Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-09-05
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The recent 50 called I" failures" or i" defalca-
tons IN Wall street for stealing becomes a
hne art and must be spoken Of politely when il
passes the fourth decinal) are but the breaking
nose Of one of the young gold bulls from that
arena OF bull fighting and bear batting savagery
young man twenty Eve years Of age, educated
Wall street gold gambler, has escaped from as
heartiess and unprincipied a set Of scoundres as
ever passed in the community for business men
Doubtless before a human court of justice they
could easily dsprove his title 20 the TWO millions
or less, that he took with him Bat could
court Of justice 90 one step farther back and try
their own title to it-hov nextricable would be
the confusion The last haul. made by young
ketchum. contrary to the rules Of Wall street
scoundrelism was ike the last desperate blow
below the belt" driven home By the half crezsd
victim Of the prize-ring; !, was the final fierce
grab at the stakes by the losing gambler preps
rstory to flight. liz was robbery, OF course
open and unblIshiug, but II was robbery among
thieves. For four years-during young keteh
um's whole experience Of business life-the
business arena 10 which he mas wrought, or rather
fought. resenbled, In all its moral attributes, the
old gladatorial circus where men, for hire fought
with lance and sword,
And died to make Roman holiday"
Or they might be compared to the bull baiters
battles never fought, or losses or gains highly
exaggerated. or rumors OF Intervention or dis
astsr, as the Spanish bull fighters used the red
Gags and nsddening fireworks TO goad the bull
on 10 his destruction. Each day, each hour
some one of them was gored to his very vitAls,
but this only added zest TO the sport Deposits,
trust funds, clerks savings or stealings, widows
and orphans iyings, aye, even minister's accu
mutations OF bent sixpences which poor children
have given TO the Lord with deep JUNCTION Of
charitable fervor-all were brought iato the gold
room and gobbled up by the old sharks as re
lontlessly as big fish up little ones. The rules
which prevailed we're strictly those Of war. The
bears assumed the horns, hoofs asd tails Of the
bulls, and beloved according 10 their best, head
down, shaggy, with short tails aud long capacity
Of deception. The bulls went. claws, roaring
senorous lies. No friendship or alliance existed
except as strategic devices to enable The parties
to il TO gouge each other.
Meanwhile. with every upward lange they
gave to gold. the soldiers meat was scrimped
and the widows loaf lessened-with every smart
operation of these glsdiators the nation was en-
barrassed and the rebellion encourag ed-the
worlds heart seemed to pslpitste under their
reckless. footsteps, and the blood OF the poor to
fash up and sprinkle with its rel rain their i'll
gotten gold
What wonder if. after three years fighting in
such den OF wild beasts il be found that the
young man educated in that school, has gone
forth robberl When he returned at evening
from the gold room having grabbed $50 600 to
1000 more at night than he had in tho morn
ing, had he caused two blades OF corn to grow
where only one grew beforel Had not the mid
night gambler, fighting the tiger. earned a.
much-done so much to bentf. and bless man
kind as hel Had not the half naked street
sweeper done far mOre2 Had he come any
nearer than the midnight burglar to the fulfill
ment of the Divine and merciful INJUNCTION
{" By the sweat of thy brow thou shalt earn thy
bread = Edwin ketchsm has risen TO the pin
nacle of the profession for which be was edu
cated-a robber. Those who paid TIE final ex
penses OF his graduation ought TO congratulate
themselves upon their SUGGESTIVE finished pro
duct of Wall street education.
Every year a number such graduste-the
alumni of tue Wall street school. Our readers
will remember Samuel Swartwout, Jesse Hoyt,
Ray rompkins, Philip Schuyler, Huntington, the
forgeE, l. V. Fowler, Windsor, Eastman. Jen-
kins, and many others. and now last, Ketchum
All these men had excellent and genial qualities
of character; some of them we're rather the vic
| tins, than the authors of their crimes
| But they are the effects Of Wall street education
Ii resolves men back into barbarism-keen and
intellectual it s true in its way as is the Indian
on the trail, but none the less barbarous. They
rob, not only on the lonely highways, aud issu-
ing forth from desolate caves, but dwelling in
| Sybaritic palaces, and moving daily in the pres
ence of their victims. Once in a while some OF
these thieves rob, eccentrically, retire from the
| ring, and, like the ancient w est India bucca-
neers, live thenceforward honestly on the pro
ceeds of their dishonesty But those who remain
| rob all the while.