Evening journal., 1898-06-29

selves In the disposition of this and
kindred matters? No, nothing OF the
kind. is there not motive power be-
hind all so-called natural causes, COM
pelling those causes to act as so many
instruments to confound all such ras-
cally and machiavelian speculations?
why, OF course there is. We are bound
to recognize, irrespective Of whether or
not we wish to so recognize, the hand
OF a benehcent and all-wise Providence |
in the final disposition Of all such |
knavish intents to initiate against the
well-belng, the very existence Of the
people. We have no alternative but to
recognize and admit so patent a truth.
Men of the Letter junior type may
continue to formulate their bastard
speculative schemes, but so sure as the
night follows the day, then so sure
will their most carefully engineered
plans to tie up an absolutely indisDen-
sable commodity be doomed TO the
most ridiculous OF failures. II is right
and wise that it is so; it would be an
everlasting and irremediable wrong
were 1t otherwise. Had Mr.. Joseph
Letter, in his recent operations, not
forgotten which he did, the possibly
sage counsel Of a successful stock
gambler, namely, "the secret OF sue
cessful speculation lis to buy when
every one is eager to sell, and sell
when all are rushing to buy"-had the
younger Letter not forgotten this sup
posedly wise reflection, then he would
most assuredly have forgotten some
other equally sagacious maxim. The
result would have been the same, ex-
actly what It was. Letters four acres
of foresight, pluck, luck and millions
were finally beaten by a royal flush.
Providence held it in the excellent
crop prospects at home and abroad" ="
Yes, and Providence viii ever down and
beat the strongest four-acre combina-
ton which human skill can devise. Let
your bloated plutocrat, the man who
does his little. best to engender an
archy and discomfort, and whose more
or less success in divers financial en-
terprises inclines him to imagine that
he Is, or will he. rich enough to pay
of the National Debt-let that man re
member that there is a written law,
one OF Divine origin, which tells us
that seed time and harvest shall never
fail" never fail to the lasting detri-
ment OF the people, and over the pro-
duct OF which he can never command
the control. And let him also remem-
Der that there is an unwrltten law, also
Of Divine origin, law whose provi-
sions stand ever ready to frustrate
: and confound each and every attempt
to crowd the people, so far as the
, bare and actual necessaries Of life ar,
concerned.
When Letter junior embarked on hi.
r recent speculative career, a career
p which has just ended in a fasco, tn,
e public was asked to believe that an
y other Napoleonic speculator had flash
b ed across this planet. This specula
5 tive son OF a speculative father wa
r held up as an example OF "smartness,
5 a kind OF smartness TO be emulated b.
the youth OF this country. He wa
T. cited as the most complete in-de-siecl
+ adept in the art Of successful gambling
b All this and much more OF the sam
o unmitigated rot was INDUCED in b.
1t the lickspittle section Of the press. To
3 day these very journals, which but re
I Gently endorsed the younger Letter
n chicanery with a blind acquiescenc,
L turn and rend their former ideal game
s, ster. What contemplate humbugger
E. II all is, especially when We remembe
d, that but for the prestige and financil
r support of either his father or a synd
d cate this man Letter would have new;
er emerged from the commonplace oil
p scurity to which he has just been rel,
re gated. This ambitious youth is r,
Il ported to have said. when his receI
IN attempt at "eornering" seemed TO I
c. on easy street." that the America
be people would wake up some mornir
ur without bread to eat. Indeedl Let ,
wv inform Mr.. Letter junior that the po
r. sibility Of he himself waking up son
al morning without a shirt to his back
all a far more probable contingency ths
Of his alleged boastful and senseless pro
ut. nostication.
be The younger Letter, a man who lea
we much the same sort OF intellectual Ii
nd as that led by kangaroo, was not a
re first, nor will he be the last, to bul
'us up against fgurative stone wall al
ter to engage in delirious speculation;
= for the sake of ministering to
e greedy, brutal and inordinate appeti