The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-12

the shoe will pinch the Hibernian foot. for without the support of either party in the House, with. in fact, hostile dis- position on both sides of the house. they will be reduced to a state or absoiute impotency, which can only result m tnelr endless endless strife st snsH and bitterness. If the Red mondites had carefully cultivated the friendship of either party, regarding such a course as a political necessity, they cause. Instead they made it point to irrttate both sides beyond measure ana they are now reapine their harvest. 1T homo rule is ever to be gained Tor ire adoption of tactics far different from those employed by the present Irish rep resentation in the House of Commons. Even the most ardent supporters of the Irish cause agree that the policy or the kedmondites has been fatal to the chances of self government for Ireland.
 It does not seem possible that the Brlr- ish people will ever be able to suppress their affection for a company swindle. Throughout the history of British finance from tha time of the South Sea Bubble to the halcyon days of Ernest Teran Hooley. there has always been one man; at least. wno has taken in the wisest and shrewdest of the people and skinned them of all their possessions, and yet re- tained the affections of certain class or the cOmmunlLy. Even JdDtE b1lIOuT. one of the wickedest swindlers that the City of London has ever known. for he concealed his misdeeds under cloak of charity, still retains the regard of thous- sones or in as canVct nrson he Mr Hooes walks abroad followed by coterie or chinless scions of the nobility who re- cognize in him the great master of fall crumbs worth picking up. People nowadays bless the name of the late
 Baron Grant, most effective and ac- complis1ed company wrecker; who senting Leicester Square to London and placing therein a statue of Shakespeare. Leicester Square is, therefore, famed for three things. Firstly. it was the site or of London used to go 200 years ago and fight their duels. It was here that the Duke of Hamilton was killed by the mo- torious Lord Mohun, all of which MT. esqueiy. Secondly. Leicester Square. Is opposite the Empire and the Alhambra. the two landmarks of London dear to the heart of every suburban young man army. And. thirdly. 1t is the gift of Ba- ron Grant Ito London. One should rather say that in the buying of this place the combined fortunes or hundreds or widows Sss, not consider these things in the abstract.
 The latest company manfpulator who is coming in for much public discussion is Whitaker Wright. And here. I think, we have the prince of the fraternity. If Whitaker Wright, had not been q com pany promoter he would have become great in some other line. There is ab- solutely no doubt of that. for he Is truly q wonderful man. He brought into life three great companies and received from the people many miinons' of dollars with which to manipulate them. He worked one company with the other and he had complete and untrammeled control. No ono interfered with him and his orna- mental board of directors were happy In the belief that everything was all right, for did he not give them plenty of fees and promise them no end of div idends? As a matter of fact he paid few dividends. but how this was done 1t is not possible to ascertain at present: ssul1er IL 10 say that the chairman of one of his companies was no less per- son than .he admirable Lord Dufferin, g. eat statesman and man or unim- peachablo honor. So confident was Lord Dufferin in the ability of MT. Wright that he placed his entire fortune at his lost 1t.
 In the meantime Mr. Wright blossomed forth as a man of the world. He became 2 first class yachtsman and purch ased and raced the famous Sybarita, with whicn he astounded Cowes and the yachting world. He also became a country gen. tleman and acquired an estate in Surrey, which he converted into veritable fairy land. He built a huge lake in the mid de of the park and under the lake a glass covered hall for smoking and bil- Hard purposes, Above it floats the wa- ter with thousands upon thousands of strange fEnes. which are visible through the glass roof. which is also the bottom of the lake. Dotted here and there In the lake are huge and magnificent statues and all over the estate are wonderful fairy grottoes and mounds. all of them lighted with the most marvellous electric ararnge mente. The house used to stand be hind a fair sized hill. The hill inter- fered with MT. Whitaker Wright's view. so he had it removed entirely. A
 On the turf this great company monger has been equally, prominent and his sta- bles are said to have won and lost him varying fortunes. In any case MT. Wright has had great fling for his money Yesterday the Nemesis that waits on all these operations came in the shape of q report from the official receiver of the London and Globe Fi- nance Corporation, the principal company of tho. Wright group. He showed that the entire concern was a huge bubble: that over a million and a half sterling had been lost principally in speculation, but 1t was shown that Mir. Wright had made himself the tidy little sum of 600000 by selling his deferred shares to the company. Of course. the sharehold- CTS are crying out for revenge and all sorts of terrible things. but in the end nothing will come of 1t. Mr. Wright will go through his public in January and will prob abIy explain 1t all satisfactorily so that the next time he has a company to pro- mote all of his present shareholders will make a wild rush to be first in the list of subscribers. .
 Tho gambling spirit in England is in- eradicable and therein lies the secret of the success of the Hooleys, the Grants, the Jabez Bllfours and the Whitaker Wrights.