Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-06-20
that they were being worshipped and
sacrificed to sufficiently already.

It was not easy for the yellow
journals of America to exaggerate the
| riotousness of Vandraken's life, but
| they did their best with the adjectives
at their disposal and the never-failing
cartoon. He was pictured as snatch
| ing thin purses from thinner wives of
American workmen and throwing
them in an endless stream, to be
scrambled for by the Partisan half
world The pulpit took him up. and
demanded to know how long? How
long made dark illusions to Jezebel
and her circle, and forced church
goers to realise that by allowing such
state of affairs to continue they
were sharers in the prodigal's riotous
living, and must stand by his side at
the day of judgment-or, as comic
supplement suggested, apropos of the
prodigal, share his "veal and woe"
The New York Economic Socialist
printed article after article demand
/ ing to know how long people thought
America could stand this con.
slant drain. Here was abso-
lutte proof of the evils Of
trusts and the Capitalization of wealth.
| Under the constant outpouring of de-
| llullCldllOu llCIl III SSo cuu pulpit, liz
i easy-going attitude of the American
sIpeople, on which the trusts had relied,
j began to give way to menacing growls
1.-THE captains of industry began to get
! frightened, the matter of Vandraken
and his ways was discussed at a
special meeting and it was agreed
that steps must be taken to end the
situation.
No. Ery lat
and was enjoying a cigar in the smok-
ing room of the palace, when card
was brought up to him. "Ohed K.
Bulpitt.' On the back was written:
Letter of introduction from your
uncle, Mr.. Hesketh.'
Mr.. Hesketh was his mothers half
brother, and vandrakens bette noire,
but he did not see how he could get
ont of receiving the letter Of introduc.
tion, SO he instructed the servant to
show Mr.. Bulpitt up.
| Mr.. Bulpitt entered the room
putting out his cheeks, for any
physical exertion made him breathe
hard. He pumped down into a
straight backed chair, and his legs
were so used up in circumventing his
tummy that they only reached the
floor In detected, pigeon-toed fash
ion He sat SO much on revolving
chairs, in front of roller topped desks
using his brains, that his head and the
upper part of his body had developed
at the expense of the lower part.
Beginning life as clerk in shoe
store, he exhibited such zeal that
after few years his aged employer
took him into partnership; then he
worked up pretext and threw the
con Germ into the hands of receiver
he being appointed receiver. In few
months he was able to put the bust
ness up for sale, and buy it in. He
next organized all the shoe stores Of
the town into little trust and bull
4 a factory, and that was the nucleus
of the United States boot and shoe
. trust, which, combined with leather
trust, gave them a monopoly of the
business Bulpitt had organized it all
and was president He had become
great by dint Of always getting angriel
than than other man, and knowing
| whom to kick But it was not by tact
> but ruthless force, that he had broker
! through the crowd at the bottom o.
} the ladder and reached the top, where
/ there is always room--for those who
can get there. However. he had {
great reputation for always getting his
, own way and for the possession o.
: dynamic force.
(To be Continued)
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