Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-10-03
SYNOPSIS.

Slh h"huoIpn OF ltandolph az Randolph,
bankers and brokers. BROMLEY and Ran
dolph had gone to college together ana
entered the employ of Randolph's father
at the close of college days. BroWnley
II Virginian by birth Beulah Sands,
daughter OF an old Virginia house. calls
on Brownley and tells him her father
has been practically ruined by the stock
operations of Reinhart. She hopes to
utilize her own money in Wall street In
retrieving her fathers fortunes before
his condition becomes known, ana asks
for employment in the office that she may
have an opportunity to better understand
how her money 10 invested. She does not
want 1t used in a purely Wall street
gamble, but in the buying and selling Of
Legitimate securities BROMLEY agrees to
help her, and falls in love with her.
CHAPTER TI-Brownley plunEes in
sugar stock. He uses the money OF Miss
Sands, his own and in addition IL backed
heavily by the Randolph millions. His
looup seems successful, and he tells Miss
Sands that she has cleared q, SOC, 600. But
the market had not closed.
! CHAPTER lI1-Barry Conant, head
broker for Standard Oil and sugar in
tterests, suddenly begins to sell sugar"
In the midst of a panic he breaks the
lEnarket and with its fall carries away
THE earnings and much Of the capital Of
Hove scene occurs between the two At the
Iofice when Bob attempts to tell her the
terrible truth OF their fall. Brownlsy
takes = trip to Virginia.
CHAPTER IV-Beulah and Bob become
Engaged. Randolph wants to loan her
father the money to meet his obligations.
Che refuses Bob figures on how TO bsat
Wall street at its own game Sugar takes
another sensational squirt upward. but
lBroWnley keeps out.
CHAPTER v-The pulls" toss sugar
80 record breaking point, and the street
goes wild. Barry Conant, for the ''Bys-
'tem," pushes prices up and UP, and q
wonderful cleanup il promised when the
exchange closes, Thursday, November II.
Sugar opens higher Friday morning. No
Vembsr IL. When the price had pansed
all bounds BROMLEY steps into the Dit and
begins to sell. He sells every share ''the
systems" brokers will take, and pounds
the price down and down until failures
are OF momentary occurrence, and the
system" has lost millions He has made
E~-Auions for Beulah Sands and her father.
CHAPTER vI-Beulah Sands insists
upon being assured that there Is no dis
honor connected with the money he has
made for her, and he cannot honestly an
aver mo" He leaves her to think IL
out. When he returns he finds her star
1ng at the glaring headlines of a newspa-
per extra announcing that her father
while temporarily insane, had killed his
wife, his daughter and himself, and
Beulah Sands had gone crazy.
CHAPTER VII-Bob Brownley marries
beautiful, insane Beulah Sands, and takes
her to Virginia. The sight OF the old
home does not restore her reason, and
he returns with her to New York and
tkNHAl 1a nlr
Of which is designed especially for her.
He begins plunging on the street" and
adds millions to his now great fortune.
He always opposes the system His
every appearance on the floor of the ex-
change means panicky conditions Time
after time he has the street. seemingly
at his mercy, but relents before the great
crash comes.
what do you intelligent men think
Of this situation? You know, because
you know the stock-gambling game.
that the American people, with their
boosted brains and courage, come year
after year with their bags of gold, the
result of their prosperous labors, and
dump them, hundreds of millions, into
this gambling inferno of yours. You
know that they are fools, these silly
millions of people whom you term
lambs and suckers. You chuckle as,
year after year, having been sent ava q,
shorn, they return for new shearin z
You marvel that the merchants, mar nj
facturers, miners, lawyers. farme rs
who have sufficient intelligence Z
gather such surplus legitimately, W. slI
bring it to our gambling hell, W her
upon all sides is plain proof tina 4 W
who conduct the gambling, and g. VIII
produce nothing, are obliged tc ,ntak
from those who do produce, hu adreS
OF ml4hons each year tor az cpense
and hundreds OF millions each rear Il
prohts-for you know that w. 10, ha,
nothing to give them in re eurn Z,
what they bring to us. You y u now tn
every dollar Of the billions 10 at, in Ws
street means higher prices fer ste
rails, for lumber and cars, and III
this means higher pass ~ .pxer n,
freight rates to the people. X. You knC
that when the manufacture =. Brings b
wealth to Wall street and ?, aErobbed
~ ne WIZ aad something lie the 'pri
of boots and shoes, cottoI a,ana wool
clothes, and other neces'F pktttes that
makes and that he sells IN the neon
hou know tnat When IN secopper, les
tin. and iron miners p hFttWith III,
surplus to the 'SystG Isn.A II, mAA
higher prices to the kBnIa far III,
copper pots and gutter vzfor the Wal
that comes through Esaa mines.
their tin dipDers and $50 AsIi..s =.