The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28

1 some very honest men, ealu no, make a speciality of secrecy in their l business affairs. That would not do | for me. who make a cult of frankness. " This is & frec-hand sketch of Mir. King. as looked him up and down on | this our first encounter. He has l square, wise head set firmly on square. | door-wide shoulders. and square, res- olute jaw to be in harmony with the | rest. Six feet tall and more. with long. slingy. powerful arms. he has the frame of an athlete. With & person. | ality like Corliss engine. you know him at once for a herd -leader-for l congenital captain of man. His eye, level, steady. without furtivities or | concealments. is the eye of command. His manner Is military. and he gives the impression of passing most of his life on his feet. His atmosphere is con- fident, and begets confidence. Pre-em- inently he Is the sublimation of action quick to see. quick to direct. If I were to read the gentleman. should say that. while easy to con vince--if you have the arguments and ! the facts-C. F. King Is in no wise credulous. He detects humbugs. has an intuitive knowledge of the false. He Is strong willed. without being ob- stinate. He has a clear conception of what he wants. and why he wants 1t. and how he means to get 1t. Also. he is a horse to owork-deep-lunged and tireless. And because he has met and managed all kinds or men-pig men, pouter pigeon men. cock robin men. dog men, ma n men--he Is broad mind- ed and tolerant.
 There is nothing of the porcupine about c. F. King. no quills, no irri- abilities. His stomach is too sound. his blood too red for that. He will rush upon his work like a soldier stOrming a fortress; he will despise a coward. denounce a laggard: but there will be no spites. no peevish littleness. Out West when they aim to describe one who Is sound in every honest and unflagging virtue whose loyalty will stand the acid and whose courage Is above proof. they say: You could cross the plains with him." After careful survey must believe that you could cross the plains with C. r. King.
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 Your thorough paced Southern man may be discovered by tne even. self respecting terms up, Il which he meets and greets you. There is nothing of manner and such manhood in his atti- tudes. All of whcih graceful condition. I take 1t. Is due to this: His whole notion of what Is nobly great in life Is included in the term a Southern gentleman" This last Is his by in- heritance; like a squab pigeon. he's biggest when he's born. It's as though he were cradled on & peak. Whatever existence may hold in store for him. and though he conquer his way to millions of gold. or a seat in a cab inet. or to the very White House it. self. he never conQuers uphill There- fore. your Southern gentleman is not to be swollen of small vanities nor dis covered in Narcissian admirations of himself He will no more think of giv- ing than of accepting insult. and never finds 1t necessary to tras'act his greatness at the expense of other men. And all these, as I saw and read them, were the observable brands and ear-marks of c. F. King.
 Settling myself in the smoke of . fresh cigar, I commenced my cam paign of questions
 I see." said I. flourishing the C. F. King announcement. clipped from Kings Financial Bulletin, that your face Is set like flint against stock gambling2" Tt is--decidedly." said MT. King In offering securities to the public--to the people who look to me for advice in the matter of investments-I en- deavor to eliminate every element of
 
 houses list their offerings on the Stock Exchange or on the Curb. Some years ago this was considered an ab- solute endorsement of the stability and reliability and worth of a security: but this is not true any more,' if 1t was ever true. People have begun to learn that the listing of securities is done largely for purposes of manipulation" "Don't Speculate! Invest!" His War-cry
 Until I began my campaign against stock gambling, people apparently did not realize that there is always some clique or organization or individual who makes a market. The values thus created are fictitious ones. The public Is beginning to wake to a realization of this state of affairs. and Is not now Stock Exchange advance in the price of stock. means q rush on the part of investors to get hold of 1t because of its intrinsic value realized 1t long ago. and decided to take vigorous stand against it. I offer securities only as investments. None of my stocks s listed. There Is no chance to gamble in them"
 Before I started Kings Financial Bulletin. I conducted g. column in a great many newspapers under the title of Kings Column of Financial Logic" paying myself for the space used. and stating therein my ideas of investments. Sometimes my remarks were so pointed that certain papers wanted to blue pencil them My war cry has always been: Don't speculate! Invest! Don't gamble. The only man who understands the game Is the one behind 1t, and he is the only man who wins"
 T notice also" said I. that you think per cent return on invest ments little enough?"
 And so it is. l have insisted all along that the low rates paid by the savings banks on the money deposited by the people were not fair nor just. The man who works for his money, who has a few thousands saved by self denial and hard work. Is beginning to realize that his income will never amount to much at or per cent. per annum. I have shown that there has been. by mutual consent. an under standing between banks and financial institutions to discourage the ordinary depositor from wanting more than per cent. on his money. They tell him that anything above that is risky. and to be viewed with suspicion, that he had better be satisfied with a small re- turn and absolute safety. At the same time those very bankers who give this advice are themselves receiving 2 and 10 and oven a greater per cent. on their own investments. All over the coun- try the public mind has been trained to regard with suspicion any security