The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-28

Yes"
A mighty roof-lifting Yes" sound
ed through the room.
All those opposed, No"
There was a deathly hush.
MIR. BROMLEY will please speak
from this platform, and remember, In
30 minutes to the second, I will sound
the Gdvel for the resumption of bust
ness"
Rob BROMLEY strobe to the place
just vacated by the president. The
crowd was growing larger every min
ute. The ticker was already kissing
tape blograph of this extraordinary
situation in brokerage shops, hotels,
and banks throughout the country,
and in few minutes the news of it
would be in the capitals of Europe.
Never before in history did man have
such an audience-the whole civilized
world. Already arose from Wall,
Broad and New streets, which sur
round the exchange, the hoarse bel
low OF he gathering hordes. Before
the ticker should announce the re-
sumption of business these would
number h''n dreds of thousands, for
the financial district for more than an
hour had been a surging mob.
For once at least the much-abused
phrase, He looked the part" could
be used in all truthfulness. AS Rob-
ert BROMLEY threw back his head
and shoulders and faced that crowd
of men, some of whom he had hurt,
many of whom he had beggared, and
all of whom he had tortured, he pre-
scented picture such as a royal lion
recently from the jungles and just
freed from his cage might have made.
Defiance, Difference, contempt, and
pity all blended in his mien, but over
all was an I-am-the-one-yOu-are-the-
many atmosphere of confidence that
turned my spinal column into a mer-
curry tube. He began to speak:
Men of Wall street:
You have just witnessed record
breaking slaughter. l have asked
permission to talk to you for the pur-
pose of showing you how any men,
Der of a great stock exchange may at
any time do what l have done to-
day Weigh well what l am about to
say to you. During the last quarter
of a century there has grown up in
this free and fair land of ours sys-
TEN by which the few take from the
many the results of their labors. The
men who take have no more license,
from God or man, to take, than have
those from whom they fitch. They
are not endowed by God with SUI
perior wisdom, nor have they per-
formed for their fellow-men any labor
or given to them anything of value
that entities them to what they take.
Their only license to plumber is their
knowledge OF the system of trickery
and fraud that they themselves have
created. No man can gainsay this,
for on every side is the evidence.
Men come ITO Wall street at sunrise
without L is; before that same sun
sets they dspart with millions. So
all-powerful has grown the system of
oppression that single men take in a
single lifetime all the savings of a
million of their fellows To-day the
people, S0,000000 strong, are Shaving
for the few, and their pay is their
board and keep. l saw this robbery.
| felt the r,,')1rs' scourge. l sought
the secret ! found it here, here in
this gambling-hell. l found that the
stocks we bought and sold were mere
gambling chips; that the man who
had the biggest stack could beat his
opponent off the board; that his op-
ponent was the world, because all
men directly or indirectly played the
safeguarding game To win, it was
but necessary to have unlimited
chips. If chips were bought and sold,
ON equal terms, by all, no one could
buy more than he could pay for, and
the game, although still gambling
one, would be fair. A few master
tricksters, dollar magicians, long ago
seeing this condition, invented the
system by which the people are ruth
lessly plundered. The system they
invented was simple, so simple that
for a quarter of a century it has re-
manned undiscovered by the world at
large-and even by you, who profess
to be experts. No man thought that
a free people who had intended to al
low all the equal use of every avenue
for the attainment of wealth, and
who intended to provide for the safe
guarding of wealth after it was Sc
cured, could be such dolts as to al
low themselves to be robbed of all
their accumulated wealth by device
as simple as that by which children
play at blindman' s-buff. The process
was no more complex than that en-
ployed by the robber of old, who took
the pebbles from the beach, marked
them money, and with the money
bought the labor of his fellows, and
by the manipulation of that labor and
by turning pebbles into money he
took away fom the laborer the
money which he had paid them for
the labor until all in the land were
slaves of the moneymaker. These few
tricksters said: We will arbitrarily
manufacture these chips-stocks. At
ter we have manufactured them, we
will sell the world what the world
can pay for, and then by the use OF
the unlimited supply we still have we
will win away from the world what it
has bought, and repeat the operation,
until we have all the wealth, and the
people are enslaved To do this there
was one thing besides the manufac-
turing of the chips stocks-that was