Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-24

stopped me. don't know whether you meant what you threatened; I don't care now. It is just as we'll that stopped, for the 'System's' machine will be there whenever start in again. It loses nothing of its fiend- ishness, none of its destructive powers by grinding. but on the contrary, as you know. it increases its speed every day it runs. Now, Jim Randolph, I want to tell you that you must get yours and the houses affairs in such shape that you won't be hurt when I go into that human rat-pit the next time, for when I come from 1t the New York Stock Exchange and the System will have had their spines unjointed. Yes, and I'll have their hearts out, too. Neither will ever be able to take from the American people their savings and their manhood and womanhood and give them in ex- change unadulterated torment. I am going to be fair with you, Jim; this is the last time will discuss the sub iect After this you must take your chance with the rest of those who have to do with the cursed business. When I strike again, none will be spared. I will wreck the Street. and the innocent will go down with the guilty, if they have any stocks on hand at that time.
 My power, Jim, is unlimited; noth. ing can stay it. I am not going to explain any further You have seen me work. You must know that my power is greater than the Systems and you and and the Street have al- ways known that the System is more powerful than the government, more powerful than are the courts, legisla- lures, congress, and the president of the United States combined, that 1t absolutely controls the foundation on which they rest-the money of the nation. But my power is greater, 8 thousand, yes, a million times greater than theirs. Jim, they say that have made more money than any man in the world. They say that I have five hundred millions of dollars, but the fools don't keep track of my move ments. They only know that I have pulled five hundred millions from my open whirls, the ones they have had an opportunity to keep tab on. But tell you that I have made even more 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 rigged up. The world has been throw ing up its hands in horror because Carnegie. the blacksmith of Pittsburg, pulled of three hundred millions of swag 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. I have learned to call this game of ours by it's right name. It is not business enterprise with earned profits as results, but pulled-off tricks with bags of loot blackjack swag-for their end.
 T got away with three hundred mil lions when Steel slumped from 105 to 50 and from 50 to 8, and DO one knew I'd made a dollar. You and the Street read every morning last year the 'guesses' as to who could be rounding up hundreds of millions on E the slump. The papers and the mar ket letters one morning said it was Standard Oil; the next, that 1t was Morgan; then 1t was Prick, Schwab. Gates, and so on down through the list. Of course, none of them denied; 1t 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. I have to-day a billion dollars. not the Rockefeller or Carnegie kind, but a real billion. If had no other power but the power to call tomorrow for that billion in cash, it would be sufi- 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 it 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 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 If 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 confidence-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