Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 110, Hammond, Lake County, 25 October 1907 — Page 4

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For tho paet week New York has been on the vergo of a money panic. The falure of Ilelntze, tho closing of the Knickerbocker bank, and the general feverishness existing, portend still more of financial trouble. The stock market has been In a state of panic; for some time securities have gone lower and lower, the depreciation in value amounting: already to the collossal amount of two and a half billions of dollars. At a time of almost unprecedented prosperity, high prices, good wages, abundant crops, unusual demand for the output of mill and factory", it la difficult to determine why railroad and industrial stocks, securities and bonds should be so much depreciated. There Is no serious charges of mismanagement in the railway world, business has been as active as ever and therefore to seek the cause of present conditions, one must explore beyond the ordinary rules of cause and effect. It is true that ill-advised and hasty legislation regarding passenger rates has seriously affected some railroads, but this alone would not produce the present conditions. If the 2 cent laws enacted in many states will, as their supporters claim, increase business in the aggregate, or if unwise, experience and trial will demonstrate it, and a return to normal conditions will be inevitable. But the cause is deeper and more far-reaching. Under present conditions with the resources and capital of every Industry exerted to their limit of capacity, a greater volume of money is demanded. Almost all of the great industrial enterprises are constantly borrowing money to conduct their increased business and to supply an almost unexhaustible demand. Money is in most active demand and the banks of the country are besieged with borrowers, not for wild cat schemes, not for mines, or syndicates, but to conduct the business of commerce of the country. In every line is the highest pressure and demand. Capital is timid, and as the loaning surplus of banks is made up of individual saving and commercial deposits, one ill advised threat, one note of distrust, or lack of confidence ramifies throughout the whole financial world. Bankers say the trouble is confined to New York alone. But how long will this continue? How long was the Baring's failure of 93 and the consequent trouble confined to one community? This uneasiness is likely to become general as there is nothing so contagious as the distrust In money matters. But to return to the origin and cause of this condition of affairs. Vice President Tumbull of the Knickerbocker Trust company in an interview a day or two ago said: "This Is the Inevitable end of what has been in progress for months. There Is a man high'in authority in this country who does not know the meaning of credit, and who has consistently done all that he could to destroy that delicate constituent of legitimate business methods. The public is on the qui vivo, every nerve is strained nearly to the breaking point, as the result of these attacks by this man who does not know the meaning of credit. If disaster follows this initial break and anyone wants to learn the fundamental cause of the trouble let him go back over the last six months and read the speeches of this man." This from a man who from his vantage point saw tho effect follow the cause saw the evil, almost Insidious at first, bring forth the storm. Charles Gates Dawes, a former comptroller of the currency, a banker and business man of unusual acumen and sagacity voiced practically the same sentiment in Chicago. Tolnted indeed were the queries, "When did James J. Hill (and men like him) become adjudicated criminals? Who I ask are the men who are criticising and tearing down the work of these men who are doing things? I would rather have half a dozen of these men who are doing

things than a country filled with such magazine writers as I have referred to." And Mr. Dawes continues, speaking of the financiers of New York: "In New York some of these men who for the last four years have borne the lash are doing a work for their country the value of which is hard to estimate, however extravagant might be our language. As you and I sleep in quiet and peace to night, (and he might have added, or hunting bear) devoted men will work until the morning hours, seeking to hold values, seeking to prevent destruction of confidence seeking to uphold credit upon which the nation's prosperity depends. Are they seeking to depress values as our friends the critics would have us believe, to reap the benefit? No. they are seeking to uphold the credit upon which prosperity exists." There is truth and wisdom in the remarks of Mr. Dawes but he generalizes too much. It is not the magazine writers. Mr. Dawes. They are merely files on the chariot wheels. Courtesy and a nice sense of delicacy prompted Mr. Dawes to use the plural number. Whose lash have the New York business men borne? Not the magazine writers Oh, No. They could not cause a ripple on the surface. True, they have been earnestly striving to hold values against the attack of whom? Seeking to prevent destruction of confidence against what destroyer? Seeking to uphold credit against the assaults of whom? The banker, the business man. the manufacturer and the borrower know know too well. The attacks, the assaults, the lash and the attitude of Theodore Koosevelt.

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(Cap J right 1W, tb Bobt Xtrrill Co.) I could distinguish four dark figures of men; but, instead of rushing upon me as I stood on the defensive, they seized upon my assailant. I looked on panting, and hardly able to regain my breath. It was not half a minute before my enemy was securely bound and gagged and carried out. One of the men lingered.

"Don't take such risks," he said. "I wouldn't have your job, Mr. Wilton, for all the old man's money. If we hadn't happened up here, you'd have been done for this time." "In God's name, man, what does all this mean?" I gasped. The man looked at me In evident surprise. "They've got a fresh start, I guess," he said. "You'd better get some of the men up here. Mr. Richmond sent us up here to bring this letter." He was gone silently, and I left in the darkness. I struck a match, lighted the gas once more, and, securing the revolver, looked to the letter. The envelope bore no address. I tore It open. The lines were written In a woman's hand, and a faint but peculiar perfume rose from the paper. It bore but these words: "Don't make the change until I see you. The money will be ready in the morning. Be at the bank at 10:30." The note, puzzling as it was. was hardly an addition to my perplexities. It was evident that I had been

plunged into the center of Intrigue, plot and counterplot, I wa3 supposed to have possession of somebody's boy. A powerful and active enemy threatened me with death. An equally active friend was working to preserve my safety. People of wealth were concerned. I had dimly seen a fragment of the struggling forces, and it was plain that only a very rich person could afford the luxury of hiring the bravos and guards who threatened and protected me. The fate of Henry showed the power of those who were pursuing me. Armed as we was with the knowledge of his danger, knowing, as I did not, what he had to guard and from what he had to guard it, he had yet fallen a victim. I could not doubt that he was the man assaulted and stabbed in the aliy below, but the fact that no trace of him or of the tragedy was to be found gave me hope that he wa3 still alive. Yet, at best, he was wounded and in the hands of enemies, a prisoner to the men who had sought his life. As I was hoping, speculating, planning thus, I was startled to hear a step on the stair. The sound was not one that need be thought out of place in such a house and neighborhood, even though the hour was past four in the morning. Dut it struck a chill through me, and I listened with growing apprehension as it mounted step by step. The dread silence of the house that had cast its shadow of fear upon me now seemed to become vocal with protest against this intrusion, and to send warning through the halls. At last the step halted before my door and a loud knock startled the echoes. With a great bound my heart threw off its tremors, and I grasped the revolver firmly: "Who's there?" "Open the door, sor; I've new3 for ye." "Who are you?" "Come now, no nonsense; I'm an officer." I unlocked the door and stepped to one side. My bump of caution had developed amazingly in the few hours I had spent in San Francisco, and, in spite of his assurance, I thought best to avoid any chance of a rush from my unknown friends, and to put myself in a good position to use my revolver if necessary. The man stepped in and showed his star. He was the policeman I had met when I had run shouting into the etreet. "I suspicion we've found your friend," he said gravely. "You're wanted at the morgue." "Dead!" I gasped. "Dead as Saint Patrick rest his sowl!"

CHAPTER IV. A Change of Name. "Here's your way, sor," said the policeman, turning to old City Hall, as it was even then known, and leading me to one of the inner rooms of the labyrinth of offices. The policeman opened an office door, saluted, and motioned me to enter. "Detective Coogan," he said, There's your man." Detective Coogan, from behind his desk, nodded with the careless dignity of official position. "Glad to see you, Mr. Wilton," he said affably. If I betrayed surprise at being called by Henry's name, Detective Coogan did not notice It. But I hastened to disclaim the dangerous distinction. "I am not Wilton," I declared. "My name is Dudley Giles Dudley." At this announcement Detective Coogan turned to the policeman. "Jest step into Morris' room, Carson, and tell him I'm going up to the morgue." "Xow," he continued, as the policeman closed the door behind him, "this won't do, Wilton. We've had to overlook a good deal, of course, but you needn't think you can play us for suckers all the time." "But I tell you I'm not " I began, when he interrupted me. "You can't make that go here," he said contemptuously. "And I'll tell you what, Wilton, I shall have to take you into custody If you don't come down straight to business. We don't want to chip in on the old man's play, of course, especially as -we don't know what his game is." Detective Coogan appeared to regret this admission that he was not omniscient, and went on hastily: "You know as well as we do that we don't want any fight with him. But I'll tell you right now that if you force a fight, we'll make it so warm for him that he'll have to throw you overboard to lighten ship." Here was a fine prospect conveyed by Detective Coogan's picturesque confusion of metaphors. If I persisted In claiming my own name and person I was to be clapped into jail, and charged with Heaven-knows-what crimes. If I took my friend's name, I was to invite the career cf adventure of which I had just had a taste. And while this was flashing through my mind, I wondered idly who the "old man" could be. The note I had received was certainly ta a lady's hand. But if the lady was Henry's employer, it was evident that he had dealt with the police as the representative of a man of power. My decision wa3 of necessity

promptly taken. "Oh, well, if that's the way you look at it, Coogan," I said carelessly, "it's all right. I thought it was asrred

! that we weren't to know each other." I This was a chance shot, but it hit. ! "Yes. yes," said the detective, j remember. But, you see, this is serlj ou3 business. Here's a murder oa i our hands, and from all I cap. leara

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