| Show THE GOLDEN ASS A very amusing and instructive incident in-cident occurred at the subtreasury in New York in connection with the bond sale last Monday A member of a bullion bul-lion brokerage firm desired to get gold for his customers For this purpose he took greenbacks to the subtreasury presented them got the gold and delivered de-livered the same to his customers Three times he repeated the operation with never an objection from any one He attempted it a fourth time but not so successfully The assistant treasurer treas-urer Conrad N Jordan had his anger aroused by the withdrawal of gold on presentation of greenbacks Such conduct con-duct was unbecoming a patriotic American citizen and in contravention of the sound principles of finance as laid down by the treasury sNow s-Now what did Conrad N Jordan do when this bullion broker for a fourth time presented gold just withdrawn from the treasury in payment of the first installment on bonds subscribed for The assistant treasurer of the United States refused to accept for bonds the gold thus withdrawn I The broker was very much astonished and demanded the reason why he refused to accept the gold Now about the most dangerous thing a man can do when he does a fining he ought not to do is to give a reason for his action Mr Jordan gave a reason for his action ac-tion and he suited the words to the action in a way that would have elicited elic-ited applause from Hamlet himself The assistant treasurer of the United States made the point that while < any principal or representative of a principal i prin-cipal could not be prevented from drawing gold on the presentation of greenbacks the government buildings could not be utilized for the delivery of gold by brokers to their customers How ridiculous how petulant how puerile Conrad N Jordan simply made an ass of himself a golden ass if you will but still an ass But the popular bond issue is a great victory So was the victory of Blenheim though little Caspar could never understand why |
