The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-07
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Navigation in Wall street waters is
dangerous because the rocks are all out
OF sight. When yOu locate one 10y strik-
ing il, they shift to another anchorlng.
"Wall street on dry days amuses IT.
self by soaking the public; also on wet
days and other days.
"Directorshlps in trusts carry with
them sacred duties, hard work and no
emolumenL There are exceptions where
directors are dlatory In operating on
their advance knowledge, thereby TAX
ing even chances with the stockholders.
They are rare exceptions and when dis
covered are dropped.
"The ticker rests upon the Sabbath
TO bury Its victims.
"Panics fall alike upon the shorn and
the to be shorn.
"rhe ticker first asks, What do you
think I'm going to sayT then says the
opposite.
"There are two kinds of pilots in
Wall street waters-the licensed and
unlicensed. Each is worse than the
other.
dropping, it's purgatory; when you are
short and they're rising, it's hell.
"a Wall street pilot is one who, tired
of sinking his own craft, sinks others
for salvage.
"Most Wall street rumors have care
fully prepared itinerary.
Nothing succeeds like success'~
except inside information.
"Wall street advice is free, and II is
worth It.
"The public brings its wealth to Wall
street, and, owing to the frictionless
working OF the most perfect financial
system in the world, It can at any time
| get back its equivalent In one form or
another, usually another.
each day million shares are
bought and sold for the public. Wall
street receives $250,oo0 in commits.
sions, yet those who should know bet.
ter say brokers are not producers.
"Ofttimes a few yards of tape con-
tains more history than all of the vol
umes of n Macaulay or a Bancroft.
when you gamble in stocks. It is
you against the world - one mind
against millions.
"There are many philosophers in
Wall street, but they're all broke.
"The ticker every day at quarter
past 2 tells the victims the time. II
appreciates that they had watches
earlier i'm the game.
"The ticker blasts more lives than
rum and cards combined.
"a swarm of bees visited the Stock
Exchange but were so ashamed OF
their inactivity. that they left in q
hurry.
almost any good mathematical sys
TEN can beat the'ticker to standstil
before 10 and after 3.
"If the garden of Eden had been II
Wall street. Adam would never have
got even n bite of the apple.
"Aristotle must have been flirting
with the tape when he said the worlC
was made up OF two kinds of people
liars and liars.
"Tickery. tickery. took.
The lambs ran after stock;
The stock 1t turned. and the lambs go
burned
And now they're all In hook.
almost all directors of moderl
trusts are yachtsmen. The reason
trusts capital affords mooring the yea
round.
"A lie well told in Wall street Is tn
truth.
zone of the fundamental principle
OF modern finance and the one TO whicl
America owes much OF its enormou
wealth. When a stock has advanced L
prohibitive high figures, double tn
capitalization and repeat
when Wall street holds buskin
bee. insiders get all the red ears
"a straddle is a sort Of half sister
uother-in-law bride--one of those pu2
zling creatures who don't know wheth
er to go back TO ma, elope with brotl
er-in-law or settle down and be prim.
'Hark. hark. the dogs do bark,
The coppers are tumbllng down:
There are some with bags and lots wit
jags.
And they'n surely bust the town"
Upon the frontispiece of the calenda
appears this inscription, "E * o NJ
o." which translated means Error
and omissions must be overlooked"
variation of device by which broker
In submitting statements of speculativ
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