The Jasper news., 1907-11-07

dump them, nunureuS OF millions, lntO
this gambling inferno OF yours. You
know that they are fools, these silly
millions of people whom you term
lambs and suckers. You chuckle as,
year after year, having been sent away
shorn, they return for new shearing.
You marvel that the merchants, manu-.
facturers, miners, lawyers, farmers,
who have sufficient intelligence to
gather such surplus legitimately. would
bring 1t to our gambling hell, where
upon all sides is plain proof that we
who conduct the gambling, and who
produce nothing, are obliged to take
from those who do produce, hundreds
of millions each year for expenses,
and hundreds of millions each year for
proflts-for you know that we have
nothing to give them in return for
what they bring to us. You know that
every dollar of the billions lost in Wall
street means higher prices for steel
rails, for lumber and cars, and that
this means higher passenger and
freight rates to the people. You know
that when the manufacturer brings his
wealth to Wall street and Is robbed Of
it, he will add something to the price
of boots and shoes, cotton and wooden
clothes, and other necessities that he
makes and that he sells to the people.
You know that when the copper, lead,
tin, and iron miners part with their
surplus. to the System 1t means
higher prices to the people for their
copper pots and cutters, for the water
that comes through lead pipes, for
their tin dippers and wash boilers, and
for their rents, and all those neces.
stiles into which machinery, lumber,
and other raw and finished material
enters. You know that every hundred
millions dropped by real producers to
the brigands of our world means lower
wages or less of the necessities and
luxuries for all the people, and espe-
cially for the farmer. You know that
it is habit with us of Wall street to
gloat over the doctrine of the System
which the people parrot among them
selves, the doctrine that the people
at large are not affected by our gam
bling, because they, the people, having
no surplus to gamble with, never come
into Wall street. And yet, knowing
all this, you never thought, with all
your wisdom and cynicism, that right
here in this institution, which you own
each or all of you, to those great
chests of gold that your clients, the
System, have filled to bursting from
the stores Of the people. What, ask,
do you wise men think of the situation
as you now see it?"
on the floor. The great crowd, which
now contained nearly all the members
of the exchange, listened with bullying
eyes and open mouths to the revela.
tions of their fellow member.
Bob BROMLEY paused and looked
down into the faces Of the breathless
gamblers with contempt that was
superb. He went on:
Men Of Wall street, it is writ in the
books of the ancients that every evil
contains within itself cure or de-
stroyer. / do not pretend that what l
am revealing to you is to you cure
| for this hideous evil, but do say that
what / am giving you is destroyer
for it, and that while it will be to the
world a cure, it may leave you in a
more fiery hell than the one of which
you now feel the flames. do not care
If 1t does. When l am through, any
member of the New York stock ex-
| change who feels the iron in his soul
can get instant revenge and unlimited
wealth. You who are turning over in
your minds the consideration that your
great body can make new rules to
render my discovery imperative, are
dealing with shadow. There is nc
"ule or device that can prevent Its
working. There are 1000 seats in the
New York stock exchange. They are
worth to-day $4,000 apiece, or $95,
100000 in all. Their value is due tc
the fact that this exchange deals In
between one and three million shares
a day. Were any attempt made t.
prevent the operation of my invention
transactions would because of suct
attempt drop to five or ten thousand
shares per day, or to such transaction.
as represented stock that will be actu
ally delivered and actually paid for