pale colors of a departing rainbow compared to the plot. of three American financiers to control the money of the world.

"The plot, in its magnificent sequence, spreading over all the lands and seas of the Western hemisphere, is exposed. H. Gaylord Wilshire, editor of Wilshire's Magazine and candidate for parliament from West Elgin, Canada, gives the astonishing details in the June number of Wilshire's Magazine. Advance sheets of the ultra sensational article, fresh from the press, have just reached the newspaper offices.

"Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand on and I can move the earth,' has always been regarded as an idealistic claim of a fanciful philosopher.

"J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and James J. Hill are three financiers who have found a place to stand on, and the place is New York. They have a lever long enough-the Northern Securities Company decision by the United States Supreme Court-and Mr. Wiltshire shows how they can move the earth.

"With $100,000,000, these three men can absolutely control $800,000,000 of stocks, being the whole issue of the Burlington, the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern Railways.

"They have actually invested $200,000,000 to control the Northern Securities Company. But by organizing the First Morganization Company, as Mr. Wilshire calls it, to control the Northern Securities Company, they can se

cure the whole capitalization of the latter company with their $200,000,000 of stock in the Northern Securities Company, and then sell half of the First Morganization Company's stock to the public-or 49 per cent of it—and get $100,000,000 of their capital back.

"In the revelation published by Mr. Wilshire, Morgan further proposes to his two confreres to later float the Second and Third and even the Fourth Morganization Companies, securing additional roads with each reorganization until eventually the great systems such as the New York Central, Pennsylvania, Union Pacific, Santa Fe, and in fact all the roads in the country, will be controlled by these three magnates, while the amount invested by them will be nothing.

"To what lengths the continued division of stock issues into majority and minority holdings can be carried has never before been pointed out. The natural consummation of the Northern Securities decision has never before been realized and the Morganization of the industries of the world, along this line, is made not only clear, but very, very near, in this wonderful exposition of the great financial plot that hangs low over the heads of the public." The Denver News has the following item:

WHAT WILL THE HARVEST BE? "The United States Supreme Court not only decided in favor of the Hill-Morgan railroad trust, but barred Minnesota from bringing any further cases against the merger in any court. The trusts are sowing the seed and the

courts are raking it in. What will the harvest be?"-J. A. E. in Denver News.

All of these nefarious practices on the part of the railroads can have but one effect-the ultimate protest of an indignant public. Big strikes will take place. Public sympathy will be with the strikers. Many sympathy strikes will take place against the railroads. Riots will result and the militia, federal troops and police will take part. This phase, the railroad question, is only one of many other agents at work toward the same end.

CHAPTER IV.

LEGISLATION.

Fraudulent Elections; National, State and City-Revelations of Appalling Corruption-The Courts; the Injunction and Other Desperate Measures.

"But to go back to my work at Congress. I had made up my mind to fight the trusts right from the beginning, and to raise my voice in protest against them at every opportunity. This I did. At the same time there were many other Congressmen doing the same thing, of whom quite a number were in earnest, and just as anxious to legislate against these institutions as I was. I had introduced an anti-trust bill, but it was tabled with a number of others. The first year had almost passed, and it had not been taken up yet.

It is true a great deal of work must be done and Congress is kept very busy. However, there always seems to be time enough for other work, such as appropriation bills, railroad and corporation bills, etc., but very little time for anti-trust bills. The reason is plain enough, for nearly every member of Congress is a holder of stocks and bonds in railroads, mining, oil or other interests that must

be looked after first, and that must not be injured by any anti-trust legislation. Yes, and even many of the Congressmen work hard and openly for one or more of these enterprises. That is the way it is now and has been for many years. This is the way Congress works:

"Fourteen thousand five hundred bills have been reported to the House of Representatives. Of this number less than 2,000 have been favorably passed upon by the various committees through whose hands all legislation must pass, before the people's representatives can vote on them. Of this number not a single one in any way effects labor other than adversely. The entire lot are based upon the financial interest of a few individuals and corporations. Here are some of the subjects considered. Bills have been introduced on these subjects: Mails and postage, 38; public buildings, 304; change pension laws, 140; monuments and statues, 59; trusts, 20; tariff acts, 38; churches, 168; bankruptcy, 18; bridges, 48; currency, 21; constitution, 42; Chinese, 9; District of Columbia, .165; pure foods, 8; Indians, 102; interstate commerce, 47; immigration, 12; irrigation, 18; mines and mining, 9."

In a little pamphlet entitled "In Hell and the Way Out," a number of indictments are brought against Congressmen, Senators and the different recent administrations. They are not exaggerated at all. I quote some of them:

"The persistent refusal of Congress to establish postal