Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-11-08

i don't quite follow you he said.
q can't see that you'll be either bet
Ter or worse for getting into the Trdv-
eiers."
NO more I shall" replied !.
more is the winner of tire race the bet
ter or the worse for having the medal.
But he wants it,"
He had II queer expression. ! sup
pose he regarded it as a Joke. my at
taching apparently 50 much import
ance to a thing he cared nothing about:
you've always had that sort of thing.
said i. and so you don't appreciate II.
You're like Il respectable woman. she
can't imagine what all the fuss over
women keeping u good reputation Is
ehout. Well. just let her lose it"
Perhaps" said he.
And 1 went on, you can have the
rule about the waiting list suspended,
and can move me up and get me in ut
once
w don't do things in quite such a
hurry at The Travellers" said he. laugh
Ing. "However. we'll try to comply
with your commands"
His generous, cordial offer made me
half ashamed of the plot i had under
meath my submission about the coal
mfnes-a plot to get into the coal com-
bine In order to gather the means to
destroy IT.. and perhaps reconstruct 1t
with myself in control. ] made up my
mind that. II he continued to act
%sQuareiy. 1 would alter those plans.
III you don't mind" Langdon was
going on. "Irl make n suggestion
merely q suggestion. 1t might not be
q bad idea for you to arrange toto
eliminate some OF he-th popular
features from your-brokerage busi-
ness. There are several influential
membcrs of the Travellers who have a
IA prejudice"
II understand" 1 interprosed. to
spare him the necessity OF saying
things he thought l might regard as
keeper Of a high class bucketshop."
That's about the way they'd put
It"
But the things they object to are.
unfortunately. my strong hold l ex-
planned. you other big fellows gath
or in the big investors by simply an
nouncfng your projects in n dignitied
way. 1 haven't got the ear of that
class OF people. l have to send out my
letters. have to advertise in all the
tie fellows. You can afford to send out
engraved Invitations; l have to gather
In my people with brass bands and
m~egaphones. Don't forget that my peo-
pie count In the totals bigger than
yours. And what's my chief value to
you? Why, when you want to unload
j furnish the crowd to unload on, the
crowd that gives you and your bis
customers cash for your water AN,
wind. l don't SEQ my way to letting
70 OF what I've got until l get hold o
what I'm reaching for" All this will
mot u suspicion in my mind that ht
was at the same game that had caused
ROebuck to hint" that same proposal
What n con man" high nance go
when Mowbray Langdon became activ,
down town!
That's true" he admitted. with
great air Of %frahkness. but the or.
thai you're not a fnancier. but
bucketshop man. might be fatal a
the Travellers. OF course. the sacriic
would be large for such u small oh
If you really a to get in"
-Iil think it over" said l. II
Thought l meant that I'd think owe
dropping my power-thought l was a
Dig a snob as he inc his friends of tn
Travellers, willing to make any sacritic
to be Tin the push" But. Will
Matthew Blackjack has the streak
-onOb in him that's natural to all hu
man beings and to most animals. he
mot quite insane. No. the thing / In
tended to think over was how to sta
In the ~bucketshop" business. but WINS
myself OF Its odium. BucketshoI
what snobberv! Yet it's human ma
,ture, too. The wholesale merchal
looks down on h retailer, the big re
taller on the little: the burglar despis'
tho pic4spocket: the %financier. the sma
promoter: the man who works with h
brain, the man who works with h
hands. A Silly lot we are-silly to LOO
down, sfllier to feel badly when we
looked down upon.