Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-06-23

CremeS, ana at least one generation
ahead of the game The American
people amt ready for you yet, and
they see in you themselves as they
may become If they don't take tum-
BILE to themselves. And rather than
come to that, they will save them
selves by kicking over the machine
that has ground you OUT He puffed a
little and got his breath again "And
that's why I've come to take you
back to the U. S., and set you to work
at the only game fit for q man the
game of dollar-making. You'll take it
easier than you think; and if you buy
the people few buff-brick churches,
with Sunday school attachments, and
few pink stone colleges to grind out
divinity students for the same, it will
make you square with the people who
have started this howl. You may have
to throw in few libraries for those
who don't go to church, but throw
| EN- in right-dont just give the site
and the dedication stone, and leave
the tax payers to do the rest - that
won't go any more. Give the whole
burned thing - books, building, and
endowment fund. Buy a hell-for-lesth-
er race horse and pay the papers to
advertise It; there's nothing so demo
cratic as g good trotting horse. That
will set you right with another sec
| ton of the community.
"Of course"-here he lowered his
voice-"we amt going to ask you to
| specially alter your morals; there's
nothing unreasonable about the Amer
lean people. But there's moral way
of being immoral, and here's an i'm
moral way of being immoral. It's the
damned openness of your methods we
object to. When a man has big wads
of money, it naturally attracts women
to tempt him bit, and a busy man
hardly has time to resist temptation"
| Mr.. Bulpitt licked his lips and his
eyes watered. CAS- long as man keeps
wife and family, and don't stint
them in diamonds and sealskin-what
| if he does have few friends in the
| localities where his business takes
him? But you are devoting you life to
this sort of business, and amt making
no decent concealment, except in your
face. You look like an innocent
cherub." Mr.. Bulpitt glanced at Van
draken enviously. Il don't know how
you manage it-but that amt the
point. The point is, you have got to
come right back to the states with me
and square yourself and us with the
American people, before they do some
thing ugly
SIS that the end of your 1spiel?'
asked Vandraken, calmly, cor are you
merely pausing for breath ?" Mr.. Bull
pitt was amusing. He looked at him
indulgently.
We'll! amt it enough?" replied the
big man, In the tone of a lawyer who
rests his case.
quite! But as you have finished
there is one question would like to
ask you. How do you propose to get
me back to America -
Mr.. Bulpitt began to swell up again.
"You don't mean to say you think you
can set up your little boys size will
against the decisions of the Society
of Industrial Corporation Presidents
represented by Obed K Bulpitt, com.
monty called o. K. Bulpitt, because he
never loses? If you think you can do
that you are badly mistaken, and the
sooner you find 1t out the better. Why
damn i'll we've made the whole
American nation dance to our music,
and you needn't think you can stand
out against us-not for a moment
young man--not for moment, even if
you have got your pas money at your
back! You want to know how we pro-
pose to make you come to time? Well,
I'll tell you. Well turn loose the bill
lions we control against you, and We'll
depreciate your investments till that
two hundred millions gets to look like
a last years five-dollar bill. Well
hang up the dividends on the stock OF
everything you are invested in. If
| you don't do as we want, we will
smash you so fine that it won't mat
ter to us whether you live in America
or hell. We'll'
But at this point Vandraken lost his
temper His dark eyes began to look
red. He got up and stood in front OF
Mr.. Bulpitt, very close to him, and
held up his hand for silence. The big
man threw himself back in his chair,
with his mouth open.
"You want me to come back to
America, do you? Well, I'll come, and
you can tell this to your gang-that
1t will be bad day for them when
do come. have got about three years
more of this razzle-dazzle life planned
out, then I'm through with it for ever
and | can attend to your case. I'll
fight you on the lines you have laid
down, and I'll smash you! I'll take
that two hundred million dollars l got
from the American people, and I'll
use it in buying back America for
them. Ny money can buy court deci
sions for the people as we'll as your
money can buy it against them; and
senators and congressmen-the pay
being equal-they would rather act on
the square. I'll set up meat bust
ness that won't care how low the price
of meat is; and I'll buy oil lands and
build reflneries, If we haven't found
a substitute for kerosene by that time:
and won't forget boots and shoes
Mr.. Bulpitt. What's more | won't be
alone in the fight When one man
comes forward with two hundred mil
lions as nucleus, there will be plenty
to help him. Those are the terms or
which will come back to America
Vandraken swung round and went
to look out of the window, leaving Mr.