Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-09-04

est khcN I khbw be Said. "liyou
were ! should not want you. hut
am different from other men. Think
Of ii-think Of all that I have on my
hands. I have no time 20 make love
10 women. But l lOve you: loved you
the minute I saw you. Is not that
enough: What more can you ask
You know the world You are nu
spring chicken
And then | began 10 struggle again.
! shouisS once ar tWice-l am MT sure
and then be- clapped his hand over
my mouth. Then | began Ca fight for
my life. really believe | would have
scratched the old creatures eyes out II
be had not heard you oct in the
hall
Lucy Dupree wants 10 have Dan Wa
terman arrested aud punished. She is
told she would be- simply branded as
an adventures. She Is also told ~ an
other notwithstanding, now dead. aS
follows:
There's an old man in this town
who has spent his lifetime lending
money and boarding IT, lie has some
thing like eighty or a hundred millions
now. believe. and once every six
months or so you will read i'm the
newspapers that some woman hgs
made an attempt TO blackmail him
That Is because lac does Ia every pretty
girl who comes into his office Just ex-
actly what old Waterman did TO you.
and those who are arrested for black
mail are simply the ones who are 80
unwise as to make n disturbance"
Lucy Dupree still insists that the
man he punished. and she Is told:
You must realize the situation
This man Is a god I'm New York. He
controls all the avenues OF wealth: he
can make or break any person he
chooses, II is'really the truth. lie.
lieve he could ruin any man in the
city whom he chose to set out after.
He can have anything that he wants
done SO far as the police are concerned.
Ii Is simply matter OF paying them
And he is accustomed to rule In every
thing, His slightest within Is law. IL
he wants a thing he buys 1t, and that
Is his attitude toward women"
The panic OF last October Is dealt
with in the book. and the three men,
the owners of chains OF banks who
were crushed. are described with small
pains 10 conceal the Identities OF the
originals. The book says:
There was Stewart the young
Lochinvar out OF the west. He had
tried to buy the Trust Company of the
Republic long ago. and SO the general
knew him and his methods He had
fought the col # trust 10 a standstill
In Montana. The trust had bought mp
the legislature aud both political ma
chimes, but Cummir"s had appealed TO
the public In series Of sensational
campaigns and had got his judges into
office. and in the end the trust had
been forced to buy him out. And there
was Cummings the Ice king, who for
years had financed the political ma
chine IN the city and by securing Il
monopoly OF the docking privileges
had forced all his rivals TO the wall.
He had set out TO monopollZe the
coastwlse steamship trade Of the coun-
try and had bought line after line OF
vessels by this same device of 'pyra-
midlng.' and now. finding that he need.
ed still more money TO buy out his
rivals. he had purchased or started a
dozen or SO OF trust companies and
banks"
The steel trust and the Mississippi
Steel company. which is the Tennessee
Coal and Iron company are the dis.
euised figures In the novel. as are also
the past and present presidents OF the
former and the bushwhacklng specu-
lators who controlled the latter The
former owner of the chief subsidiary
company OF the steel truat Is pictured
plate on the government.
According TO SInclair's book the panic
Of October was brought on by Water
man" TO break Ryder" and the lat
ter's company, the Gotham Trust com
pany, so as TO put Lucy Dupree AT his
mercy. All OF her money was In the
trust company, aud she held Rydcr's
note for $4,000 for railroad stock. in
herited from her father, which she had
sold him. Waterman" also brought
on the panic SO he could have an ex-
cuse for taking over the Mississippi
Steel company.