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THE I3zMH !
a Novel BY
THOMAS W. LAWSON
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This was easy, because Barry
Conant. not knowing Of my newly
invented trick. could buy only what
he could pay for on the morrow,
or, at least, what he believed his
clients could pay for: while !, not in
tending to deliver what sold-unless
by smashing the price to a point where
/ could compel those who had bought
TO resell TO me at millions less than
sold at-could sell unlimited amounts
literally unlimited amounts. When
Barry Conant had bought all that he
thought he could pay for, he was
obliged TO beat a retreat In front of
my offerings, and was able to smash,
and smash. until the price was so low
that he could not by the use OF what
he had bought. as collateral, borrow
sufficient to pay me for what l had
sold him. Then he was compelled to
turn about and sell what he had
bought from me. and when | had re.
bought II for ten millions less than /
had sold it for, the trick had been
turned. had sold him 100, 600 shares
say at 220. He had sold them back
to me say at 100, and he stood where
he had stood at the beginning. He
had none of the 100000 shares. Both
of us stood. so far as stock was con-
cerned. where we had stood at the be.
ginning. but as to profits and losses
there was this difference: had ten
millions Of dollars profits, while Barry
NJ al he
ten millions losers-and all by a trick
The trick did not differ in principle
from the one in constant practice by
the System When the System.
after manufacturing Sugar stock, sell
100000 shares to the people for $l0.-
100000. they 80 manipulate the market
by the use Of the $40, 000. 900 that they
have taken from the people as to scare
them into selling the 100000 shares
back to them for 100000 After
they have bought they again manipu-
late the market until the people buy
back for $4,000. 900 what they sold for
$5.000.000. The System commits no
legal crime committed no legal
crime. had not even infringed any
rule of the exchange, any more than
had the System when they performed
their trick. Since my experimental
panic have repeatedly put the trick
in operation. and each time ! have
taken millions. until to-day l have in
my control, as absolutely as though
had honestly earned them, as the Ia
borer earns his weeks wages. or the
farmer the price OF his crops. over
81 200, 900. 900, or sufficient to keep en-
shaved the rest OF their lives a million
people.
what do you intelligent men thinl
OF this situation? You know. because
you know the safeguarding game
that the American people. with thell
boasted brains and courage, come yea
after year with their bags OF gold. thu
result of their prosperous labors, anC
dump them. hundreds Of millions. int
this gambling inferno Of yours. Yo'
know that they are fools. these sill!
millions Of people whom you tern
lambs and suckers. You chuekle as
year after year. having been sent ava.
shorn, they return for new shearine
You marvel that the merchants, manu-
facturers, miners. lawyers. farmers
who have sufficient intelligence 4
gather such surplus legitimately. woul'
bring It 10 our gambling hell. wher
upon all sides Is plain proof that W
who conduct the gambling. and VIII
produce nothing. are obliged to TAX
from those who do produce. hundred
of millions each year for expenses
and hundreds Of millions each year 70
profits--for you know that we hay
nothing to give them In return 70
what they bring 10 Us. You know tina
every dollar OF the billions lost in Wa
street means higher prices foS stes
rails, for lumber and cars. and this
this means higher passenger an
freight rates to the people. You kno'
that when the manufacturer brings hi
wealth 20 Wall street and IL robbed c
II, he win add something to the pric
OF boots and shoes. cotton and woole
clothes. and other necessities that b
makes and that ne CELLS 20 the people
You know that when the copper, lea,
tin. and iron miners part with the
surplus 20 the System, II mean
higher prices to the people for the
copper pots and cutters. for the wats
that comes through lead pipes. e
their tin clippers and wash boilers, an
for their rents. and all those niece
stiles into which machinery. lumbe
aud other raw and finished materil
enters. You know that every hundra
Millions dropped by real producers
the Drignnds Of our world means low,
wages or less Of the necesaitiea an
iuxlslss for ail the people, and esp