The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-30

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 Margaret Potter hns given us on- other strong story rather lurid to be sure-but which truly will grip by it's reality and truth There Is no sur felt of moralIalng story speaks for itself in this Inc. From reading the authors introduction one would imagine that We were to he regaled with another onslaught on the trusts, and the 'malefactors of finance" Which are so much the fashion and SO much overdone nowadays, especially in the magazines, but we are given q rest on this subject, the moral in view being the unsuitable rush for riches so common in America and for that mat ter almost everywhere in highly civi- lized and wealthy countries. The au- thor's hero in his lust for gold be- comes predatory financier; her hero- Inc moved by much the same cravings ends in Mrs Warren's profession. In her preface the author says:
 Before the Juggernaut of his de- sire, the American man has flung to destruction all that humanity holds most dear, home, wife. children. health. honest dealing, integrity. cul- tlvation--nay. one might almost gay intelligence itself (so warped has his vision becomeD-for these things, heaped on one side against gold alone, have, on his scales, flown aloft like feathers!
 The author then adds her dedication ITO the wives of American business men"
 John Kildare comes, when nineteen, from the farm in the west, where he has been raised, to seek his fortune in Chicago and he strikes boarding place where he meets Kitty" and Kitty and John dominate tho book Kitty is not beautiful but she Is be- witching. Her hair is of n beautiful golden color She Is sensual, volupt- uous. vlvacious and passionate. and greedy for money. Johns struggle for livelihood in Chicago is a hard one, but after long and weary months through a chum he gets a position in a brokers office. Hard headed, far seeing, of firm, strong health he makes his way slowly to higher posit- ions. In the meantime enamored of Kitty. they have many walks together and finally comes champagne sup- per and she falls a willing victim to him. Thenceforward her sorrows be- gin and they multiply when she wins big success as one of the star chor- us girls in New York theater With her brilliant success, she wins a wealthy admirer and leaves the stage for luxurious home and dla- monds and money to burn lavlshed upon her and now leaves openly all that is most precious to woman in good name. Her star is long m the ascendant and the picture the author presents of Kitty and her career and of her mother, Leah Clephane is very clever but too thinly yelled. John, in his early attachment to Kitty. and | when still struggling youth touched with remorse over his relations with the girl, offers her the reparation of marriage, which Kitty in an outhurst of laughter refuses, her reason being as she frankly states that she was looking for higher game. man with wealth who could gratify her desires for carriages. diamonds and a man. sion. A second time John-now ris- ing in the world-after a night off with Kitty, offers her marriage, al- though the girl was now marked as one of the gayest of the demi-monde. Again she refuses, unaware of Johns aI, l..t ls.n 4 poets. Many characters are introduce ed into the warp and wool of he story as it progresses, true on the whole to nature, such as bankers. railroad magnates, great financiers, chorus girls high society women and last, but not least, the delightful French archi- tect and his worthy, pious, frugal family who figure as a foil to Johns race for money, race which was won but which when won left John at 40, / prematurely old, his achievements Apples of Sodom. After all, it isn't every chorus girl, of soiled reputa- tion, who gets $7O,000 settled upon by an old admirer who had been too in- innate with her in his youth, which may be taken to indicate that John S nobility of soul or sense of honor, had not been utterly extinguished in Wall Street deals or by his coup by which he became the president and arbiter of destiny of "The Great Southern Road" John was in stocks, a lucky fellow. He got his start by putting up a margin of only $2,000, with this small amount of capital net ting $S0,O00 in five weeks in Nippur it was too-and on two transactions, one long" the other short"
 As to the price John paid for his gold---hear him talk.
 q also am chained-chained day after day to that desk, unable to free myself from it's bondage. At forty l am old, At sixty I shall die of age and of labor; die in the letters that I myself have riveted on and carried through all this useless, conscience less, despicable struggle for that which ] did not need and cannot use. Oh, my youth!-My boyhood Pure air green fields, ripened fruit dia- mond snow drifts, the careless happi- ness of health and youth; decent fru- gality; leisure to live, to love and to know Gods fair worldl--that is life But woe unto you, America, who no longer give your children anything to learn save the terrible catechism of the Creed of Gold
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