The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-08-25

OF Observation-Disclosures
made dollars Exit Office boys and
lawyers.
The door closes-silence again. Then
the air vibrates with the sound of a
hearty hand-slap and the genial,
whole souled greeting of the Master
to his partner. William, | feel as
though / had done an honest days
labor! Thirty-six million dollars
made" and no hitch, no delay!' Then
follows the partners mild answer:
Yes, Harry, but don't forget James's
and the others shares will shrink it
up quite Bit
"Thirty-six million dollars for one
honest days labor! Thirty-six million
dollars-and Alaska cost us but four
teen millions and Spain relinquished
to us her claims on the Philippines
for only twenty millions. Thirty-six
million dollars! more than hundred
times as much as George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson and Abe Lincoln
together secured for the patriotic Ia
bors of their lifetimes And this vast
sum was taken from the people to en-
rich men whose Golfers were already,
as the results OF similar operations,
so full of dollars that neither they nor
their children, nor their children s
children could count them-ass the peo-
pie count their savings, dollar at a
time-as thouShtlessly taken as are
the apples that the school boy steals
after he has eaten SO many that he
can eat no more.
"A thousand times have / tried to
figure out in my mind what worlds
OF misery such sum Of millions
might allay if issued by a government
and intelligently distributed among a
people-and do my readers know that
never in the worlds recorded history
has any nation felt itself rich enough
to devote thirty-six millions to the
cause Of charity-even in the midst Of
the most awful calamities of fire,
food, war or pestilence? On the 9TH
3er hand, have had to know about
the horrors, the misfortunes, the
earthly hell. which were the awful
consequences Of the taking Of this
vast amount I have had to know
about the convicts, the suicides, the
broken hearts, the starvation and
wretchedness, the ruined bodies and
lost souls which strewed the fields OF
the SYSTEMS harvest.
"Can it be that a just God suffers
our sons and daughters to exc out a
bare existence as the best reward OF
earnest effort and sterling worth, and
at the same time rewards these other
men with $36.O00,000 for one day
labor?
"Pondering all these things, have
ceased to wonder at the deep murmurs
of discomfort that are rising, rising to
my ears from all parts OF the CONT
nent.''
The real value of Mr.. Lawson's Sc
ries of articles lies in the fact, not SO
much that he reveals the inside work.
ings of the game by which certain
gamblers have ruined certain other
gamblers, but in the fact that he re-
veals the game itself AS between
gamblers, the public is little con-
cerned. Every time any one engages
in the manipulations of the stock ex-
change, he deliberately intends that
he will get something for nothing. 1t
does not matter to him who may be
the loser. All he desires is gain. AS
no one can possibly gain anything in
this way, except by getting what some
one else has lost, it is certainly mis-
placed sympathy that spends itself on
the loser. Every one in the game tries |
to undo some one else. =, II he fails |
to undo some one else, he deserves no |
as whichever way 1t goes,
some one must be the loser. But those |
who are so shortsighted as To sup
pose that millions are boarded by sim
gle individuals by legitimate means,
will receive much very needed in
struction by a perusal Of MIR. Lawson's
articles