The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-18

|
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 into Wall street at sunrise
without dollars; before that same sun
sets they depart with millions. So
all.powerful has grown the system OF
oppression that single men take In
single lifetime all the savings OF
million Of their fellows. To-day the
people, S0,000000 strong, are shaving
for the few, and their pay is their
board and keep. | saw this robbery.
felt the robbers scourge. sought
the secret. / found Il here, here i'm
this gambling-hell. / 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
stock gambling 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 a 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 quarter of a century II has re.
mained undiscovered by the world at
large-and even by you, who profess
to be experts No man thought that
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 1t was Sc
cured, could be such dolts as to al.
| low themselves TO be robbed of all
their accumulated wealth by a device
as simple as that by which children
play at bllndmans.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 from 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 Az.
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 1t
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
absolutely necessary--a gambling.
hell, the working OF whose machinery
would place a selling value upon such
chips; hell where, after selling the
chips. they could be won back / saw
| NhoN ~ AhNht lllthsltIh WtIt VI Dt
routed and their System was to be
destroyed, II must be through the ma.
chinery of this stock exchange.
studied the machinery, and presently
! | marvelled that men could for so
long have been asses
From the very nature OF stock
gambling 1t is necessary, absolutely
| 4 ha 10.
certain rules. Interchangeable. unbreak,
able rules. to attempt to change or
break which would destroy stock.
gambling. The foundation rule, the
rule absolutely necessary for the ex.
istence OF stock-gambling is: Any
! member Of the stock exchange can
buy, or sell, between the opening and
closing of the exchange as many
shares Of stock as he cares to- With
this rule In force his buying and sell.
Ing cannot be restricted to the amount
he can take and pay for, or deliver
and receive pay for, because there Is
not money enough in the world to pay
for what under this same rule can be
bought and sold In single session.
This Is because there have been ar,
bitranly created by these few trick,
sters many times more stocks than
there is money In existence. The
amount OF stock that any man can
sell In one session of the exchange Is
limited only by tho amount that he
can offer for sale, and he can offer
any amount his tongue can utter;
and he Is not compelled and cannot
be compelled to show his ability to
deliver what he has offered for sale
until after he has finished. selling.
which Is the following day You vii;
ask as | did: Can this be possible ?
you will find the answer | found. 1t
Is so, and must continue to be so, or
there will be no stockgambling, Mark
me-, for this statement Is weighted
with the greatest import 10 you all. A
member OF this exchange can sell as
many shares of stock at one session
AS he cares TO offer, II any attempt
is made at the session he sells at To
compel him either before or after he
offers to sell to show his ability Ia
deliver, away goes the stock gambling
structure, because from the very ma
| ture of the whole structure of stock.