Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-30
BY THOMAS w. LAWSON

eyes ana open mouths TO the reveal
tons OF their fellow member From
time to time, as Bob BROMLEY poured
forth his shot and shell of deadly logic,
from the vast mob that now surround
ed the exchange rose a hoarse below
of impatience, for few in that dense
throng outside could understand the
silence of the gigantic human crusher,
which between the hours Of ten and
three was never before known to miss
revolution except while its victims
hearts and souls we're being removed
from its gears and meshes.
Bob BROMLEY paused and looked
down into the faces of the GREATNESS
gamblers with a 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 a cure or a de-
stroyer l do not pretend that what
am revealing to you is to you cure
for this hideous evil, but l do say that
what am giving you is a destroyer
for it, and that while Il 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 it 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
oil ,-tt1n fa
render my discovery imperative, are
dealing with a shadow. There is no
rule 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 $685.
100000 in all. Their value is due to
the fact that this exchange deals in
between one and three million shares
a day. Were any attempt made to
prevent the operation of my invention,
transactions would because of such
attempt drop to five or ten thousand
shares per day, or to such transactions
as represented stock that will be actu-
ally delivered and actually paid for.
TO make my invention useless it must
be made impossible to buy or sell the
same share Of stock more than once
at one session, and short selling, which
is now, as you know, the foundation of
the modern stock-gambling structure,
must likewise be made impossible If
this could be done the $4,000 600
worth of seats in the exchange would
be worth less than five millions. and,
what is OF far greater import to all
the people, the financial world would
be reyolutionized Men Of Wall street.
DO not fool yourselves, My invention
is sure destroyer of the greatest
curse in the world, Safeguarding"
A sullen growl rose from the gam
blers. Robert BROMLEY glared down
his defiance.
Let me show you the impossibility
of preventing in the future anyone's
doing what l have done to Won so
many times during the past Ave years.
All the capital required to work nv
invention is nerve and desperation. or
nerve without desperation. It is well
known to you that there are ar all
times exchange members who win
commit any crime, barring, perhaps
murder, to gain millions. Your mem.
bers have from time to time shown
nerve or desperation enough to embez-
zle, raise certificates, give bogus
checks, counterfeit stocks and bonds.
and this for gain Of less than millions.
and when detection was probable. All
these are criminal offenses and their
detection is sure to bring disgrace and
state prison. Yet members Of this ex-
change desperate enough to take the
chance, when confronted with loss of
fortune and open bankruptcy, have al.
ways been found with nerve enough
to attempt the crimes. repeat that
there are at all times exchange mem
bers who will commit any crime, barr
Ing perhaps. murder, to gain Millions
That you may see that my successors
will surely come from your midst from
the to time during the future exist