Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-24

to continue their work unhindered and
could not do it. 1 must have re-
venge; must smash that heart-crush-
ing machinery. Then I can go, and
take Beulah with me. Now, Jim, let
us have it clearly understood once and
for all"
Remorse and softness were past; he
was the Indian again. Il am going TO
wreck that hell-annex some day, and
that some day will be the next time l
start in. Don't argue with me, don't
misunderstood me. Today you stop
ped me. I don't know whether you
meant what you threatened; don't
care now. 1t is just as we'll that 1
stopped, for the Systems machine
will be there whenever start in again.
1t loses nothing Of its fiendishness'
none Of its destructive powers by
grinding, but on the contrary, as you
know, 1t increases its speed every day
It runs. Now, Jim Randolph, want
to tell you that you must get yours
and the houses affairs in such shape
that you won't be hurt when go into
that human rat-pit the next time, Tor
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 exchange unadulterated
torment. ! am going to be fair yith
you, Jim; this is the last time Will
discuss the subject. 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. 1 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; moth
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 or
the United States combined, that 1t
absolutely controls the foundation on
which they rest-the money OF the
nation. But my power is greater, a
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 have hVe
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 l
tell you that 1 have made even more
in my secret deals than the amount
they have seen me take. I have had
my agents with my capital in every
deal, every steal the System has
rigged UP. The world has been throw
ing up it's hands in horror because
Carnegie the blacksmith Of Pittsburg,
pulled off 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. l have learned
to call this game Of ours by its right
name. 1t is not business enterprise
with earned profits as results, but
pulled off tricks with bags Of loot
black jack swag-for their end.
II got away with three hundred mil
lions when Steel slumped from 105 to
so and from so to 8, and no 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
the slump. The papers and the mar
Standard Oil; the next, that 1t was
Morgan: then it was F'rick, Schwab,
Gates, and so on down through the
list. OF course, none of them denied;
it 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 l who
sold Pennsylvania every morning for
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 today a billion dollars, not the
Rockefeller or Carnegie kind, but a
real billion. If l had no other power
but the power to call tomorrow for
that billion in cash, it 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
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
lheld 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. 1t 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
traps. 1t had been advertised through