Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-10-12
BIZ DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS, Avt5ar of TIC
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oHended by my disbelief in her knowl.
edge of life hadn't a suspicion that
! had hurt and alienated her by slam
ming in her face the door of friend,
ship and frankness her honesty was
forcing her to try to open for me.
In my stupidity of imagining her not
human like the other women and the
men had known, but creature apart
and in a class apart, | stood day after
day gaping at that very door, and won
dering how could open it, how pene-
trate even to the courtyard of that
vestal citadel. So long as my old.
fashioned belief that good women
were more than human and bad
women less than human had influ-
enced me only to sharper lookout
in dealing with the one species of
woman | then came in contact with,
no harm to me resulted, but on the
contrary good-whoeyer got into trou-
BILE through walking the world with
sword and sword arm free? But when,
under the spell of Anita Ellersly,
dragged the "superhuman goodness"
part of my theory down out of the
clouds and made it my guardian and
guide-really, its miracle that | es-
capped from the pit into which that
lunacy pitched me headlong. | was
not content with idealizing only her; |
went on to seeing good, and only good,
In everybody! the millennium was at
hand; all Wall street was my friend;
whatever | wanted would happen. And
when ROebuck, with an air like a ben
ediction from bishop backed by a
cathedral organ and full choir, gave
me the tip to buy coal stocks, | can
nonized him on the spot. Never did
Jersey Jay" in Sunday clothes and
tallowed boots respond to a bunco
steerer's greeting with a gladder smile
than mine to that pious Old past-mas.
ter of craft.
/ will say in justice to myself,
though it is also in excuse, that if |
had known him intimately few years
earlier, | should have found it all but
impossible to fool myself. For he
had not long been in a position where
he could keep wholly detached from
the crimes he committed for his ben
eft and by his order, and where he
could disclaim responsibility and even
knowledge. The great lawyers of the
country have been most ingenious In
developing corporate law in the direc-
ton of making the corporation a com.
plete and secure shield between the
beneficiary of crime and its conse-
quences; but before a great financier
can use this shield perfectly, he must
build up a system-he must find lieu.
tenants with the necessary GOODNESS,
courage and cunning; he must teach
them to understand his hints; he must
educate them, not to point out to him
the dlsasagreeable things involved in
MS orders, but to execute unquestion.
any, TO efface completely the trail be
tween him and them, whether or not
they succeed in covering the round.
ABOUT and faint trail between them.
serves and the tools that nominally
commit the crimes.
Wllmot was the instrument he EN-.
ployed to put the coal industry into
condition for Reorganization" He
bought control of one of the coal rail.
roads and made Wilmot president of
IL. Wllmot, taught by twenty years
OF his service, knew what was expect.
ed OF him, and proceeded to do it He
put IN a loyal general freight agent
who also needed no instructions, hut
Dusied himself at destroying his own
and all the other coal roads by a sys.
TEN OF secret rebates and rate cut.
tings' AS the other roads, one by one,
descended toward bankruptcy, Roe
buck bought the comparatively small
BLOCKS OF stock necessary to give him
control Of them. When he had power
over enough of them to establish a
partial monopoly of transportation In