The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-11

In my secret deals than the amount
they have seen me take. ! have had
my agents with my capital In every
deal, every steal the System has
rugged up. The world has been throw
ing up It's hands in horror because
Carnegie. the blacksmith OF Pittsburg,
pulled on three hundred millions Of
swsg in the Steel hold.up---yes, swag,
Jim. Don't scowl as though you want
ed to read me lecture on the coarse
ness Of my language. have learned
to call this game OF ours by Its right
name. II is not business enterprise
with earned profits as results, but
pulled-off tricks with bags Of loot
blackjack swag--for their end.
81 got away with three hundred mil
lions when Steel slumped from 1O5 to
so and from SO to s, and no one knew
I'd made dollar. You and the
Street read every morning last year
the guesses' as to who could be
rounding up hundreds of millions on
the slump. The papers and the mar
ket letters, one morning said It was
Standard Oil: the next, that IL was
Morgan; then II was Frick, Schwab,
Gates. and so on down through the
list. or course. none OF them denied;
IL is capital to all these knights of the
road to be making millions in the
minds OF the world, even though they
never get any Of the money. Dick
Turpin and Jonathan Wild never
were fonder of having the daring
hold-ups that other highwaymen per-
petrated laid to their doors, than are
these modern bandits Of being credit
ed with ruthless deeds, that they did
not commit. But Jim, twas I who
sold Pennsylvania every morning for
a year, while the selling was explain
ed by the press as 'Cassatt cutting
down Gould's telegraph poles. Gould
and old man Rockefeller selling Penn
sylvania to get even Jim Randolph.
| have to-day billion dollars, not the
Rockefeller or Carnegie kind, but a
real billion. II I had no other power
but the power to call tomorrow for
that billion in cash, II would be suffi-
cient TO lay in waste the financial
world before tomorrow night You
are welcome, Jim, to any part of that
billion, and the more you take the
happier you will make me, but when
I strike in again, don't attempt TO stay
me, for II will do no good"
Shortly after this talk Bob left for
Europe with Beulah. A great Ger.
man expert on brain disorders had
held out hope that a six months treat.
ment at his sanitarium in Berlin
might aid In restoring her mind. They
returned the following August. The
trip had been fruitless. It was plain
to me that Bob was the same hope.
lessly desperate man as when he left,
more hopeless. more desperate II any
thing than when he warned me OF his
determination.
When he left for Europe "the
Street" breathed more freely, and as
time went by and there was no sign
Of his conhdence.disturbing influence
In the market, the System" began
to bring out Its deferred deals. Times
were ripe for setting up the most
wildly inflated stock lamb-shearing
traps. II had been advertised through.
out the world that Tom Reinhart, now
a two-hundred.time millionaire. was to
consolidate his and many other enter.
prises into one gigantic trust with
twelve billions Of capital His Union
and Southern Pacific railroads, his
Southern lines, together with his
steamship company and lead, iron.
and copper mines, were to be merged
with the steel. traction, gas, and other
he owned Jointly with
Standard OIL" Some of the railroads
owned by Rockefeller and his pals, In
which Reinhart had no part, were to
90 in too, and with these was to mite
that mother hog OF chem all, Stand
ard OIL itself The trust was to he
an enormous company. the like OF
which had until then not. even been
dreamed Of by the most daring stock
The Systems" banks,
as we'll as trust and insurance com.
panles throughout the country, had
for a long time been getting into
shape by concentrating the money OF
the country for this monster trust.
It was newspaper and news bureau
gossip that Reinhart and his crowd
had bought millions of shares OF the
different stocks involved In the deal,
and II was common knowledge that
upon Its successful completion Rein.
hart's fortune would be In the neigh.
Of billion. On October list
the certificate Of the Anti.People's
Trust. $4,000, 900, 900 capital, O,oOo,.
900 shares, were listed upon the New
York, London, and Boston Stock Ex-
changes, and the German and French
Bourses. and trading in them started
pff fast and furious at 106 The claim
that one billion Of the twelve billions
capital had been set aside to be used
In protecting and manipulating the
stock in the market. had been ~ vySie-
y advertised that even the most dar-
ing plunger did not think of selling It
short.
IL was evident to all In the stock
gambling world that this was TO be
The Systems" grand coup, that at
|ts completion the masses would be
rudely awakened to realization that
heir savings were invested in the
combined American Industries at vast. /