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Show rTh Whole Gates Tribt Is UnnstaraU ! John W. Gates is reported to have made f 4,000,-N)00 4,000,-N)00 in Wall street within the last four months. . 11 MADE IT IN SPECULATION.. . - John W.' Gates did not earn a dollar of that ' I money legitimately. 'He manipulated stocks, securities securi-ties issued by the" men-, whom thousands.. of. honfst aad trusting people had ebosen'to manage the enter-. enter-. prises in which they had invested. ... Gates and a few of his cronies can put the prices' of such securities up or down at will and reap fortunes. for-tunes. The real workers, the people who have saved their money And invested ."it "In good faith In the stocks of various companies, do not benefit. INDEED, IN-DEED, THEY ARE FORTUNATE IP TllEl' DO NOT LOSE THEIR INVESTMENTS "VTHILE THE BIG SPECULATORS ARE GAMBLING. When a man by perseverance and hard, work builds up a great and flourishing business no one , i will object if he grows Tich from, its profits. He i entitled to them. They are the results of his work and his brains. , He has provided for himself, but he lias benefited others. He, is a useful member of the community. - , Not so with Gates. He lives off the work and the brains and the investments of others. He risks Both--ing. HE IS CUNNING AND SHREWD, BUT HE ;IS NOT A MAN - OF BRAINS THE REAL BRAINS THAT HAVE MADE THIS NATION 'WHAT IT IS. He is not constructive. Gates cever built anything in his life. He' cares nothing for the welfare of the Nation or of any community. H-is a gambler on a gigantic scale, and he gambles with ether people's money. v The Gateses are unnatural. They are excrescences. excres-cences. They do no good and they are capable of dot !ing some harm. But it will not be permanent. TIIERE IS NO PLACE IN NATURE FOR A :DRONE. Sooner or later our social system will right itself, and the tribe of Gates will vanish. , As it is, the humblest laborer who does his day's work honestly and goes home to his family at night lis a better citizen and worth more to the Nation than jell the Gateses that ever lived. . |