Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09

duly smashed twenty points in three days.
he was not going to stop there; but a ru-
NOR reached him. A friend, a powerful
nnancier, was starting an opposition con-
Germ heretofore the manipulation had
merely been out-maneuvering his former
associates But now, with this new weapon
ne would wage greater and withal
easier fight. He asked his friend IL the
trade opposition would be active and bona
noe or was 1t merely made TO seli-to sell
out to the trust? The powerful friend said
ne would not sell out at any price. But he
sold out for SO 900 900 I'm stock The great
manipulation hated lies. He himself never
told any. He sometimes distributed impress
slonS, put he couldn't he held responsible
for the construction that Imaginative stock
gamblers and obtuse newspaper men put
on his words. lnartistic mendacity was SO
revolving that the artist never forgave the
bungler- The artist, however, ceased to be
an artist. He ceased even to have common
sense. He permitted himself to hate the
former friend. In hts pursuit of revenge he
went so far as to seek to send the menda-
cious tinancier to states prison, and he said
so. The moment he talked he lowered HIM
self to the Vulnerable level of a common
everyday man sptefully fighting a neigh
Dor. There We're plots and counterplots.
Each side was heavily toasted with accusa-
tons and recrlminations. But the manipu-
lator did not send the financier to the
penitentiary because the fnancier had sew
eral millions and political pull worth
many more. and he almost broke" the
flanlpulator by an ambush that the manip-
ulator would have easily avoided had he
refrained from wrath There was later
talk of plot to send the manipulation I'D
the Hudson ricer. Ii failed, II indeed IL
ever was really planned. There was a
scandal or two at the time A few columns
were printed. a few. very few. OF the de-
tails were published. 1t placed both men
in an unenviable light. but had the whole
truth come out both might have been
ruined. At all events they would no longer
have been considered gentlemen. In the
last bitter stages of the quarrel common
sense Kept both from the browning imbe-
cility OF doing their laundry work before
the enraptured gaze Of the public. And
the reason was that each man saw he stood
to lose his public reputation, but par
ticularly money. The dollar again won.
From the nature of things It Is impossible
to mention names. and therefore the neces-
Illustrating this point disappears Fifty
stories could be told But the considera-
ton of the human factor Is as important
in Wall street in places of a less we'll
established reputation for cold-blooded
sagacity. Time and again personal feelings
and nothing else have precipitated serious
disturbances. but the public lay the blame
on something else. because either the money
loss sobers the contestants into sensible
taciturnity or because worse troubles
feared il the fight continues, or because
each party is only too vulnerable IL adroit
outsiders acquire sufficient evidence for
or for other reason. But IL the dollar
has won oftener than not, II has fire.
quently won by a nose only that the
blood OF sensible magnates must run cold
at times when they are In a remlniscential
mood.