Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-31

millions Of people whom. you term
lambs and suckers. You chuckle as
year after year, having been sent away
shorn, they return for new shearing'
You marvel that the merchants, man
ufacturers, miners, lawyers, farmers,
who have sufficient intelligence to
gather such surplus legitimately, would
bring it to our gambling hell, where
upon all sides is plan proof that we
who conduct the gambling, and who
produce nothing, are obliged to take
from those who do produce, hundreds
of millions each year for expenses,
and hundreds of millions each year for
profits-for you know that we have
nothing to give them in return for
what they bring to us. You know that
every dollar Of the billions lost in Wall
street means higher prices for steel
rails, for lumber and cars, and that
this means higher passenger and
freight rates to the people. You know
that when the manufacturer brings his
wealth to Wall street and is robbed Of
it, he will add something to the price
Of boots and shoes, cotton and wooden
clothes, and other necessities that he
makes and that he sells to the people
You know that when the copper, lead.
tin, and iron miners part with their
surplus to the SYSTEM 1t means
higher prices to the people for their
copper pots and cutters, for the water
that comes through lead pipes, for
their tin dippers and wash boilers, and
for their rents, and all those neces-
stiles into which machinery, lumber,
and other raw and finished material
enters. You know that every hundred
millions dropped by real producers to
the brigands Of our world means lower
wages or less Of the necessities and
luxuries for all the people, and espe-
cially for the farmer. You know that
II Is habit with us Of Wall street to
gloat over the doctrine Of the System
which the people parrot among them
selves, the doctrine that the people
at large are not affected by our gam
bling, because they, the people, having
no surplus to gamble with, never come
into Wall street. And yet, knowing
all this, you never thought, with all
your wisdom and cynicism, that right
here in this institution, which you own
and control, was the open sesame for
each or all Of you, to those great
chests Of gold that your clients. the
System have filled to bursting from
the stores Of the people. What ask,
do you wise men think Of the situation
as you now see it?"'
There was an oppressive stiffness
on the floor. The great crowd, which
now contained nearly all the members
Of the exchange, listened with bulging
eyes and open mouths to the revela-
tions of their fellow member. From
time to time, as Bob Brownley poured
forth his shot and shell of. deadly logic,
from the vast mob that now surround
ed the exchange rose a hoarse below
of impatience, for few in that dense
throng outside could understand the
silence of the gigantic human crusher.
which between the hours of ten and
three was never before known to miss
a revolution except while its victims
hearts and souls were being removed
from it's gears and meshes.
Bob Brownley paused and looked
down into the faces Of the breathless
gamblers with a contempt that was
superb. He went on:
Men of Wall street, 1t is writ in the
books of the ancient that every evil
contains within itself q cure or de-
stroyer. I do not pretend that what
am revealing to you is to you a cure
for this hideous evil. but I do say
that what am giving you Is a de-
stroyer for 1t, and that while 1t Will
be to the world a cure, 1T may leave
you in a more fiery hell than the one
Of which you now feel the flames. 1
do not care If it does. When I am
through, any member Of the New
York stock exchange who feels the
iron in his soul can get instant revenge
and unlimited wealth. You who are
turning over in your minds the con-
sideration that your great body can
make new rules to render my discov-
cry imperative, are dealing with a
shadow. There is no rule or device
that can prevent its working. There
are 1000 seats in the New York stock
exchange. They are worth today $685.
600 apiece, or $95,OO0,000 in all. Their
value Is due to the fact that this ex-
change deals in between one and three
million shares a day. Were any at
tempt made to prevent the operation
of my invention, transactions would
or ten thousand shares per day, or to
such transactions as represented stock
that will be actually delivered and ac-
tually paid for. To make my inven-
ton useless it must be made impossi-
BILE to buy or sell the same share OF
stock more than once at one session,
and short selling, which is now, as
you know, the foundation Of the mod
ern stock-gambling structure, must
likewise be made impossible. II this
cou,d be done the s95,0O0,000 worth of
seats in the exchange would be worth
less than five millions, and, what is OF
far greater import to all the people,
the financial world would be revolu-
tionized. Men of Wall street, do not
fool yourselves. My invention Is
sure destroyer of the greatest curse
in the world, stock gambling"
To Be Continued.
GTNPowDER AND HAIIsTONF,s An