The majority of Northern newspapers laud the President-elect’s utterances. Following are expressions by Southeru men and newspapers: Gove nor-elect Donaghey of Arkansas—While Mr. Taft advises us of the South to break away from the outlived sentiment and traditions of our past political affiliations and cast our ballot in accordance with what he claims to be our real political beliefs and econ omic interests, I would also advice the people of the North to take the same advice. Now as a matter of fact the Negro belongs to an inferior race of people—a race many centuries behind that of ours in intelligence, morality and in a sense of responsibility of citizenship. I honestly believe that the Negro should be permitted to vote as fast as he become qualified to do so, but with equal candor I will say that I do not believe it is best for his race its present condition for him to persist in political movements. In my State, while the Negroes equal about one-third of the entire population they pay one-twentieth of the taxes, and yet we provide educational advantages for them costing many times double that amount. Acting Gov. Lambramont of Louis-iana-The South understands her orob lems better than Mr. Taft, and his efforts to break the solid South will be of no avail. The State Times of Baton Rouge, La.—Taft’s clear mind has struck through the mass of prejudice and pas sion down to the heart of things. Taft will not give the nation a Booker T. Washington incident on one hand and a Brownsville affair on the other. Attorney-General A. JM. Garbes, of Alabame—The South desires to be a part of the Nation, but not just when it suits the North, with threats of taking away representation and other penalties, when its the men of the North to try to make us trouble. Frank N. Julian, Secretary of State, of Alabama—I have no faith in nor patience with Mr. Taft's speech. We get everything like this with the proviso that we be mighty good to the Negro. The South is never going to make good with the North with the Fifteenth.Amendment repealed. 1 R. M. McCorn, Secretary of State of South Carolina—The South will not sacrifice principle for possible prosperity. Representative Stevens of Texas—I dispute the statement of Judge Taft that the Negro is not getting an education in the South. If he concedes the right of the South to disfranchise the Negroes, why did the Republican House pass a bill reducing Southern representation in reprisal because we insisted on a law guaranteeing fair elections. ‘ t Representative Gillespie of Texas— Does J udge Taft then mean that the solid South should be broken up by becoming Republican? If that is true, speaking for'J'exas, I will say that we do not want any of Judge Taft’s doctrine. We are not Democrats down my way because we are Southerners. We are Democrats because we believe in the Democratic doctrines. Representative Garner of Texas— Deny on behalf of my part of the South at least the statement that the South votes the Democratic ticket and hopes for success for the Republican ticket. In Texas we are Democrats because we believe in Democracy. Representative Sims of Tennessee— In so far as Mr. Taft recognizes the rights and powers of the States to regulate their own election machinery and restrict their electorate on an edu cation basis, I agree with him.

Representative R. P. Hobson of Alabama—The social condition in the South is one that gives sffleient justification for solidity, although it is to be pitied. If Mr. Taft and the Republican party will engage themselves to let us work out our social problems as we see fit, I encourage their effort. President Herman Kahn, of the Bank of Commerce, Little Rock, Ark.—The The Southern people will gladly wel. come his policy and show him every consideration. C. A. Pratt, President of the Nation al Exchange Bank of Little Rock, Ark —Judge Taft’s latest utterance has convinced me more than ever that he is just the man to succeed President Roosevelt. We of the South wish him

God speed.

The Times-Democrat, of New Orleans—The sincerity and well meaning of his overtures will be welcomed and appreciated as surely as his argument on the race question will be attacked. If the Negro problem were out of the way the Southern white voters would be more equally divided in their political affiliations. Race instinct is more than a mere sentiment. The Columbia (S. C.,) State—The solid South troubles Mr. Taft. It has troubled other partisan leaders and It will, we trust, continue to trouble the chiefs of the party that deliberately ruined this section out of sheer wantonness of revenge, and now seek to destroy its political integrity, in order that it may rest in undisturbed possession of the public treasury and the power of enriching itself through taxation and public plunder. We remember his insulting criticism, that the South votes one way and prays another—votes for Democracy and prays for the blessings of Republicanism and a post at the feed trough.

Nearly Three Hundred Negro Postmasters. There are 28o Negro postmasters in the country, three of whom are at least appointed directly by the President—Joshua E. Wilson, Florence, S. C., $2,000; Thomas Richardson, Port Gibson, Miss., $1,700 and George W. Reed, Beaufort, S. C., $1,600 per year. We stake our reputation on this prophecy, that, just as the Charleston News and Courier fears, within the next administration owning to the just-issued order of President Roosevelt, putting 15,000 four class post offices under civil service rules, the number of Negro postmasters will be more than doubled.

In the recent election four Negroes were elected as members of the State Legislature as follows: Oklahoma, with A. C. Hamlin^Ohio, with H. T Eubanks; Illinois, with Dr. Lane, and West Virginia, with J. M. Ellis.

Minister’s Contest

Will Be Rewarded

St. Louis—Charles Nagel, National Committeeman from Missouri, has increased his popularity among the Negroes of this State by| recently issuing a statement that the Negro voters would be handsomely rewarded for the important part they played in contribut ng to the success of the G. O. P. President-elect Taft has been inform that he was given Missouri’s electoral vote because of the loyalty of the Negro voters, and he and Committeeman Nagel have decided to reward them. Menial positions will not be in order as has been the rule in Missouri. Under the leadership of Committeeman Negai, who has always evinced a warm friendship for the Negro citizens of the State, the old time, fepatfcetic position on the Negro questibn pertaining to matters political will be a thing of the past. One of the leading Republicans to protest against the slight offered the Negroes of Missouri by Jeptha 1>. Howe, head of the St. Louis City Com mittee, when a big banquet was given severel weeks ago in which the white Republicans celebrated their victory in Missouri, but excluded the Negroes was Charles Nagel. It has been particularly admitted by Commifteeman Nagel that one of the positions to which a Negro will.be appointed will be postmaster, buthe has declined to name the place. It is rumored that the appointment will be made in St. Louis county, where the Negro vote for the Republican party was heavy.

Indianapolis Negroes Manages Theatre. Monday evening at the Lincoln theatre, Knoxville, Tenn., S. Tutt Whitney presented for the first time his latest musical comedy, “The Black ville Strollejs,” to a crowded house. It was the strongest show ever given at the Lincoln theatre,which promises to be one of the most successful colored playhouses in the country under the guidance of S. Tutt Whitney, director of amusements. Others connected with the stock company are J. Homer Tutt, Nettie Taylor, Marie Belle, Sam Gardner, Mamie Gardner, Sank Simms, Ethel Marshall, Mabel Brown, Nida Marshall, John Johnson, Buss Williams, Henry Waterson, musical director; Albert J. Smith, treasurer; Wm. A. Baynard, manager and Cal. F. Johnson, proprietor.

Who is the most popular minister of the Race in Indiana? For ten weeks the Recorder has asked this query and recorded the popular wish of its readers. But one more week remains after this issue, and then this great question will have been settled, at least to the satisfaction of the thousands of Recorder readers. This expression of popular which is destined to go down as one of the most unique contests ever held among colored people. It has been marked Iby friendliness and good feeling and even those ministers whose vote is now recorded in the hopeless minority have nought but good cheer and encouragement for the leaders. We confidently predict the total votes will reach near the 50,000 mark, which is the best evidence of the strong hold our ministers have on the hearts of our people. 1 The result is yet very doubtful, ow. ing to the close race by the four leaders and a few votes will win otiose the contest from present indications. SECOND SUIT OFFERED. As an appreciation of the efforts of the members and friends oKthe contes tants, The Recorder has decided to offer a second prize of a $3o|oo suit of clothes, to be presented to fhe second

highest minister.

The utmost fairness that has marked Hie contest from the start will continue to the end. Remember that the final ballot appears in The Recorder Saturday, Jan. 2, and the time for receiving ballots, either regular or special, will close Thursday, Jan. 7th, at noon, in order that the result may be announced Saturday, Jan. 9th. The Recorder is the leading and best newspaper of the Race in Indiana. Its State circulation is larger than the combined circulation of all the other colored papers, and it publishes more news of interest to the Race than all of them. That’s why it has a larger circulation, and thas’s why it deserves your support and confidence. Now go to work for your minister. He labors in season as well as out of season for your temporal as well as your spiritual welfare. You now have a chance to show him a mark of appreciation by voting for him in this contest. Interest your church club at once and get every member and friend to save their ballots for you or agree to cast them for your pastor. Write to your friends in other cities asking the same support. Get thejead for your minister and then work hard to keep it. Remember that special ballots will win the day, so see your neighbor and friends to day about a subscription, and the most popular minister of the Race, in the State of Indiana will be your pastor, and while the glory will be his, the praise and honor will be for you and your friends.

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The Indianapolis Recorder is conducting a voting contest to decide who is th most popular minister of the race in Indiana. Ballots will appear weekly and are good for one vote, if received at the Recorder Office before the first of next month. Special Ballots will be given with all subscriptions as follows; 1 year, 100 votes 6 months, 50 votes; 3 months, 25 votes. A #50.00 suit of clothes will be presented to the successful minister by the Recorder. Watch the vote each week.

Rev. G. W. Ward, Mt. Zion Bap church 9024 Rev. Chas. Hunter, Presiding Elder. ..8407 Rev. Lemuel Stokes, city. ....8358 Rev. R. D. Lenard, Union Tabernacle Baptist Church 5577 Rev. Noah W. Williams, Richmond A. M. E. church 1030 Rev. G. H. Shaffer, Bethel A. M. E. Church 714 Rev. G. C. Sampson, Allen Chapel Church 604 Rev. H. T. Callis, Jones Tabernacle.. . 501 Rev. James Roberts, Antioch Baptist Church •. 225 Rev. Chas. Johnson, city 250 Rev. G. A. Ma#tin, Corinthian Baptist church 177 Rev. H. L. Herod, 2d Christian church. 152 Rev. K. Warren, Olivet Baptist church 163 Rev. J. S. Bailey, Simpson Chapel ch’rch 156 Rev, H. H. Hinton, M. E. Church, Con ville ’ 125 Rev. J. C. Patton, ShilohBaptish ch’rch 125 Rev. Chas. Williams, Cavalry Baptist church . 75 Rev. White, Witherspoon Presbyterian 205 Rev. C. E. Hardmon, Franklin, Indfe. . 100 Rev. Morris Lewis, Presiding Elder A. Rev. W. M. Winfield, Penick Chapel.. 104 M. E. Church 50 Rev. B. F. Farrell, Mt. Paron Baptist Church 5° Rev. P. Lewis, Noblesville 25 Rev. Mitchell, Metropolitan Baptist churck^. 5° Rev. J. Francis Robinson 50 Rev. J. C. Campbell, City 50 Rev. J. P. Wallace, Terre Haute, Ind . 50 Rev. N. A, Seymour, New Bethel Baptist church 5° Rev. Patterson New Hope Baptist 25 Rev. jonnson, Irvington Baptist church 25 Total Votes 34.497

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