The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-17


own in enterprises that would aid the
whole people of the south, instead of
sending them to the north to be used
in Wall street as betting for the 'Sys-
tenn grinder. These fortunes were
made in the south by men who loved
their section of the country more than
they did wealth, and why should they
not be employed to benefit that part
of the country which their makers and
owners loved? l remember wildly
how perplexed he was when, at the be-
ginning, the Wilson's would show him
that the investments were returning
unusually large profits.
1T is not right, Beulsh,' he said to
me one morning after receiving a let
ter from Baltimore to the effect that
Seaboard stock and bonds had adj
vanced until his investment showed
over so per cent. profit, it is not right
for us to make this money. No man
in America should make over legal
rates of interest and fair profit on
an investment, that is, an investment
Of capital pure and simple, particu-
larly in a transportation company,
where every dollar of profit comes
from the people who patronize the
lines. l have worked it out on every
side, and it is not right; 1t would not
be legal If the people, who make the
laws for their own betterment, I'M
derstood their affairs as they should.
"1n wac a1Waye o. tn the WILL
sons to conduct tn. of the Sea-
board so that there would be remain
ing each day only profits enough to
keep the road up and the wharves in
good condition and to pay the annual
interest and fair dividend. And
when the Wilson's came to our house
to lay before him the offer of Rein
hardt and his fellow plunderers to
pay enormous profits for the control
of the seaboard, he was indignant and
argued with them that the offer was
an insult to honest men. 1t was he
who advised the trusteeship control
Of the Seaboard stock to prevent
Reinhart from securing control sat
in the library when he talked to the
elder Wilson and the directors.
"He appealed directly to John Will
son to make an effort to stop the
growing tendency to use the people
as pawns to enslave themselves and
their children. He said some man
of undoubted probity, standing, and
wealth, some one whom the people
trusted, must start the fight against
these New York fiends, whose only
thought is to roll up wealth. And
he told John Wilson he was the man,
since he had great wealth, honestly
got by his father and grandfather;
no one would accuse him of being
hypocrite, seeking notoriety, and his
standing in the financial world was
so old and solid that it would
have to listen to him. l remember
how emphatically father said: L tell
you, John, even the discussion of such
a proposition as that scoundrel Rein
hart makes is degrading to an Amer
leans honor He said it didn't make
ed his millions by the score, and was
director in 80 or 40 great institutions,
and gave fortune every year for
charity to the church-that he was
a blackleg just the same. And so is
any man, he said, who dares to say
portation company, which represents
certain amount of money invested
and double or multiply it by five and
ten, simply because he can compel
people to pay exorbitant fares and
freight rates and so get profits on this
fraudulently increased capital.
at was the decision arrived at by
father and the Wilson's at this meet
ing, a decision to refuse in any cir
,umstances to allow our southern peo-
Die to be bled by the Wall street 'sys-
.em,' that started Reinhart and his
lollar-fiends on the war-path. You
ian see from what l tell you of my
father the terrible condition he is
n now. At night, when l get to
thinking of him, hoping against hope,
With no one to help him, no one with
whom he can talk over his affairs,
roting his time to mother and by
sheer will-power concealing from her
his awful suffering, it nearly drives
ne mad"
miss Sands, why will you not let
ne lend you the money necessary to
ide your father over for awhile?" I
lsked.
"You are so good" Mr.. Randolph,
but you don't quite understand my
ather in spite Of what l have said.
He would not re,iave his suffering at
he expense Of another, not if it were
I hundred times more acute. You
.annot understand the old-fashioned,
leep-rooted pride of the Sands
"But can you not at least tempo
arily disguise from him just low you
lave arranged the relief"
Her big blue eyes stared al me- 70
iewilderment;
"Mr. Randolph | cou:'. .@1t deceive
father could not tel MIN. lie
even to save his life 1t would be i'm
possible Nay father abhors lie. He
believes man or woman who would
lie the lowest of the low things on
earth. When l go back to my ia
Their he will say: Tell me what you
haze DONE. | can just see him now,
standing between the big white pillars
at the end of the driveway. 1 can
hear him saying calmly: 'Beulah, my
daughter, welcome Your mother is
waiting for you in her room. Do not
lose a moment getting to her, After