Alamogordo news-advertiser., 1913-02-15

heaped-up stone Twice Oa.-y pOuIeu.
)ut their population of small creatures,
some Of them crippled, hurt, shorn in
the battle of life, their faces pale,
their forms bowed and stunted before
their time. Out of the rich west poured
always a steady streSn of the prod
ucts Of the soil and Of the mines,
wealth unspeakable, dug from the re-
sources of this admirable country of
ours. Many produced it, a few con-
trolled it, all required it. \
But there came a sort of hush over
all the country, as though an eC.ipse
were passing, or some gloom cat by
q cloud coming between these cities
and the sun. Men said that b lsiness
was not SO good as it should be, though
the country was richer than ever.
None understood the popular unrest.
Many pondered, many attempted to
explain, but they found all save the
easy and obvious explanation. The
masses remained morose, dissatisfied.
Pamphlets appeared. In the journals
pretending to give voice to popular
trend of thought there were now to
be seen many screeds from many un-
known men. Some men said that
prices should rise, others that rates of
transportation should rise, but that
wages should decrease. Others said
that wages should increase-a few
only of these, not many; for those who
needed most a larger wage were those
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and least apt to make any public pro-
test. Our proudest may be our poor
est-our neediest our most silent.
In John Rawn's slowly growing fac
tories near the western capital wages
did not rise. He kept on his fight with
the labor organizations. For this rea-
son he met ar ltional expense and adj
ditional delF r IN carrying on his plans,
but still ..aged war; relaxing not at
all, meeting pickets with policemen,
force with force. The popular discon-
tent Of the day meant nothing to him.
sis eye was fixed ahead. To Halsey's
| complaints on the one side, his direc
Asrs' discreet grumbling on the other.
/ he paid as little attention on the ons
! hand as upon the ether John RaWn
! had a dream, and he knew that mis-
| dream must come true. His dream
was one of wide-reaching and relent,
! less power, shared by those few mer
! destined by fate to own the so-calleo
American republic. Let the people dc
what they would, all they could. This
was his dream 1t had come to him
in all its fullness one evening in the
great city of the east. He exulted.
As to the industrial situation in Ih
ternational Power, Rawn now began
to prove himself a good business man
and he received more and more the
grudged confidence of his associates.
who came from almost every rank OF
big business. Through the aid and ad'
vice of these, his private fortune be
gan to mount up enormously. So also
did International Power make money
The only sore place of the directors
overstrained nerves centered in affairs
at the gaunt building in the suburb
where a dozen mysterious machines
toothed and armed, cogged and coiled
still stood in a state of half-comple
ton. as inchoate and mysterious now
as they had been at their inception
None of the workmen, none of th'
foremen, could guess what they woulC
! look like when completed.
There was something else, whicl
not the most suspicious guessed-Johl
MI Gnnxui TIic CFIf
cess was vast bubble. Halsey wa
4 tne only man who ever had known tn
4 full secret of mantllng one of the m
. raculous receivers which they all ha
seen end all had accepted. RawI
. bold emo gh, kept this to himself, a
a though lie feared TO go to Halsey an
1 make any der2T Ids. Halsey held griI
Z peace for months-indeed, for NOR
r than four years In all, counting froI
4 Che first motor made in the Kelly ro'
n woodshed. 1t was risky, but for ono
A Rawn dared make no desperate NOV
r Halsey talked little. He was very sa
. since the birth of his hunchbacke
% child. Sometimes he talked to vi
,e ginia Delaware about It; never to b
n wife. Grace.
And still the seven days wonder
q. International Power remained to pu
gle the Industrial world. No inklir
4. of the real intention OF the compar
ID ever got out. There was, as Rawn hs
at predicted, no market FOR the stock, II
the reason that 1t was not listed an
st fer the further reaf IN that 1t was n
"a sold. It was hele iE close col
a. munion OF hard-headed and clos
mouthed men, and there were no co
fdences betrayed. The thing was 4
of big to conform to ordinary rules.
the center OF all this stood the figu
OF John Rawn, suddenly grown lar
by and strong. He ruled his army. o.
,ly GERS, stan and line. cavalry, infant
n and auxiliaries, as one born original
= to command He brooked neith
parleying nor thwarting OF his will
except in one instance. He never ma
pr. any demands on Halsey, naver ga
him any peremptory orders after Il
one day in the Office, months earli
ok before Halsey made his first trip
or New York.
These months seemed to have &c