The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-07-18

Written for the CHIEF.
MY PANsY.
BY RUTH RAMAY.
And what is she ike2" you ask mo;
Eyes that are blue as the depths OF the sea,
Shining like stars from the tremulous deep
When the moonlight. like love- on the waves
lies asleep;
Eyes pure as angels, soft as a doves,
MY pansy, my own true love!
Her mouth; the sweetest of rosebuds wist,
Ruby lips just madeto be kissed;
Firm, yet gentle, tender and true
The mouth of q woman to dare and do,
To smile in dimples. to breathe soft words
That help the weary, like loving deeds
Done by the hands that my constant soul
In their tiny palms forever hold,
Yielding its love untold.
| My soul that to hers forever clinss
| Rests with hers like the folding of angels wings,
| Her soft voice through all my memory rings,
| Each love-note vision of heaven brings.
+ Only once moro to her loving breast.
| Her soft arms round me to be at rest.
To see once more her true eyes shine,
| My ransy. my darling, mine!
OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRlM.
The Largest Gambling Den in the Consl-
| try-Grand Larceny on Wall Street-Eeer
Statistics-A Brooklyn Prophet III Trou-
| Ele, etc.
New YORK, July II, 1885,
EDITOR CHIEF:
| The hole that the stock market tumbed
| into two years ago is broad and deep-in
| fact, at the present time, it is doubtful if
| there is q plummet long enough to find the
bottom. Into that yawning gulf have been
swallowed thousand millions of dollars,
| yes, more than thousand millions-prac-
| tically enough to extinguisi the National
debt.
On Broad street stands the Stock Fx-
change, which was erected few years ago
when stocks were booming. At that time
! SIC, 600 was paid for a seat, and for what?
To enable man to swindle his fellow men
t with greater facility than it could be doue
on the outside of tbs ring. What else did
they get for their forty thousa1 dollars!
+
;s big as dollar bill; not thing that they
could sell without permission; a thing that
could be taken away from them at any mo-
ment, without recourse, by the managing
committee of the Exchange. The forty
thousand dollars represented no tangible
property; it could not be seized upon by
any legal process known by law, for it was
in antangible nonentlty, myth, without
shadow Or substance, except as it was Civ
Ell shadow or substance by the members of
the Stock Exchange. Aside from the extra
facilities it afforded you to rob your fellow
men, there was an insurance benefit at
tached to membership. which amounted
to the comfortable sum of thirty thousand
the Stock Exchange, and at the death of
one of their number each member of the
Exchange pays $40; this is Immediately
handed over to tho widow, if there be one
or the heirs: and in addition to this, the
Exchange allows the sale of his seat, if the
member proposed is satisfactory to the
examining committee; 80 that under favor
able circumstances a Mlan, even IT he pay;
$4,000 for seat, gets his money back
with interest-or, at least, his heirs or nj;
widow proat by his investment. But tht
seats that were eagerly bought up few
years ago at $4,000 can now be o@tainee
} for half that sum, the present necessities O
some of the members not allowing them t.
think of waiting for post mortem benefits.
These exchanges create nothing, they Civ
nothing-they merely wedge themselve sil
between the producer and consumer an'
: take a large slice out Of each. Men VIII
never did an honest days work IN thei
lives, by the aid of these exchanges arc en-
abled to live on the fat of the land, Will
3 the men off whom they live go to the wal
T Our virtuous people are very much exer
! cised now about selling pools on race course
and our new Superintendent Of Police de
clares that there shall not be a gambling
house opened in the city. While our polio
is turned loose upon these small-fry woul
it not be we'll to look in at the exchanges
e On the race course man puts five dollar
in pool on certain horse; if his hors
! runs d trifle faster than the others he take
M O few dollars more than he puts dowl
if his horse fails, he loses his five or te
dollars, and that is the end of it. But whe
he goes to Wall street to gamble he can
do that; he must have hundreds to gamb
with, and to get it sometimes he will stea
n It is quite immaterial whether he buys raj
: road securities at the Stock Exchange,
: mining shares at the Mining Exchange,
y petroleum at the Petroleum Exchange,
Y. wheat and corn at the Produce Exchange,
cotton at the Cotton Exchange-it Is all gar
: bling-not 1.-THE of the cotton, Or corn,
wheat, or oil, or stocks, sold have any exi
tence whatever. The business of big gar
- blers like Gould, Sage and others of that
is to corner" the market The "cornerin!
is lecalized robbery-robbery as much as
a man cracked your safe, or knocked y
ne down and siiled your pockets. The procs
ns by which so many unfortunates have be
d. ruined is very simple, and though oft
~ peated, is Just as good for catching gu
-- seons to-day as when it was first tried.
4. man. or party Of men, inform thense:'
to where the stock of q certain railroad is he
er ,sT sfaey go quietly to work ant, buy up all I
.'i stock they can lay t'seir hands on, and vi