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Title: Life and character of William Taylor Baker, president of the World's Columbian exposition and of the Chicago Board of trade
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, Charles H. (Charles Hinckley), b. 1864
Subjects: Baker, William Taylor, 1841-1903 Electric power-plants
Publisher: New York, The Premier press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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r maintaining among ourselves anunimpeachable standard of business honor. Our rules arebased on such a standard, and if any member is unfaithfulto them, it is your duty, individually, to expose the derelictand aid your officers in purging your membership of any whoare found unworthy to enjoy its privileges. Let us enter upon the new year with a renewed pledge ofloyalty to this great exchange and a determination to keepits honor above suspicion, so that our membership in it maybe a source of pride and gratification to us and to our children. It was in this last term that Governor Tanner of theState of Illinois and the Board of Trade cameinto conflict. The Governor had made a gooddeal of money on the Board of^Trade- throughsome of his brokers, which fact he did not deplore,but he did hold resentment against the Boardof Trade for an attack made upon him in connec-tion with standing in with the crooked elementand vetoing certain legislation which the Board 146 LIFE OF WILLIAM TAYLOR BAKER
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THE BOARD OF TRADE-GO V. TANNERS MONTE CARLO -AS SEEN BY FURNISS. Illustrating the Governors hostility to President Baker.Chicago Tribune cartoon of June 8, 1897. CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE 147 of Trade had championed for the purpose of puri-fying the trade of the evil things which beset it.This led the Governor in an interview with a reporterof the Tribune to say that The Chicago Board ofTrade was the biggest gambling place on earth, MonteCarlo not excepted. I retort, that if Mr. Baker orany of his friends so desire I can give proof, facts andfigures to substantiate what I said, and now empha-size in that respect. The Governors tirade was em-bodied in a personal attack upon Father as the officialhead of the organization. It resulted in an amusingcartoon being published of Chicagos Temple of Com-merce which is interesting enough to be reproducedin this book. The year 1897 was a most prosperous one for theBoard of Trade. In this year Father succeeded ingetting the Post Office Department to

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