The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-06


it represents is nearly 275,000.
The road is being built on the 80
bonds, $4,000 to the mile, which Jay
Cooke takes at so.
Instead of mortgagng the land they
make a stock company for its owner
ship, dividing it pro rata among the
holders of the franchise.
The whole thing can be had for So, 600 |
which is less than one-third what some |
other sales of small interests have gone
at. do not suppose you would care to
invest the whole $4,000. | thought for
small flyer eight or ten of you in Boston |
might take it $500 each. For
$500 this invested, you would get
ultimately $4,000 and the avails of some
1000 acres of land. Five of you at
5000 each would have n splendid thing
of it.
THE CHANCE Is VERY RARE ONE.
| can't touch it, but | obey my first
and best impulse in Offering 1t to you.
All such chances ms this, since Jaw
Cooke got the road, have been ac-
companied with the obligation to take a
large amount of the bonds at 80. and
hold them not less than three years.
Twill be in Boston Tuesday noon, and
will call upon you. OF course, if YOU
don't want it, let it pass. You will re-
ceive an immediate issue of stock, to a
considerable amount, and certificates of
land stock.
or course, in comforting with others,
keep my name quiet, mentioning il to no
one, unless to Mr.. Caldwell. / write
under the presumption that You have
returned, but | have heard nothing.
Yours Truly,
"This stock would be far more valua-
bic, at the worst, than the Union Pacific,
and see where that would leave it,"
1t would be Just mt this juncture of
affairs powerfully interesting and peril
nent to know just what that "strange
revolution of circumstances" that en-
abed him to "control an interest" was.
II would be germane t. know also how
it was he could offer this $4,000 interest,
that would be ultimately worth over u
half million dollars, for "less than one
third what ether sales of small interests
went at" Why was it also that in this
plain open transaction for a friend, Il
transaction dictated by his "first and
best" impulses, he should be so ex-
tremely anxious that his name should
be kept wholly in the dark? "Of course,
in comforting with others, keep my
name quiet, mentioning it to no one
unless Mr.. Caldwell"
MIR. Fisher put up the $4,000, and re-
ceived Blaine's receipt therefor. Months
passed and Fisher received no stock
certificates, and became uneasy. Al
last he compelled Mr.. Blaine to return
the $1,000, with interest, the Speaker
being unable to turn over the share as
agreed upon with Fisher. The vital in.
quiry here is, how happened il that Mr.
Blaine, so soon after the "additiona
legislation had been obtained" was able
to control a twenty-fourth share in this
gigantic corporation? If il was share
that was to be had for the none" sim.
ply, why did he not purchase it at once
upon receiving the S2j,0OO, from his
friend for whom he was NO peculiarly
anxious TO buy? Why wait and allow
this great fortune, for the asking almost
to pass again from beyond his control,
The answer is obvious. Ii was not
share to be bought. In some myster
Gus way he was 20 get share and work
il off on his lifelong friend fol
S25OO0, and pocket the money. From
some cause or other the previous ar
rangemert evidently did not worl
smoothly somebody jumped the track
and he was forced at last To return tn,
money to Fisher with interest.
So much for Mr.. Blaine as Speaker
Ii is not record that man Jealous an,
solicitOus about his spotless honor wOul
desire. Ii is not Il record of that purit
To commend its maker to the masses q
the Union as fiji occupant of the cNccu
tive chair. but those Republican Epl
rains who are Joined TO their idols MA
see but little Objectionable 10 the view
To prostitute n great office for privat
gain is theoretically a crime agains
government and q base betrayal OF Tn
people, but il is barely possible tha, Their
are some good honest men who can Sc
nothing in all this record hut IN attac
ON Blaine hy his political foes. Irso. :
bo IL. They are OF those omphaticsll
''who have eyes and vet see not"
Mr.. Blanc's ugly connection with az
other gigantic and fraudulent schcm
while he was Garlield's Secretary d
State is still fresh in the public min
and needs no elaboration. Ii WIS hi
attempt 10 take up and enforce as
Government policy, the claim of ccrtai
spectators to the guano beds of Pert
IL was modest little claim onl
amounting 10 one thousand millions ,
dollars and had about rs much found,
ton in right and Justice and fact q
Austria, Russia and Prussia had In III
dismembermcnt of Poland, or rs an
other National robbery, pure and sin
pie, has had. And vet Blaine was puSl
ing it for his friend Shiphew for all
was worth. Tho common rumor of III
day was that the Secretary was To l
''grcaSel' literally from head to foot lot
that was possibly an unjust cNaggcr,
ton.
a. nOLp, nan MAN."
From all ofwhich it must bc ronfassc
that the record looks blotrhcd and spu
ted. Ink spots are scattered all over III
text aud margin, and the Rcpuhlica
candidate for the Presidency : sG1 %,
as emphatically "a bold, bad man." N
common associates while In Official nos
tion appear Ia have been lobbyists, iOl
beers and scheming spectators, to all
whom lac was ever and cnthuslasticall
iidus Achatcs. II he was not the r,
cipient he was at least repeatedly the II
slrumont Of corrupt bargains, and
elected 30 the Presidency would cni,
the executive mansion with u rcrur
that indicates Enthusiastically that i
would not hesitate tn install his n
sources, whether public or private. {,
the furtherancc of his own selfish gree
and dangerous ambition.
Little Joker is the best smoking &
bacco.