The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-11-29

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excuse habit of men who fail? And if
expended my limited brain power II
ookln into all the Gus and eXpla-
nations, what energy or time would
nave for constructive work? All I car
do is to select a man for a position anG
to judge him by results You were put
IN charge to produce dividends. Tn
sorry, and l venture to hope that things
are not so bad as you make out in your
eagernesS to excuse yourself. For the
sake of old times, Tom, I ignore your
angry insinuations against me. 1 try tc
be just, and to be just one must al
ways be impersonal."
We'll" said Walters with an air of
desperation, give me another year, Mr..
Roebuck, and I'll produce results ali
right. I'll break the agreements and
cut rates. Tll freeze out the branch
roads and our minority stockholders.
III keep the books sc that all the ex-
pert accountants in New York couldn't
untangle them. I'll wink at and COM
nit and order committed all the nee
essary crimes. l don't know why I've
been so squean1ish, when there were so
many penitentiary offenses that l did
consent to, and, for tina matter, COM
nit, without a culver. 1 thought I
ought to draw the line somewhere
word and at keeping the books reason
ably straight. But I'll &c h limit"
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great and good man outraged beyond
endurance, but a Christian still. you
V made it impossible for me to tenn
per justice with mercy, Walters" said
ne. IL 1t We're not for the long years
of association, for the affection for
you which has grown up in me, l
should hand you ove to the fate you
haze armed You tell me you have
been committing crimes in my service.
You tell me you will commit more and
greater l can scarcely believe
my own ears"
less laugh of a man who suddenly sees
that he is %cornered and must fight for
his life. "Rot!" he jeered. Rot You
always have been a wonder at juggling
with your conscience. Blu do you ex-
pect me to believe o think yourself
innocent because you do not yourself
execute the orders you issue-orders
that can be carried out only by COM
hitting crimes" Walters vas now be-
side himself with rage. He CAV the
reigns to that high horse he nae been
riding ever since he was promoted to
the presidency of the great coal road.
lie began to lay on whip and spur.
DO you think he cried to Roebuck,
the blood OF those 500 men drowned
in the Pequot mine is not on your
hands-your head? You, who ordered
Wilkinson to suppress the conpe-
titlon the Pequot was giving you. or
dered him in such a way that he knew
the alternative was his own ruin? He
himself-yet he had as good an
excuse as YOU, for he, too, passed on
the order until it got to the poor fire.
man-that wretched fellow they sent to
the penitentiary Tor life? And as sure
as there is a God in heaven, you will
day do a long, long sentence in
hell there is, for letting that
wretch rot in prison-yes, and for John
W~ilkinson's suicide, and for the lives
Of those 500 drowned. Your pensions
20 the widows and orphans can't save
| listened to his TRADE astounded.
as 7 was to men losing their
heads through vanity, I could not cred
t my own ears and eyes when they
to me this insane exhibition.
looked at Roebuck. He was wearing
IN expression Of beatifc patience; he
would have made a fine study for a
of the martyr at the stake.
Il forgive you, Tom" he said, when
stopped for breath. Your own
sinful heart makes you see the black
sin upon everything. I had heard
you were going about making
oud boasts of your power over your
employers, but / tried not to believe it.
see now that YOU have, indeed, lost
senses Your prosperity has been
90 much for our good sense He
.ighed m%ournfu1ly. II shall not inter
ere to prevent your getting a position
he continued. But after
what Q have confessed, after your
'landers, how can / put you back in
vour old place out west, as / ~intended?
low can / continue the interest in youand
are for your career that I have had, in
1pite Of all your shortcomings? I who
aised you UP from a clerk"
Raised me up as you fellows always
aise men ~up~becauss you find them
honest fellow when you first took
lotice of me and tempted me. But, by
Sod. Mr.. Roebuck. If i've sold out beyond
lope of living decent again, I'll have my
,rice-to the last cent. You've got to
ave me where / am or give me a place
md salary equally as good" This Walters
said blusteringly. but beneath I could
letect the beginnings OF a whine.
you are angry, Tom said Roebuck
soothingly. II have hurt our vanity-it
Is one of the heaviest crosses I have to
bear, that I must be continually hurting
the vanity of men. Go away and-and
calm down. Think the situation over
then come and apologize to me, and
{ viii do what I can to help you. AS for
lnTeatS-WheH you are calm, you will
Zee . idle they are,
Walters gave a sort OF groan: and !
though !. blinded by my %prejudices in
favor of Roebuck and of the crowd with
my interests lay, had been feeling
he was an impudent and crazy in
CRATE. I pitied him.
What proofs have I got? 2" he said les
perately. If I show up the things I ,,now
about, I show myself up, and eyervboav
VIII say I'm YIN about you and the
In the effort to save myself The
newspapers would denounce me a. 4
t~reacherous liar-you fellows own 81 CON
troll or foozle them in one way ind an
other. And IL ! was believed. who'dInros-
ecute you and what court'd condemn YOU?
Don't you own both political parties and
make al the tickets, and can't you ruin
any Office holders who lifted q finger
affairs!s
A swifter or q weaker descent 1 never
witnessed. Ny pity changed to contempt.
This fellow. with his great reputation.
thought !, SIS a.sfoois knave. and q
weak n at that
GO away nov. Tom. sid Roebuck.
When yonsreE MASTER 81 yourself again.
Master of myself!' cried Walters bit
teriy. WI that's got anything TO lose
y lnansGr of himself IN this country n
With al1Uulders saggfnB and sort Of
stumble In his gait. he went toward the
HA@palaeed there 10 say: .I,ye
torsteng, Mr.. Roehuck. There's no
ltght a me. sI thought there was. but