The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-11


| that II the Investors were encouraged TO
uso common sense the great financial In
| tcrcsts of the stock exchanges ana
bourses would be reduced to the onerous
| necessity of earning money instead OF
making It, Thus common sense became
| an article tabooed so successfully that at
last (also long, long ago now common
| sense fed from the great financial Inter
| estS themselves.
! So Wall street Just then worshipped the
great fnancIer. though everybody knew
right well that he was only a swollen
bully, who was strong because he had
laid out beautiful wide driveway
through the nasty Criminal Code.
Instead of taking other peoples money
and putting it clumsly into his own safe
which would have been vulgar stealing
he bought nice old ruSbishy stocks cheap
threw them on the market, and then bor-
rowed other peoples money from banks
and trust companies with which that
stock was promptly bought at greatly ad-
vanced prices, owing to the sudden buy
ing demand" that sprang up the minute
the hungry money struck the stree"
The new bully from the West didn't
have such good machinery 1t takes time
TO build II up even in Wall street So
common sense would have told every one
that the battle of the giants was more
likely to be game of blackmail and
bluff, and that the swollen fnancicr would
never risk a battle. IL he couidn beat
the new bully in the first hot engagement
the new bully would win his point which
most pnlpably was TO be taken into some
Ol NIt SOOu lIlUES Ol lut plfesl NfS-
The new bully had a beautifully simple
weapon that embarrassed the acute minds
Of the street not little. He told lies
great, wonderful. patent Hes lie lied by
word of mouth and i'm print He lied In
private and I'm public, by word and deed
At first the street thought that he was
easy" Most liars are So the street
tried the innocent expcdicnt OF sDeculatlng
that the exact contrary of the lie would
be the truth and-sot horribly bitten. Lies
are SO complex. This mans lies were
partculnrlyeo, Henry James could have
written a whole novel full OF utterly un-
ineligible analysis about any one OF the
dozens that issued from him In a week
1t was this that worried the Great
went to the absurd length OF telling the
truth, but simply because he never,
never said anything about anything
When lie did happen to be absolutely
necessary. he had partners hired for that
particular and exact purpose, and when
they were caught at II. they knew that
none would be more deeply shocked hu
INFLATED and outraged than the Great
Financier with his spotless record
He had laid out a pretty good campaign
that morning, and when he entered the
office his head was full of it. And then
he saw the new stenographcr. And
then. quite unreasonably. foreign inter
est had come into his mind
When he went home that night he
thought every now and then of the girl
while ne planned the picturesque destruc-
ton of the Western interloper
II was ridiculous. IL was sIckening He
cursed himself for thinking OF such an
Unimportant trivialty as a Typewriter
girl with brown hair and eyes OF a stnl
darker brown. with an enchanting sheen
Of amber in them under certain lights.
The next day, when the girl came in re-
sponse 10 his call for a Stenogra pher he
shook his head and gruGiy told her to
send in one of the others. At room, when
he glanced swiftly to where she sat, he
noticed tears In her eyes.
IL didn't exactly Cnt him 10 tle hpart
for that was tough member, but II
pleased Lin, somehow. He was quite
right too, In his uDthought thought that
she was crying because he had rebufTed
her She was
If he had known that the tears were
shed because she was afraid OF losing her
row Job" he might have let her worry
and be hanged. AS 1t was. he called for
her after luncheon and dictated letters 10
her again.
After that she became his regular
stenoGrapher, and at last ahe was pro-
noted 10 a seat just outside of his office
door
Finally, he even went so far as to say
good morning" to her habitunlly which
was the most startling innovation that
had ever been introduced in the place.
She was an extremely poor stenogra-
pher. too. Before the end of the week
he dictated n letter to her that was 10
deliver the final blow at the cheeky man
from the West. 1t was a triumph of
diplomacy-full Of sentences so ambigu-
any court Of law without involving him
In the least. And the girl left out the
most important sentence of the lot the
very keystone of the whole graceful
arch. ......
Had the error been made by any other
stenogTapher he would have discovered It
at once. This time he didn't. The result
that he was delivered over. bound
hand and foot. 10 his Western friend the
next day.
or course he compromised. The West
erner's price OF peace was participation
In a vast number OF profitable projects
and he got 1t Wall Street, forgetful OF
Its wise prophecies regarding a bnttIe of
the giants. gasped with relief, speculated
blandly on the results OF the sudden
friendship. and got plucked down 10 lis
tail feathers by both
To revenge itself. 1t composed financial
sagas which told humorous and over
drawn things about the defeat of the
Great Financer.
When he read some of them. heightened
by brilliant local color. In tho newspa-
pers, the Great F1nancier noticed some
thing peculiar about himself. Instead OF
being able to grunt at them and forget
Them the stories affected him unplcas-
antly. After time he discovered with