The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1907-10-31
"All those opposed, No."
There was q deathly hush.

All those opposed, NO.
There was deathly hush.
"Mr. BROMLEY will please speak
from this platform, and remember, in
80 minutes to the second, I will sound
the gayel for the resumption of bust.
ness"
Bob BROMLEY strobe to the place
'.ist vacated by the president. The
crowd was growing larger every min
ute. The ticker was already kissing
tape biograph of this extraordinary
situation in brokerage shops, hotels,
and banks throughout the country,
and in a few minutes the news OF 1t
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 the gathering hordes. Before
the ticker should announce the re-
sumption of business these would
number hundreds of thousands, for
the financial district for more than an
hour had been 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-.
sented a 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 mer-
curry tube. He began to speak;
Men of Wall street:
You have just witnessed a record.
breaking slaughter. L have asked
permission to talk to you for the pur-
pose of showing you how any mem.
Der of a great stock exchange may at
any time do what l have done to-
day. Weigh we'll what 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 a 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
perlor 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 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 a
single lifetime all the savings of a
million of their fellows. To-day the
people, S0,000,000 strong, are Shaving
for the few, and their pay is their
board and keep. l saw this robbery.
l felt the robbers 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 a gambling
one, would be fair. A few master
tricksters, dollar magicians. long age
seeing this condition, invented the
system by which the people are ruth
lessly plundered. The system they
invented was simple, so simple thai
for quarter of century it has re
manned undiscovered by the world a.
large-and even by you, who profess
to be experts. No man thought tina
a free people who had intended to al
low all the equal use of every avenue
| for the attainment of wealth, ant
who intended to provide for the safe
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