Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-05-17


believe in stock gambling. She has
worked it out that every dollar one
man makes, another loses; that the
one who makes gives nothing in
return for what he gets away with;
and that the other fellows loss makes
him and his as miserable as would
robbery to the same amount. Yet
she. realizes that she must get back
those millions stolen from her father,
and is willing to smother her con-
science to attempt it, provided she
takes no unfair advantage of the 9th
er players. The other day she said
to me: i have decided, because Of
my duty to my father to put away my
prejudice against gambling, but no
duty to him or to any one else can
justify me in playing with marked
cards jim, there is food for refec-
ton for you and me, don't you Think"
l did not argue with him, for, after
that Saturdays outburst, I 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 l, an ordinary citizen of
free country, was the absolute pos
SCISSOR of more money than hundred
thousand of my fellow beings together
could accumulated in lifetime al
though each had worked harder, long
er, more conscientiously, and with
perhaps more ability than |.
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 l was the first to whom he
would rush for congratulations when
he struck it rich over others on the
exchange, and he invariably sought me
for consolation when the boys upper
cut him hard" as he would put it.
Now he never said word about his
trading. / saw that his account with
the house was inactive, that his bal
Miss Sands advent, and l came to
the conclusion that he was resting on
his oars and giving his undivided at
tsntion 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
out Of my mind that his brain was
running like mill-race in search of
some successful solution of the ire
mendous problem that must be solved
in the next three months.
Shortly after the October / state
1ents had been sent out, Bob dropped
I 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-
Toned advice of yours. Sugar is sell
ing at ITO, and it is worth it; in fact
1t is cheap. The stock is we'll distrib-
uted among investors, not much of
1t floating round the street. A good
big buying movement, well handled.
would jump it to IT'S and keep it there.
Am l sound?".
l agreed with him.
"All right. Now what reason is
there for good, big, stiff uplift? That
tariff bill is up at Washington. If it
goes through, sugar will be cheaper
at It's than at no."
Again l agreed.
ard
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. k" l answered.
mo question about it, is there?"
Not the slightest"
Right again. When &c Broadway
gives the secret order to the Washing
/ ton boss and he passes it out to the
grafters, there will be quiet accumu-
lation Of the stock, won't there?"
(*"2s Broadway" is the Wall street fig
ure of speech for STANDARD Oil" which
has its home 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 high level. If he
does it quickly, the stockholders, who
now have it, will get juicy slice of
the ripening melon slice 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"
so far. good reasoning" I 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 Whnn tho Iitt1a TTir