Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1908 — THE PANAMA STEAL. [ARTICLE]

THE PANAMA STEAL.

On the theory that it was to be paid to common people of France who had put their small savings in the stock of the French Panama Canal Company, there was taken from the United States treasury and put in the bank of J. PidTpont Morgan the great sum of forty million dollars. It is now declared that only three and one-half millions went to France, the balance going into the pockets of American speculators who had the favor of the Roosevelt administration. The account stands: Paid out of the U. S. Treasury 140,000,000 Paid to the French stockholders 3,500,000 To be accounted f0r..|36,500,000 The men whose names have been used in connection with this transaction are J. Pierpont Morgan, William Nelson Cromwell, Charles P. Taft (brother of W. H. Taft), Douglas Robinson (brother-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt), George R. Sheldon, treasurer of the Republican National Committee. Who got the money?