The Princeton union., 1907-05-09

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, a,
thousand, yes, million times greater
tnan theirs. Jim, they say that 1 have
msoe more money than any man in
the world. They say that I have five
hundred millions of dollars, but the
Tools don't keep track of my move
ments. They only know that have
pulled nve hundred millions from my
open whlrls, the ones they have had
an opportunity to keep tab on. But I
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 eyerv
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 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.
Il got away with three hundred mil
lions when Steel slumped from 1O5 to,
SO and from so to 8, and no one knew
I'd made 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
ket letters one morning said it was
Standard Oil; the next, that it was
Morgan; then it was Frick, 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
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
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 to-day billion dollars, not the
Rockefeller or Carnegie kind, but a.
real billion. If I had no other power
but the power to call tomorrow for
that billion in cash, it would be suff-
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
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. 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. It had been advertised through
out the world that Tom Reinhart, now
two-hundred-time millionaire, was to
consolidate his and many other enter
prises into one gigantic trust with
twelve billions of capital. His Union
and Southern Pacific railroads, his
Southern lines, together with his
steamship company and lead, iron,
and copper mines, were to be merged
with the steel, traction, gas, and other
enterprises he owned jointly with
"Standard OIL" Some of the railroads
owned by Rockefeller and his pals, in
which Reinhart had no part, were to
go in too, and with these was to unite
that mother hog of them all, "Stand-
ard Oil' itself. The trust was to be
an enormous company, the like of
which had until then not even been
dreamed Of by the most daring stock
manipulators. The "System's' banks,
as we'll as trust and insurance COM
panies throughout the country, had
for long time been getting into
shape by concentrating the money of
the country for this monster trust.
= It was newspaper and news bureau
gossip that Reinhart and his crowd
had bought millions of shares of the
different stocks involved in the deal,
and it was common knowledge that