Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT, CLICK HERE
PART FORTY-EIGHT: Some of the Fool Killer’s targets in the July 1911 issue of James Larkin Pearson’s publication –
*** J.P. Morgan and other “plutes” (plutocrats) who were buying up every news outlet that did negative stories about their abuses. In a way this started us on the path of our present-day situation in which bloated rich pigs like the Silicon Valley Robber Barons own all the news media and social media outlets to control what information gets out.
*** Smokers. Pearson and his version of the Fool Killer considered them stench-ridden, wheezing and coughing losers with yellow fingernails.
*** William A Clark, former Democrat Senator from Montana, who was disputing the tax assessment on his multi-million dollar property on New York’s Fifth Avenue. He claimed it was too high and wouldn’t pay it.
*** Astrologers, astrology in general, and horoscopes.
*** People who drank, since Pearson’s bizarre puritanical crusade calling for Prohibition continued.
*** “It’s a bug-hunt, man.” William Benton Miller of the American Museum of Natural History, who was setting off on a 4-month expedition into North Carolina’s Black Mountains to look for new bugs for the museum’s collection. Pearson couldn’t resist joking about the undertaking and about its financier, Samuel V Huffman.
He even stated he wanted someone to form an expedition to hunt the bugs in his potato patch.
*** Baseball, for the way it had become a 15 million-dollar “industry” instead of a sport.
Some of the Fool Killer’s pithier remarks this time around:
“We send a man to jail for stealing a chicken and to Congress for stealing a railroad.”
“The rich have caused all the wars and the poor have done all the fighting.” (Think of trash like the Bush Family, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, etc.)
“Rich thieves are called financiers.”
As I always say, it’s fascinating to read this old publication and its odd mix of viewpoints – even the ones you disagree with.
FOR PART FORTY-NINE CLICK HERE.
I WILL EXAMINE MORE FOOL KILLER LORE SOON. KEEP CHECKING BACK FOR UPDATES.
FOR MY LOOK AT JOE MAGARAC, THE STEEL MILL VERSION OF JOHN HENRY AND PAUL BUNYAN, CLICK HERE
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You were certainly right to compare the old Robber Barons to the new ones at Google Twitter and Facebook.
Thank you.
Democrats were always crooked weren’t they?
Yes.
I wonder what he’d say about today’s plutes and the way they control all the news.
I agree.
Your comparing the old robber barons to today’s Twitter and facebook and google trash was spot on!
Thank you very much!
William Clark sounds as greedy as today’s Democrats.
You know it!
These Foolkiller posts are growing on me.
That is good to hear!
This stuff is too old.
Thanks for the feedback.
Some wonderful nostalgia in these Foolkiller stories.
I agree.
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