The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-04
THE DANITEs OF WALL STREET.
The Mysterious Hand that Reaches from Out
the Darkness and Betrays the Cashier.

The Mysterious Hand that Reaches from Out
the Darkness and Betrays the Cashier.
Joaquin Miller i'll Louisville Courier Journal.
went to that Jail prepared to publish hard
truths about General Grant, the man who had
let his name stand figurehead to allure and
swallow up the almost incomprehensible sum of
1900, 600. This man, whom all the brave
States of the South could not vanquish, had
denounced, and was ready to denounce again
had found facts to justify it. The man who
had said to Lee, sitting there under the apple
trees where the last battle was fought the last
shot fired by brother into brothers breast-the
man who had refused to buckle on his. own
sword for the occasion, or accept that of the
fallen hero-the man who had said to General
Lee: mo, General keep your horses; your
men will need them to pillow with when they get
home, was now defaulter. / spent the day
there, digging to the bottom for the truth. And
1 found that General Grant was as blaIneless as
a child
The boy whom I found there in Ludlow-street
Jail, pale and feverish, bending over his great
ba' anee sheets explained to me how Grant
trusted him entirely as he had trusted Lee
when he took his word of honor for his battered
Iegions-as he trusts everybody. But he fell be-
fore the Danites Out of the dark, from behind
these millions, there reached mysterious hand
that led him on on, on, on, tempted his bank to
borrow, borrow borrow, and then al, suddenly
the mysterious hand was withdrawn leaving no
sign, no shadow Of evidence that it had ever
been his. The hand was withdrawn, and was
thrust, OuQly enough anu LOT u DI1eI IlIuej u6Sp
down into the milli3naire's own pocket
Last week the New Brunswick Bank failed for
half a million, and the cashier and president lay
dead 1 was sent to see why and how it hap
pened The cashier, Hill, had had friend
learned, who knew and could get points" in
speculation from the mighty Danites of New
York. Would they not betray HINT They had
betrayed others, would they not then betray
himl We do not feel that way when any one
offers us an advantage. We may know that this
siren or that DANTE has betrayed others, but
our pride, our vanity our selfimportance makes
us feel that we are not the one to be betrayed,
whatever may have fallen to the lot of others.
The cashier put in few thousand dollars; the
man won, lost lost won; he liked the excite
ment; it made his blood thrill life had a glo
rious interest to him now. Let us haste on.
Three hundred thousand dollars of the
banks money swallowed up. The cashier
threw himself on his bed that night; the fumes
of gas filled the room; dead! CONSERVATION in
the city. The old and honored and honest
president went into little back room, laid his
watch on the window-sill, took his knife, cut
his throat here, cut it there, turned up his
sleeve severed this vein, that vein, then sat
down to look at the minute-hand of his watch
and die The pride of his heart came, trailing
her rich silks in the blood of her murdered
father Murdered Yes, murdered by the Dan
ties of New York Aye that mans murder can
be traced to the doors of these New York Dan
ties who set their traps for SUCH just as clearly
as were the murders of the Danites of the Sierras
traced to John b. Lee, who was tried by the
government and shot by the government as he
sat on his coffin in Utah for his crime.