The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-04-13

Pandemoniufh reiened Every man in
the crowd seemed to have the capital
stock Of the Sugar TRUST to sell, and
at any price. A score seemed to be
bent on selling as low as possible in.
stead OF for as much as they could get.
These we're the shorts who had been
punished the day before by Bob's up.
lift.
Poor. bob, he was forgotten! An in.
slant after he made his last effo,t he
Vas the dead cock In the pit. Frenzled
gamblers Of the stock exchange have
70 more use for the dead cocks than
have Mexicans for the real birds when
they get the fatal gan. The day after
the contest, or even that same night at
Deimonico's and the clubs, these men
would moan for poor Bob; Barry Con.
ants moan would be the loudest Of
them all and, what is more. It would
be sincere But on battle day away
to the dump with the fallen bird, the
bird that could not win. saw lock
OF deep. terrible agony spread over
Bob's face; and then In a fash he was
the Bob Brownley who always boast.
ed had the courage aud the brain To
do the right thing In all circumstances
To the astonishment of every man Ia
the crowd he let loose one wild yell q
cross between the war.whoop Of an
Indian and the bay OF u deeplunged
hound regaining lost scent Then he
began to throw over Sugar stock,
right and left. In big and little
amounts He slaughtered the price
underwriting Barry Conants every Of
fer and filling every bid For 20 min.
utes he was madman, then he
stopped. Sugar was falling rapidly to
the price It finally reached, 80, and
the panic was In full swing. but panics
seemed now to have no interest for
Bob He pushed his way through the
crowd and. Joining me, said: Jim.
forgive me. l have dragged you into
an enormous loss, have ruined Beulah
Sands, her father and myself. think
at the last moment / did the only
thing possible. | threw over the 150..
600 shares and SO cut or some OF our
loss. Let us 60 to the Office and see
where we stand" He was strangely.
unnaturally calm after that heart.crush.
Ing, nerve.tearing day | tried to tell
him how admired his cool nerve and
pluck In about facing and doing the
only thing there was left to do: 70 tell
him that required more real courage
and level headedness than all the rest
OF the days doings but he stopped
me:
Jim, don't talk to me. My conceit
10 gone. have learned my lesson TO-
day. My plans we're all right. and
sound. but poor fool that | was, | did
not take into consideration the loaded
dice OF the master thieves. | knew
what they could do. have seen them
scores OF times, AS you have. at their
slaughter; seen them crush out TIE
hearts OF other men just as good as
you or |; seen them take them out and
skin and quarter-slice them, unmlnd-
ful OF the agony Of those who were
dear to and dependent on their own.
ers, but 1t never seemed to strike me
home II was not my heart, and some
how. / looked at II as a part OF the
game and let 1t go at that. To-day. |
know what It means to be put on The
chopping block OF the System butch
ers. know what 1t is to see my heart
and the heart Of one love--and yours,
too, Jim---systematically skewered to
those OF the hundreds and thousands
Of victimA who have gone before. Jim.
We must be three millions losers, and
the men who have our money have SO
many, many millions that they can't
live long enough even to thumb them
over. Men who will use our money
on the gambling table. at the race
tracks, sQuander 1t on stage harlots,
or in turning their wives and daugh.
ters or their neighbors. wives and
daughters into worse than stage kar-
lots. Men. jim, who arc not nt. meas.
ured by any standard OF dscency, =,
walk the same earth as you and jade,
Sands. Men whose painted pets pol,
lutte the very air that such as Beulah
Sands must breathe. I've learned my
lesson to-day. ! thought j knew the
game Of finance, but I'm suddenly
awakened to realization OF the dense
ignorance wallowed In. Jim, hut for
the loading OF the dice, l should now
have been taking Beulah Sands to her
father with the money that the hellish
System stole from him. Later should
have taken her to the altar, and after,
who knows but that I should have had
the happiest home and family In all
the world. and. lived as her people and
mine have lived for generations. hon
est. God-fearing. law-ahiding, neigh
BORROWING men and women, and then
died as men should die? hut now.
Jim. ] see black. awful picture. No,
I'm not morbid. I'm going to make
heroic effort to put the picture out OF
sight; but I'm afraid. Jim. I'm AFRAID"
he stopped as we pulled up on the
sidewalk In front OF Randolph & Ran
dolph's Office. Here It Is on the )ul.
letin. See what did the trick, Jim.
They held the Sugar meeting last
night instead OF waiting till tomorrow.
and cut the dividend instead of In
creasing It. The world won't know 1t
until tomorrow. Then they will know
1t, then they viii know 1t. They will
read IL In the baadliuae ~ tha ,>ana,.