Weekly Jeffersonian, 1907-03-21

HARRIMAN. No better and no worse than others of his class, E. H. Harriman is a fair specimen of the product of Modern Commercialism. He is the monarch of the great transconti transcontinental - nental transcontinental railroad which was built at public ex expense. - pense. expense. The Union Pacific did not cost pri private - vate private capitalists a dollar, but private capital capitalists - ists capitalists now own it all. He represents that system which farms out to private greed the powers of government. State Legislatures do his will, from Califor California - nia California to New York! The powers of taxation are his. Juggling the stock and bond issues of his corporations, he can levy such rates upon traffic as compel the people to put value into hundreds of millions of dollars of fraudu fraudulent, - lent, fraudulent, fictitious capitalization. "Taxation without representation" was a dogma of tyranny against which COLON COLONIAL - IAL COLONIAL AMERICA AROSE GUN IN HAND! Taxation without representation is Harri Harriman's - man's Harriman's specialty, and WE ARE TOO ROT ROTTEN - TEN ROTTEN AND TOO COWARDLY TO RE RESIST - SIST RESIST HIM.

poured. Where opportunities like these are ex exploited - ploited exploited by such men as Harriman, the sums involved almost defy comprehension. "What's a little matter of two or three mil million - lion million dollars?" he coolly inquired, concerning some trifling transaction which he was re requested - quested requested to explain, and could not. Two or three million dollars are clearly a small matter to a man who has only to mon monkey - key monkey with stock issues to pocket $24,000,000. After the startling and shocking revelations which were made in response to those ques questions - tions questions of the Commission which Harriman condescended to answer, no one can doubt his status as a hardened, confirmed, method methodical - ical methodical law-breaker. What we would have known him to be, had he answered those questions which he refused to answer, must remain a matter of conjecture. That he is a criminal; that he has been guilty of frauds; that he has accumulated vast fortune and power by the most flagrant (Continued on Pago 12.)

Openly, bravely, he defies law and public opinion. Acts of Congress make it a crime to stifle competition and to make agreements in re restraint - straint restraint of trade. Harriman laughs at the law. and commits the crime. The facts arc on record. Ordinarily, he who sells what he knows to be worthless, or not suited to the use intend intended, - ed, intended, is a common cheat and swindler, amena amenable - ble amenable to the law: Harriman sold tens of mil millions - lions millions of dollars of stock which he knew to be worthless, and when asked about it by the Interstate Commerce Commission, cynically answered: "Did anybody tell the public that the stock was good?" How many millions of dollars has Harri Harriman - man Harriman taken from the public under the Wall Street forms of legalized robbery ? Nobody knows. From one little railroad, the Chicago & Alton, he and his pals took nearly $24,000,000. Into one stock juggle, water to the extent of $60,000,000 was