Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-06-07

a1im. don't talk to me. My conceit
T. gone | have learned my lesson to.
doy NV plans were all right, and
81 ID. but poor fool that | was, / did
moi AXE into consideration the loaded
dice of the master thieves. / knew
what they could do, have seen them
scores of times, as you have, at their
daughter; seen them crush out the
hearts of other men just as good as
,ou or |; seen them take them out and
etin and quarter-slice them, unmind.
fut of the agony of those who were
dear to and dependent on their own
ers but It never seemed to strike me
home 1t was not my heart, and some
how. | looked at 1t as part of the
game and let it go at that. To-day |
trow what it means to be put on the
cbopping block of the System butch
ers. / know what it is to see my heart
and the heart Of enc | love-and yours,
TOO. systematically skewered to
those of the hundreds and thousands
of victims who have gone before. jim.
we must be three millions losers, and
the men who have our money have so
many, many millions that they can't
live long enough even to thumb them
over. Men who will use our money
on the gambling table, at the race
tracks, squander 1t on stage harlots,
or in turning their wives and daugh-
ters or their neighbors' wives and
daughters into worse than stage har-
lots Men, Jim, who are not fit, meas
ured by any standard of decency to
walk the same earth as you and Judge
Sands. Men whose painted pets pol
lutte the very air that such as Beulah
Sands must breathe. I've learned my
lesson to-day. l thought ! knew the
game of finance, but I'm suddenly
awakened to realization of the dense
ignorance | wallowed In Jim, but for
the loading of the dice, | should now
have been taking Beulah Sands to her
father with The money that the hellish
System stole from him. Later ! should
have taken her to the altar, and after,
who knows but that should have had
the happiest home and family In all
the world, and lived as her people and
mine have lived for generations, hon
est, God-fearing, law-abiding, neigh
BORROWING mon and women, and then
died as men should die? But now,
Jim, l see q black. awful picture. No,
I'm not morbid, I'm going to make a
heroic effort to put the picture out of
sight; but I'm afraid, Jim, I'm afraid"
He stopped as we pulled up on the
sidewalk in front of Randolph g. Ran
dolph's office. Here 1t is on the bull
ietin. See what did the trick, jim.
They held the Sugar meeting last
night instead OF waiting till tomorrow,
and cut the dividend instead of in
creasing It The world won't know 1t
until tomorrow Then they will know
1t, then they will know it. They will
read 1t III the headlines of the papers
IA few suicides, few defaulters, a
few new convicts, an unclaimed corpse
Or twoea at the morgue; few innocent
girls whose fathers fortunes have
gone to swell Camemeyer's and Stand
ard 0is already uncountable gold,
turned into stgeet-wakers; a few new
palaces on Fifth avenue, and few,
new libraries given to communities
that formerly took pride in building
them from their honestly earned saw
ings. A report or two of record break
ing diamond sales by Tiffany to the
kings and czars of dollar royalty, then