Marshall County Democrat. (Madill, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
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SERIAL
STORY
FRIDAY
THE 13
TH
A Novel by
THOMAS W. LAWSON
Author of
"Frenzied Finance.**
(Copyright, t 07, I>ouble<Uy. !'*«« A Co.)
CHAPTER IX.
The governing committee wag hold-
ing a meeting In its room. Bob rushed
In unceremoniously.
"One word, gentlemen," he called.
"I have more trades outstanding, both
buys and sells, than any other mem-
ber or house. Before deciding whether
to adjourn in an attempt to save 'the
Street,' I ask your consideration of
this proposition: If the oxchange will
suspend operations for 30 minutes,
and allow me to address the mem-
bers on the floor, I will agree to buy
stocks all around the room, until they
have regained at least half their drop
—all of It, if possible. I will buy un-
til I have exhausted to the last hun-
dred tn.v fortune of a billion dollars.
This should make an adjournment un-
necessary. I know that this is a most
extraordinary request, but you are
confronted with a most extraordinary
situation, the most remarkable in the
history of the stock exchange. Al-
ready, If what they say on the floor
Is correct, over 200 hanks and trust
companies throughout the country
have gone under, and new failures
are being announced every minute.
Half the meraberR of this and the
Boston and Philadelphia exchanges
are Insolvent and have closed their
doors, or will close them before three
o'clock, and the shrinkage in values
ao far reported runs over fifteen bll
lions. Unless something Is done be-
fore the close, there will be a similar
panic in every exchange and bourse
in Europe to-morrow."
The committee Instantly voted to
lay the proposition before the full
board. In another minute the presi-
dent's gavel sounded, and the floor
was still as a tomb. All eyes wore
fixed on the president. Every man
In that great throng knew that upon
the annouwement they were about to
hear, might depend, at least tem-
porarily, the welfare, not only of
Wall street, but of the nation, per-
haps even of the civilized world. The
president spoke:
"Members of the New York Stock
Exchange:
"The governing committee instructs
me to say that Mr. Robert Brownley
has asked that operations be suspend-
ed for 30 minutes, In order that he be
allowed to address you. Mr. Brown-
ley has agreed, if this request be
granted, he will upou resumption of
operations purchase a sufficient
amount of stock to raise the average
price of all active shares at least one-
half their total drop—all of it. If pos-
sible. He agrees to buy to the limit
of his fortune of a billion dollars. I
now put Mr. Brownley's request to a
vote. All those in favor of granting
It will Blgnlfy the same by saying
'Yes.' "
A mighty roof-llftlng "Yes" sound-
ed through the room.
"All those opposed, 'No.'"
There was a deathly hush.
"Mr. Brownley will please speak
permission to talk to you for the pur-
pose of showing you how any mem-
ber of a great stock exchange may at
any time do what I have done to
day. Weigh well what I am about to
say to you. During the last quarter
of a century there has grown up In
this free and fair land of ours a sys-
tem by which the few take from the
many the results of their labors. The
men who take have no more license,
from God or man, to take, than have
those from whom they filch. They
are not endowed by God with su-
perior wisdom, nor have they per-
formed for their fellow-men any labor
or given to them anything of value
that entitles them to what they take.
Their only licenso to plunder is their
knowledge of the system of trickery
and fraud that they themselves have
created. No man can gainsay this,
for on every side is the evidence.
Men come into Wall street at sunrise
without dollars: before that same sun
sets they depart with millions. So
all-powerful has grown the system of
oppression that single men take In a
single lifetime all the savings of a
million of their fellows. To-day the
people, 80,000,000 strong, are slaving
for the few, and their pay Is their
board and keep. 1 saw this robbery.
I felt the robbors' scourge. I sought
the secret. I found it here, here in
this gambling-he!!. I found that the
stocks we bought and sold were mere
gambling chips; that the man who
had the biggest stack could beat his
opponent off the board; that his op-
ponent was the world, because all
men directly or indirectly played the
stock-gambling game. To win, It was
but necessary to have unlimited
chips. If chips were bought and sold,
on equal terms, by all, no one could
buy more than he could pay for, and
the game, although still a gambling
one, would be fair. A few master
tricksters, dollar magicians, long ago
seeing this condition, Invented the
system by which the people are ruth-
gambling It Is neccssary, absolutely
nocessary, that It be conducted under
certaJn rules, unchangeable, unbreak-
able rules, to attempt to change or
break which would destroy stock-
gambling. The foundation rule, the
rule absolutely necessary for the ex-
istence of stock-gambling Is: Any
member of the stock exchange can
buy, or sell, between the opening and
closing of the exchange as many
shares of stock as he cares to. With
this rule in force his buying and sell-
ing cannot be restricted to the amount
he can take and pay for, or deliver
and receive pay for, because there i8
not money enough in the world to pay
for what under this same rule can be
bought and sold in a single session.
This Is because there have been ar-
bitrarily created by these few trick-
sters many times more stocks than
there is money In existence. The
amount of stock that any man can
sell In one session of the exchange is
limited only by the amount that he
can ofTer for sale, and he can offer
any amount his tongue can utter;
and he is not compelled and cannot
bo compelled to show his ability to
deliver what he has offered for sale
until after he has finished selling,
which Is the following day. You will
ask as I did: Can this be possible?
you will find the answer I found. It
is so, and must continue to be so,'or
there will be no stock-gambling. Mark
me, for this statement is weighted
with the greatest import to you all. A
member of this exchange can sell as
many shares of stock at one session
as he cares to offer. If any attempt
is made at the session he sells at to
compel him either before or after he
ofTers to sell to show his ability to
deliver, away goes the stock-gambling
structure, because from the very na-
ture of the whole structure of stock-
gambling the same shares are sold
and resold many times in each session
and the seller cannot know, much less
show, that he can deliver until he first
DRIFTING
"I don't 'see why you should say
you are surprised," insisted the
■— young man in
one end of the
rowboat as he
rested on the
oars.
"Why, of course
it's a surprise,"
repeated the girl
in the ridiculous-
ly frilly white
sunbonnet, who
sat in the other
end. "I—I am
not a mind rcad-
The young
man lifted ex-
asperated eyes
to the sky.
"Didn't you have
any idea at all
that I—that is—
say honestly, Sal-
He, have'nt you
been expecting
right along that
I'd say what I
just said? Didn't
you know I
was head over
heels "
"I never thought
any such thing."
said the pretty
girl, dabbling her
fingers in the lake.
"The idea! I'm
not in the habit
of supposing that
every man who
looks at me is in
love with me!
There Isn't any
reason anyhow
why you should
"I Will Buy Until I Have Exhausted My Fortune of a Billion Dollars."
leasly plundered. The system they
Invented was simple, so simple that
for a quarter of a century it has re-
mained undiscovered by the world at
large—and even by you, who profess
to be experts. No man thought that
a free people who had intended to al-
low all the equal use of every avenue
from this platform, and remember, In j for the attainment of wealth, and
30 minutes io the second, 1 will sound
the gavel for the resumption of busi-
ness."
Bob Brownley strode to the place
just vacated by the president. The
crowd was growing larger every min-
ute. The ticker was already hissing
a tape blograph of this extraordinary
situation In brokerage shops, hotels,
and banks throughout the country,
and in a few minutes the news of it
would be in the capitals of Europe.
Never before in history did man have
such an audience—the whole civilized
world. Already arose from Wall,
Broad and New streets, which sur-
round the exchange, the hoarse bel-
low of tho gathering hordes. Before
the ticker should announce the re-
sumption of business these would
number hundreds of thousands, for
<lie financial district for more than an
hour had been a surging mob.
For once at least the much-abused
phrase, "He looked the part," could
lie used In all truthfulness. As Rob-
ert Brownley threw back his head
and shoulders and faced that crowd
of men, some of whom he had hurt,
many of whom he had beggared, and
all of whom he had tortured, he pre-
sented a picture such as a royal lion
recently from the jungles and just
freed from his cage might have made.
Defiance, deference, contempt, and
pity all blended In his mien, but over
ail was an 1 am tho-one you-are-the-
many atmosphere of confidence that
turned my spinal column Into a mer-
•oury tube. He began to speak:
"Men of Wall street:
"You have just witnessed a record-
jbreaking slaughter. I have asked
who intended to provide for the safe-
guarding of wealth after it was se-
cured, could be such dolts as to al-
low themselves to be robbed of all
their accumulated wealth by a device
as simple as that by which children
play at bllndman's-buff. The process
was no more complex than that em-
ployed by the robber of old, who took
the pebbles from the beach, marked
them money, and with the money
bought the labor of his fellows, and
by the manipulation of that labor and
by turning pebbles into money he
took away from the laborer the
money which he had paid them for
the labor until all In the land were
slaves of the moneymaker. These few
tricksters said: We will arbitrarily
manufacture these chips—stocks. Af-
ter we have manufactured them, we
will sell the world what the world
can pay for, and then by the use of
the unlimited supply we still have we
will win away from the world what It
has bought, and repeat the operation,
until we have all the wealth, and the
people are enslaved. To do this there
was one thing besides the manufac-
turing of the chips -stocks—that was
absolutely necessary—a gambling-
hell, the working of whose machinery
would place a selling value upon such
chips; a hell where, after selling the
chips, they could be won back. 1 saw
that if these tricksters were to be
routed and their 'System' was to be
destroyed, it must be through the ma-
chinery of this stock exchange. I
studied the machinery, and presently
I marvelled that men could for so
long have been asses.
"From the very nature of stock-
We Reiterate.
TVipre dear wives and dear
wives; ono kind is dear to a inan't
Triat for more than fifteen years ; ~^r t0 his pocket book,
Hunt's Cure has been working on the I heart,
afflicted, rts mission Is to cure skin
troubles, particularly those of an itch-
ing character. Its success is not on
account of advertising, but because it
surely doeB the work. One box Is
guaranteed to cure any case.
Cromwell's Boots.
In London the other day a pair of
riding boots worn by Oliver Cromwell
were sold for 43. They were discov-
ered 30 years ago during some exca-
vations at Canonbury Tower, Isling-
ton.
KKD moss B VI.I. Bl.UR
Should be in every home. Ask your grocer
for rt. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents.
A careworn woman doesn't seem to
care what she wears.
"You're the
First."
be—or should think you are!
adjusts with the buyer and the buyer
cannot adjust until after he has be-
come such by buying. If a rule were
made compelling a seller to show his
responsibility before selling, every
member would have every other mem-
ber at his mercy and there could be
no stock-gambling. When 1 had worked
this out, I saw that while the few trick-
sters of the 'System' had a perfect de-
vice for taking from the people their
wealth, I had discovered as perfect a
moans of taking away from the few
the wealth they had secured trom the
many. With this knowledge came a
conviction that my way was as honest
as the 'System's,' In fact, more honest
than thelr3. They took from the Inno-
cent. I took from the guilty what had
already been dishonestly secured. I
determined to put ray discovery Into
practice.
"I might never have done so but for
that Sugar panic in which I was
robbed of millions by the 'System'
through Barry Conant. in that panic
the 'System,' with its unlimited re-
sources, filched from the people by
the arbitrary manufacture of stocks,
and by their manipulation did to me
what I afterward discovered I could
do to them, without any resources
other than my right to do business on
the floor of this exchange. You saw
the outcome, in the second Sugar
panic, of my first experiment. In a
few minutes I cleared a profit of |10,.
000.000. I could have made it fifty mil-
lions, or one hundred aud fifty, but I
was not then on familiar terms
with my new robber-robbing device,
and I had yet a heart. To make
this ten millions of money, all
that was necessary for me to do was
to sell more Sugar than Barry Conant
could buy.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Not a Trustworthy Sign.
It Isn't always safe to judgo
man's greatness by the number
carriages in his funeral procession.
"Say," declared the young man
earnestly, "this Is no summer-resort
romance; it's the real thing. I don't
think—I know I am in love with
you. And now you are pained and
amazed and all the rest of It, and can't
make up your mind. Why "
"If you have such a poor idea of me
as that," Interrupted the girl in the
white sunbonnet, "I don't see why you
should care about me. To think that
all this time you thought I was pa-
tiently waiting for you to give me a
chance to say yes! I suppose you
thought I was so hopelessly in love
with you that I'd never get over it,
and you'd break my heart if you didn't
ask me! It seems to me that it was
conceited as well as unkind of you!"
"I never thought any such thing!"
cried the young man. "I "
"Then if you didn't think I was in
love with you there is no reason for
you to be surprised that I am sur-
prised," said the pretty girl, tri-
umphantly. "It's one or the other,
don't you see?"
The young man looked gloomy. "I
know one thing, though," he said,
darkly. "I know you can't care two
straws about me or you would say yes
right away. If you are in love with
anybody, you know It!"
"Did the others say yes promptly?"
inquired the pretty girl, maliciously,
but with a hint of interest in her
voice.
"You're the first," said the young
man. "The first and only."
"They all say that," murmured the
pretty girl pessimistically.
The young man looked gloomier.
I suppose a proposal doesn't mean
much to you," he said. "They're as
common as breakfast food. Yet, if you
were used to them you would surely
have seen this one coming from me."
'Oh, 1 don't know," 'laid the girl In
the sunbonnet, with a reminiscent
smile that instantly presented before
the young man's vision a long line of
rejected suitors. "I just thought we
were good friends. I didn't know—"
"You thought nothing of the sort,"
said the young man. "You knew I was
merely existing on the sight of you
15 hours out of the 24. Didn't you,
now?" .
"Oh, I supposed you liked me.a lit-
tle bit," admitted the pretty girl, "or
else you would have gone around with
some of the other girls. But "
"How did you suppose," went on the
young man, "I could help falling In
love with you? You are too modest.
You don't realize what a fascinat-
ing "
"We're drifting on a sandbar," said
the pretty girl.
"That'll be a nice comfortable place
to stay while you make up your
mind." pursued the young man.
"I don't see why I am obliged to
make up my mind," she said. "You
can't make up your mind quickly over
something that is entirely new and
unexpected to you, you know. 1 had
never thought of such a thing!"
"I should think you would," persist-
ed the young man. "Haven't 1 made
deadly enemies of every other man up
here by keeping you away from
them?"
"You couldn't have kept me away
from them If 1 hadn't let you," un-
guardedly boasted the pretty girl.
The young man's face lost Its gloom
as if by magic. "You can't keep up
the bluff!" he cried. "Come now—you
know you had your mind made up
weeks ago and you might as well tell
me. Look at me, Sallle!"
"Well, anyhow," fenced the pretty
girl as the boat drifted beneath soma
sheltering willow branches, "you
needn't have been so sure to starft
with!"—Chicago Dally News.
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'J
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San Antonio, Texas, April 22, 1907.
Dr. C. F. 'Simmons, San Antonio, Texas:
Dear
property,
erable faith it. your agents, whom 1 happen to Snow; but what I saw is far
beyond my expectation. ., , , .
I drove hi.rriedly over probably twenty-five miles of ground, passing sev-
eral of your Mowing wells and tanks, and 1 don't believe that there is an
acre of grouT.il that is not fit for first-class cultivation.
Upon my return to Little Hock I shall take out several more shares
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06111 Have jiut written to my brother in Indiana, advising him to do this on
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I thank vou for the oourtesies extended me on my recent visit, and I
trust the time will not be long when the division will occur, and I certainly
shall return to Little Rock figuring on eventually coming back to Atascosa
County. Y-'urs very truly, ^ ^ A. ™SLEY, ^
Write today for full particulars and photographs showing views on the ranch.
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215 Alarr.o Plaza,
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
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