Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-09
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AMER our tRiA with Beuiah sands
lr96agged Bob to dine with me and 60
lover matters at length to see If we
lonuld not find a way out to relief.
mo. Jim, l have work to do to
lulRAt work that won't wait. That
imFffF bill was buttoned up to-day, and
Ia has Just been announced that the
IaRWar directors have declared a big
eEfxa dividend Things have come out
gsk about as Istold you they would,
nhd the stock is climbing to-day. They
kav Il viii touch 900 tomorrow, and
l4AD street is predicting $50 for IT IN
Nm dGya. Barry Conant has been q
BAdy buyer all day and the news bu-
kbans announced that Camemeyer and
no standard ON are twenty millions
MANNERS They say the Washington
HANDLERS, the congressman, senators
md cabinet members with their heel
nES and lobbyists have made kill
knK. About every one seems to have
eattened up, Jim, but you and me and
Boulah Sands and the public. The
public gets the ak both ways, as
usual. They have been shaken out OF
their stock, and they will be com
PEELED to pay millions more each year
for their sugar than they would II
this law had not been made for their
benefit Jim, there is no Disgusting
the fact that the American people are
as helpless in the hands Of these thugs
of the system as though they lived
On the realm of the sultan, where a
few cutthroat brigands are licensed to
rob and Cypress to their hearts con-
tent Jim Randolph, you know this
game of finance. You know how it is
worked, and the men who work n.
Tell me If there is any consideration
due Wall street and its heart-and-soul
butchers at the hands OF honest men"
Il do not know what you mean,
Bob. What are you driving at?'
Never mind what l am driving At.
Z ask you whether, II an honest man
knew how to beat Wall street at its
own game, he should hesitate to beat
It-hesitate because of anything con.
a0CNCu Win COAbNlChCC VI AA4CA pAAot
You saw what Barry Conant was able
20 do to us that day simply by stand
ing on the floor of the stock exchange
and outstaying me in opening and
closing his mouth. You saw he was
able to sell Sugar to a point so low
that was obliged to let go of our
10000 shares at sS,O00,OOO to 100000
900 less than we could have got for
them If we could have held them I'M
til today. Because of this trick his
clients, the system instead Of us,
make five to seven millions"
Il don't follow you, Bob. know
that Barry Conant was able to do this
because he had more money behind
him than you"
"You think so, do you, jim? That
is the way 1t looks to you, but / tell
you money had nothing to do with It,
Nothing had to do with II but the
fendish system of fraud and trickery
upon which the whole gambling
structure is reared. Nothing entered
into the whole business but the trick
cry OF Safeguarding as conducted to
day. 1t was only a question, Jim, OF
a mans opening and closing his mouth
and splitting out words. From the
minute Barry Conant came into that
crowd until he left and we were ruin
ed, he showed no money, no anything
that l did not show From the very
nature of the business he could not.
He simply said: Sold oftener and
longer than l said Buy He may have
had money back of him, or he may
only have had nerve. God Almighty
is the only one who can tell, for when
Conant was through he was able to
buy back at 80 the $4,000 shares he
sold me at 175, the $4,000 that broke
my back. jim, if I had known as
much that day as l do now l would
have stood In that crowd and bought
all the stock he sold at $50, and l
would have stood there buying until
bell froze over or he quit; then !
would have made him rebuy it at ESQ
or 1850, and I would have broken him
and all his Camemeyer and Standard
OIL hackers; broken them to their
last crime-covered dollar"
Bob, what are you talking about?
1t is all Chinese to me. l cannot get
head or tail Of what you are driving
At"
81 know vrr - Jim. neither
could Wa" ra-e listening
TO me. p . Wall street