Fair play., 1907-11-16
copyright, 1907, doubleday, Page & Coz
Arthor Of
.Frenzied Finance"
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CF1Rf N ll.-COntinueu.
did not argue with him, for after
that Saturdays outburst, had made
up my mind to avoid stirring Bob up
unnecessarily. Also, had to admit to
myself that the things he had then
said had raised some uncomfortable
thoughts in me, thoughts that made
me glance less confidently now and
then at the old sign of Randolph &
Randolph and at the big ledger which
showed that I, an ordinary citizen of
a free country, was the absolute pos.
sessor of more money than a hundred
thousand of my fellow beings together
could accumulated in a lifetime, al.
though each had worked harder, long.
er. more conscientiously, and with
perhaps more ability than J.
AS to how Beulah Sands code had
affected my friend, l was ignorant
For the first time in our association
was completely in the dark as to what
he was doing stockwise. Up to that
Saturday | was the first to whom he
would rush for congratulations when
he struck it rich over others on the
for consolation when the boys upper
cut him hard" as he would put it,.
Now he never said q wor' about his
trading. / saw that his account with
the house was inactive, that his bal.
ance was about the same as before
Miss Sands advent, and ! came to
the conclusion that he was resting on
his oars and giving his undivided at
tention to her account and the exc
cution OF his commissions. His hand
ling of the business of the house show
ed no change. He still was the best
broker on the floor However, know
Ing Bob as / did, l could not get it
out of my mind that his brain was
running like a mill-race in search of
some successful solution of the tre-
mendous problem that must be solved
In the next three months.
Shortly after the October I state
ments had been sent out, Bob dropped
in on Kate and me one night. After
she had retired and we had lit our
cigars in the library he said
Jim, | want some of that old-fash-
ioned advice of yours. Sugar is sell
ing at 10, and 1t is worth it; in fact
1t is cheap. The stock is we'll dstrib-
uted among investors, not much of
1t floating round the street A good
big buying movement, we'll handled,
would jump it to 175 and keep it there.
Am | sound?"
| agreed with him.
"All right. Now what reason is
there for good, big. stiff uplift? That
tariff bill is up at Washington. If 1t
goes through, sugar will be cheaper
at 175 than at 10"
Again l agreed.
STANDARD Oil and the sugar peo.
pie know whether it is going through,
for they control the senate and the
house and can induce the president to
be good. What do you say to that ."
20. X" / answered.
mo question about it, is there"
Not the slightest"
Right again. When 26 Broadway*
gives the secret order to the Washing.
ton boss and he passes it out to the
grafters, there will be a quiet accumu-
lation Of the stock won't there?"
You've got that right, Bob"
And the man who first knows when
Washington begins to take on sugar is
the man who should load up quick
and rush it up to a high level. If he
does it quickly, the stockholders, who
now have ii, will get juicy slice of
the ripening melon, Elice that other
wise would go to those greedy hypo.
critics at Washington, who are always
publicly proclaiming that they are
there to serve their fellow country
men, but who never tire of expressing
themselves TO their brokers as not be-
ing in politics for their health"
80 far, good reasoning" / com
mented
Jim, the man who first knows when
the senators and congressman and
members of the cabinet begin to buy
sugar, is the man who can kill four
birds with one stone: Win back a
part OF Judge Sands stolen fortune;
increase his own little pile against the
/ FIRST of January, when, If the little Vir-
q ,ginian lady is short few hundred
pthousand of the necessary amount, lie
could. IL he found a way to induce her
10 accept it, supply the deficiency;
fatten up good friends bank account
a million or SO, and do a right good
turn for the stockholders who are
about to be, for the hundredth time,
bled out of profit rightfully theirs"
Bob was aflre with enthusiasm, the
FIRST ! had seen him show for three
months. Seeing thxt ! lad followed
him without objection 70 far. he con.
tinssa