Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-09-20


 of millions tllan was ever dreamed of by the outlaws of borderland days. Marked cards and cold decks in those old avs meant swift retribution Con the one using thcm) by paying the toll with life, while successful marked card operator on Wall stret ultimately ends as gH. to some high office with the United States; for, the they not all honorable men3" The old-time gambler of the west, by coHparson, was a prince and gentleman beSide the bepurpled and mansion- housed manipulator of stocks and the money changers of this, the highly civilized age of law and or der, which is the boast of our "honor. able men," whose win,' debaucheries seem to be the pride of the press and of many of the people of our stock k-mad country, where the spirit of the average man has been cultivated to tension bordering on destruction of either him. self or the other follow, through the adroit aid of some smooth marked card handled by those whose fin. gers are soft and wDlose conscience is hard; and yet, "taey are honorable men, v and so was Brutus, whose knif,i drank the blood of Ais best friend anl cut away the span of the only bridge to his future possibilities to the purple and the raiment of the forum, and to Il c highest gift desired by an ambition s for fame.
 The pirate and the freebooter of medi aeval times girded up his loin with the bludgeon and the boarding pike (those were his cold decks and marked eards) to seek prey in the battle for wealth, with a possible chance for losing ais life for the wages of his warfare The freebooter of this age sits in his count. ing house and taps the wire, or adroitly circulates the news that Mohawk stock is on the rise with a big swift rush. He advises his agent to corner Mohawk be. fore the rush begins. He does ihis in the strietest secrecy, but is adroit enough to let it leak out to the ears of someone, who, he knows, will let it leak (again in the stricfest seerecy) tc the anxious ears of his trusted friends, who has trusted friend, and so on down the line until the public in general is gt ing mad. Cashiers stumble with a good sized load of the public's money. The widow s mite and the scrub ,vo- man $ pittance is gathered, either in the maw of the Mohawk boom or the cash fer $ pickings. Men and money run riot in mad and sad race to "get in '' on Mohawk, when old Foxy Freebooter is peddling Mohawk at big rise through the agency of his well paid henchmen on the sly, and yet they "are all honorable men,
 Results: The barometer of fevered expectations rose high on bubble, the tension of the people who got "in on the tip' was gcared to pitch of dan. ger and wadness; hungry-eyed blood lusting men and women ran amuck with that frenzied financial desire trimmed by Foxy Freebooter and by the aid of his "corner" and his aids Honorable mem with aspirations on a seat in the United States senate, yet the knife of Brutus is eouched in their laced raj ment and the gaping wounds on Cae- sar's breast lets out the life blood, just as a financial crash lets out the money and the patriotism of gullible people who have been cultivated to desire for something easy;' just as Caesar had cultivated confidence in his friend Bru- tus before the fatal thrust, which start cd the "rabble" on blood.drinking run with the glare of a maniac in un- seeing eyes, which is like a panic mad people-without head, soul or reason.
 Freebooters and pirates of ancient days, l doff my hat to your bludgeon methods, because when you did it you took chancse with sudden death Free boters and pirates of Wall street, look ye to the barbarians and robbers of other days for honor, for the financial methods of handling the knife of Bru- tus, to drink the financial blood from gaping wounds of not on Caesar, but of countless thousands who, like. him, had got confidence established on q marked card deal.
 And yet they who did the working were honorable men,' just waiting to step into the halls of state and make laws to govern sweet and calm humanity when civilization has reached perfec- ton and the lion shall lie down and snuggle with the lamb just to get him on the inside (tips)."
 Panics are nothing but the natural following an insane desire of the great majority to take gam bier s chance to get something for next to nothing and therefore make the other fellow dance to the tune of chance gone in the bursting of bubble with the golden hues picked off before req son got awakened to cold bare facts minus the spells you might have had, which the velvet hand of more expert freebooter picked at the same time he picked your hopes and your pockets. The highly cultivated desire of our mon- ey-mad people of America and the world to get some easy wealth makes them gullible and it is most usually case of '' dog eat dog, and the howl is loudest