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fersonian
Vol. 11, No. 18
The Frank Case; the Great Detective; and the Frantic
Efforts of Big Money to Protect Crime
XVILLIAM J. BURNS is the Great Detec
tive. Not a great detective, but The
great detective. He says so himself. After
having amusedly followed his motions and
sayings during the last few weeks, my candid
opinion is, that Burns could not “sleuth” a
lost cow, unless she had a bell on her neck,
or a red lantern hitched to her tail.
Burns made a sudden reputation in the
Dynamite cases of the Structural Steel work
ers and it is an open secret how he got his
information. Immediately after he sprang
into prominence, he advertised himself with
uproarious energy, wrote his own triumphs
into the papers and magazines, followed it
up on the lecture platform, spoke of himself
with boisterous approval to sadly disap
pointed and dwindling audiences; and never
quit talking about his own wonderful genius,
until after his Jacksonville, Florida, experi
ence where nobody came to hear him.. Liter
ally, nobody was there, excepting the Com
mittee on arrangements, and the man who
turns on the gas. Perhaps, I should say, the
two men who turn on the gas, Burns being
one of the two.
Now in this Frank case, the only skill that
Burns has shown, has been his knack for
milking rich Jews. He “shore” has pulled
the legs of the children of Israel. The de
scendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob have
seldom forked over so much filthy lucre to one
of the uncircumcised.
But even in this phase of the case, Burns
WHY HAVE WE GONE TO WAR WITH MEXICO?
\VHEN the Democratic party captured the
’’ Government in 1912, there were millions
of honest people who believed that a new era
of peace and prosperity had set in.
A majority of our civilian citizens had
wearied of the extravagance of Presidents
Roosevelt and Taft; had lost all patience with
the belligerent militarism which seemed bent
upon Germanizing the United States; had
grown ashamed of the bullying attitude we
had so often taken with weak nations too
feeble to fight us.
Besides, we were sick unto death of the
ruthless advance of Centralism and Special
Privilege, the vesting of all power in the
Federal Government, and the legislating of
wealth into the maws of the governing
classes.
Therefore, the people turned away from the
exploiting Republicans, and pinned their
hopes to the Democrats.
But, with indecent haste and cynicism, the
Democratic leaders threw off the mask, and
began to serve Special Privilege.
The Master had discharged one servant,
and employed another', that was all.
Special Privilege at once used its new
broom, and it swept clean.
A Money bill, which had not been heard
of during the campaign, took a • position of
commanding prominence, and demanded
enactment, immediately.
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, oflprit 30, 1914
has had valiant help in separating the Lord's
chosen people from their coin.
There were Haas, Haas, and Haas; there
were Cohen and Goldstein and Gray of the
Atlanta Journal; there was the Benjamin of
the firm of Rosser, Slaton, Phillips, et al.;
there were the Einsteins and Waxelbaums, of
various industries; there was Adoph Ochs, of
the New York Tiroes; there were the Pulitzer
brothers, of the New York World; and O!
there was William Randolph Hearst.
What more could any Great Detective
want ?
* * * * * * *
Burns came—with a great noise: Burns
saw—with a deafening roar: Burns con
quered—slaying a thousand or more Philis
tines with the destructive weapon that Sam
son used ages ago.
Upon my word, I never knew a blundering
booby to make such a mess as Burns has
served up to a wondering world.
Luther Rosser must have lost his head, to
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It was the Aldrich bill, enlarged and
strengthened, automatically renewing the
expiring charters of the National banks, per
petuating as national currency the $750,000,-
000 of national bank due bills; releasing the
favored Money Trust from the future neces
sity of buying Government bonds, and
empowering it to monetise the rotten
stocks and bonds of every corporation that
might secure “a pull” at a Regional bank.
To the plain people, there was absolutely
no relief, nor prospect thereof, in this mon
strosity of class legislation.
To the favored bankers, there was the
legalizing and the perpetuation of their sove
reign power to control loans, control enter
prise, control credit, control markets, and to
control the law-makers of the mightiest
empire the world ever saw.
In their interest, the Government made a
perpetual surrender of its sovereign power to
create and control the currency of the Repub
lic.
To the toilers who produce the wealth, there
is presented a colossal machinery which no
individual can oppose, and which will inevi
tably shear the surplus fleece from every flock
in America.
Against that resistless financial monopoly,
the individual merchant, mechanic, profes
sional man and farmer is as helpless, as a
lamb led to the shambles.
allow that brassy foghorn to blow so much
about what he was going to do, what he could
do, what he was actually doing, and what he
had done, during all these weeks in which
Burns has been lengthening the legs of
wealthy descendants of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob.
As to poor Reuben Arnold, he hasn't had
any sense in four years; and Benjamin Phil
lips’ loss of mind dates back to the day that
he and Jack Slaton went into a partnership
with Rosser’s partnership.
Were we not told, morning after morning,
that Burns had gone to New York to look at
Frank's case from another “angle ” Did he
not go to Philadelphia to look at it from that
“angle?” Did he not meander to various
other distant cities, to view the case from
those “angles?’’
And didn’t Burns say that the guilty man
was at large? That the murderer had never
been arrested? That Burns knew him, and
knew where to get him at the proper time ?
What a sickening disappointment it must
have been, when intelligent Jews, hoodwinked
and bled by Burns, had to realize that all of
the man’s blatant assurances had been noth
ing in the world but impudent bluff!
After going all round, the circle, TIE
COMES RIGHT BACK TO THE PLACE
WHERE THE STATE RESTED ITS
CASE — to Conley and Frank.
What becomes of that murderer who had
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Without knuckling to that new banking
system, no private business can hope to live,
if it ever needs borrowed capitol.
This diabolical law has created the deepest
amazement and discontent, and THE DEMO
CRATIC LEADERS KNOW IT.
Again, there is the Tariff fraud that has
been put upon a betrayed people.
Mr. Taft had vetoed a number of tariff
measures which would have been of vast bene
fit to the consumers of Trust-made goods.
The Democrats denounced these vetoes in a
tempest of condemnation.
The people echoed this criticism, and voted
Taft out, believing of course, that the Demo
crats, if put in power, would re-enact those
measures.
On the contrary, the Democrats dropped
the bills that Taft vetoed, and framed another
measure which has not reduced the cost of
living, has not lessened the ungodly profits
of the Trusts, has not diminished the enor
mous army of the unemployed, the homeless,
the hungry, and the desperate.
That they have been buncoed on this ques
tion of Tariff reform, all the Democratic
masses feel; AND THE DEMOCRATIC
LEADERS KNOW IT.
Then comes the matter of free tolls on the
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