The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-21

CHAPTER iV.-contlnued.
Author Of
"Frenzied Finance"

CHAPTER iV.-Continued.
"He appealed directly to John VII
son to make an effort to stop the
growing tendency to use the people
as pawns TO enslave themselves and
their children. lie said some man
of undoubted probty, standing, and
wealth, some one whom the people
trusted. must start the fight against
these New York flends, whose only
thought Is to roll up wealth And
he told John Wilson he was the man,
since he had great wealth. honestly
got by his father and grandfather;
no one would accuse him of being a
hypocrite, seeking notoriety, and his
standing in the financial world was
so old and solid that II would
have to listen to him. | remember
how emphatically father said: i tell
you, John, even the discussion of such
a proposition as that scoundrel Rein
hart makes is degrading to an Amer.
ican's honor lie said il didn't make
the least difference II Reinhart count
ed his millions by the score, and was
director in 80 or 40 great institutions,
and gave n fortune every year for
charity TO the church-that he was
a blackleg Just the same. And so is
any man. he said, who dares TO say
he will take the stock OF n trans
portation company, which represents
a certain amount of money invested
and double or multiply II by FIVE and
ten, simply because he can compel
people To pay exorbitant fares and
freight rates and so get profits on this
fraudulently increased capital.
1T was the decision arrived at by
father and the Wilson's at this meet
ing. a decision to refuse in any cir
cumstances TO allow our southern peo-
pie TO be bled by the Wall street 'sys-
tenn that started Reinhart and his
dollar-fends on the war-path. You
can see from what / tell you OF my
father the terrible condition he is
I'm now. At night. when | get to
thinking Of him, hoping against hope,
with. no one 20 help him, no one with
whom he can talk over his affairs,
when | think of his nobleness In de-
voting his time to mother and by
sheer will-power cOncealing from her
his awful suffering, 1t nearly drives
me mad"
Miss Sands, why will you not let
me lend you the money necessary to
tide your father over for awhile?"
asked.
You are so good" Mr.. Randolph,
but you don't quite understand my
father in spite Of what have said
lie would orrelieve his suffering at
the expense of;pnother, not II it were
a hundred times. more acute You
cannot understand the old-fashloned,
deep-rooted pride of the Sands"
but can you not, at least tempo
rarlly disguise from him just how you
have arranged the relief?"
Her big blue eyes stared at me in
bewilderment.
"Mr. Randolph, could not deceive
father. l could not tell him a lie
even to save his life, -. 1t would be Inn
possible My father abhors a lie, He
believes a man or woman who would
lie the lowest OF the low things on
earth. When | go back to my fa-
ther he will say: Tell me what you
have done | can just see him now,
standing between the big white pillars
at the end of the driveway | can
hear him saying calmly: 'Beulah, my
daughter welcome. Your mother Is
waiting for you in her room. DO. not
lose a moment getting to her After
ward he'll take me over the planta-
tion to show me all the familiar
things, and not one word will he al
low me TO say about our affairs until
dinner is over, until the neighbors
have left, for no Sands returns from
long absence without fitting home
welcome. When have said good
night TO mother and sister and he has
drawn up my rocker in front of his
big chair in the library alcove and I've
lighted his cigar for him, he will
look me In the eye and say: Daughter,
tell me what you have done would
no more think of holding anything
back than l would OF stabbing him
20 the heart. No, Mr.. Randolph, there
is no possibility Of relief except in
'cirly using that $4,000 and fairly
winning back what Wall street has
stolen from father"
Bob had listened, but made no com.
ment until che was through then he
sad 1T looks to me as though the
market Is shaping up so that we may
be able 10 do something soon" 1t
was evident 10 both OF MS that h
had some plan In mind.
Later we learned that that night
roulah wrote her father a long letter,
LING rim what she had done; that