Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-21

and that some day vii be the next
time | start in. Do.T cue with me,
don't misunderstood M To-day you
stopped me- | don't know whether
you meant what " threatened;
don't care now. - asst as we'll that
I stopped for t. ystems machine
will be there lever start in
again. 1t los hing Of its fiend-
ishness, none g. destructive powers
by grinding N the contrary, as
you know, it cases it's speed every
day Il runs. Nv. Jim Randolph,
want to tel that you must get
yours and uses AFFAIRS in such
shape that Won't be hurt when
90 into T.. man rat-pit the next
time, for / come from It the
New VIC stock Exchange and the
System will have had their spines
IN iltr Yes, and I'll have their
he It's t, too Neither will ever be-
80 take from the American people
'Nei avings and their manhood a1a
90 ahood and give them in c6-
cb unadulterated torment Z an
4 10 be fair with you, jim; this
is tie last time I will discuss tHe sub
ject. After this you must tar9 .'our
chance with the rest of those who
have to do with the cursed business.
When ! strike again, none will be
pared. will wreck the Street, and
he 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. l am not going to
explain any further. You have seen
mo work. You must know that my
power is greater than the 'System'B,'
and you and 1 and the Street have al
powerful than the government, more
powerful than are the courts, legisla'
lures, congress, and the president Of
the United States combined that IL
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 FIVE
hundred millions of dollars, but the
fools don't keep track Of my move
ments. They only know that 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 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
rugged up The world has been throw
ing up its 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. I have learned
to call this game of ours by It's right
name. II 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 105 to
so and from so to s, 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
ket letters ole morning said 1t was
Standard Oil; the next, that 1t was
Morgan; then it was Frick, Schwab,
Gates, and so on down through the
list OF course, none of them denied;
1t is capital to all these knights of the
-oad 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 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,
l have to-day 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 suhi-
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
l strike in again, don't attempt to stay
me .atoE it~Will do no good"
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